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Botswana

Lisa Lopez Levers
Associate Professor, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
Lecturing/Research: Counseling Education; Sustainable HIV/AIDS Abatement Endeavors in Southern Africa: Considering Contextual Factors and Designing Culturally Relevant and Gender-Sensitive Counseling and Education Activities
Host: University of Botswana, Gaborone
August 2003-June 2004

Cameroon
Thomas T.S. Huang [web site], professor and chair,
Chemistry Department
East Tennessee State University
Lecturing and Research: Chemistry
The Changing Phase of Teaching and Learning Physical Chemistry
October 2001- August 2002

Eugenia Shanklin, professor, The College of New Jersey
Research: Anthropology and Archaeology, Revisiting the Survivors of Lake Nyos, Cameroon's Exploding Lake
September 1999-January 2000

Cote d'Ivoire
Sibyl James, adjunct faculty, Highline Community College
Lecturing and Research: American Literature, Contemporary Women Writers in Cote d'Ivoire
October 1999-August 2000

Ghana
Richard Douglass, Professor, College of Health and Human Services, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
Lecturing/Research: Predictors of Kwashiorkor Survival: Familial Compliance and Intervention Program Success
Host: University of Ghana, Legon
September 2001 - July 2002

Paul Beier, associate professor, Northern Arizona University
Research: Environmental Sciences, Bird Diversity and Abundance in Forest Fragments in Ghana
August 1999-May 2000

Guinea
Wenda Bauchspies, Associate Professor, Science and Technology Studies, Women's Studies, Pennsylvania State University, PA
Discipline: Anthropology
Lecturing/Research: Sociology and Cultural Anthropology; Role of Woman in Science in Guinea Host Institution: University of Kankan in Guinea, West Africa
Oct 2003 - June 2004, renewed Jan-July 2005

Kenya
Bruce Edwards, professor and associate dean, Bowling Green State University
Lecturing and Research: Communications and Journalism, Literacy in Kenyan Universities; Communications, Journalism and Literature
August 1999-June 2000

Gail Presbey, assistant professor, University of Detroit-Mercy
Lecturing and Research: Philosophy, Crosscultural Philosophy; Sage Philosophy September 1999-July 2000

Malawi
Betty Beard, Professor, Eastern Michigan University
Research: (Africa Regional Research Program) Caring for AIDS Orphans in Africa
Host: Church of Central Africa Presbyterian, Mzuzu, Malawi
January 2003-June 2003

Kathleen Norr, associate professor, University of Illinois-Chicago
Research: Sociology and Social Work, Adapting an AIDS Prevention Intervention for Women from Botswana to Malawi
September 1999-June 2000

Mali
Debra Boyd Buggs, Associate Professor, Department of English and Foreign Languages, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Lecturing and Research: African American and American Literature; Malian Literature and Film
Host: Ecole Normale Superieure, Bamako
October 2000-August 2001

Nigeria
Judith Byfield, Associate Professor, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
Discipline: History (non-U.S.)
Africa Regional Research Program: The Great Upheaval--The Egba Women's Tax Revolt: Gender and Nationalist Politics in Nigeria
Host: University of Ibadan, Nigeria
January – June 2003

Phillip Horton, Professor, Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, Georgia
Lecturing/Research: EducationalTechnology Training for University of Jos Faculty
Host: University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria
August 2004 – June 2005

Rwanda
Steven Pasternack, Professor, Department of Journalism and Mass Communications, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Lecturing and Research: Curriculum Development in Communications
Host: National University of Rwanda, School of Journalism and Communication, Butare
July 2000-December 2000

Senegal
Stephen Golub, professor, Swarthmore College
Lecturing and Research: Economics, African International Competitiveness in Manufacturing
September 1998-July 99

South Africa
Lora Bex Lempert, Associate Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Michigan--Dearborn, Dearborn, MI
Lecturing/Research: Gender, Wife Abuse and the Interpersonal Effects of Truth and Reconciliation
Host: University of the Western Cape, Postgraduate Women's and Gender Studies Program, Bellville
February 2001 - January 2002

Carol Patitu, assistant professor, Educational Administration, and associate director, Student Affairs Administration in Higher Education Program, Texas A&M University
Lecturing and Research: Education, A Study of the Needs of South African University Students in a Post-Apartheid Era; Teach in Master's of Education Program
February 2000-December 2000

Mark Kende, associate professor, University of Montana-Missoula
Lecturing and Research: Law, Judicial implementation of South Africa's New Bill of Rights: An Appraisal
February 2000- January 2001

Patricia Bass, assistant dean, Student Judicial Programs, Rice University
Lecturing and Research: Anthropology and Archaeology, Shamanic Phenomena in Pecos Art; the Philosophy of Rock Art and Rock Art Management
February 2000-January 2001

Thelma Shinn Richard, professor, Arizona State University
Lecturing: American Literature, American/African American Literature; Meronymic Balancing: Adding the Other Perspective
February 2000-January 2001

Swaziland
John Daly, associate professor, University of South Florida
Lecturing and Research: Public Administration, The Lure of Providing Technical Assistance and Training in Swaziland
September 1998-July 1999

