AFSAAP membership list
Matthew ALBERT
Director, Sudanese
Online Research Organisation (SORA) / Coordinator, Sudanese Australian Integrated
Learning programme (SAIL)
Email:
SORA@AfricanEmail.com,
SAIL@MelbourneEmail.com
Web sites: http://sora.akm.net.au/,
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~sail/
Interests: Sudanese diaspora and Sudan.
Robyn ALDERS
University of
Queensland / AusAID / GRM International
Email:
robyn@tropical.co.mz,
robyn_alders@yahoo.co.uk
Interests: Livestock development (especially village poultry) in developing
countries; Livestock extension; Gender and livestock production; Poverty
alleviation and village poultry production.
Prof. Peter ALEXANDER
University of New
South Wales
Email:
p.alexander@unsw.edu.au
Interests: African (particularly South African) literature and literary
biography.
Simon ARTZ
Email: simon.artz@police.vic.gov.au
Web: www.police.vic.gov.au
Interests: Victoria Police liaison with all African communities, specifically
in relation to political, religious and ideological matters.
Noah BASSIL
Department of
Politics, Macquarie University
Email:
Noah.Bassil@humn.mq.edu.au
Interests: I am currently
researching the causes of the conflict in Darfur, Western Sudan. More widely I am
interested in exploring post-statist political organisation in Africa.
Dr. Tom BRAMBLE
School of Business,
University of Queensland
Email:
t.bramble@business.uq.edu.au
Interests: Trade unionism and
political economy in South Africa.
Em. Prof. John C. CALDWELL
Australian National University
Email:
jack.caldwell@anu.edu.au
Interests: Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia. Demographic
transition, fertility decline, determinants of mortality. Population theory.
Population history. Educational and demographic interrelations. National family
planning programs.
Fernanda CLAUDIO
University of Queensland
Email:
fmclaudio@yahoo.com.au
Interests:
Southern Africa;
Zimbabwe; Food security; Drought; Development; Political structures; Local
economies; Oral histories.
Julie CLIFF
Universidade Eduardo
Mondlane, Mozambique
Email:
jcliff@tropical.co.mz
Interests: Health; Cassava; Communicable diseases; Impact of war on health;
HIV/AIDS; Health policy; Mozambique.
Dr. Graeme COUNSEL
University of Melbourne
Email:
graeme@radioafrica.com.au
Interests: West Africa (Mali, Guinea, Senegal, The Gambia): Cultural policy, Politics and the arts, History, Music,
Griots, Mandé
diaspora.
Elizabeth DALEY
Independent
Consultant
Email:
lizdaley@mafinga.demon.co.uk
Interests: Land tenure, land markets, land administration, Land policy and
access to resources; Governance; Gender issues; Rural development and
rural-urban change; Livelihoods and social change; Poverty/Wealth analysis.
Robin DERRICOURT
University of New
South Wales
Email:
r.derricourt@unsw.edu.au
Interests:
Archaeology of Africa;
Historiography of Africa; Southern Africa; Nile Valley.
Linda
DEVEREUX
University of Canberra / ANU
Email:
Linda.Devereux@canberra.edu.au
Interests: Children,
war and dislocation, with a particular focus on DRC.
Liz DIMOCK
La Trobe University
Email:
E.Dimock@latrobe.edu.au,
liz.dimock@bigpond.com
Interests: Women/gender relations in precolonial/colonial period; Colonial
relations; Uganda; Slavery; Royal women; Women, church, mission; Church
Missionary Society.
Dr. David DORWARD
Email:
d.dorward@latrobe.edu.au
Interests: History/Economic History - Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, South
Africa, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia; Colonial and post colonial
development/underdevelopment; Gender issues; Contemporary political economy.
Carey EATON
Macquarie University
Email: info@africaassociates.com
Interests: Politics of Kenya, East Africa and the Horn of Africa. Politics,
economics and social aspects of conservation.
Prof. Norman
ETHERINGTON
University of Western Australia
Email:
nether@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Interests: History of Southern Africa; Imperialism; British Empire.
