The Center for African Studies at the University of Florida publishes an annual compilation of all Faculty, Student and Collaborative Project Reports, in addition to other materials produced through the Center.
To view and/or download our research reports from past years, click on the links below.
2019-2020 CAS Research Report
2018-2019 CAS Research Report
Table of Contents
Faculty Reports
DONNA COHEN
Gainesville|Accra “Trash Castle”
SEBASTIAN ELISCHER
Political Salafism in Kenya
JAMES ESSEGBEY
Documentation and Description of Animere
BRENT HENDERSON
Documentation and Morphology of Chimiini
NICHOLAS KERR
Do Campaign and Election-day Experiences Matter for Democratic Legitimacy?
ROSE LUGANO
Kidawida: A Language Documentation Project
FRÉDÉRICK MADORE
Muslim Minorities in Southern Cities of Benin and Togo
ROBERT McCLEERY
Savanna Science in Southern Africa
TERJE ØSTEBØ
Religion, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia
BENEDIKT PONTZEN
Lived Islam and Religious Pluralism in Ghana
DANIEL REBOUSSIN
Congolese Comics Expose Hidden World of 1990s Kinshasa
RENATA SERRA
Enabling Policies for Livestock Sectors in Ethiopia
BENJAMIN SOARES
Islam and Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa
JANE SOUTHWORTH
Examining Vegetation Trends in Eastern Zambia Savanna Landscapes
ANITA SPRING
From Whence and to Where for Africanist Anthropology?
ADRIENNE STRONG
Birth Companion Programs and Women’s Experiences of Care in Tanzania
MICHELE R. TENNANT
Madagascar from A to Z
OLIVIER WALTHER
Cities, Borders and Women’s Trade Networks
LUISE WHITE
Fighting and Writing: the Rhodesian Army at War and Post-war
Student Reports
DANIEL ACOSTA
Supply Chain Analysis for PPR Vaccine in the Karamoja Region, Uganda
MARIAN ANKOMAH
Vehicle Trip Generation of Adult Workers in Ghana
SHAMBAVI BHUSHAN
African Migrants in South Asia
JESSE BORDEN
Reptiles and Amphibians of the Arabuko Sokoke Forest, Kenya
BENJAMIN BURGEN
Migration, Money, and Social Life in Small Town Senegal
ELIZABETH CAREY
Development, Erosion, and Dispossession in a Ghanaian Landscape
JESSICA CASIMIR
Caregiving and Chronic Illness among Caregivers in KwaZulu-Natal
MEGAN COGBURN
Pushing Institutional Deliveries: Childbirth Care in Rural Tanzania
WILLIAM DYER
Developing a Tigrinya Learning Grammar
AMANDA EDGELL
Electoral Gender Quotas and Political Opportunity in Authoritarian Regimes
AARON ELLRICH
Haya Heritage-Making: Reflections and Future Directions
CADY GONZALEZ
Hospitality in Development: Coffee and Sanitation in Urban Ethiopia
RYAN GOOD
Gender, Employment, and Resource Access in Mwanza, Tanzania
VICTORIA GORHAM
State, Society, and Nation-Building in Tanzania and Kenya
BONGINKOSI GUMBI
Land Use Change, Dispersal, Selection, and Adaptation in Swaziland
MOUHAMADOU HOYECK
Youth Movements and Democracy in West Africa
LEANDRA MERZ
Community Conservation and Irrigation Scheme Governance in Mozambique
MUSTAPHA MOHAMMED
Preliminary Survey at the Nasia Archaeological and Smelting Sites
FEZILE MTSETSFWA
Responses of Savanna Tree Species to Climate Change
CARLY MUIR
Effects of Large-scale Land Transactions in Ethiopia
ZOLISWA NHLEKO
The Influence of Poaching and Rainfall on White Rhino Population Growth
CHRISTOVÃO NWACHUKWU
The Fluidity of Blackness in African Literatures
RILEY RAVARY
Transboundary Conservation Governance in Mt. Elgon National Park
AUDREY SMITH
Socio-Ecological Impacts of Land Acquisitions in Tanzania
BENJAMIN SMITH
Stone Technologies at Mochena Borago Rockshelter, SW Ethiopia
SARAH STAUB
Trainings on Artemisia annua for Malaria in Ghana
Collaborative Reports
China-Africa Working Group
Sahel Research Group
Islam in Africa in Global Context
Livestock innovation Lab: PPR Vaccine
Emergency Medicine in Ghana
UF in South Africa
Agriculture Intensification and the Environment
2017-2018 CAS Research Report
Table of ContentsFaculty Reports
RANDALL CANTRELL
Housing and Community Development in Niamey and Niger
SUSAN COOKSEY
UF Faculty and Alumni at ACASA in Ghana
ELIZABETH DEVOS
Emergency Medicine Education in Africa
SEBASTIAN ELISCHER
Reflections on the Africa Yearbook
JAMES ESSEGBEY
Documenting an Endangered Language: Animere
NANCY ROSE HUNT
History, Theory and the Congo
ABDOULAYE KANE
Hometown Associations and Development in the Senegal River Valley
SARAH MCKUNE
Improving Nutrition in Children in Burkina Faso
MICHAEL MORRIS
Empowering Entrepreneurs in South Africa
MARIT ØSTEBØ
A Model for Gender Equality and Sustainable Development
TERJE ØSTEBØ
Religion, Ethnicity, and Conflict in the Horn of Africa
DANIEL REBOUSSIN
Mountain Gorilla Exhibit Highlights Wildlife Conservation Manuscripts
BENJAMIN SOARES
Islam and Muslim Societies in Africa
LEONARDO VILLALÓN
Student Activism and Religious Movements in Sahelian Universities
OLIVIER WALTHER
Mapping Borders and Cities in West Africa
Student Reports
BENJAMIN BURGEN
The Economics of Migration in Small Town Senegal
JESSICA CASMIR
Chronic Disease among Informal Caregivers in KwaZulu-Natal
AWA DOUCOURE
The New Public Policy of Higher Education Reform in Senegal
DANIEL EIZENGA
Electoral Authoritarianism in the Francophone Sahel
MAX GELBER
Plenty of Fish in the Sea? Shark Fishing and the Fin Trade in Ghana
VICTORIA GORHAM
