Award for Best Undergraduate Thesis in African Studies | Ezera Research for African Students | Geist and Rosberg Undergraduate Research Grants | Rocca Dissertation Research | Rocca Pre-dissertation Research | FLAS - Academic Year | FLAS - Summer fellowships | Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program | Africa Research Travel Grant | Summer African Language Study Grant
Award for Best Undergraduate Thesis in African Studies
2023
Elias Nepa, Sociology. Politics, Culture, and Action: Political Assertions in the Sud Kivu Province
Honorable Mention:
Sayana Lee, Interdisciplinary Studies. Attempting to understand the knowledge, perspectives, and practices of people living in Chilinza, Malawi on the topic of malaria.
2022
2021
Danielle Kaye, Global Studies. Livelihoods in Crisis: Threats to Senegal’s Artisanal Fishing Communities
2020
Alexander Casendino, Political Science. ECOWAS Interventions: Restructuring the Responsibility to Protect
Serena Patel, Energy Engineering and Energy and Resources. A franchise model to empower informal settlements with renewable energy and employment
Ezera Research for African Students
2022
Jane Mango Angar, Political Science. Investigating the Accessibility of the Electoral Process for Persons with Disabilities in Kenya
2021
Mickey Boakye, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Does transportation network architecture predict hydraulic failure in leaves?
Mikail Aliyu, Public Health. Exploring the impact of expanded youth contraception access on economic growth in Nigeria
2016
Selina Makana, African American Studies
2013
Allan Mugishagwe, Music
Tendro Ramaharitra, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
2011
Allan Mugishagwe, Music
2009
Charles Kirubi, Energy and Resources Group
2008
Charles Kirubi, Energy and Resources Group
Mahad Ibrahim, Information Management
2004
Zewdineh Beyene, Law (Boalt Hall)
2002
Khalid Medani, Political Science
1999
Khalid Medani, Political Science
1998
Khalid Medani, Political Science
2023
Lindsay Hatch, Linguistics. Documenting Atchan
2022
Sayana Lee, Interdisciplinary Studies. Malaria: knowledge, practices, and perspectives of people living in Chilinza, Malawi
2021 - Judith Geist Fellowship
Elias Nepa, Sociology. Coming of Age in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Cynthia Rahman, Global Studies, Homebound Migrant Experiences_ Rebuilding Senegal With and Without France in an Era of Post-colonial Struggle
2021 - Carl Rosberg Fellowship
Victoria Osanyinpeju, Conservation and Resource Studies/Global Poverty and Practice. Land Grabs and Legal Empowerment in Nigeria: How Are Land Markets Evolving in Peri- Urban Regions Near the Lagos Metropolitan Area?
2020
Danielle Kaye, Global Studies. Artisanal Fishing in Senegal: Livelihood Threats and Adaptation Strategies
Jasmine Sozi, Ethnic Studies. It’s a Racialized World After All: A Transnational Study of Oakland, California and Durban, South Africa as Sites of Racialized, Yet Resistant Geographies
2018
Laura Goy, Public Health. Reformist Revolutions in Malawi: The Role of Reformed Islamic and Christian Congregations in Rural Malawi
2016
Kerby Lynch, African American Studies. Shadow of Myself: Defining Black Lesbian Genocide in a PostApartheid South Africa
2015
2014
Ashley Milller, Interdisciplinary Studies. Severe deficits in water and sanitation development in the Kenyan coastal province (specifically Kaloleni), prompting school absenteeism/gender inequity, increased health risk, and economic underdevelopment.
2013
2012
Kristina Dhillon, Through the Grapevine: Assessing Access to Reproductive Health Education in Ghana
2010
2009
Grace Newman, Development Studies. Microfinance in Internally Displaced People Camps in Northern Uganda
2008
Evan Wu, Economics., Statistics., Spanish. Applying Friedman Liberalism to South Africa: China's Role in South African Development
2007
Nick Broten, Political Economy of Industrial Societies. Aid, Implementation, and Tradition in a Ugandan NGO
Peter Schulte, Conservation and Resource Studies/Comparative Literature. Aquaculture and the Decline of Marine Fisheries in Ghana
2006
Ileita Lafitte, Anthropology. A Nation Can Rise No Higher than its Woman": A Closer Look at the Gender Equality Movement in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Khieu Thi Tran, Sierra Leone: Finding the Lost Generation in Dislocated Spaces
2023
Auwal Abubakar, Public Health. Perspectives of religious leaders in Bauchi state on childhood immunization
Andrew Wojtanik, Political Science. Elite Cohesion and Decision-Making in Africa and Beyond
Bhavya Joshi, Public Health. Reproductive Health Services and Needs of Refugees and Internally Displaced Women in Crisis
Blake Erhardt-Ohren, Public Health. Barriers and facilitators to safe abortion services and measurement of maternal mortality due to abortion complications among Sudanese refugees in Pariang, South Sudan
Daniel Agness, Agricultural and Resource Economics. Housing and Human Capital: Condominium Lotteries in Ethiopia
C. Darius Gordon. Education. ‘We, on the other side’: Black Internationalism in the Lusophone World, 1950s-1980s
David Qihang Wu, Economics. Employment Agencies and Matching Friction in Ethiopia
Gwyneth Miner, Economics. Conditional Unemployment Insurance to Incentivize Rural-Urban
Ifunanya Dibiaezue, Public Health. Using Digital Interventions to Address Adolescent Contraceptive Needs in Nigeria
Jonathan Wu, Music. Sonic Infrastructures of China-Kenya Relations
Mikail Aliyu, Public Health. Expanding access to self-administered contraception methods in Nigeria
