African Studies Faculty
Akwasi B. Assensoh
Courtesy Professor
African Studies
Email: assensoh@uoregon.edu
Phone: (541) 346-4802
Office: 275 McKenzie Hall
Oluwakemi "Kemi" Balogun
Associate Professor
Director of African Studies
African Studies, Black Studies, IRES, School of Global Studies and Languages, Sociology, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: kbalogun@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0558
Office: 311 Hendricks Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Mondays & Tuesdays 10 - 11am and by appointment
Research Interests: Globalization, Nationalism, Culture, Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, Embodiment, Africana Studies
Mokaya Bosire
Senior Instructor
African Studies, Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
Email: mokaya@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3916
Office: 377 Straub Hall
Office Hours: Mon/Wed 3:30p-4:30p or by appt.
Research Interests: Swahili, Sheng, African languages & Urban vernaculars
Lindsay Frederick Braun
Associate Professor
African Studies, History
Email: lfbraun@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4838
Office: 365 McKenzie Hall
Office Hours: FT 2024: 1-3 Tuesdays ABA (MTW)
Research Interests: Southern Africa 1750-1950, East Africa 1850-1960, Comparative Colonialism, Environmental History, History of Science and Technology (esp. geography)
Alfredo Burlando
Associate Professor
Co-Director of Master's Studies
African Studies, Economics
Email: burlando@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1351
Office: 513 PLC
Office Hours: Winter 2023: Monday 9:30 - 11:00
Research Interests: Development economics, economics of corruption, savings strategies in developing countries, health and fertility
Stephen Frost
Professor
Co-Director of Graduate Studies
African Studies, Anthropology
Email: sfrost@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5161
Office: 353 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 9-10 a.m.
Dennis Galvan
Professor
Dean and Vice Provost, Division of Global Engagement
African Studies, Global Studies, Political Science, SAIL
Email: dgalvan@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5851
Office: 310 Oregon Hall
Research Interests: Culture and Development, Culturally Sustainable Development, Identity and Community, Political Legitimation, Multiple Forms of Modernity, Primary Field Work: West Africa, Secondary Field Work: Indonesia
Habib Iddrisu
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Dance
Director, Dema Dance Ensemble
African Studies, Black Studies, Dance, Folklore Program, IRES, Music
Email: hiddrisu@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4062
Office: 152 Gerlinger Annex
Research Interests: Dance, West Africa, cultural studies, post-colonial independence history, political economy, oral history, African diaspora, new internationalism
Allison McGuffie
Instructor
African Studies, Cinema Studies Program, Digital Humanities, English
Email: mcguffie@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3965
Office: 329 PLC
Lanie Millar
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
African Studies, Black Studies, Comparative Literature, IRES, Portuguese, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: lmillar@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4031
Office: Friendly 211
Office Hours: Fall, 2024: in person, MW 2-3, and by appointment. Zoom by appointment only: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/7482429908
Research Interests: 20th-21st Century Caribbean Literature, Latin American Literature, African Literature, Lusophone Literatures, Global South Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Race and Blackness, Critical Theory
Jordan Youssefzadeh Clementi
PhD Candidate
African Studies
Phone: 541-346-4203
Research Interests: Post-National Futures, Feminist Solidarity Networks, Global South Studies, Black Feminisms, Third World Feminisms, Historical Pluralisms, States of Exception, Anti-Hegemonic Solidarities