Uganda
John Clark, associate professor, Florida International University
Lecturing and Research: Political Science, Teaching Program Development at Makerere; Uganda's Role in the Politics of the 'Great Lakes' Region
October 1999-August 2000

Zimbabwe
David Cornell, Department of Physics, Principia College, Elsah, IL
Lecturing: Quantum Mechanics
Host: University of Zimbabwe, Harare
January 1989-May 1989

Joyce Kohl, Professor, Department of Fine Arts, California State University-Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA
Research: The Use of Recycled Materials by Zimbabwean Artists and Artisans
Host: University of Zimbabwe, Faculty of Arts, Harare, Zimbabwe; and National Arts Council of Zimbabwe, Harare
August 2000-January 2001
(African Regional Research Program)

Darrell Ward, Senior Medical Writer, University Communications, Ohio State University-Columbus, Columbus, OH
Research: Heroes of a Quiet Catastrophe: Africans Fighting AIDS in Botswana, Swaziland and Zimbabwe
Host: University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana; AIDS Information and Support Centre, Manzini, Swaziland; and University of Zimbabwe, Harare
July 2000-January 2001
(African Regional Research Program)


Cameroon
Gilbert Doho, Associate Professor, Department of Arts and Archaeology, University of Yaounde I, Yaounde
Research: Theater and the Empowerment of the Urban and Rural Masses: A Comparative Study of Theater for Development in Cameroon and Forms of Participatory Theater in the United States
Host: SUNY-University at Albany, Albany, New York

Mathias Mbuh, Lecturer, Department of English, University of Yaounde I, Yaounde
Lecturing: History (non-U.S.), World and Minority Literature
Host: Trident Technical College, S.C.
Scholar in Residence
January-December 2000

Cote d'Ivoire
Jean Mathieu Essis, Director, Department of Local Governments' Administrative Affairs
Directorate General of Decentralization and of Management of Territory
Ministry of State, Ministry of Home Affairs and of Decentralization, Abidjan
Research: Public Administration, The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Decision Making System: A Working Model for Multilateral Cooperation
Host: New York University, Center on International Cooperation, New York, NY
August 2002 - June 2003

Ghana
Benedict Der, Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of Cape Coast
Lecturing: History (non-U.S.), The History of Missionary Activities in Northern Ghana, Kinship in Ghana and the History of West Africa
Host: Gustavus Adolphus College, Minn.
Scholar in Residence
September 1999-May 2000

Benjamin Offei-Nyako, Senior lecturer, College of Art, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi
Lecturing: Art, African Art
Host: North Carolina Central University
Scholar in Residence
August 1999-May 2000

Kenya
Lenah Nakhone
Home: Egerton University
Host: Iowa State University
Africa Research: The Decomposition Rates of Some Tropical Legumes as Affected by Polyphenol and Lignin Contents
September 2004-June 2005

Nicholas Sironka
Independent Artist, Kiserian, Kenya
Lecturing: Batik Art and the Massai Culture
Host: Whitworth College, Department of Art, Spokane, WA
c/o Dr. Gordon Wilson
August 2000-May 2001

Namibia
Christofell Lombard, Ecumenical Institute of Namibia
Research: Religious Studies, Secularity and Moral Education
August 1998-April 1999

Nigeria
Francis Ngwaba, Professor, Abia State University
Lecturing: Language and Literature (non-U.S.), African Literature
Host: Heartland Community College, Ill.
Scholar-in-Residence
August 1999-June 2000

Juliana Omoifo Okoh, Lecturer, Department of Creative Arts, University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt
Research: Toward an Effective Feminist Theater in Nigeria
Hosts:
Smith College, Comparative Literature Program, Northampton, MA, c/o Dr. Katwiwa Mule
Smith College, Department of Theater, Northampton, MA, c/o Dr. Andrea Hairston
November 2000-August 2001

Christiana Nkechi Omoifo, Lecturer, Department of Educational Psychology and Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Benin, Benin City
Research: Improving Science, Technology, and Society: A Comparative Study of Reforms in the United States and Nigeria for the Next Millennium
George Washington University, Washington, DC
c/o Dr. Sharon Lynch
October 1999-March 2000

South Africa
Valiant Clapper
Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Management, Pretoria Technikon, Pretoria
Lectureship: Public Administration Theory and Practice
Host: Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, The Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs
January 2002 - December 2002

M. Faadiel Essop, Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Research: The Role of Elevated Fatty Acid Utilization in the Development of Cardiovascular Disease
Host: University of Texas--Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
August 2005–January 2006

Bhekumusa Herbert Khuzwayo
Department of Mathematics and Science Education, University of Zululand, Kwadlangezwa
Research: A Study of Mathematics Teachers' Constraints in Changing Practices: Some Lessons From Participating Countries in the Learner's Perspective Study
Host Institution: University of Georgia
January 2005-May 2005

Tanzania
Sifuni Mchome, Associate Dean, Faculty of Law
University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam
Research: Law, Refugee Policy and Management in Tanzania
Host: New York University, Center on International Cooperation, New York, NY
August 2002-June 2003

Uganda
Rose Kirumira, Makerere University
Lecturing: Art, African Art
September 1998-December 1998

 

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