Community news winter 2023 Semiu Adefemi Adegbenle (history graduate student) coauthored a chapter, “Female Deputy Governors as Subaltern in Lagos Politics, 1999–2019,” in Gender Politics and Governance in Africa, edited by Mutiat Oladejo (Nigeria: Reamsworth, 2021):
Austin Bryan (anthropology graduate student) published a chapter, “Kuchu Activism, Queer Sex-Work and “Lavender Marriages in Uganda’s Virtual LGBT Safe(r) Spaces,” in Politics in Africa in a Digital Age, edited by Sharath Srinivasan et al. (Routledge, 2022), chapter 6; and an article, “Security Begins with You”: Compulsory Heterosexuality, Registers of Gender and Sexuality, and Transgender Women Getting by in Kampala, Uganda,” Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society 4(1), 2021, DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2021.1984640
Alumna Catherine M. Cole (1996) has a chapter, “Does Revenge Fall Softly? Yaël Farber’s Molora,” in Contemporary Women Playwrights: Into the Twenty-First Century, edited by Leslie Ferris and Penny Farfan (Seattle: University of Michigan Press, 2021): 41–49. Cole serves as Divisional Dean of the Arts, College of Letters and Sciences, and Professor of English and Dance at the University of Washington.
Alumnus William Fitzsimons (2020) published a chapter, “Social Responses to Climate Change in a Politically Decentralized Context: A Case Study from East African History,” in Perspectives on Public Policy in Societal-Environmental Crises, edited by A. Izdebski, J. Haldon, and Piotr Filipkowski (Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2022), 145-159.
Alumna Raevin Jimenez (2018) published “Food Production, Environment, and Mobility among Late Iron Age Nguni-speakers of South Africa, Quaternary International 611-612 (2022): 211-219.
Alumna Kathryn de Luna (2008) coauthored a chapter “Lessons for Modern Environmental and Climate Policy from Iron Age South Central Africa,” Perspectives on Public Policy in Societal-Environmental Crises, edited by A. Izdebski, J. Haldo, and Piotr Filipkowski (Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2022), 191-204. She also published “Sounding the African Atlantic,” The William and Mary Quarterly 78(4), 2021: 581-616.
Alumnus Jahara Matisek (2018) coauthored “Supporting African Partner States through Military Assistance Programmes,” The RUSI Journal 167(3), 2022: 42-53.
In December, the Buffett Institute held a virtual conversation with alumna Sakhile Matlhare (2017). She discussed her experience as cofounder and art director of Sakhile & Me, an international exhibition and research space working with established and young contemporary artists, curators, critics, and researchers – with a particular focus on Africa and her diasporas.
Salih Noor (political science graduate student) has accepted a position as assistant professor at ???
Alumnus Patrick Mbullo Owuor (2022) coauthored numerous articles: The Impact of Moringa Oleifera Leaf Supplementation on Human and Animal Nutrition, Growth, and Milk Production: A Systematic Review,” Phytotherapy Research 36(4), 2022: 1600–1615; Investigating the Impact of Moringa Oleifera Supplemented to Kenyan Breastfeeding Mothers on Maternal and Infant Health: A Cluster Randomized Single-blinded Controlled Pilot Protocol,” JPG Reports 3(3), 2022: e237; “Dams and Displacements: Biosocial Impacts of the ThwaHe Multipurpose Dam Construction among Women in MaHueni County, Kenya; “The Accuracy and Usability of Point-of-Use Fluoride Biosensors: A Field Study in Nakuru County, Kenya,” “Nutrient Dense Moringa Oleifera Leaf Supplementation Increases Human Milk Output in Western Kenyan Mothers,” Current Developments in Nutrition 6 (supplement_1), 2022: 620; “Knowledge Comes through Participation”: Understanding Disability through the Lens of DIY Assistive Technology in Western Kenya,” Proceedings of the ACM on Human Computer Interaction 6i (CSCW1), 2022: 1–25; Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Initiation and Retention among Young Kenyan Women,” AIDS and Behavior, 2022: 1–11; and Mind the Gaps for the Best Practices: Enhancing the Management of Lake Victoria Fisheries Resources,” Lakes & Reservoirs Research & Management 27, 2022; e12411, doi.org/10.1111/lre.12411.
Alumna Jessica Pouchet (2019) published “Negotiating Expendability in Crisis: Conservation and Biopolitics in Tanzania,” American Ethnologist 49(1): 2022: 50-63; and “A Double Standard in Development Encounters: Language and the Making of Green Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, Anthropological Quarterly 95(1), 2022: 65-96.
Alumna Susanna Sacks (2019) published “Slam Poetry in Malawi: Digital Media Aesthetics and Translingual Poetic Forms,” in Digital Technology and Languages in African Communities and Classrooms: Innovations and Opportunitie, edited by Leketi Makelela and Goodith White (Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters Press (2021). She is now assistant professor of comparative literature at Howard University.
Zekeria Ahmed Salem (ISITA and political science) presented a seminar paper, “Global Sinquit: Mauritania’s Islamic Knowledge Tradition and the Making of Transnational Religious Authority (19th–21st C.),” at the Humanities Research Fellowships for the Study of the Arab World, New York University/Abu Dhabi.
David Schoenbrun (history) published “Vashambadzi: The Coast Walkers,” Radical History Review 144, 2022: 173-203.
Alumnus Brett Shadle (2000) published two articles: “The ‘Problem’ of the Urban Refugee: The African Refugee Regime and the Joint Refugee Services of Kenya (1967-1982),” Canadian Journal of African Studies (2021, and “The Unity of Black People and the Redemption of Ethiopia: The Ethiopian World Federation and a New Black Nationalism, 1936-1941,” International Journal of African Historical Studies 54 (2021): 193-215. He also has a chapter, “Humiliation and Violence in Kenyan History,” in Gender, Violence, and Affect: Interpersonal, Institutional and Ideological Practices, edited by M. Hussoet al (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave, 2021), 203–220. He is currently the chair of the Department of History at Virginia Tech.
Alumnus Ariel Zellman (2013) coauthored “Uneasy Lies the Crown: External Threats to Religious Legitimacy and Interstate Dispute Militarization,” Security Studies 31(1), 2022: 152-182; and “With Friends Like These: Does American Soft Power Advance International Religious Freedom?,” Religions 13(6), 2022: 502, DOI: 10.3390/rel13060502.