These faculty are members of the steering committee for the African Studies concentration. Links direct you to faculty profile pages in their home department.
- David L. Blaney
- G. Theodore Mitau Professor of Political Science
- Global political economy, international political theory
- blaney@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6020
- Hilary Chart
- Visiting Instructor
- Socio-cultural anthropology, political economy, capitalism, development, business, work, education, cities, gender, race, ethnography, Africa, United States
- hchart@macalester.edu
- Christy Hanson
- Associate Professor of International Studies
- Dynamics between poverty, health care seeking behavior and health system response, particularly for the care of infectious diseases.
- chanson5@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6170
- Erik Larson
- Professor of Sociology
- larsone@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6309
- Sowah Mensah
- Director of the African Music Ensemble
- mensah@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6184
- Lisa Mueller
- Assistant Professor of Political Science
- Comparative politics, African politics, behavioral and development economics, and research methods.
- lmueller@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6692
- 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.
- mooredc@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6242
- Bill Moseley
- Professor
- Political ecology, tropical agriculture, environment and development policy, and livelihood security
- moseley@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6126
- Jessica Pearson-Patel
- Assistant professor
- History, Modern Europe, Public Health, Decolonization
- jpearso4@macalester.edu
- Old Main 300, 651-696-6665
- 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.
- samatar@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6564
- Dianna Shandy
- Associate Dean, Institute for Global Citizenship, office in Markim 107; Professor of Anthropology
- Socio-cultural anthropology, gender, migration and refugees, political conflict, research methods, Africa, Europe, North America
- shandy@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6439
- Linda Sturtz
- Professor & Chair
- early North America, British Caribbean, Atlantic world
- lsturtz@macalester.edu
- Old Main 307, 651-696-6548
- 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.
- vitiello@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6412
- Karl R. Wirth
- Associate Professor (Sabbatical AY 2017-2018)
- Mineralogy/Petrology/Planetary Geology
- wirth@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6449