State, Society, and Nation-Building in Tanzania
JOSHUA KARG
The Development of Women’s Football in Nigeria
BENJAMIN LOWE
Influences on Fisher Adaptations to Climate Change on Lake Tanganyika
SHEILA MAINGI
Combating Gender-based Violence through Economic Empowerment
FEZILE MTSETFWA
Savanna Conservation in the Face of Climate and Land Use Changes
MARTIN NWODO
Sustainable Development of the Built Environment in Africa
MOSES NYAGO
Ugandan Private Sector Firms, REDD+ and Corporate Social Responsibility
FELICITY TACKEY-OTOO
A Historical Case Study of Tema, Ghana
DENZEL WILLIAMS
Choreography and Dance in Conakry, Guinea
2016-2017 CAS Research Report
Table of ContentsFaculty Reports
BRIAN CHILD
Learning by Doing and Experimentalist Governance with Communities and Rhino Poaching
DONNA L. COHEN
After the Millennium: Contemporary Architecture in Ethiopia
ELIZABETH DEVOS
Low-Cost Ultrasound Training Tools and Strengthening Emergency Medicine
SEBASTIAN ELISCHER
State Management of the Islamic Sphere in Kenya and Uganda
NANCY ROSE HUNT
Madness and New Methods in the African (Medical) Humanities
MARK JAMISON
Regulatory Systems in Fragile or Conflict-Affected States
AGNES LESLIE
Women in Zambia’s Election: Fighting for Increased Parliamentary Representation
SARAH MCKUNE
Improving Nutrition of Children in the West African Sahel
FIONA MCLAUGHLIN
Everyday ajami Writing Practices in Senegal
ANDREW NOSS
Hunting for Sustainability in African Rainforests: Bushmeat and Hunter-gatherers
TERJE ØSTEBØ
Research on Religion in the Horn of Africa
DANIEL REBOUSSIN
Dian Fossey’s Research with Rwanda’s Mountain Gorillas
PETER SCHMIDT
Ancient Settlements and Tropical Forest Landscape Changes in W. Uganda
RENATA SERRA
Agricultural Development and Food Security: Policy Trade-offs in Senegal
JILL SONKE
The Arts and Health Communication in Uganda
LEONARDO VILLALÓN
Political Reform, Social Change, and Stability in the African Sahel
LUISE WHITE
Fighting and Writing: The Rhodesian Army at War
Student Reports
MAMADOU BODIAN
The Politics of Electoral Reform in Francophone West Africa
JENNIFER BOYLAN
The Democratic Benefits of Centralized Institutions in Ghana
BENJAMIN BURGEN
Small Town Transnationalism in the Senegal River Valley
NETTY CAREY
“We are in the air:” Land Claims and Liminal Space on Ghana’s Volta Delta
ALEX CHIDAKEL
Institutions, Governance, and Performance of Protected Areas in Southern Africa
MEGAN COGBURN
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Technologies of Governance in Rural Tanzania
JUSTIN DUNNAVANT
Archaeology, Slavery, and The African Diaspora
DANIEL EIZENGA
Political Regimes and Civil-Military Relations in Sahelian Africa
NDUBUISI EZELUOMBA
Olokun Shrines in Benin City, Nigeria: Preliminary Fieldwork
CADY GONZALEZ
Coffee Ritual and the Poolitics of Open Defecation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
JOHN HAMES
Fieldwork Follow-up: Dakar & Senegal River Valley
LACEY HARRIS-COBLE
Seasonality of Smallholder Farmer’s Cash Flow in Tanzania
JUSTIN HOYLE
Determinants of Military Retrenchment: Army Behavior during Political Transitions
IBRAHIM YAHAYA IBRAHIM
Political Contestation and Islamic Discourse in the Sahel
RUGIYATU KANE
Developing a Youth Social Entrepreneurship Program in Senegal
ANNIE A. LOGGINS
Elephant-Induced Changes to Savanna Vegetation & Small Mammals
JORDAN MACKENZIE
Conceptualizing and Documenting Derivations from “Standard Swahili”
ELISE MORTON
Avian Diversity and Conservation in Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda
JULY NELSON
Needs Assessment for Shanti Uganda’s Garden Program
RILEY RAVARY
Transboundary Protected Area Governance & Gender at Mount Elgon National Park
JESSIE-LEIGH SEAGO
Understanding Race and Politics in Post-apartheid Southern Africa
EUNMI SONG
Reproductive Health Education Needs Assessment of Adolescent Girls in Uganda
RACHEL GLORIA VELEZ
Evaluating Strategies to Promote WASH Practices in Resource-Poor Areas
SARAH ANNE WARD
Reproductive Health, Girls’ Rights, and Leadership Education in Kenya
Collaborative Projects
Africa’s Largest Countries (AFRILAC)
The African Flagship Languages Initiative
Kumasi-Accra Axis and Contemporary Art in Ghana
New Technologies of Communication
Sahel Research Group
2015-2016 CAS Research Report
Table of Contents
Faculty Reports
ABE GOLDMAN
From the Director
SHARON ABRAMOWITZ
Improving the Humanitarian Response to the West African Ebola Epidemic
DAVID BLACKBURN
Diversity and Evolution African Amphibians and Reptiles
STEVEN BRANDT
An Undergraduate Study abroad Program in Stone Age Archaeology
ELIZABETH DEVOS
Developing Tools and Human Resources for Emergency Care in Africa
SEBASTIAN ELISCHER
Informal Institutions and State Management of Religous Activity in the Sahel
DAVID FOSTER
Assembling the African Continent
ABDOULAYE KANE
Stuck in Transit: Narratives of Young Senegalese Emigrants en route to Europe
TODD LEEDY
Racing on the Rand: A History of Township Cycling in South Africa
AGNES LESLIE
The Impact of Female MPs on the Zambian Parliament
CORENE MATYAS
Tropical Cyclones in the Mozambique Channel and Rainfall Patterns over Mozambique
ROBERT MCCLEERY
Conserving Wildlife in the Rapidly Changing Lanscapes of Southern Africa
BARBARA McDADE GORDON
