AFSAAP membership list 

Updated April 30 2010

Please note: This list is provided for the information of other members and the media in order to make professional networks.
This is not the complete membership of the Association but lists only those who wish their contact details made public.

AFSAAP members: Please keep your details current by advising of any changes.
If your name is not listed, or if the details are incorrect, please contact AFSAAP.


Prof. Simon ADAMS
Monash University
Email: Simon.Adams@adm.monash.edu.au
Interests: Southern Africa history; Peace and conflict studies; Liberation movements and state development in Africa; Foreign policy.


Robyn ALDERS
KYEEMA Foundation and the Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
Email: robyn.alders@gmail.com
Web site: www.kyeemafoundation.org, http://www.tufts.edu/vet/ivm/

Interests: Livestock development (especially village poultry) in developing countries; Livestock extension; Gender and livestock production; Poverty alleviation and village poultry production.

Melanie BAAK
University of South Australia
Web: http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/students/homepage.asp?Name=Melanie.Baak&MailID=KUTEK001
Interests: My PhD research is examining the identities of Dinka women living in Australia using oral history and auto-ethnographic techniques. This covers a range of fields including: globalisation, refugee studies, identity and the history of South Sudan. My Honours research project examined the educational experiences of Sudanese refugee students at schools in Africa and Australia.


Isiaka Alani BADMUS
Centre for Peace Studies, University of New England
Web: http://www.japss.org
Email: ibadmus@une.edu.au, badmus_in_nigeria@yahoo.co.uk, badmus@japss.org
Interests: Peace and conflict research; Disarmament and arms control in West Africa; Security sector reform and governance; International peacekeeping in Africa and Asia-Pacific; Conflict in Africa and post conflict transition in African states.


Samantha BALATON-CHRIMES
PhD candidate, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
Email: samantha.balaton-chrimes@arts.monash.edu.au
Interests:
Doctoral research regarding statelessness in Africa, particularly the case of the Nubians of Kenya.

Jean BURKE
University of New South Wales
Email: jeanburke76@yahoo.com.au
Interests: East Africa/ Tanzania; HIV and women/infant feeding/education/stigma/FBOs; Social work; Swahili translation/interpreting; Refugees from East & Central Africa and their experiences of flight and resettlement in Australia, Visual art.


Dr. Fernanda CLAUDIO
University of Queensland
Email:
fmclaudio@yahoo.com.au

Interests: Southern Africa; Zimbabwe; Food security; Drought; Development; Political structures; Local economies; Oral histories.

Dr. Julie CLIFF
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique.
Email: j.cliff@tropical.co.mz
Interests: Health; Cassava; Communicable diseases; Impact of war on health; HIV/AIDS; Health policy; Mozambique.

Dr. Paul COCKS
Loyola College, Watsonia, Victoria
Email: CocksP@loyola.vic.edu.au
Interests: History of ethnography and anthropology in Southern Africa; Southern African history 1900-1945, especially South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe; missionary history and history of religion in Southern Africa.

Dr. Graeme COUNSEL
University of Melbourne
Email: treasurer@afsaap.org.au
Interests: West Africa (Mali, Guinea, Senegal, The Gambia); Cultural policy; Politics and the Arts; History; Music; Griots; Mandé diaspora.

Dr. Elizabeth DALEY
Mokoro Ltd.
Email: edaley@mokoro.co.uk
Web site: www.mokoro.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; Rwanda; Tanzania; East Africa.

Dr. 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.
Surjeet DHANJI
University of Melbourne
Email:
dhanji.surjeet@gmail.com
Interests: R
esettlement and integration; Horn of African refugees, their issues.


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.

Matthew DOHERTY
PhD candidate (History), La Trobe University
Email: mcdoherty@students.latrobe.edu.au
I am completing my doctoral thesis on a history of the development of Christianity in Equateur province, DRC. I am looking at religion as one of the most important cross-cultural exchanges between Africa and Europe, and the indigenisation of missionary religion. My broad interests also include football and music across the continent. And now Ethiopia education looms large!


Franklin EZEKA
University of St Joseph, Macau
Email:
frank_favour@hotmail.com; franklin.ezeka@alumni.iium.edu.mo
Interest: Environmental policy; Environmental adaptation; Electric vehicle cost benefit analysis; Sustainable transportation; Environmental conflict and preservation: Rest of African countries, with Nigeria as a case study.


Dr Njau GITU
Southern Cross University / African Seniors Club, Australia
Email: njaugitu@consultant.com
Interests: University business collaboration strategy; Trade, development and investment policy Australia / Africa; The African cooperative business model in the Australian context.


