People

Academic Staff

	Name	Research Interests
	Dr Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo (Institute of Advanced Studies)	The effects of socio-contextual and economic factors on health in African countries.
	Professor Ama de-Graft Aikins (Institute of Advanced Studies)	The social, cultural and health systems aspects of Africa's chronic non-communicable disease (NCD) burden, history of psychology in Africa and its intersections with critical theory and African Studies.
	Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (SELCS)	Dance and Society, Performance and Popular Culture in Senegal and Francophone West Africa, Marriage Migration and Transnational Families between Africa and Europe, Anthropology of West Africa, Film and Photography in West Africa.
	Dr Olutobi Sanuade (Institute of Advanced Studies)	The history of chronic and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Ghana, including their interaction with infectious disease and their relationship to socio-economic status and demographic factors.
	Professor Megan Vaughan (Institute of Advanced Studies)	History of medicine and psychiatry in Africa, the history of famine, food supply and gender relations,death practices, slavery in the Indian Ocean region.
	Dr Keren Weitzberg (Institute of Advanced Studies)	Nationalism in Kenya and Somalia; the history of Muslim societies in East Africa; and the colonial and postcolonial history of Kenya,

African Studies Steering Committee

Name	Dept	Research Interests
Dr Tim Colbourn	Institute for Global Health	Maternal, newborn and child health community and health-facility-based interventions in sub-Saharan Africa and their evaluation. Theory-based, realist, process and economic evaluation, trial design and analysis, epidemiological analysis, health systems, observational studies, quasi-experimental analysis. Tim has over 14 years of research experience, much spent in Malawi, with active work currently in Malawi and Nigeria and previous work also in Burkina Faso, Kenya and Mozambique.
Dr Simone Datzberger	Education and International Development	The politics of education in developing and conflict-affected contexts; the interplay of education & political agency; gender, violence & education; civil society & political and social agency in peacebuilding and development processes. Across these themes I have a strong focus on sub-Saharan Africa (predominately Uganda and Sierra Leone).
Dr Matthew Davies	Institute for Global Prosperity	Human-environment dynamics in Eastern Africa, climate, resilience, sustainability, historical ecology, agriculture, development, archaeology and heritage, landscape, space and materiality, prosperity metrics, indigenous and alternative knowledges, citizen science, trans-disciplinary approaches.
Professor Tamar Garb	Institute of Advanced Studies / History of Art	Gender and sexuality, the woman artist and the body in nineteenth and early twentieth century French art.
Dr Tim Gibbs	History	Southern African elites; migration and auto-mobility; taxation and rural state formation.
Dr Jerome Lewis	Anthropology	African Hunter-Gatherer Societies, Indigenous Rights, Sustainable Forestry, Impact of Global Forces on the Congo Basin.
Professor Kevin MacDonald	Archaeology	Historical Anthropology of West African Political Traditions, Issues of African Ethnicity and Identity, Slavery and Memory in Africa, The African Diaspora in Colonial North America, Style and African Pottery Making, Heritage Management, Deep Time African Pastoral Systems.
Dr Ben Page	Geography	Political Ecology of Water Supply in Africa, Development through the African Diaspora, Malaria and the African Diaspora.
Professor Sara Randall	Anthropology	Mobility, Demography and Well-being in West Africa, Reproductive Decision Making, Nomadic Pastoralism.
Dr Elaine Unterhalter	UCL Institute of Education	Human development and education in Africa, particularly South Africa. Education, poverty and global social justice.
Dr Michael Walls	UCL Development Planning Unit	Market-led Development, State Formation and Political Representation in Somaliland and Puntland, Post-conflict Reconstruction.