Going Back to the Future: The Going Back to the Future: African Diaspora in Ghana
SARAH MCKUNE
Developing Innovative, Locally Tailored, Gendered Climate Information Services
TERJE ØSTEBØ
Islam and Politics in the Horn of Africa and Beyond
TODD PALMER
Understanding the Impact of Global Change on East Africa’s Savanna Ecosystems
JULIET PULLIAM
Strenghtening Conncertions and Increasing Capacity in Infectious Disease Dynamics
DANIEL REBOUSSIN
Origins of Collecting African Studies at the UF George A. Smathers Libraries
FRANK SEIDEL
Documentation of Two West African Atlantic Languages
RENATA SERRA
Climate Change and Development Challenges in Senegal
ALIOUNE SOW
Memory, Memoirs and Theater
LEONARDO VILLALÓN
Political Reform, Social Change, and Stability in the African Sahel
LUISE WHITE
Fighting and Writing: the Rhodesian Army at War and Post War
Student Reports
BENJAMIN BURGEN
Outsourcing Justice: Africa and the Politics of the International Criminal Court
DANIEL EIZENGA
Regime Stability, Political Liberalization, and Social Mobilization
MAMADOU BODAIN
The Reform of Institutions in Senegal and Mali
JOHN HAMES
Trans-border Language Activism among the Haalpulaar’en of Senegal and Mauritania
JESSICA HORWOOD
Entrepreneurship in South Africa: Learning through Collaborative Consulting
RUGIYATU KANE
Imagining Future Cities in Africa: Sustainable Housing Solutions in the Sahel
CHESNEY McOMBER
Feminization of Rural Space: Demographic Change, Power and the State in Kenya
EMILY M. PUKUMA
Democratic Breakdown and Survival: A Tale of Two Transitions in Ghana
PHILIP SHIRK
The Threat of Habitat Fragmentation and Climate Change to Chameleons in Tanzania
RICHARD STANTON
Species Interactions and Bird Community Structure under Shrub Encroachment
WHITNEY M. TURIENTINE
Gender Dimensions of Climate Information Services in Senegal and Tanzania
Collaborative Projects
MDP Exchange Program: Development in the Sahel
The Sahel Research Group
2014-2015 CAS Research Report
Table of ContentsFaculty Reports
ABE GOLDMAN
From The Director
SHARON ABRAMOWITZ
Culture and Humanitarian Response to the W. African Ebola Epidemic
CHARLES BWENGE
Linguistic Identity in a Globalizing Urbanscape: Three Swahili Cities
BRIAN CHILD
Economics and Governance of Wildlife and Conservation in southern Africa
ELIZABETH DEVOS
Improving Emergency Medical Services in Africa
GORAN HYDEN
Local Policy, Millennium Development Goals, and African Politics
SUSAN JACOBSON
Tourism and Community-based Wildlife Conservation in Kenya
ABDOULAYE KANE
The Articulation of Translocal and Transnational Tijani Religious Circuits
CORENE MATYAS
Rainfall and Patterns of Income for Farmers in Mozambique
BOB McCLEERY
Wildlife Research in Swaziland and South Africa
SARAH McKUNE
Nutrition and Gender among Pastoralists in the Context of Climate Change
BARBARA McDADE GORDON
African Diaspora “Out of Africa” and Africa Diasporans “Into Africa”
ESTHER OBONYO
A Learning Through Service Approach for Architecture and Engineering
TERJE ØSTEBØ
Islam and Politics in the Horn of Africa and Beyond
JULIET PULLIAM
Strengthening US-Africa Connections and Capacity in Infectious Disease Dynamics
DANIEL REBOUSSIN
Libraries Curate Elephant Data for Online Open Access
FRANK SEIDEL
Documentation of Baga Mandori: An Endangered Language of Guinea
JILL SONKE
The Arts and Public Health in Uganda
LUISE WHITE
Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization
Student Reports
OUMAR BA
Outsourcing Justice: Africa and the Politics of the International Criminal Court
LINA BENABDALLAH
(Re)Branding a ‘China Alternative’ in Africa’s Development Scene
MAMADOU BODAIN
The Reform of Institutions in Senegal and Mali
BENJAMIN BURGEN
Transnational Hometowns: Migration & Development in the Senegal River Valley
POULOMY CHAKRABORTY
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Conditions in Peri-urban Kenya
ALEX CHIDAKEL
Economic Performance of Protected Areas in Contrasting Institutional Landscapes
AMANDA EDGELL
Exploring Mechanisms for Entry and Roles of Women in African Parliaments
ANTOINETA EGUREN
Attitudes Toward Wildlife and Parks in Makuleke Villages, South Africa
DAN EIZENGA
Regime Stability, Political Liberalization, and Social Mobilization in the Sahel
MICHAEL GENNARO
The History of Boxing in Nigeria
VICTORIA GORHAM
State-led National Identity Formation in Tanzania
ANN LEE GRIMSTAD
Zanzibar: The Nine-Hour Revolution
YANG JIAO
China’s Agricultural Investment in Nigeria
NICHOLAS KNOWLTON
Ghana’s Democratic Trajectory in Comparative Perspective
LILY MAYNARD
Seeking stakeholder collaboration: Community-Based Conservancies in Kenya
ASMERET MEHARI
Can Archaeology by Africans Genuinely be for Africans
THERESE RYLEY
Waterscapes in Urban and Peri-urban Senegal
ERIK TIMMONS
Hip Hop Life and Livelihood in Nairobi
IBRAHIM YAHAYA IBRAHIM
Islamic Insurgency in the Sahel
Collaborative Projects
Archaeological & Paleoenvironmental Research in the Ndali Crater Lakes Region
Alternative Small Business Financing Options to Micro-Finance Loans In Kenya
Community Archaeology and Heritage Work In Africa: Issues, Lessons and the Future
Political Reform, Social Change, and Stability In The African Sahel
Exhibitions and Acquisitions of African Art at The Harn Museum
Linguistic Ecology of Dakar’s Markets