Em. Prof. 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.

Prof. 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.


Anne HARRIS
Victoria University
Email: anne.harris2@live.vu.edu.au
Interests: My doctoral research uses documentary film as arts-based education research to examine the experiences of Sudanese young women (18-25) in Australia. Their 10-minute documentaries identify challenges, successes and advice about school and its role for former refugees integrating into Australian culture, with a focus on young women in particular. I am interested in liaising with others involved in research into educational experiences of young Sudanese in Australia.


Wendy HARTE
Queensland University of Technology
Email:
w.harte@qut.edu.au
Interests: Settlement and secondary migration patterns of African refugee communities in Australia, UNHCR work in Africa, hazard geography (environmental hazards).

Assoc. Prof. Geoffrey HAWKER
Dept. Politics & International Relations, Macquarie University
Email:
geoffrey.hawker@mq.edu.au
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.

Greg HIEMSTRA-VAN DER HORST
Department of Resource Management and Geography, University of Melbourne
Email: g.vanderhorst@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
Interests: Forest policy, management and governance; Political ecology; Commercial logging; Community-based resource management; Sierra Leone; Guinea; West Africa.


Lucy HOBGOOD-BROWN
Clay
International Partners (a consultancy)
Email: lucy@claypartners.com
Interests:
International social development consultant who has lived and worked in 9 countries and who specializes in Democratic Republic of Congo and China. Works with marginalised communities on capacity building programmes (livelihood and poverty alleviation projects) Active with Sydney Development Circle, a free colloborative network open to anyone interested in community development and international aid, which also features an Africa Interest Group which meets every 2 months. We are always seeking expert speakers on a range of topics. If interested or if you have suggestions, please email Lucy.

Dr. Paul HUDDLESTON
University of W
estern Australia
Email: 
paul.huddleston@uwa.edu.au
Interests:  Development economics; Rural development; Farming systems; Regional and area development.


Anthony KENT
University of Melbourne
Email: ake@unimelb.edu.au
Website:
http://www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/gamut/
Interests: Botswana; Transport; Economic geography.


John Idriss LAHAI
University of New England
Email: jlahai@une.edu.au, jlahai@alumni.upeace.org
Web: http://www.une.edu.au/directory?q=john+lahai&filter=all&pagesize=15&sort=
Interests: Gender-based violence; Civil conflicts; Transitional justice; Feminist scholarship; Women and post conflict reconstruction; Gender budgeting and mainstreaming in sub-Saharan Africa.

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).

Dr. Bernard LEEMAN
Queen of Sheba University, Florida
Email: bntleeman@yahoo.co.uk
Interests: Queen of Sheba; D'MT; Aksum; PAC/APLA (South Africa); BCP/LLA (Lesotho); East African Campaign 1914-19; KiChagga (Kilimanjaro); Sabaean; Ge'ez; Tigrinya; and the Nuba.

Wendy LEVY
Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University
Email:
wendy.levy@anu.edu.au
Interests: Sudan.

Dr. Eric LOUW
University of Queensland

Email: e.louw@uq.edu.au
Interests: South African political discourses; South African media
.

Dr. 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.

Dr. 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. Catherine MACDONALD
Social Sustainability Services Pty. Ltd.
Email: socialsustainability@bigpond.com
Interests: PhD was "Woman-headed households in Tanzania, 1920 - 1995", UWA, 1996. Professional interests since then are social impact assessment and participatory community development planning for communities living near mining projects in Australia, Asia and Africa, including Tanzania, Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, and Ghana.


Dr. Jonathan MAKUWIRA
RMIT University
Email: jonathan.makuwira@rmit.edu.au
Website: http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=u740ao6wtpxd;STATUS=A?QRY=makuwira&STYPE=ENTIRE

Interests: Aid effectiveness; Project management; Post-conflict development and peace building; Community development; Capacity building; Comparative indigenous studies; Peace and Development education (Sub-Sahara Africa).

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.


Barbara MILLS
Flinders University
Email: barbaradm@esc.net.au
Interests: Sub-Saharan Africa; Women of South Africa.

Paul MUNRO
PhD Candidate, University of Melbourne / Program Manager, Energy For Opportunity
Email: p.munro@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au , paul@energyforopportunity.org
Interests: Forest Management, Renewable Energy, Environmental Policy, History. West Africa (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Benin).


Gordon Cyrus MWANGI
Shikoku Gakuin University, Japan
Email:
gmwangi@sg-u.ac.jp, pe3g-mwng@asahi-net.or.jp
Interests: Afro-Asian solidarity.

