CAAAR - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology
- Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Duke University
Anne-Maria Makhulu is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Duke University. Her research interests cover: Africa and more specifically South Africa, cities , space, globalization, political economy, neoliberalism, the anthropology of finance and corporations, as well as questions of aesthetics, including the literature of South Africa. Makhulu is co-editor of Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities (2010) and the author of Making Freedom: Apartheid, Squatter Politics and the Struggle for Home (2015). She is a contributor to Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age (2004), New Ethnographies of Neoliberalism (2010), author of articles in Anthropological Quarterly and PMLA , special issue guest editor for South Atlantic Quarterly (115(1)) and special theme section guest editor of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (36(2)). A new project, "Black and Bourgeois: Defining Race and Class After Apartheid," examines the relationship between race and mobility in post-apartheid South Africa.
Makhulu, AMB. (2016, January 1). Introduction: Reckoning with apartheid the conundrum of working through the past. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East , 36 (2), 256-262.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Charlie Piot, Ph.D. University of Virginia 1986, Chair and Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies, does research on the political economy and history of rural West Africa. His first book, Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa (1999), attempted to retheorize a classic out-of-the-way place as within the modern and the global. His recent book, Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War (2010), explores shifts in Togolese political culture during the 1990s, a time when the NGOs and charismatic churches take over the biopolitical, reorganizing social and political life in the absence of the state. His current project is on Togolese who apply for and attempt to game the US Diversity Visa Lottery.
Education
Ph.D., University of Virginia 1986
M.A., University of Virginia 1982
B.A., Princeton University 1973
Piot, C. (1992, February). Wealth production, ritual consumption, and center/periphery relations in a West African regional system. American Ethnologist , 19 (1), 34-52.
Job Titles:
- Program Coordinator, Senior
Job Titles:
- Memorial Trust Fund Grant. Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, South Africa., 1989
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Fred Boadu received his B.S. (Hons) in geological engineering from the University of Science and Technology, Ghana, a Post-Graduate Diploma in applied geophysics from McGill University, an M.S. in geophysics from the University of Calgary, and his Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994. He was an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Science and Technology, School of Mines (Tarkwa, Ghana) from 1982 to 1984. Since 1986, he has worked for several oil companies (Chevron, Amoco, and Mobil) during the summer months on a variety of research projects. He is also a consultant for Texaco, Inc. and Ghana National Petroleum Corporation.
Dr. Boadu's research focuses on the areas of exploration, engineering and environmental geophysics. Current research involves characterizing the transport and storage properties of porous media such as fractured rocks, soils and human tissue. The work involves modeling, laboratory and field experiments. Fractal concepts and neural networks are used to interpret results. Recently, Dr. Boadu has been involved in research regarding nitrate contamination in groundwater, and as well, in education and awareness campaign of the implications in potential health hazards in Ghana
Education
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology 1994
Boadu, FK, & Seabrook, BC. (2006). Effects of clay content and salinity on the spectral electrical response of soils. Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics , 11 (3), 161-170.
Boadu, FK. (2003). Use of multifractal seismic waveform parameters to characterize the hydraulic properties of fractured media: Numerical experiments. Geophysical Journal International , 155 (2), 557-566.
Job Titles:
- Professor of the Practice of Sociology
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- Director
- Director of the Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic Project
J. Lorand Matory is the Director of the Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic Project and the Lawrence Richardson Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. For six years, from 2009 until 2015, he also directed the University's Center for African and African American Research. Professor Matory conducts field research in Brazil, Nigeria, Benin Republic, Cuba, Trinidad, Jamaica and the US. Choice magazine named his Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion an Outstanding Book of the Year in 1994, and his Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé received the Herskovits Prize for the best book of 2005 from the African Studies Association. His forthcoming research on ethnic diversity at historically black Howard University was the subject of the 2008 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures and will be published by the University of Chicago Press as Stigma and Culture: Global Migrations and the Crisis of Identity in Black America. In 2013, the government of the Federal Republic of Germany awarded him the Alexander von Humboldt Prize, a lifetime achievement award that is one of Europe's highest academic distinctions.
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- Member and Chair. Organization of American Historians. May 2008 - May 2011
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- Associate Professor of the Practice of Education
Education
Ed.D., North Carolina State University 1992
M.A., Appalachian State University 1982
B.A., Queens University, Charlotte 1975
Job Titles:
- Social Science Research Institute Faculty Fellow. Duke University., 2007
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of African and African American Studies
Job Titles:
- Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Job Titles:
- Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies
Crichlow, M. (1998, March 1). Reconfiguring the "informal economy" divide: State, capitalism, and struggle in Trinidad and Tobago. Latin American Perspectives , 25 (2), 62-83.