Professor Jim McCann has been appointed to chair the History Department. In appointing Professor McCann, Dean Cudd writes: “I am pleased to announce that Prof. James McCann has accepted our invitation to serve as the next Chair of the History Department. He will serve a two- year term. Professor McCann brings to this role both […]
Congratulations to Professor Linda Heywood of the BU African American Studies Department! Professor Heywood’s most recent book, Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen was published last year and it was recently translated into both French and Portuguese!
Professor Steven Rosenzweig, of the BU Political Science Department, was awarded the Best Ph.D. Thesis of the Year from the African Politics Conference Group at the recent meeting of the American Political Science Association.
Ochieng’s research and teaching interests focus on the theory, policy and practice of development; global climate change and environmental policy; science, technology and innovation policy; and the political economy of African development. Ochieng served as Executive Director of the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has also served as the […]
Timothy Longman, Associate Professor of International Relations and Political Science and Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently published Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda (Cambridge University Press, July 2017). Bringing 25 years of research in Rwanda to the table, Longman focuses on the current Rwandan government’s […]
When Patricia Hibberd looks at her smartphone, she sees a chance to save young lives. Hibberd, the new chair of the School of Public Health’s Department of Global Health, has been working in Malawi, India, and Pakistan to develop a low-cost thermal imaging system for smartphones that would help to detect bacterial pneumonia in children in […]
SPH prof & African Studies affiliate shares his passion for improving global public health A physician specializing in infectious diseases, Christopher Gill calls himself “a clinician first,” but students are currently among the beneficiaries of his work on global public health problems. An associate professor of global health at the School of Public Health and […]
Boston University’s African Studies Center (ASC), an affiliated center of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, piloted a Swahili language course designed for Masters of Public Health candidates during the Spring 2016 semester, and students discussed the benefits of the course as well as the close the ties between the School of Public Health and the African Studies Center. The class, […]
In honor of Harold C. Fleming, emeritus professor of Anthropology and African Studies at BU, who passed this past year in Gloucester, MA, the 20th issue of Mother Tongue, a journal of linguistics he founded in 1995, will be dedicated to his memory. The issue will include articles by several eminent anthropologists and genetic linguists, including Stephen […]