CURRENT STUDENTS

Abiodun Adesope
Research Interest:   Public health in Africa and issues concerning transmissible diseases, including HIV/AIDS.
Email: adesope2@illinois.edu

Inka Alasade
Research Interest:  Yoruba-based epistemologies in the Bight on Benin, narratives of the enslaved along the Swahili Coast and the cultural identities of their descendants in India.
Email: tdavis5@illinois.edu

Jacob Butler
Research Interest:  Politics in Kenya and conflicts over access to land.
Email: butler20@illinois.edu

April Diaz
Research Interest: African child welfare in times of armed conflict and in post-conflict reconstruction.
Email: adiaz25@illinois.edu

Anna Henry
Research Interest:  Politics of the ANC and policy regarding street children.
Email: henry11@illinois.edu

Lydiah Kiramba
Research Interest:  National language policy in Kenya and the importance of national languages in education and curriculum development.
Email: kiramba1@illinois.edu

Shawn Lampkins
Research Interest:  South African and African American adolescents' racial identity and impact on learning, Pan Africanism and education among adolescents.
Email: lampkins@illinois.edu

Nathaniel Moore
Research Interest: Resistance movements in South Africa, and the internationalization of Black Power.
Email: nmoore3@illinois.edu

Kristyn Philpott
Research Interest: Efficacy of international aid to Sub-Saharan Africa, and donor accountability.
Email: philpot3@illinois.edu

Tseleq Yusef
Research Interest:  Christian/Muslim interactions, Islamic Revival, Islam’s influence on politics, and the roles of Christian missionaries in colonizing Africa.
Email: yusef1@illinois.edu

ALUMNI

Megan Bronson
Research Interest: Impact of HIV/AIDS NGO's on the development of East Africa.

Yaa Opare Cuguano
Research Interest: West African education and identity, Ghanaian and Nigerian film, Educational technology and African languages.

Stephen Disanto
Research Interest: Music and nationalism in West Africa.

Kwadwo Gyasi Nkita-Mayala
Adiama

Mukhutsi Peter Muhati
Research Interest: African languages, Bantu Language, communications in the context of African set-up.

Anna Rivara
Research Interest: Socio-cultural perceptions of health and illness in East Africa.

Michael Stewart
Liwalo Na Liwe Foundation

Hapsatou Wane
Research Interest: Nationalist South African literature, comparative literature, classical and African mythology and egyptology.

Sherri Williams
Research Interest:Gender and sexuality in East Africa (Kenya).