Cherry GERTZEL
Curtin University of Technology / University of
Western Australia
Email:
C.gertzel@exchange.curtin.edu.au
Interests: History and
Political Economy of the Horn of Africa; Eastern Africa and Central/Southern
Africa; Food and famine; Agriculture and change; Contemporary imperialism and
its impact on Africa.
Vafa GHAVAZI
University of Sydney
Email:
vdghavazi@yahoo.com
Interests: Africa and international institutions;
International political economy; Political economy of development; Ethnic
conflict; Religion and development; Islam; African Union; Humanitarian
intervention; Governance issues; Corruption.
David GOLDSWORTHY
Monash University
Email: david.goldsworthy@arts.monash.edu.au
Interests: Decolonisation.
Gareth GRIFFITHS
University of Western
Australia
Email:
gruffydd@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Interests: African English literatures; Missions and mission publications; Land
and identity issues; Cultural tourism and identity issues; Postcolonial theory
and African issues.
Dr. Hamidin Abd HAMID
History Department,
University of Malaya, Malaysia
Email:
hamidin@um.edu.my
Interests: History, Colonialism, Ethnicity and land.
Wendy HARTE
Queensland University of Technology
Email:
w.harte@qut.edu.au
Interests:
Geoffrey HAWKER
Dept. Politics &
International Relations, Macquarie University
Email:
Interests: Politics of Southern Africa; Institutional change and reform.
Adrian HERRING
Email:
aherring@ozemail.com.au
Interests: Media & Communication;
Television documentary & current affairs production; Filming & Broadcasting
experience in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Uganda; Media Training
(production & journalism).
Penelope HETHERINGTON
University of Western Australia
Email:
penheth@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Interests: African history; Women's history; History of childhood; Western
Australian history.
Lucy HOBGOOD-BROWN
Clay International Partners (a consultancy)
Email: lucy@claypartners.com
Interests:
International social development consultant,
specializing in Africa and particularly Democratic Republic of Congo. Working
with marginalised communities on livelihood and poverty alleviation
programs. Chair of Sydney Development Circle, a collaborative network open to
anyone interested in community and international development, which also
features an Ubuntu Africa Interest Group that meets every two months. On NSW
Board of Australia Africa Business Council and we are always seeking expert
speakers on a range of topical issues. If interested or if you have suggestions,
please email Lucy.
Paul HUDDLESTON
University of Western Australia
Email: paul@pvhuddleston.com
Interests:
Development economics; Rural development; Farming systems; Regional and area
development.
Richard HULL
Department of
History, New York University
Email:
richard.hull@nyu.edu
Interests: History of Jewish diaspora in Africa since Classical Antiquity;
Modern Israel in Africa; Contemporary Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana; Religious
fundamentalism; Biotechnology and African development; African-Americans in
Africa: Diaspora in reverse.
Ruth JACKSON
Deakin University
Email: rej@deakin.edu.au
Interests:
International development / Safe motherhood /
Reproductive health; Ethiopia.
Katsuhiko KITAGAWA
Faculty of
Economics, Kansai University, Japan
Email:
kitagawa@ipcku.kansai-u.ac.jp
Interests:
Social and
economic history of Southern Africa; South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Dr. Sue
KOSSEW
School of English,
University of New South Wales
Email:
s.kossew@unsw.edu.au
Interests: African literatures, especially South African; J. M. Coetzee, André
Brink and Nadine Gordimer; Gender and literature.
Kiprono LANG'AT (Andrew)
University of New
England
Email:
alangat@pobox.une.edu.au
Interests: Professional development and policy in education across cultures;
Postcultural studies and representation discourses (Kenya and Indigenous
Australians).
Wendy LEVY
Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University
Email:
wendy.levy@anu.edu.au
Interests: Sudan.
Dr.
Peter LIMB
Michigan
State University, USA
Email:
limb@msu.edu
Interests:
South African history and politics; Information studies in
Africa; Comparative African and Asian studies.
Dr. Eric LOUW
University of Queensland
Email:
e.louw@uq.edu.au
Interests: South African political
discourses; South African media.
