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Naminata Diabate

Naminata Diabate

Associate Professor, Comparative Literature

A scholar of sexuality, race, biopolitics, and postcoloniality, Diabate’s research explores African, African American, Caribbean, and Afro-Hispanic literatures, cultures, cinema, and new media. Her book Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa(link is external) (Duke UP, 2020) won the 2021 Best Book Award from the African Studies Association.

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Edward Mabaya

Mabaya

Senior Research Associate

Ed Mabaya is a scholar and a development practitioner with more than two decades of experience working on development, agribusiness value chains and food security issues with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. He is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Global Development where his teaching, research and outreach work focuses on economic development in Africa.

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Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue

Parfait Eloundou

Professor, Global Development

Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue is a professor of global development in CALS. His research agenda broadly addresses the interrelationships between population, social change, and sustainable development. Under this general theme, his current projects study the effects of contemporary demographic changes on global inequality, education, youth employment, health, food security and internal conflicts.

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Steven Kyle

Steve Kyle

Associate Professor, Applied Economics and Management

Steven Kyle is an associate professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. He works in the areas of macroeconomic policy in the United States and in low-income countries. His recent work includes studies of the economies of Portuguese-speaking African countries, the outlook for the U.S. economy, and issues in the management of transition economies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

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  • IAD Core Faculty
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Rachel Bezner Kerr

Rachel Bezner Kerr

Director, Institute for African Development

Rachel Bezner Kerr is a professor of global development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Her research interests converge on the broad themes of sustainable agriculture, food security, health, nutrition, and social inequalities.

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  • IAD Core Faculty
    • IAD Director
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        • Einaudi Faculty Leadership

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Phone: 607-255-3213

Sandra Greene

Sandra Greene

Professor, African History

Sandra Greene's research interests have ranged widely over the past 40 years, from the study of gender and ethnic relations in West Africa to the role that religious beliefs, warfare, and the experience of slavery have played in the lives of individuals and communities in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ghana. Most recently, she has focused on constructing the biographies of both ordinary and extraordinary women and men from southeastern Ghana.

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Phone: 607-255-6682

David E. Sahn

David E Sahn

Professor, Division of Nutritional Sciences

David E. Sahn is an international professor of economics in the Division of Nutritional Sciences and the Department of Economics. Since 2015, he has been a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, Germany. In 2017, he became a senior fellow at the Foundation for International Development Study and Research (FERDI) in Clermont-Ferrand, France. 

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Phone: 607-255-8931

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