Advisory Board Members

Source: https://africanstudies.stanford.edu/about/people/advisory-board-members Parent: https://africanstudies.stanford.edu/academics/academic-programs/undergraduate-minor

Joel Cabrita

Susan Ford Dorsey Director, Center for African Studies

Countries of Study:

South Africa

Research Interests:

Eswatini, History, Postcolonial Theory, Religion, Media and Marginality in Africa

Rachel Jean-Baptiste

Michelle Mercer and Bruce Golden Family Professorship in Feminist and Gender Studies

Desiree LaBeaud

Professor, Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases) and, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health, and, by courtesy, of Environmental Social Science at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Countries of Study:

Kenya

Research Interests:

Infectious Diseases, Pediatric Infectious Disease, Arboviral Infections, Rift Valley Fever, Chikungunya Virus, Dengue Virus, Epidemiology

Ato Quayson

Jean G. and Morris M. Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor of English and inaugural chair of the Department of African and African American Studies

Countries of Study:

Ghana, Nigeria

Research Interests:

Multinational, Postcolonial, and Comparative Literature, Diasporic and Transnational Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Urban Studies

Vaughn Rasberry

Assistant Professor

Research Interests:

African American Literature, Global Cold War Culture, the European Enlightenment and Its Critics, Postcolonial Theory, and Philosophical Theories of Modernity