Development, Security and Climate Change in the African Sahel
The Potential for Using a Social Enterprise Approach to Achieve Impact and Scale in Low Cost Housing
Sub-Saharan Africa Business Environment Report
UF-UDSM Linkage: 25 years of Cooperative Exchange
Taking Africa to the Classroom
CAS at 50
2013-2014 CAS Research Report
Table of ContentsFaculty Reports
BRENDA CHALFIN
Infrastructure and Urban Public Life in Ghana
ELIZABETH DEVOS
Emergency Medicin Curriculum Development for Africa
JAMES ESSEGBEY
Documenting the Language of Fishing among the Dwang
AGNES LESLIE
Chinese Investments in Zambia: The Role of Government in Protecting Workers
CORENE MATYAS
Rainfall Patterns in Mozambique and Relationships to Income Change for Rural Subsistence Farmers
BARBARA McDADE GORDON
The African Diaspora: A Global Geographical and Historical Phenomenon
FIONA MCLAUGHLIN
Centenaire Pidgin: Senegal’s Newest Urban Language
CONNIE J. MULLIGAN
Epigenetic Alterations and Stress among New Mothers and Neonates in the DRC: A Biocultural Investigation of the Intergenerational Effects of War
TERJE ØSTEBØ
Islam, Ethnicity and Reformism in the Horn of Africa
DANIEL REBOUSSIN
Manuscripts Support Research on Wildlife Conservation
RICHARD RHEINGANS
Understanding and Tackling Health Disparities
VICTORIA ROVINE
Africa at the Colonial Expositions: Representation through Visual Art
PETER SCHMIDT
Building Community Heritage Collaborations in Kagera, Tanzania
FRANK SEIDEL
Documentation of Baga Mandori: an Endangered Language of Guinea
RENATA SERRA
Women’s Collective Action in Agricultural Markets
JILL SONKE
The Arts and Health in East-Central Africa
ISTVÁN TARRÓSY
US Africa Policy and the Changing Global System: The EU-China-US “Triangle” of Relations and Hungary
LEONARDO VILLALÓN
Political Reform, Social Change and Stability in the Sahel
LUISE WHITE
Mobile Soldiers, Porous States: The Un-National Liberation of South Africa
Student Reports
KAREN BAILEY
The Influence of an Agricultural Mosaic on Small Mammals and Their Ecosystem Services
MAMADOU BODIAN
Coalition Politics and the Evolution of Electoral Systems in Francophone Africa
LEANDRA CLOUGH
Situational Analysis of Communities Bordering Sabie Game Park in Mozambique
NASIRU DANMOWA
Fate and Transport of Phosphorus Fertilizer and Pesticides in a Northern Nigerian Soil
JUSTIN DUNNAVANT
Ethiopian Archaeology and the Archives
DANIEL EIZENGA
Processes of Democratization in the Sahel
CARLEE FORBES
Woven History: Raffia Cloth in the Kongo
ANN LEE GRIMSTAD
Zanzibar: The Nine-Hour Revolution
EMILY HAUSER
Democratization and Colonial Legacies in Nigeria
NICHOLAS KNOWLTON
The Legacies of Democratic Experiments in Africa: Ghana’s Democratic Trajectory in Comparative Perspective
CHESNEY McOMBER
Investigating Gender Equity within Climate Information Services: Insights from Kenya
ANNA MWABA
Supporting Democracy: Preparing Malawi for 2014
EMMANUEL A. OFORI
The Use of Insults/Intemperate Language in Political Discourse in Ghana: a Critical Discourse Analysis
AMY PANIKOWSKI
Woven Livelihoods: Women Crafters and Protected Areas in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
CHRISTOPHER RICHARDS
“We Have Always Been Fashionable” – The Significance of Fashion in Accra, Ghana (1953-2013)
ABIYOT SEIFU
The Life and Death of Medieval Ethiopian Priests: a Bioarchaeological and Osteological Investigation of Mummies from Caves in Northern Ethiopia
DANIEL STIRLING
Adapting Hospital Outreach to Direct Village Needs in Kitgum, Uganda
RAINA S. ZANTOUT
Human Health Risks Linked to Irrigation with Treated Wastewater and Analysis of Gender Roles in Agriculture in Oued Souhil, Tunisia
Collaborative Reports
African Languages Initiative (AFLI) Domestic Intensive Summer Program 2013
Research for “Kongo across the Waters” Exhibition and Publication
2012 CAS Research Report
Table of ContentsFaculty Reports
SHARON ABRAMOWITZ
“Mental Health, Humanitarian Intervention, and Reconstruction in Liberia”
KATE BALDWIN
“Supporting Traditional Leaders to Mitigate Community-Level Conflict”
STEVEN BRANDT & KYLIE BERMENSOLO
“2012 Field Season at Mochena Boraga Rock Shelter, SW Ethiopia”
ELIZABETH DEVOS
“Continuing to Develop A Roadmap for Emergency Services in Africa”
JAMES ESSEGBEY
“Developing an Online African Language Course”
JOAN FROSCH
“Voices of Strength”
GREG KIKER
“Modeling Elephant/Vegetation Dynamics for Adaptive Management in Southern African Ecosystems”
ANDREW JAY NOSS
“Protected Areas and Oil Development in Equatorial Guinea”
ESTHER OBONYO
“Sustainable Building Systems for Low Income Communities”
TERJE ØSTEBØ
“Islam, Ethnicity, and Reformism in the Horn of African and Africa”
FRANCIS E. PUTZ
“Gators in Gabon”
DANIEL REBOUSSIN
“Search Engine Optimization Supports Research Access Online”
VICTORIA ROVINE
“Indigenous/International: African Style in Global Fashion”
FRANK SEIDEL
“Language Documentation of Nalu in Guinea, West Africa”
RENATA SERRA
“The Challenges of Cotton Sector Reforms in West and Central Africa”
ALIOUNE SOW
“Memory, Memoirs, and Narratives in Mali”
LEONARDO VILLALÓN
“Political Reform, Social Change, and Stability in The African Sahel”
Student Reports
JENNIFER BOYLAN
“What Does It Mean to Hold a Free and Fair Election?”