David LUCAS
Demography and
Sociology Programme, Australian National University
Email:
david.lucas@anu.edu.au
Interests: South African immigration; African emigration to Australia and New
Zealand; South African human capital; Basutoland colonial memoirs; The Welsh in
Africa; Demography; Online population materials.
Tanya LYONS
School of Political
and International Studies and the Globalisation Program, Flinders University
Email:
tanya.lyons@flinders.edu.au
Interests: Zimbabwe; Gender; Liberation wars; African Studies; Politics;
Development; Collapsed states; Resources; Coffee.
Dr. Jonathan MAKUWIRA
Centre for Peace
Studies, University of New England
Email:
jmakuwir@metz.une.edu.au
Interests: Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) and Civil Society in Africa;
Community and International Development; Comparative and International
Education; and Policy Advocacy.
Roxanne D. MARCOTTE
School of History,
Philosophy, Religion and Classics, The University of Queensland
Email:
r.marcotte@uq.edu.au
Interests: Islamic culture; Intellectual life; Women.
Kudzai MATEREKE
University of New South Wales
and Great Zimbabwe University
Email: kudzaimatereke@yahoo.co.uk
Interests: Zimbabwe; Social and Political Philosophy; African Postcolonial
state; Globalisation; Citizenship and Education; African Studies; Democracy and
Identity formation in postcolonial states.
Patrick McALLISTER
University of Canterbury
Email:
patrick.mcallister@canterbury.ac.nz
Interests: Xhosa culture and society, rural development, religion and ritual,
ethnicity in southern Africa.
Peter L. McGUIRE
Adult Migrant English Program, Charles Darwin University / School of
Education, La Trobe University.
Email:
peter.mcguire@cdu.edu.au
,
plmcg@bigpond.com
Interests:
African refugees; Sudan; Nilotic peoples; Oral traditions; Literacy and written
authority; Epistemology and cognition; Language learning; Self-expression;
Ethnographic and phenomenological research approaches.
Gordon Cyrus MWANGI
Shikoku Gakuin
University, Japan
Email:
gmwangi@sg-u.ac.jp,
pe3g-mwng@asahi-net.or.jp
Interests: Afro-Asian solidarity.
Prof.
John Garah NENGEL
Department of
History, University of Jos, Nigeria
Email:
nengelj@yahoo.com,
nengelj@unijos.edu,ng
Web site:
http://www.unijos.edu.ng
Interests:
History of intergroup
relations; Christianity and Islam in West Africa; Warfare in precolonial Africa;
African political thought.
Dr. Apollo NSUBUGA-KYOBE
School of Business, Dept. of Accounting and Management, La Trobe University
Email:
A.Nsubuga-Kyobe@latrobe.edu.au
Interests: Management of the settlement issues of African-Australians into
Australia (Victoria) and cross-cultural management: inferences of African and
Australian cases/situations.
Margaret O’CALLAGHAN
Retired UN staff member, UN Population Fund (UNFPA), currently a private
consultant
Email: margaret@ocallaghan.id.au
Interests: Population related matters, including all aspects reproductive
health, including HIV, Gender, Gender Based Violence, Safe Motherhood, Obstetric
Fistula, applying rapid socio-cultural research, adolescent health.
Yusuf Sheikh OMAR
Australian
Somali Youth Organisation
Email:
omar3032@hotmail.com
Interests: Young Africans
in diaspora, particularly in the education area; Somali poems; Multiculturalism
in an Islamic perspective.
Gerald ONSANDO
Refugee Health Research Centre, La Trobe University
Email:
gcaon@hotmail.com,
g.onsando@latrobe.edu.au
Interests: Technical / trade education; Vocational education and training;
Workplace education; Refugee research.
Web:
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rhrc/index.html
Geoffrey PATERSON
Distance Education Centre, Victoria
Email:
gkp@netspace.net.au
Interests: Distance education at primary and post-primary; Education provision;
Pastoralists; Geography; East Africa; Arid and semi arid lands; Multilateral
organisations and official aid agencies.
