# 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](https://africanstudies.stanford.edu/people/joel-cabrita-0)

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](https://africanstudies.stanford.edu/people/rachel-jean-baptiste)

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

## [Desiree LaBeaud](https://africanstudies.stanford.edu/people/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](https://africanstudies.stanford.edu/people/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](https://africanstudies.stanford.edu/people/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

## [Grant Parker](https://africanstudies.stanford.edu/people/grant-parker-0)

Associate Professor

Countries of Study: 

Egypt, South Africa

Research Interests: 

Latin, Roman Imperial Culture, Geography, Historical Maps, Memorialization and Public History, Classical Reception

## [Mathew Ayodele](https://africanstudies.stanford.edu/people/mathew-ayodele)

Countries of Study: 

Ghana, Nigeria

Research Interests: 

History of Medicine, Religion, Gender and Sexuality, Public Health, Cultural Heritage, Trans-Atlantic Networks, African Diasporas

## [Mpho Calachan Molefe](https://africanstudies.stanford.edu/people/mpho-calachan-molefe)

Countries of Study: 

South Africa

Research Interests: 

Settler Colonial Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Historical Fiction, Nationalism, Diaspora, Migration, Temporality, Critical Geography

## [Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine](https://africanstudies.stanford.edu/people/robin-phylisia-chapdelaine-0)

Associate Director, Center for African Studies