Faculty The core faculty of African Studies is known for its scholarly accomplishments and contributions to international understanding: Peter M. Lewis, Director, African Studies Program and Associate Professor. Central areas of interest include states, governance and development, African politics, Nigerian politics, democratization, civil society, and economic reform. Dr. Lewis earned his Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University. His publications include several books: Growing Apart: Oil, Politics and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria (2006); Deregulation and the Banking Crisis in Nigeria: A Comparative Study, co-editor (2002); Down to Earth: Changes in Attitudes Toward Democracy and Markets in Nigeria, co-author (2001); Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa, co-author (1999); Stabilizing Nigeria: Sanctions, Incentives and Support for Civil Society, co-author (1998); Africa: Dilemmas of Development and Change, editor (1998). He has published articles in World Politics, World Development, the Journal of Modern African Studies, African Affairs, and the Journal of Democracy in addition to numerous book chapters and other shorter pieces. Dr. Lewis formerly taught at Michigan State University and American University. He has consulted for the Ford Foundation, the Carter Center, the World Bank, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He is a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. I. William Zartman, Jacob Blaustein Professor of International Organization and Conflict Resolution, and Director, Conflict Management Management Program. From 1980 to 2001, Professor Zartman directed the Africa Program. He is editor and co-author of the SAIS Studies on Africa Library Series: Africa and Europe: The New Phase (1992), The Political Economy of the Ivory Coast (1984), The OAU After 20 Years (1984), Tunisia: The Political Economy of Reform (1991), The Political Economy of Morocco (1987), and The Political Economy of Nigeria (1983). He has contributed to the literature in the field of negotiation and conflict resolution with his works Ripe for Resolution: Conflict in Africa (1985, 1989), The Practical Negotiator (1982); Elusive Peace (Editor, 1995), Collapsed States: The Disintegration and Restoration of Legitimate Authority (1995), among others. Dr. Zartman received his Ph.D. in international relations from Yale University. Professorial Lecturers Professorial Lecturers in African Studies hold positions in federal agencies and international organizations, at other universities, and in the private sector. The following will bring their expertise into the classroom during the 2008-2009 academic year: Amb. (ret) Herman J. Cohen is president and co-founder of Cohen & Woods International. Amb. Cohen served with the United States Department of State from 1955 to 1993, culminating in service as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1989 to 1993. He served as Ambassador to The Gambia and Senegal and had assignments in Zaire, Zambia (then-Rhodesia), Uganda, and Paris. Ambassador Cohen also served as Deputy Director General of the U.S. Foreign Service and in the White House as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Africa, National Security Council. Amb. Cohen is the author of the recently published book Intervening in Africa :Superpower Peacemaking in a Troubled Continent (Macmillan, 2000). John W. Harbeson teaches and writes in the fields of comparative politics, comparative democratization, and international relations, with special reference to Africa. He was professor of political science in the Graduate Center and at City College in the City University of New York from 1985 until 2008. From 1998 to 2001 chaired the Department of Political Science at City College. His most recent book is Africa in World Politics: Reforming Political Order coedited with the late Donald Rothchild.. He's been a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington and Regional Democracy and Governance Advisor, Agency for International Development. During 2001-2, he was a Visiting Fellow in the Center of International Studies at Princeton University. He was elected to the governing Council of the American Political Science Association for a two year term (2003-2005). On the Council, he chaired the international affairs committee concerned primarily with the Higher Education Act Renewal, especially Title VI. He was also a member of the Council task force on Difference and Inequality in the Developing world. He is co-founder of the APSA section on Comparative Democratization and was the section's first chair. He is the founde of APSA's African Politics Conference Group and was its first chair. He writes a monthly op-ed column for the Sunday Nation (Kenya). Ben Kwame Fred-Mensah is Assistant Professor of International Relations and Comparative Politics and Consultant in International Development at Howard University in Washington, DC. He earned his Bachelor Degree (with honors) at University of Cape Coast and received his Masters Degree from University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He also earned the Masters and Doctorate degrees at the Johns Hopkins University in Italy and the United States. Professor Fred-Mensah held a two-year Post-Doctoral studies and adjunct lecturing position in African Political Economy and International Studies at Brown University in Providence (RI), and he has taught at Hamilton College and the University of Virginia. Professor Fred-Mensah is also a consultant in international development issues and has worked with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), World Bank, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Africare, and the Overseas Development Council (ODC). Amb. Princeton N. Lyman is an adjunct senior fellow for Africa policy studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Ambassador Lyman’s career in government included assignments as deputy assistant secretary of state for Africa (1981–86), U.S. ambassador to Nigeria (1986–89), director of refugee programs (1989–92), ambassador to South Africa (1992–95), and assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs (1996–98). He served as director of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 1976 to 1978. From 1999 to 2003, he was executive director of the Global Interdependence Initiative at the Aspen Institute, and he remains chairman of the project’s advisory board. Ambassador Lyman is a member of several other boards, including the American Academy of Diplomacy, the Fund for Peace, Plan/USA, the Amy Biehl Foundation, the U.S.