Wayne PELLING
Centre
for Health & Community Services, Box Hill Institute, Victoria
Email: w.pelling@bhtafe.edu.au
Interests:
African History prior to colonialism; Current
Health issues in Africa; Religious movements spawned by Islam and Christianity.
James W. PORCARO
Toyama University of
International Studies, Japan
Email:
porcaro@po1.ctt.ne.jp
,
porcaro@tuins.ac.jp
Interests: Construction of ethnicity; Language education; African Studies
curriculum development for lower secondary school level; English as a foreign
language instruction.
Miroslava PRAZAK
Bennington College,
USA
Email:
mprazak@bennington.edu
Interests: Development and cultural change; Globalization; Inequality; Gender-
and age-based hierarchies; Reproduction and family formation; Multidisciplinary
research strategies; Demography; East Africa.
Dr. Colin REED
Amani College,
Iringa, Tanzania
Email:
cwreed@cms.org.au,
reed@maf.or.tz
Interests: East African Church history within the wider history of the region;
The indigenisation of the Christian Faith in African culture.
Graham ROMANES
Consulate-General of
Ethiopia, Melbourne
Email:
ethiopia@consul.com.au,
Website: http://www.consul.com.au
Interests: Ethiopia;
Horn of Africa issues; The African Union; African economic survival. Currently
writing a minor Masters thesis at Monash University on the future of the AU
(2003).
Gerhard SEIBERT
Instituto de
Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal
Email:
mailseibert@yahoo.com
Interests: Lusophone Africa; Mozambique; São Tomé & Príncipe; Acculturation &
creolization processes; Urbanization; African Independent Churches, Democratic
transitions & consolidations; Political culture; Oil in Africa.
Lynette SIMONS
Consultant to the
Conflict Resolution Network, Sydney
Email:
lsim6325@bigpond.net.au
Interests: Conflict
resolution; Media skills; Human rights education.
Blandine STEFANSON
University of Adelaide
Email:
blandine.stefanson@adelaide.edu.au
Interests: Cinema and literature from Francophone West Africa; African history.
Dr. Lindsay STRINGER
Institute for Development Policy and Management,
Email:
Interests: My
research topics include: Swaziland, desertification, Southern Africa, democracy,
participation, processes of environmental and social change, sustainable rural
livelihoods, international environmental policy, indigenous knowledge, political
ecology.
Jim TERRIE
Senior Analyst; International Crisis Group Nairobi KENYA
Email:
jterrie@ozemail.com.au
Interests: Peacekeeping; Security Sector Reform; Armed Groups and
Insurgency; Politics & Security in Central Africa (DRC, Uganda, Burundi &
Rwanda) & Horn (Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia & Eritrea); African Union.
David TOTHILL
Freelance historian
Email:
f.d.tothill@pixie.co.za
Interests: History in general; Diplomatic history in particular.
Dr. Lantana M. USMAN
University of
Northern
Interests: Educational
policy studies (global and multicultural); School administration in
socio-cultural context; School leadership; Foundations of education; Curriculum
and instruction (Social Studies); Global and comparative education; Education
and development (international context); Women in education; Girl-child
education; Gender and education/Gender and schooling (South nations and
international); Qualitative research methods; Introduction to Feminist theory &
African Women Studies.
Iain Walker
Centre for Middle East and North American Studies, Dept. of Politics &
International Relations, Macquarie University
Email:
iain@i-walker.org
Interests: Comoros; Swahili coast; Indian Ocean
islands; African links with Saudi Arabia; Anthropology: ethnicity and identity;
Migration and spatial mobility; Development; Historical anthropology.
Vera WILLIAMS TETTEH
Dept of Linguistics, Macquarie University
Email:
vera.tetteh@ling.mq.edu.au
Interests: Language learning and settlement outcomes of African (sub-Saharan)
migrants in Australia; Social inclusion and exclusion of Africans; West Africa
(Ghana, Nigeria); Ghanaian cultures; Minority language maintenance;
Intercultural communication; World Englishes.
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