Faculty at U. Penn with Interests in Africa

• Abrahams, Roger
  Folklore & Folklife. African-American culture and folklore; African Diaspora.
• Animan, Osirike
  Demography.
• Baker, Houston
  English. Afro-American, Caribbean, African literature.
• Barnes, Sandra
  Anthropology. Politics, religion, complex societies; West Africa.
• Behrman, Jere
  Economics.
• Ben-Amos, Dan
  Folklore & Folklife. Oral tradition, literature, folklore; West Africa.
• Bernstein, Mark
  City Planning. Energy management, policy; West and East Africa.
• Callaghy, Thomas
  Political Science. Comparative politics, international political economy; Africa, especially Central Africa.
• Cassanelli, Lee
  History. Social History, ecology, oral tradition; East and Northeast Africa.
• Ewbank, Doug
  Population Studies. Associate Director, African Program, Population Studies Center; East Africa.
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• Fox, Renee C.
  Sociology. Medicine and world view; Central Africa.
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• Hlatshwayo, Thabisile
  Nursing. Famine, hunger, health, nutrition; West Africa.
• Hoek-Smit, Marja
  City Planning. Housing policy, development planning; East and Southern Africa.
• Hosier, Richard
  City Planning. Energy, environment, development; East and Southern Africa.
• Huss- Ashmore, Rebecca
  Anthropology. Nutrition, health; Southern Africa.
• Kopytoff, Igor
  Anthropology. Ethnology, religion, social structure; Central Africa.
• Kuklick, Henrika
  History & Sociology of Science. Applied social science in Africa.
• Mann, Alan
  Anthropology. Paleoanthropology; Hominoid evolution; Southern Africa.
• Mbembe, Achille
  History. Political imagination in precolonial Africa (16th to 19th century), wealth and society (16th to 19th century), and the history of the "public sphere" in Africa; Central and Equatorial Africa.
• McDaniel, Antonio [a.k.a. Tukufu Zuberi]
  Demography. Demography and sociology, migration; East Africa.
• Morris, Stephen
  Economics. Informal economies, development economics, East Africa.
• Moshi, Lioba
  Linguistics. Visiting Associate Professor 1994/95; Linguistics; Swahili.
• Ngoran, Gerard
  Law School.
• O'Connor, David
  Asian & Middle East Studies. Egyptian history and archaeology; wider Egyptian relations with Africa.
• Pack, Howard
  City Planning. Economics; Appropriate Technology; public policy and management; East Africa.
• Roberts, John
  Folklore & Folklife. African-American folklore.
• Silverman, David
  Asian & Middle East Studies. Egyptian languages; religion and Philosophy.
• van de Walle, Etienne
  Population Studies. Demography and sociology, fertility and mortality; West, Central, East Africa.
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• Wagner, Dan
  Education. Literacy, educational development; North, West, and Southern Africa.
• Yoder, Stanley
  Annenberg. Medical Anthropology, West and East Africa.