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Richard Akresh, Economics
Publications:
with Sonia Bhalotra, Marinella Leone, and Una Osili. 2012. "War and Stature: Growing Up during the Nigerian Civil War," American Economic Review, 102(3): 273-277.
with Emilie Bagby, Damien de Walque, and Harounan Kazianga. 2012. "Child Ability and Household Human Capital Investment Decisions in Burkina Faso," Economic Development and Cultural Change, 61(1): 157-186.
with Leonardo Lucchetti, and Harsha Thirumurthy. 2012. "Wars and Child Health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict," Journal of Development Economics, 99(2):330-340.
Presentations:
"Cash Transfers and Child Schooling: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of the Role of Conditionality"
Dalhousie University, December 2012
University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, January 2013
"Wars and Child Health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict"
ASSA Annual Meeting, Peace Science Society International, January 2012
"Child Labor, Schooling, and Child Ability"
Northeast Universities Development Conference (NEUDC), November 2012
Center for Study of African Economies Conference (CSAE), Oxford University, March 2013
"Cash Transfers and Child Schooling: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of the Role of Conditionality"
Midwest International Economic Development Conference, April 2013
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Merle Bowen, CAS and Political Science
Invited Lecture:
"A Matter of Social Justice: Land Reform for African Descent Communities in Brazil," Henkels Lecture Series, University of Notre Dame, February 2013
Conference Presentations
'The Making of a Black Land Movement: from Zumbi of Palmares to CONAQ," Remapping the Black Atlantic: Diaspora (Re) Writings of Race and Space Conference, DePaul University, April 2013
"Ser Culturalmente Sensiveis: Conceptualization, Data Collection and Analysis in Brazil's African Descent Communities," Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment Conference, University of Illinois, Chicago, April 2013
Appointment to Editorial Board
Advisory Editorial Board, Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy
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Francis Boyle, Law
Publications:
Book: DESTROYING LIBYA AND WORLD ORDER
The Three-Decade U.S. Campaign to Terminate the Qaddafi Revolution
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Atoma Batoma and Al Kagan received an award of $2920 from the Library's Research and Publication Committee for assistance in publishing the 3rd edition of Reference Guide to Africa: A Bibliography of Sources (Scarecrow Press). The first edition by Kagan and Yvette Scheven (1999) was the runner-up for the 2000 Conover-Porter Award for the best African Studies reference work published in the past two years, and was listed as an "Outstanding Reference Title" by Choice Magazine in its 1999 list. Kagan's second edition (2005) remains a unique title that guides researchers to the most important sources in all formats for the humanities and social sciences.
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Brian Dill
Publications:
Book: FIXING THE AFRICAN STATE: RECOGNITION, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITY-BASED DEVELOPMENT IN TANZANIA
Fixing the African State explains why the predominant approach to international development produces outcomes that are incompatible with its underlying assumptions and intended objectives. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research undertaken in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania over the past decade, Brian Dill examines the relationship between community participation in the development process and the exercise of state power.
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James Kilgore
Invited Talk:
“The Making of We Are All Zimbabweans Now,” Department of African American and Diasporic Studies, University of Wyoming, March 1.
Publications:
“Mass Incarceration and Working Class Interests: Which Side Are the Unions On?” Labor Studies Journal, March 2013
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Jonathan Zilberg has recently published an article on the importance of sound in the study of African religion and for anthropological fieldwork more generally. It is titled "For a Sonic Anthropology" and is the lead case study in the special issue of Jurnal des Anthropologues published by Association Francaise des Anthropologues, Creation et Transmission en Anthropologie Visuelle, 2012, no. 130-131, pp. 31-53
Former and Present Students:
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Jacob Butler--is in Bloemfontein, South Africa on a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship. He teaches an Academic Literacy Course, "English for Economics", to 1st year students at the University of the Free State. Also, in partnership with the U.S. embassy's "American Corner" programming, he teaches a bi-weekly Current Events English Language Club to 11th grade students from Lekhulong Secondary School.
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Rick Deja--Over the past four months he’s been conducting dissertation fieldwork in Johannesburg, South Africa. Much of his work has involved working with Malawian and other African musicians in various recording studios in
the greater Johannesburg area. He recently returned from the International Library of African Music (ILAM), at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, which houses the largest collection of recorded African music on the continent. Much of this collection was recorded by Hugh Tracy in the 1940s and 50s, and together with his field notes, offers wonderful insight into the genres and types of music making occurring at that time. Indeed, it shows how music making and music were changing during the dynamic period following the second World War.
One goal of his research has been to work with musicians and consider how regional and other social influences shape the creative process and the resulting works. Johannesburg, and South Africa more broadly, has proven to be a vibrant site for this research given its relationship with neighboring and overseas countries since the transition to democratic governance in 1994. Moreover, the current climate of neoliberal economics has created a robust, yet occasionally controversial, music and entertainment industry. It is an environment in which each musician with whom he works has had to develop new creative strategies in an effort to both earn a living and represent their authentic selves – a sometimes daunting task.
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T.J. Tallie, history Ph.D. candidate whose focus is South Africa, was awarded an IPRH Graduate Fellowship for 2013-14.