-South Africa Business Council, and the board on African science academy development for the National Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the HIV/AIDS Task Force cochaired by Senators Bill Frist and Russell Feingold. In addition, he cochairs the Southern Africa Working Group for the Corporate Council on Africa. Stephen W. Smith is currently teaching African Studies, Cultural Anthropology and Public Policy at Duke University. He is the former Africa editor of the Le Monde and has been working on Africa for twenty-five years, previously for Reuter’s, Radio France International and the French daily Libération. In 2005, he established himself as an independent journalist and book author. His latest publication on Africa, co-authored with Sabine Cessou, is a biography on Winnie Mandela, released in November 2007 in Paris. Other publications include How France lost Africa (2005), an atlas of Africa (2004), a travel book on the Congo River and an essay entitled Negrology. Why Africa Dies (2003), biographies of Emperor Bokassa (2000) and general Oufkir (1998), as well as reports on the Central African Republic (December 2007) and Nigeria (July 2006) by the International Crisis Group (ICG). Though born in the United States, Stephen Smith spent most of his life in Europe. He studied African law and Anthropology at the Sorbonne, in Paris, and Philosophy, History and Political Science at the Free University of Berlin, where he completed his doctorate in semiotics on foreign news coverage. David Throup has been a Senior Associate with the CSIS Africa Program since March 2001. From 1994 to 1998, he served as senior research officer for Africa at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, where he was responsible for providing political analysis for 20 countries in East and West Africa. Dr. Throup chaired the international report-drafting committees on the Sierra Leone (1996), Uganda (1996), Mali (1997), and Kenya (1997) elections. He has participated in election missions to Kenya (1992), Ethiopia (1995), Tanzania (1995), Zanzibar (1995), Nigeria (2000), and Sierra Leone (2002) and was special adviser on electoral affairs to the British high commissioner to Zimbabwe in 2000. He holds a Ph.D. in African history from Cambridge University, where he was a fellow of Magdalene College. Before joining Her Britannic Majesty’s Diplomatic Service in 1994, Dr. Throup was a lecturer in African politics at Keele University in England (1988–1994). He has been visiting professor at the University of Virginia, Northeastern University, and the University of London and a senior fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia. He held a Leverhulme Study Abroad Studentship in 1984–1986. Dr. Throup has B.A. and M.A. degrees in history from Cambridge University and a M.Sc. in political science from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and is the author of The Economic and Social Origins of Mau Mau (Currey, 1987) and of Multi-Party Politics in Kenya (Currey, 1997) and the editor of 12 volumes on the history of southern Africa between 1820 and 1914. Current African Studies Research Associates and Visiting Scholars Judi Asuni, 2008-2009 Visting Research Associate, is a sociologist with 38 years of work experience, 17 of them in the field of conflict management. She is the Founder/Executive Director of Academic Associates PeaceWorks, the leading conflict management/peace education NGO in Nigeria. AAPW, together with President Obasanjo’s Africa Leadership Forum, were the first NGOs to work in the field of conflict in Nigeria. In 1993 they initiated conflict management training for staff and students of Nigerian universities and in 1994 inaugurated the National Corps of Mediators, a group of respected civil society leaders trained in preventing and responding to communal conflict. When significant donor funding began coming into Nigeria in 1995, Dr. Asuni worked closely with the Regional Director of the British Council in initiating and implementing the first real donor funded conflict management activities in Nigeria, and to date AAPW has conducted 300 workshops, researched communal conflicts and published 2 books, conducted 3 major interventions (of 2+ years duration) and 8 lower key interventions. Academic Associates PeaceWorks was the first civil society group to methodically study in depth and undertake long term interventions in community conflict. The publications of AAPW and Dr. Asuni’s various papers and presentations remain the benchmark for conflict management work in Nigeria. Adama Gaye, 2008-2009 Visiting Research Associate, is a Senegalese journalist, is currently Group Corporate and Governmental Affairs Manager of Ecobank, Africa's leading bank. Gaye is the author of China-Africa: The Dragon and The Ostrich. A graduate from the Universities of Dakar and Paris Sorbonne, he also studied at the Universities of Oxford and Maryland. He is a regular analyst on African Affairs for various international media institutions and an advisor to several multinationals in Africa. Rosalind Thomas, 2008-2009 Visiting Fellow, is Director of the NEPAD, Regional Integration and Trade department. Under the general leadership of the VP for Infrastructure, Private Sector and regional Integration, Thomas is responsible for developing programs and policies that aim to fulfil the mandate the African Union gave the Bank in the execution of NEPAD mandate. Her other duties include monitoring implementation of Bank’s infrastructure sector operations in RMCs; assisting countries in carrying out sector studies; maximising existing synergies between infrastructure, private sector, regional integration and NEPAD to enhance the Bank’s competitive advantage in executing its mandate; and building upon the technical expertise and operational designs of the infrastructure sector, to achieve NEPAD & African Regional Integration. She was the first African ever to hold a position on the world-wide Technical Advisory Panel of the World Bank's Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF). The Panel reports to PPIAF's 14 donors on the performance of the PPIAF team in facilitating private participation in infrastructure projects in developing countries. Former African Studies Adjuncts/ Visiting Scholars Geoffrey N. Mwau, Ajunct faculty in academic year 2004-2005. Phyllis R. Pomerantz, Ajunct faculty in academic year 2004-2005. Margaret C. Lee, Visiting Scholar in academic year 2004-2005.
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