RENEE BULLOCK
“Smallholder Farmers in Global Value Chains: Spice Market Participation in Tanzania”
BENJAMIN BURGEN
“Migration and Development in the Upper Senegal River Valley”
STEPHENIE CHATFIELD
“Capturing Impact: Monitoring and Evaluation a Sanitation Program in Ethiopia”
TIMOTHY FULLMAN
“Impacts of a Growing Elephant Population in Southern Africa”
MICHAEL J. GENNARO
“Boxing in Colonial and Post-Colonial Nigeria, 1920-1970”
RYAN GOOD
“Africa’s Place in Global Food Security”
MEGHAN KIRKWOOD
“Land-based Imagery in Contemporary South African Photography”
NICHOLAS KNOWLTON
“Trajectories of Democracy in Africa and the Legacies of Democratic Experiments”
STEVEN LICHTY
“Religious Motivation for Political Engagement in Kenya”
GERMAIN AIME MAVAH
“Human Livelihoods Assessment in the Republic of Congo”
VINCENT MEDJIBE
“Biodiversity, Climate, and Carbon: The Forests of the Congo Basin”
XAVIER MONROE
“The Scramble for Nigeria: The View from Kano”
AMY PANIKOWSKI
“Woven Livelihoods: Women Crafters and Protected Areas in KwaZulu-Natal”
CHRISTOPHER RICHARDS
“We Have Always Been Fashionable” – The Significance of Fashion in Accra”
MACKENZIE MOON RYAN
“The Global Reach of a Fashionable Commodity: Kanga Textiles in Dar es Salaam”
SAM SCHRAMSKI
“Social Capital, Climate, and Agrarian Change in South Africa”
CAROLINE STAUB
“Hydrological Processes, Climate, and Land Cover in Mauritius”
DONALD UNDERWOOD
“Governing Ghana’s Maritime Domain: Monitoring, Mapping and Surveillance”
CARRIE L. VATH
“Livelihood Hunting and Attitudes in Southeastern Nigeria”
KEITH WEGHORST
“Elections in Africa: Opposition Parties, Electoral Integrity, and Women’s Representation”
CHRISTOPHER WITULSKI
“Pious Performances: Musiqa Ruhiyya and Islamic Popular Music in Fez”
Collaborative Project Reports
“Cell Phone Usage and Its Impact on Zambian Economy and Society”
“In and Out of Africa: African Memoirs after 1980”
“Kongo Across the Waters: Publications and Exhibition Research”
“Risk, Threat and Vulnerability in Ghana’s Off-Shore Oil Sector”
2011 CAS Research Report
Table of ContentsFaculty Reports
SHARON ABRAMOWITZ
“Mental Health, Humanitarian Intervention, and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Liberia”
ANTOINETTE TIDJANI ALOU
“Queen Sarraounia and the Civilizing Mission: Perspectives on the Politics of Memory”
KATE BALDWIN
“Non-State Actors, Public Goods, and Political Accountability in Africa”
STEVEN BRANDT
“Out of SW Ethiopia: a Refugium for Late Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherers?”
BRENDA CHALFIN
“Urban Planning and Governmental Proliferation in Ghana’s Port City of Tema”
DONNA L. COHEN & Claude Armstrong
“Built Work with Proposals for the Future: Tanzania and Morocco”
ELIZABETH DEVOS
“Strengthening the Ghana National Ambulance Service”
JAMES ESSEGBEY
“Preparing Documentary Outputs for an Endangered Community”
ABE GOLDMAN
“Parks as Agents of Social and Environmental Change in Eastern and Southern Africa”
BRENT HENDERSON
“When an Endangered Language Goes Global: Documenting Chimiini”
ABDOULAYE KANE
“The Baraka Tijani: The Structure and Pattern of a Transnational Religious Circuit”
ANNE METTE KJAER
“Understanding Why and When Ruling Elites Support Productive Sectors”
AGNES LESLIE
“Chinese Investments in Zambia and Senegal: State Collaboration and Worker Confrontation”
ROBERT McCLEERY
“Working Together to Conserve Swaziland’s Wildlife Resources”
BARBARA McDADE GORDON
“African Entrepeneurs: On the Continent and in the Diaspora”
TERJE ØSTEBØ
“Islam, Ethnicity, and the State in Ethiopia/Horn of Africa”
FRANCIS E. PUTZ & CLAUDIA ROMERO
“Global Climate Change in the Eastern Cape of South Africa”
DANIEL REBOUSSIN
“Library Research Supporting African Studies Academic Programs”
RICHARD RHEINGANS
“Exploring Health Disparities in Africa”
VICTORIA ROVINE
“Clothing, Colonial Expositions, and Images of Africa”
PETER SCHMIDT
“The Restoration of Kanazi Palace in NW Tanzania: First Steps Towards a Sustainable Heritage Tourism”
FRANK SEIDEL
“Documenting Nalu – an Atlantic Language on the Coast of Guinea, West Africa”
RENATA SERRA
“Governing Cotton Sectors in West and Central Africa”
DANIEL SMITH
“An African Re-Immersion”
ALIOUNE SOW
“Memoir and Migration in Mali”
LUISE WHITE
“Is Post-Conflict an Oxymoron?”
