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Faculty & Staff

These faculty are members of the steering committee for the African Studies concentration. Links direct you to faculty profile pages in their home department.

Hilary Chart
  • Hilary Chart
  • Visiting Instructor
  • Socio-cultural anthropology, political economy, capitalism, development, business, work, education, cities, gender, race, ethnography, Africa, United States
Moustapha Diop
Erik Larson
Sowah Mensah
Lisa Mueller
  • Lisa Mueller
  • Assistant Professor of Political Science
  • Comparative politics, African politics, behavioral and development economics, and research methods.
  • 651-696-6692
David Chioni Moore
  • David Chioni Moore
  • Associate Professor, International Studies and English
  • Literary interactions in the Black Atlantic world, notably Africa, the Caribbean, and African America; post-colonial and/as the post-Soviet; comparative literature; cultural theory; globalization.
  • 651-696-6242
Bill Moseley
  • Bill Moseley
  • Professor
  • Political ecology, tropical agriculture, environment and development policy, and livelihood security
  • 651-696-6126
Jessica Pearson
Ahmed Samatar
  • Ahmed Samatar
  • James Wallace Professor of International Studies
  • Global political economy; political and social theory; African politics; leadership and the state; Somali studies; Islam and globalization.
  • 651-696-6564
Joëlle Vitiello
  • Joëlle Vitiello
  • Professor, French and Francophone Studies
  • Focuses on 20th-21st-century French and francophone literature and culture; Haitian literature and culture; French and Francophone Cinema; Postcolonial identities; Immigration; Violence in France and the francophone world.
  • 651-696-6412
Karl R. Wirth