People

Core Staff

	Name	Title	Research Interests	Contact Information
	Gerhard Anders	Senior Lecturer in African Studies and International Development	Anthropology of development,Anthropology of Law,International criminal justice,Transitional justice,Law Anthropology, institutions and State policies,Law and Development	4.07 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0) 131 651 3178 Gerhard.Anders@ed.ac.uk
	Mohammad Amir Anwar	Lecturer in African Studies and International Development	Globalisation,Economic Geography,African Political Economy,Digital Economy,Digital Value Creation,Future of Work,Humans of the Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence,Digital Labour,Gig Economy,Employment/Unemployment,Inequality and Poverty,Global Governance,Digital Work,Digital ethnography,Labour and labour movements,Mixed methods research in social sciences,Social media and internet technologies,Storytelling and ethnography,Identity Politics,Development studies	5.13 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +441316511731 mohammad.anwar@ed.ac.uk
	Clayton Boeyink	Research Fellow	refugees and displacement,refugee camps,livelihoods,Cash Transfers,Healthcare,displaced Somalis,displaced Congolese,displaced Burundians,self-reliance,food aid,brokerage,Urban Refugees,invisibility,Tanzania,Kenya	cboeyink@ed.ac.uk
	Barbara Bompani	Reader in Africa & International Development;Research Associate at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.	African Christianity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Development, Faith-based organisations (FBOs), Religion and Sexuality, LGBTI rights in Africa, public morality, Ugandan Pentecostalism, South African politics.	1.08 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 3891 B.Bompani@ed.ac.uk
	Andrew Bowman	Lecturer in Africa and International Development	Political economy,industrial policy,agricultural development,agro-processing,value chains,Mining and the extractive industries,Financialization,energy politics,Science and technology for development,infrastructure	2.01 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 1617 andrew.bowman@ed.ac.uk
	SJ Cooper-Knock	Lecturer in International Development (CAS and Anthropology)	Access to justice,Social Justice,Criminal Justice,Civil Justice,civil society,police,security,African security,African studies,South African politics,South Africa	4.30 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 3936 s.j.cooperknock@ed.ac.uk
	Ini Dele-Adedeji	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Nigeria,Northern Nigeria/Northeastern Nigeria,Trans-Saharan migration,Chad,Niger,Transitional justice,Islamic sectarianism,African Politics,Leftism in Nigeria	3.22 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square ini.dele-adedeji@ed.ac.uk
	Rama Salla Dieng	Lecturer in African Studies and International Development, Programme Director MSc Africa and International Development	Political economy of agrarian transformation,Land,Capital and Labour,Gender and Development,African economies,Social Reproduction,Research methodology,Parenting and Care,Critical Race & Decolonial thought,Intersectionality,Rural Development,care,work,African & Transnational feminisms	4.06 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 1636 rdieng@ed.ac.uk
	Kevin Donovan	Lecturer, African Studies & International Development	African history,Political and economic anthropology,STS	4.06 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square kevin.donovan@ed.ac.uk
	Maggie Dwyer	Lecturer in African Studies and International Development	African politics,International Relations,peacekeeping,Social media,West Africa,African security,International development,African studies,militaries	4.14 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 5076 M.Dwyer@ed.ac.uk
	Jean-Benoit Falisse	Lecturer in African Studies and International Development	African Great Lakes region,Health policy,Access to justice,Access to education,Migration and development,Fragile states,Media and conflict	4.01 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0) 131 651 1632 jb.falisse@ed.ac.uk
	Hazel Gray	Senior Lecturer in African Studies and Development	Political economy of development,Political economy of institutions,Industrialization,Industrial policy,Heterodox economic theory,Social provisioning and economic change,Tanzania	5.26 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)1316515534 Hazel.Gray@ed.ac.uk
	Akin Iwilade	Lecturer in African Studies	Natural Resource Politics and Governance,Social Anthropology of Youth,Nigerian Politics and Society,Regional Security in West Africa	4.01 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square a.iwilade@ed.ac.uk
	George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane	Lecturer in African Studies, Programme Director MSc in African Studies	nationalism and the post-colonial state in Africa,Zimbabwe,Colonial/imperial history,legal history,history of the legal profession,Human rights,digital research,digital publics and counterpublics,Digital humanities,Media and society,new media	4.05 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 3206 G.karekwaivanane@ed.ac.uk
	Hugh Lamarque	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Borderlands,African borderlands,Territorial borders,Policy tools in global governance,cross-border mobility of health workers,bilateral agreements,social dialogue and industrial relations,Migration and development,Urban Ethnography,Police & Policing in Africa,Political Theory	4.01  18 Buccleuch Place +44(0)7948385942 Hugh.Lamarque@ed.ac.uk
	Robert Macdonald	Research Fellow in African Studies	Elections,Voting,African politics,Tanzania,Election observation,Social media and politics,Digital data	5.13 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Robert.Macdonald@ed.ac.uk
	Jose-Maria Munoz	Senior Lecturer in African Studies & International Development	Political and economic anthropology,Law and society,Taxation and citizenship,Borderlands,Infrastructure,West and Central Africa,Cameroon,Chad	2.01 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0) 131 650 6970 j.munoz@ed.ac.uk
	Albert Mkony	Researcher & Senior Tutor	Social media in Africa,Governance and leadership in Africa,African politics,Swahili,International development,Intelligence studies,Tanzania,Race and Ethnicity,Diaspora,Conflict Resolution,Diplomacy	Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Albert.Mkony@ed.ac.uk
	Thomas Molony	Senior Lecturer in African Studies	African elections,African security,African politics,Tanzania,Kenya,East Africa,Swahili,Research methods in Africa,ICT in Africa,African Studies,African history,African biography,Security,Social media in Africa,Security	4.04 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 6976 Thomas.Molony@ed.ac.uk
	Paul Nugent	Professor of Comparative African History (School of History, Classics and Archaeology) & African Studies (School of Social and Political Science)	African borderlands,Wine history,Comparative African History,African militaries and bureaucracies,Colonial/imperial history,Slavery and Slave Trade,Ghana politics and history,Trade and transport,Customs and Taxation,Africa and Global Temperance	Room 4.01, 4F1  18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0)131 650 3879 Paul.Nugent@ed.ac.uk
	Nelson Oppong	Lecturer in African Studies and International Development	Global justice,Institutions and institutional change,Norms,Politics of oil,Participation,Social movements,theories of global justice,Sustainability,governance,Development studies,civil society,Ghana	5.13 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44(0)1316517112 nelson.oppong@ed.ac.uk
	James Smith	Vice Principal International; Professor of African and Development Studies	African development,Science,technology and development,Global health policy,Neglected Zoonotic and Tropical Diseases,anthropology of development	4.02 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 4321 James.Smith@ed.ac.uk
	Sam Spiegel	Senior Lecturer in International Development	Major research themes - Theories of Social Justice and Rights - Governance,Dispossession,Alienation,Epistemic Erasure,Storytelling and Social Change - Theorising Environments,Institutions,Values and Spaces - Community-Based Research,Ethnographic Approaches,Community-Engaged and Policy-Engaged Mixed Methods Approaches - Global Governance,Health,Development Politics - Anti-Racist and Feminist Appraoches to Knowledge Construction - Activism,Social Movements,Protest and Solidarity-Building (globally,and particularly in Indonesia,Zimbabwe and Canada/First Nations territory) - United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - Conceptualisations of Nature-Society Relations,Relational Histories and Connections to Place,colonialism and decolonisation,research methods,anti-colonial methods,ethics in collaborative research,injustice	B.02  19 George Square +44 (0) 131 651 3066 sam.spiegel@ed.ac.uk