Student Reports
ERIN BUNTING
“Detecting Patterns of Disturbance via Landscape-Level Vegetation Analysis within Southern Africa”
TIM FULLMAN
“Elephant Community Ecology in Southern Africa”
JASON HARTZ
“Health Perspectives Among Senegalese Immigrants in Cincinnati, Ohio”
ELIHU ISELE
“Exploring the Intersection of Agriculture and Health Among HIV+ Populations in West Kenya”
DAN JAKUBOWSKI
“Egyptian Video Art and the Performance of Identity”
CARLA JONES
“Giving Up the Gun: Life Post-Rebellion in Central Africa”
MARIT ØSTEBØ
“Gender Equality in Ethiopia: Concepts, Practices, and Strategies”
ALISON MONTGOMERY
“Negotiating the Space of Fairtrade in South Africa’s Wine Industry”
SHYLOCK MUYENGWA
“Elite Capture of Community Conservation Programs in Botswana, Nambia, and Zimbabwe”
COLLINS NUNYONAMEH
“Mining and Community Development in Ghana”
MACKENZIE MOON RYAN
“Kanga Hits the Runway, Fashion and East African Textile”
ELHADI M. SARR
“Democracy in the West African Novel”
AMY SCHWARTZOTT
“Weapons and Refuse as Media: The Potent Politics of Recycling in Mozambican Urban Arts”
SAM SCHRAMSKI
“Resilience and Social Networks in South Africa’s Eastern Cape”
NOAH ISAIAH SIMS
“Not So Hidden Treasures: Public Archeology and Collaboration in Bukoba, Tanzania”
JESSICA STEELE
“Linking Livelihoods and Land Cover in Southern Africa”
ERIK TIMMONS
“Embodiment, Emplacement, and Lyrical Discourse from Eastlands, Nairobi”
DUNCAN WAMBUGU
“Towards the Teaching of Kenyan Art & Choral Music in High School Music Education”
KEITH WEGHORST
“Social Networks and Voting in Africa”
ANN WITULSKI
“Islamic Education Curriculum Reform Politics in Morocco”
CHRISTOPHER WITULSKI
“Listening to Changing Narratives and Musical Diversity in Moroccan Gnawa Music”
DEB WOJCIK
“Information Flows and Perceptions of Resources in the Okavango Delta”
Collaborative Reports
“Kongo Across the Waters: A Collaborative Exhibition of the Harn Museum of Art and the RMCA”
“Sub-Saharan Africa Business, Environment Report (SABER) Project”
“Partnership to Strengthen Tourism Management in South Africa”
“2010 FIFA Football World Cup: Resident and Visitor Perspectives”
“MDP Summer Practicum in Botswana”
2010 CAS Research Report
Table of ContentsFaculty Reports
CHARLES BWENGE
“Climate Change and the Dynamics of Local Discourse in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania”
DONNA L. COHEN
“Architectural Designs for East Africa”
SUSAN COOKSEY
“New Threads: Textile Diasporas at the Harn Museum of Art”
ELIZABETH DEVOS
“Emergency Medicine Development for Africa”
JAMES ESSEGBEY
“Documenting Endangered Languages in Africa”
JOAN FROSCH
“Graphing a Movement (R)Evolution: Faustin Linyekula, Germaine Acogny, and Beatrice Kombe”
ABE GOLDMAN
“Parks as Agents of Social and Environmental Change in Eastern and Southern Africa”
SEAN HANRETTA
“Love, Death, and History in West Africa”
BRENT HENDERSON
“When an Endangered Language Goes Global: Documenting Chimiini”
ABDOULAYE KANE
“A Cultural Festival in the Senegal River Valley: Reinventing Local Traditions for Returning Migrants”
GREG KIKER
“Taming Wicked Problems: Ecosystem Modeling for Adaptive Management of Rivers and Elephants”
AGNES LESLIE
“Zambia-China Engagement: The Role of Government in Regulating Foreign Investments”
STAFFAN LINDBERG
“Voting Behavior, MP Campaign Strategies, and Political Clientelism in Ghana”
FIONA MCLAUGHLIN
“Dakar’s Linguistic Landscape”
CONNIE MULLIGAN
“Epigenetic Alterations and Stress Among New Mothers and Infants in the DRC”
ESTHER OBONYO
“A Community-Based Approach to Sustainable Development”
BERNARD OKECH
“Research Activities in Kenya”
TERJE ØSTEBØ
“Islam and Islamism in Ethiopia & the Horn of Africa”
ROBIN POYNOR
“Yoruba Influences in Florida”
RICHARD RHEINGANS
“Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Kenya: Where Health and Development Meet”
CLAUDIA ROMERO & FRANCIS E. PUTZ
“Higher Education and Climate Change Research in Southern Africa”
VICTORIA ROVINE
“Viewing Africa through Clothing: Research and Collaboration”
ZEKERIA OULD AHMED SALEM
“Debating Islam: Ethnicity, Belonging and Muslim Politics in Mauritania”
PETER SCHMIDT
“History, Trauma, and Revitalization in Haya Villages of Tanzania”
FRANK SEIDEL
“Documenting Nalu: An Atlantic Language on the Coast of Guinea, West Africa”‘
RENATA SERRA
“Cotton Sector Reforms in West and Central Africa”
JILL SONKE
“AIM for Africa: Rwanda”
ALIOUNE SOW
“The New Malian Literary Landscape”
ANITA SPRING
“Sub-Saharan Africa Business Environment Report (SABER)”
ANDREW TATEM
“Malaria: Movement, Modeling, and Mapping”
CIRECIE WEST-OLATUNJI
“Critical Consciousness Theory and Counselor Effectiveness During Disaster Response”
Student Reports
KHADIDHA ARFI
“Remembering Colonial Times: an Algerian Oral History”
RENEE BULLOCK
“Marketing Opportunities and Constraints in the East Usambaras, Tanzania”
NICOLE D’ERRICO
“Epigenetic Alterations and Stress Among New Mothers and Infants in the DRC”
JORDAN FENTON
“Masquerade and Local Knowledge in Urban Calabar, Nigeria”
JOHN FORT
“The Role of the Environment in the Forest Livelihood Decisions of Malawian Villagers”
TIMOTHY FULLMAN
“Elephant Community Ecology in Botswana”
JOHN HAMES
“Minority Language Promotion in Senegal and Mauritania”
RACHEL IANNELLI
“Heritage Tourism: Implications for the Preservation of Haya Architecture in NW Tanzania”
JILLIAN JENSEN
“Institutional Reforms to Strengthen Gender Outcomes through Improved Rural Services Delivery”
LUCAS JOHNSON
“Archeology and Stone Tool Technology during Early State Development in Northern Ethiopia”
CARA JONES
“Rebels, Rulers, and Refugees: Post-Conflict Governments in Action in Burundi”
ALISON KETTER
“Fairtrade South Africa (FTSA)”
JOSEPH KRAUS
“The ‘Business’ of State-Building: Corporate Social Responsibility and the State in Equatorial Guinea”
STEVEN LICHTY
“Religious Influence on Political Belief and Behavior in Kenya”
EUGENIA MARTINEZ
“Arabic Script as Active Agent in Senegalese Visual Culture”
GERMAIN MAVAH
“Governance and Sustainability of Wildlife in Logging Concessions in Republic of the Congo”
SARAH McKUNE
“Risk, Perception, Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Change in Niger and Tanzania”
BOTHEPA MOSETLHI
“The Impact of Chobe National Park on Rural Livelihoods and Conservation Behaviors”
NAOMI MOSWETE
“Protected Area Management and Community-Based Ecotourism in Botswana”
SHYLOCK MUYENGWA
“Elite Capture of Community Conservation Programs in Nambia and Zimbabwe”
SAMUEL NYAMUAME
“Performing Adzomany: Religious-Cultural Expression among the Anlo-Ewe of Ghana”
MARIT ØSTEBØ
“Gender Equality in International Aid: The Case of Norweigan-funded Projects in Ethiopia”
CHRISTOPHER RICHARDS
“Designing Identities in Accra, Ghana”
KATHLEEN RUDOLPH
“Acacia-Ant Defenders in Kenya: What Are the Costs and Where Do They Matter?”
