Christopher C. Fennell, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, continued in his role as the founding editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage (Taylor & Francis Press), http://tandfonline.com/toc/yjaf20/current. He recently published a book titled Broken Chains and Subverted Plans: Ethnicity, Race, and Commodities, a peer-reviewed publication by the University Press of Florida (2017) as well as an article titled "Introduction: Navigating Intersections in African Diaspora Archaeology" in a thematic issue titled "Challenging Theories of Racism, Diaspora, and Agency in African America," edited by William A. White III and Christopher Fennell, Historical Archaeology 51(1): 1-8 (2017).

He currently teaches seminars on the intersections of “Racism, Law, and Social Science” and “Anthropology and Law” to graduate and law students.

Dan Miller, Assistant Professor, Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, co-published an article titled “Prevalence, economic contribution, and determinants of trees on farms across Sub-Saharan Africa, in Forest Policy and Economics (2016), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2016.12.005

Dr. Miller’s work will continue in a second phase funded by the Program on Forests at the World Bank. 

Matthew Winters, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, and Kate Baldwin (Yale University), are working on a research project in Uganda about how the beneficiaries of foreign-funded, NGO-implemented development projects think about governance and accountability. In collaboration with Innovations for Poverty Action Uganda, they collected household survey data in eight communities with Japanese-funded small-scale infrastructure projects in January 2016. The preliminary results of this project are published in The National Interest (http://nationalinterest.org/feature/does-japans-foreign-aid-africa-provide-diplomatic-benefits-18242).