Directory
Core Faculty
Clemente Abrokwaa
- Associate Teaching Professor of African Studies
Phone: (814) 865-5257
Email: cka1@psu.edu
Area(s) of Specialization:
Science and technology in Africa, Education in Africa, Globalization, African politics, Multiculturalism, Economic development in Africa, Peace and conflict studies
Gabeba Baderoon
- Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and African Studies
Phone: (814) 865-2372
Email: gxb26@psu.edu
Area(s) of Specialization:
Representations of Islam in Africa, African feminism, South African literature, Race and Sexuality, Slavery in South Africa, Food studies, Visual art in South Africa
Abigail Celis
- Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies and African Studies
Email: aqc5966@psu.edu
Area(s) of Specialization:
French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa, Visual arts and cinema, Literary arts, Museums and repatriation, Diaspora studies
Neelima Jeychandran
- Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate in African Studies and Asian Studies
Email: nuj47@psu.edu
Area(s) of Specialization:
Afro-Asian Connections, Indian Ocean World Cultures, Oceanic Humanities, Africana Religions, Colonialism, Memory and Embodied Practices, African Material Cultures, Postcolonial Ethnographies, Multimodal Methodologies, Digital Humanities
Busi Makoni
- Associate Teaching Professor
Phone: (814) 867-3553
Email: sud17@psu.edu
Area(s) of Specialization:
Language socialization, Language ideology, Language and law, Language policy and planning, Discourse analysis, Multimodal translanguaging
Sinfree Makoni
- Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and African Studies
Phone: (814) 863-2431
Email: sbm12@psu.edu
Area(s) of Specialization:
Language policy and planning, Security studies, Language and health, Southern epistemologies and ontologies
Richard Mbih
- Assistant Teaching Professor of African Studies
Phone: (814) 865-9496
Email: ram6096@psu.edu
Area(s) of Specialization:
Agro-pastoralism and food security, environmental change and society, natural resource conflicts, political ecology, sustainability, Sub-Saharan Africa, and international development
Kidane Mengisteab
- Professor of African Studies and Political Science
Phone: (814) 863-5815
Email: kim3@psu.edu
Area(s) of Specialization:
Security in the Horn of Africa, Extractive industries and commercial farming in Africa
Abderrahim Ouarghidi
- Assistant Teaching Professor of African Studies and Anthropology
Email: auo45@psu.edu
Area(s) of Specialization:
Development and Sustainability, Community-Based Natural Resources and Management, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Agricultural and Pastoral Systems, Participatory Methods
Bronwen Powell
- Assistant Professor of Geography, African Studies, and Anthropology
Phone: (814) 865-1187
Email: bxp15@psu.edu
Area(s) of Specialization:
Biodiversity and Nutrition, Wild and forest foods, Dietary patterns and dietary diversity, Traditional food systems, Applied research for improved policy and practice
Michelle Sikes
- Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, African Studies, and History
Phone: (814) 865-8697
Email: mxs1600@psu.edu
Area(s) of Specialization:
African sport history, Anti-apartheid and anti-colonial transnational activism, Social and political histories of South Africa and Kenya
Olusegun Soetan
- Assistant Teaching Professor of African Studies
Email: oqs5131@psu.edu
Area(s) of Specialization:
African screen media, African language pedagogy, Indigenous science and technology in Africa, Medical humanities, African Traditional Religion, African feminism, Visual arts and cinema, Literary arts, Diaspora studies
Christopher Tounsel
- Assistant Professor of History and African Studies
Phone: (814) 865-1367
Email: cut70@psu.edu
Area(s) of Specialization:
Sudan and South Sudan, Christianity, Race