Dr. Finex NDHLOVU
Victoria University
Email:
finex.ndhlovu@vu.edu.au
Interests: Politics of language and nation building in Zimbabwe; Postcolonial African identities; Multilingualism and multilingual citizenships; Language and citizenship in Australia; Post-refugee African identities in Australia.


Joel NEGIN
University of Sydney
Email:
joel.negin@sydney.edu.au
Interests: Multi-sectoral rural development; Health systems; Infectious disease; Australian engagement with Africa, Rwanda, Kenya, Mali, Senegal.


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.


Gerald ONSANDO
Refugee Health Research Centre, La Trobe University
Email: gcaon@hotmail.com, g.onsando@latrobe.edu.au
Web site: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rhrc/index.html
Interests: Technical / trade education; Vocational education and training; Workplace education; Refugee research.


Rachel OUTHRED
University of South Australia
Email: rachel.outhred@unisa.edu.au
Web sites:
http://www.unisa.edu.au/hawkeinstitute/default.asp; http://www.unisa.edu.au/hawkeinstitute/ncsehe/default.asp
Interests: Slavery; Women’s rights in post-colonial states; NGO management; Development studies; International education and life chances. PhD title: “Assessing the life chances of women and children in south-east Ghana: Does development make a difference?"

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: 
pellhacst@optusnet.com.au
Interests: African History prior to colonialism; Current Health issues in Africa; Religious movements spawned by Islam and Christianity.

Dr. 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.


Graham ROMANES

Consulate-General of Ethiopia, Melbourne
Email: ethiopia@consul.com.au
Website: 
http://www.consul.com.au

I
nterests: 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).

Peter RUN
School of Communication, International Studies and Languages, University of South Australia
Email: petermrun@yahoo.com.au

Interests: Sudan with a particular emphasis on southern Sudan; Africans-Australia; Politics and Ethics of humanitarian reporting; Political thought; Governance and values in diverse postcolonial states. People: David Easton.

Gerhard SEIBERT
Centro de Estudos Africanos, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal
Email:
mailseibert@yahoo.com
Website:
http://cea.iscte.pt/

Interests: Lusophone Africa; Gulf of Guinea, Acculturation & creolization processes; Democratic transitions & consolidations; Political culture; Oil in Africa; Brazil in Africa.

Dr. Tony Simoes da SILVA
University of Wollongong
Email: tonys@uow.edu.au
Web site: http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/selpl/scd/UOW037989.html
Interests: African (especially Southern African) literature in English and Portuguese; Postcolonial life writing (particularly Southern African); African issues; Diasporic writing.


Dr. David TOTHILL
Freelance historian
Email:
f.d.tothill@pixie.co.za
Interests: History in general; Diplomatic history in particular.

Violetta Jojo VERGE
University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
Email: vverge@ull.es
Interests: Researching on African Anglophone Literature. Interested in interdeciplinarity: arts, literature, philosophy, humanities in general. I also translate from English to Spanish (and vice-versa) excerpts of literary criticism, poetry etc. I teach English at college, and Arabic at the University of La UNED (D
istance University). I have published various papers on West African literature, and other writings.

Peter Mbago WAKHOLI
School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Murdoch University
Email: p_wakholi@yahoo.com.au
Interests: Usings arts based practices to strengthen cultural identity of African descendant youth; Visibility, racism and bicultural Identity; Cultural memory and intergenerational cultural transmission; Cultural democracy and African cultural education.


Artanti WARDHANI
Department of International Relations, University of Indonesia, Jakarta
Email: awardhani@gmail.com
Interests: Regional security arrangement (e.g ASEAN in Southeast Asia, ECOWAS in West Africa); Political culture in Africa, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, West Africa; Conflict resolutions, security sector reform, civil-military relations.

Prof. Helen WARE
Peace Studies, University of New England. Former Australian High Commissioner to Zambia, Namibia, Malawi Ambassador to Angola
Email: hware@une.edu.au
Interests:  Civil war and peace-building in Africa; African refugees in Australia; Congo; Ivory Coast; Sierra Leone; Sudan; Zimbabwe.


Renae WILLSMORE
University of South Australia
Email:
renae.willsmore@unisa.edu.au
Web site:
http://people.unisa.edu.au/renae.willsmore
Interests: Youth; Violence and non-violence; African diaspora(s) in Australia


 

VIEW THE AFSAAP CLICKABLE MAP OF AFRICA


GO TO THE AFSAAP HOMEPAGE

blog stats