MACKENZIE RYAN
“Kanga: A Culturally Embedded Swahili Textile”
SAM SCHRAMSKI
“Community Resilience in the Eastern Cape, South Africa”
AMY SCHWARTZOTT
“Weapons and Refuse as Media: The Politics of Recycling in Mozambican Urban Arts”
NOAH SIMS
“The Medieval East African Diaspora”
CAROLINE STAUB
“Soil, Vegetation and Land Use in the Okavango Delta, northwestern Botswana”
VERONIQUE THERIAULT
“Market Reforms and Local Realities: The Case of the Malian Cotton Sector”
KEITH WEGHORST
“Voters and the Political Opposition in Africa”
ANN WITULSKI
“State Bureaucrats or Social Leaders? Conflicts in Morocco’s Islamic Education Curriculum”
CHRISTOPHER WITULSKI
“Moroccan Islam(s): Debating Religious Authority through Ritual Performance”
Collaborative Reports
“Transforming CBNRM Education in Southern Africa”
“2010 FIFA World Cup: Resident and Visitor Perspectives”
“Zambia Tourism Demand Survey”
“Africa Power & Politics Programme”
“Bridging Research and Practice: Building a New Study Abroad Model in Southern Africa”
“Master’s Program in Sustainable Development Practice (MDP)”
2009 CAS Research Report
Table of ContentsFaculty Reports
AKINTUNDE AKINYEMI
“Contemporary African Dramatists & the Question of Orality”“
STEVEN BRANDT
“Southwest Ethiopia—Homo sapiens Across & Out of Africa During the Late Pleistocene”
CHARLES BWENGE
“Language Contact & Communicative Innovations: The African Experience”
BRENDA CHALFIN
“Ghana’s Modernist Metropolis: National Ideals & Urban Imperatives in Tema”
DONNA L. COHEN
“Integrating the Study of African Architecture into the Curriculum”
SUSAN COOKSEY
“African Beadwork at the Harn Museum”
JAMES ESSEGBEY
“The Nyagbo Documentation Project”
JOAN FROSCH
“Focusing a Choreographic Lens on Fresh Practices of the Imagination”
BRENT HENDERSON
“Documentation of Chimiini, a Bantu Language of Somalia”
AGNES LESLIE
“The Zambia-China Relationship: State Accommodation & Public Disaffectation”
STAFFAN LINDBERG
“Interrogating Accountability in Ghana”
FIONA MCLAUGHLIN
“Dakar Wolof: The Language of an African City”
PETER MALANCHUK
“African Wildlife & Range Management Collection”
REBECCA MARTIN NAGY
“Restoration: On the Trail of the Artist Behind an Ethiopian Painting of the Holy Trinity”
ESTHER OBONYO
“Optimizing Building Performance Parameters: The East African Context”
SUSAN O’BRIEN
“Youth Culture, Islam and Democracy in West Africa”
JACK PUTZ & CLAUDIA ROMERO
“Collaborations with Rhodes University in South Africa”
DANIEL REBOUSSIN
“The Martin Rikli Photo Albums: A Snapshot of Ethiopia Circa 1935”
VICTORIA ROVINE
“African Fashion: Innovation, Social Status, and Tradition in Mali”
PETER SCHMIDT
“Heritage Tourism: Sustainability & Capacity Building in Northwestern Tanzania”
RENATA SERRA
“Institutions, Power and Norms in African Cotton Reforms (Benin, Mali & Burkina Faso)”
JULIE SILVA
“Nature-Based Tourism as a Rural Development Strategy in Southern Africa”
JILL SONKE
“Arts in Medicine (AIM) for Africa: Rwanda”
ANITA SPRING
“African Entrepreneurs: From Micro to Global”
ANDREW TATEM & MARCO SALEMI
“HIV Spread in Central & East Africa”
LEONARDO VILLALÓN
“Formalizing School: Religion & the Education Sector in the Sahel”
LUISE WHITE
“Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization”
ALYSON YOUNG
“Waterborne Zoonotic Disease & Its Impact on Health Behavior in Tanzania”
Student Reports
CHRISTIAN AHIHOU
“Ken Bugul: A Unique African Woman Novelist & Message”
PHILLIP ALDERMAN
“Improving Soil Fertility Management in Northern Ghana”
RENEE BULLOCK
“Land-Use Profitability in Northeast Tanzania”
NICOLE D’ERRICO
“Intergenerational Health Effects of Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo”
ANDREW GAUGHAN
“Landscape Dynamics & Climate Variability in the Okavango-Kwando-Zambezi Catchment”
ANN LEE GRIMSTAD
“The 1964 Zanzibar Revolution & Its Revolutionaries”
TRAVIS HERRET
“Design for the Children: East African HIV/AIDS Clinic Design Competition”
RACHEL IANNELLI
“Heritage Tourism & Local Capacity in Northwestern Tanzania”
JILLIAN JENSEN
“Capturing Water Resources for Agriculture & Human Development in Swaziland”
YANG JIAO
“The Virtual Space of the Transnational Chinese Entrepreneurs in Ghana”
ALISON KETTER
“Fairtrade South Africa: Global Models & National Realities”
MICHELLE KIEL
“Experts and the Subjects of Expertise: Education & Development in Madagascar”
KAREN KIRNER
“Agricultural Change Between the Batoro & Bakiga Peoples: Kibale National Park, Uganda”
ASHLEY LEINWEBER
“Islamic Organizations & the Provision of Education in the Democratic Republic of Congo”
STEVEN LICHTY
“Uncovering Current Contentious Issues During Zanzibar’s Electoral Process”
MEREDITH MARTEN
“The Sustainability of Public Health Interventions in Northern Tanzania”
VINCENT MEDJIBE
“Carbon Dynamics in Central African Forests Managed for Timber”
COURTNAY MICOTS
“Rock Residences in Anomabo, Ghana: Architectural Statements of Power & Identity”
JESSICA MOREY
“Student Unionism and Cultism in Nigeria”
NAOMI MOSWETE
“Community-Based Ecotourism Development in Kgalagadi District, Western Botswana”
PATRICIA MUPETA
“Democratizing Wildlife Management or Not? Three Village Trusts in Botswana”
JESSICA MUSENGEZI
“Wildlife-Based Land Use and Cattle Production on Private Land in South Africa”
SHYLOCK MUYENGWA
“Institutions & Change in Community-Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM)”
TIMOTHY NEVIN
“Exploring Liberia’s Musical History”
JOSHUA NIEDERRITER
“Foreign & Domestic-Owned Firms in the Namibian Tourism Sector”
WINIFRED PANKANI
“The Informal Institutions: Do They Matter?”
