Walton Johnson, Africana Studies Allen Howard, History Abena P.A. Busia, English

Faculty, Staff, and Visiting Scholars

The Center's activities are organized into the following Standing Committees that develop and implement programs:

CAS Personnel

Ousseina Alidou | Director | oalidou@rci.rutgers.edu

Renée Larrier | Associate Director | rlarrier@rci.rutgers.edu

Renée DeLancey | Assistant to Director | rdelance@rci.rutgers.edu

CAS Standing Executive Committee

Ousseina Alidou | AMESALL |oalidou@rci.rutgers.edu

Renée Larrier | French | rlarrier@rci.rutgers.edu

Abena P.A. Busia| Women's & Gender Studies | busia@rci.rutgers.edu

Melissa Gasparotto (2012-2013)| African Studies Librariran | gasparom@rci.rutgers.edu

Carolyn Brown | History | cbrown@panix.com



CAS Members

Akinbiyi Akinlabi | Linguistics |akinlabi@rci.rutgers.edu
Ousseina Alidou | AMESALL | oalidou@rci.rutgers.edu
Albert Ayeni | Plant Bio./Pathology | ayeni@aesop.rutgers.edu
Francis Barchi | Social Work | francis.barchi@ssw.rutgers.edu
Sarah Brett-Smith | Art History | brettsmi@rci.rutgers.edu
Carolyn A. Brown | History | cbrown@panix.com
Abena P.A. Busia | Women's and Gender | busia@rci.rutgers.edu
Barbara Callaway, Emeritus | Political Science |
Catie Coe | Sociology (Camden) | ccoe@camden.rutgers.edu
Barbara Cooper | History/WGS | bacooper@rci.rutgers.edu
Lee Cronk | Anthropology | leecronk@rci.rutgers.edu
Rebecca Davis | Social Work | redavis@ssw.rutgers.edu
Emmet A. Dennis | Cell Bio. & Neuroscience | edennis@rci.rutgers.edu
Eric Garfunkel | Chemistry & Chemical Biology| egarf@rutgers.edu
Jack Harris | Anthropology | jwharris@rci.rutgers.edu
Angelique Haugerud | Anthropology | haugerud@rci.rutgers.edu
Dorothy Hodgson | Anthropology | dhodgson@rci.rutgers.edu
Allen Howard, Emeritus | History | ahoward@rci.rutgers.edu
David M. Hughes | Anthropology | dhughes@aesop.rutgers.edu
Walton Johnson | Africana Studies | waltonj@rci.rutgers.edu
Yeon-Soo Kim | Spanish & Portuguese | yeonsoo_kim@yahoo.com
Renée Larrier | French | rlarrier@rci.rutgers.edu
Barbara Lewis, Emeritus | Political Science | bclewis@rci.rutgers.edu
Julie Livingston | History | jliving@tulrich.com
Susan Martin-Marquez | Spanish & Port. | susanmm@rci.rutgers.edu
Alamin Mazrui | AMESALL | amazrui@rci.rutgers.edu
Bonnie McCay | Human Ecology | mccay@aesop.rutgers.edu
Arthur Powell | Urban Education | abpowell@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Edward Ramsamy | Africana Studies | ramsamy@rci.rutgers.edu
Mark Robson | Environ. & Occ. Health | robson@eohsi.rutgers.edu
Philip Rothwell | Spanish & Port. | philroth@rci.rutgers.edu
Zakia Salime | Sociology | zsalime@sociology.rutgers.edu
Richard Schroeder | Geography | rschroed@rci.rutgers.edu
Samah Selim | AMESALL | sselim@rci.rutgers.edu
Richard Serrano | French | rserrano@rci.rutgers.edu
James Simon | Plant Bio./ Pathology | jesimon@aesop.rutgers.edu
Genese Sodikoff | Soc./Anthro. |sodikoff@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Meredeth Turshen | Public Health | turshen@rci.rutgers.edu
William Wright | CAS Visiting Scholar | bilright@earthlink.net


Visiting Scholars

Mora McLean
(details coming soon)


Olivier Walther
Olivier Walther is a visiting scholar at the Center for African Studies and Department of Geography at Rutgers University for the spring term, 2013 and a researcher with the Centre for Population, Poverty and Public Policy Studies in Luxembourg. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Lausanne and a Master of Advanced Studies in Development Studies from the University of Geneva in Switzerland (see CV here).

Dr. Walther is the recipient of a grant from the National Research Fund of Luxembourg, which will allow him to study West African economic networks in collaboration with Professor Emeritus of History Allen Howard from Rutgers University. The objective of the WANETS project conducted by Dr. Walther is to bring the historical and geographical approaches developed by U.S. historians and francophone geographers together and develop a comprehensive theory of African economic networks using social network analysis.

At the Department of Geography at Rutgers, Dr. Walther will also teach an upper division Geography of Africa course.



Contact information:
Olivier Walther, Ph.D.
Center for African Studies, Room A356
Tel: +1.848.445.3240 (office), +1.732.318.9403 (cell)
Email: olivier.walther@rutgers.edu