Since 2007, Ismael Montana has been closely involved with WARA’s various research and resource environment.
Sylvia Macauley is Professor of History and former Chair of the Africana Studies department at California State University at Northridge (CSUN).
Professor of Global Governance, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance, and Associate Dean, McCormack Graduate School
Cinder Cooper Barnes is presently a full-time faculty member in the English department at Montgomery College, where she designs and integrates decolonized curricula and pedagogical strategies into course material and serves as the director of the Global Humanities Institute. As part of her professional responsibilities, she serves as the college’s Fulbright Scholars liaison, writes proposals and grants; introduces and develops various programs promoting internationalization of the curriculum for faculty. Cinder has an interest in Black diaspora studies, protest movements, women’s rights, and international education.
Anima Adjepong, PhD is on the faculty at the University of Cincinnati as an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies. They received their PhD in Sociology from The University of Texas at Austin, with concentrations in African and African Diaspora Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies and their A.B. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University.
Brad Hounkpati, a Fulbright Scholar, is an entomologist specialized on West African Ladybeetles. He holds a PhD in Entomology, from the University of Georgia. He served as an Agricultural Engineer at Nouvelle Société Cotonnière du Togo (West Africa). Prior to his Fulbright experience, he was previously Assistant Technical Coordinator for the program of Natural Resource Management at U.S. Peace Corps in Togo.
Hilary Hungerford is an associate professor of Earth Science at Utah Valley University, a dual-mission institution with both community college and university components.
Jacquelin-Bethel Mougoué an Associate Professor of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the USA, with affiliations in the Department of History and the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies. She holds a doctorate in African History from Purdue University, a Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Purdue University, and a Certificate in Oral History from the University of California, Berkeley, California.
John Van D. Lewis (PhD, Anthropology, Yale University 1979) is a retired US Foreign Service Officer, having served as a Supervisory Rural & Agricultural Development Director at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for twenty years (1980-2000).
Jude T. Fokwang is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Development Practice at Regis University, Denver, USA since 2013. He holds a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Toronto (2007) and has held previous teaching positions at the University of Cape Town & Rhodes University in South Africa, Trent University and the University of Toronto in Canada.
Molly Enz earned her Ph.D. in French from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently Associate Professor of French at South Dakota State University.
S.N. Nyeck is one of the founders of queer studies in Africa. She helped create and led the first pan-African Network of scholars doing queer research in Africa (2007-2011).
Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed is an assistant professor of global media industries in the College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia and an affiliate faculty at the African Studies Institute.
Wilson Fall is Associate Professor and Program Chair of the African Studies Program at Lafayette College. Wilson-Fall served as Director of the West African Research Center in Dakar from 1999-2004.