GREGORY PARENT
“Livelihood Vulnerability and Village Economic Structure: Kruger National Park in South Africa”
CHRISTOPHER RICHARDS
“Re-Fashioning Africa: Ghana’s 3rd Annual Fashion Weekend”
AMY SCHWARTZOTT
“The Potent Politics of Recycling in Contemporary Mozambican Urban Arts”
MATTHEW H. SHIRLEY
“Crocodile Conservation Across Africa”
OLEKAE THAKADU
“Environmental Information & Communication Among Stakeholders: Okavango Delta, Botswana”
VERONIQUE THERIAULT
“Structural Changes in the Malian Cotton Sector: Implications for Export Performance”
CARRIE VATH
“Primate Conservation & Environmental Education: Re-filling the Empty Forests”
CHRISTOPHER WITULSKI
“Moroccan Islam(s): Debating Religious Authority Through Ritual & Musical Performance”
Collaborative Reports
AKINTUNDE AKINYEMI
“Fulbright-Hays Summer 2009 Intensive Yoruba Group Project Abroad (GPA)”
SANFORD BERG
“Public Utility Research Center (PURC): African Infrastructure Research and Outreach”
BRIAN CHILD, GRENVILLE BARNES, SANDRA RUSSO, & BRIJESH THAPA
“Higher Education for Development: Transforming CBNRM Education”
ABE GOLDMAN, MICHAEL BINFORD, BRIAN CHILD, J. TERRENCE MCCABE, & PAUL LESLIE
“NSF-Human and Social Dynamics Program: Parks As Agents of Social Change”
SANDRA L. RUSSO, DOUG LEVEY, ANN DONNELLY, & TODD PALMER
“NSF-Fostering International Collaboration with the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)”
DANIEL SMITH
“American Political Science Association: Elections and Democracy Workshop in Ghana”
BRIJESH THAPA
“Higher Education for Development: Tourism Management in South Africa”
2008 CAS Research Report
Table of ContentsFaculty Reports
ANNA CATHEY
“Uncertainty Analysis for Strategic Monitoring in Complex Transboundary Ecological Systems”
SARAH CERVONE
“Rural Communities and Tourism Development in Toubkal National Park, Morocco”
JEAN-GAEL COLLUMB
“Tourism’s Impact on Human Wellbeing in Caprivi (Namibia)”
STEPHEN R. DAVIS
“Daily Life in the Exile Camps of the African National Congress (South Africa)”
JOHN LANDON DENKLER
“Development Difficulties among the Basubiya: Community-Based Natural Resource Management”
KENLY GREER FENIO
“Political Institutions and HIV/AIDS Associations in Mozambique”
JORDAN A. FENTON
“Qua Masquerade in Calabar, Nigeria”
TIMOTHY FULLMAN
“Spatial Dynamics of Elephant Impact on Trees in Chobe National Park, Botswana”
RAMON GALINAÑES
“An Elusive Peace: State Building and Reconstruction in Angola”
JUANITA GARCIA-SAQUI
“Are Livelihood Security and Attitudes Towards Wildlife, the National Park and the Conservancy/CBNRM Interlinked?”
ANDREW GAUGHAN
“Landscape Dynamics in Caprivi, Namibia”
RACHEL HARVEY
“Township Tourism in Cape Town, South Africa”
CARA HAUCK
“Prospects for Peace and Transition in Post-Conflict Burundi”
CLAUDIA HOFFMAN
“Undocumented Immigrants in Nigerian Cinema”
ABDOURAHMANE IDRISSA
“Ideology and Governance: Islam and Liberalism in Niger”
YANG JIAO
“Chinese Entrepreneurial Networks in Ghana”
BOTHEPA KGABUNG
“The Effects of Elephant Management on Rural Livelihoods and Conservation Attitudes around Chobe National Park, Botswana”
JOSEPH KRAUS
“The Politics of “Corporate Social Responsibility” in Equatorial Guinea”
ASHLEY LEINWEBER
“Muslim Organizations in the Democratic Republic of Congo”
STEVEN LICHTY
“Religious Beliefs and Political Behavior in Kenya”
BETTY LININGER
“Post Migration Experience of Somali Female Refugees in the United States: A Case Study of Atlanta, Georgia”
COURTNAY MICOTS
“Art and Architecture of Anomabo, Ghana: A Case Study in Cultural Flow”
PATRICIA MUPETA
“Democratic Governance and Its Effect On Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM): Botswana and Zambia”
LEVY ODERA
“Citizen-Politician Linkages in the Formal and Informal Sector in Kenya”
ANN LEE GRIMSTAD OMONDI
“The Unraveling of John Okello”
WINIFRED PANKANI
“Informal Institutions and Public Goods in Ghanaian Bureaucracies”
GREGORY PARENT
“An Economic Analysis on the Viability of Wildlife Hunting and Viewing Tourism as a Conservation and Rural Development Tool in Namibia”
TORREY PEACE
“The Use of Client Focused Technology by Microfinance Organizations in Tanzania: A Case Study”
LUKE ROSTANT
“The Efficacy of Community-Based Monitoring in Namibia: The Event Book System”
AMY SCHWARTZOTT
“Weapons and Refuse as Media: The Potency and Politics of Recycling in Contemporary Mozambican Urban Arts”
NOELLE SULLIVAN
“Hospitals as a Window into Global Flows and Local Articulations in Tanzania”
ANN WAINSCOTT
“Religion and Politics in Morocco”
CHRISTOPHER WITULSKI
“Perceptions and Misperceptions of the Gnawa and their Music in Morocco”
DEBORAH WOJCIK
“Building Capacity for Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Southern Africa”
Collaborative Reports
UF Law Summer Program in Cape Town, South Africa
AIM For Africa: Medicine, Arts and Health Care in Gambia
NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates: Studying Ecology in Ghana
NSF IGERT Field Course: Water, Wetlands, and Watersheds in Southern Africa