Mickey Boakye, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Leaf network architeture, transport efficiency, defense and evolution across vascular plant clades
Muhammad Zia Mehmood, Haas School of Business and Public Policy. Training with Technology: Lessons from a field experiment with Kenyan MSMEs
Pierre Biscaye, Agricultural & Resource Economics. Essays in development and environmental economics
Tamara Kerzhner, City and Regional Planning. The Spatial Planning of Informal Transportation in African Cities
Veronarindra Ramananjato, Integrative Biology. Cascading impacts of the collapse in mutualistic interactions in tropical forests
Yao Doe, Public Health. Impact of Introducing a Group B Streptococcus (GBS) Screening Protocol Combined with Intrapartum Antibiotic Prophylaxis at Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana
2022
Alejandra Perez Rotondo, Socio-cultural Anthropology. Prophetic religious movements and the ethics of healing in Ethiopia
Amanda Marr Chung, Public Health. Sustainability of the Voluntary Male Medical Circumcision Program in Zimbabwe
Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Energy and Resources Program. Nudging Towards a Deeper Understanding of Household Energy and Affordability in Development
Daniel Agness, Agricultural and Resource Economics. Housing and Human Capital: Condominium Lotteries in Ethiopia
Luisa Cefala, Economics. Labor Contracting Frictions in Rural Burundi as a Constraint to Technology Take-Up
Muhammad Zia Mehmood, Haas School of Business. Training with Technology: Lessons from a field experiment with Kenyan MSMEs
2021
Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Energy and Resources Program. Nudging Towards a Deeper Understanding of Household Energy and Affordability in Development
Crossley Pinkstaff, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Understanding the linkages between land, water, and rural livelihoods in the context of Tanzania's 'green revolution'
Gustavo Capela, Anthropology. The voices of "we": an ethnographic inquiry of the waterfront communities in Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Livia Alfonsi, Agricultural and Resource Economics. Meet Your Future: Job Search Effort and Aspirations of Young Jobseekers
Stephanie Bonds, Economics. Parent Child Preferences and Secondary School Choice: Evidence from Kenya
2020
Adrian Thomas Wilson, Anthropology. The Economic Imaginaries of Development Randomized Controlled Trials in East Africa
Allan Cabrero, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Phylogenomics and Diversification of Bee Flies (Bombyliidae)
Crossley Pinkstaff, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Green revolution style development in Tanzania: Implications for land and water rights for the rural poor
Hilary Lynd, History. The simultaneous end of apartheid in South Africa and collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union
Livia Alfonsi, Agricultural and Resource Economics. Meet Your Future: Job Search Effort and Aspirations of Young Jobseekers
Raphael Frankfurter, Medical Anthropology. Affects of Global Health Security in Kono District, Sierra Leone
Sarah Guth, Integrative Biology. Gut microbial communities, viral zoonosis, and reproduction in Madagascar fruit bats
Tamara Kerzhner, City and Regional Planning. Labor Rights and Passenger Rights in the Transport Sector in Urban Africa
2019
Allan Cabrero, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Phylogenomics and Diversification of Bee Flies (Bombyliidae)
Mokganedi Tatlhego, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. The eco-hydrological bearings of dams in developing African environmental settings
Peter Vale, History. Colonialism Across Borders: Contested Jurisdictions and Colonial Consolidation in Congo and Angola 1899-1978
Sarah Guth, Integrative Biology. Gut microbial communities, viral zoonosis, and reproduction in Madagascar fruit bats
Susanna Berkouwer, Agricultural and Resource Economics. Behavioral and market determinants of energy consumption in Kenya
Veronica Jacome, Energy and Resources Group. Political Economy of Centemporary Electricity Development in Tanzania
2018
Allison Grossman, Political Science. Obstruct or Enable: Strategic behavior of governments toward humantiarian assistance
Brittany Birberick, Socio-cultural Anthropology. Sight of the Factory: Eluding Success and Failure in Jeppestown, South Africa
Christine Wilkinson, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Multidisciplinary Mapping: Toward a Better Understanding of Human-Carnivore Conflict and Landscape Use by Carnivores and People
Hilary Lynd, History. “The Soviet Union is for South Africans a Big Crystal Ball” The National Question and the Cold War’s End
Melanie Thompson, Political Science. Understanding the Role of Gender: The Unique Path Women Take on The Road to Candidacy in sub-Saharan Africa
Nancy Ortiz, Public Health-Epidemiology. Influenza Burden and Seasonality Pregnant Women and Infants in Mali
Peter Vale, History. Colonialism Without Borders: Building the Transnational Benguela Railway 1899-1931
Susanna Berkouwer, Agricultural and Resource Economics. Behavioral and market determinants of household energy efficiency in a development context
2017
Adam Lichtenheld, Political Science. Making Migrations: The Coercive Use of Forced Displacement in Civil Conflicts
Brian Klein, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Mining for Territory: Access and Governance in Madagascar's Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector
Christine Wilkinson, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Mapping critical areas of human-carnivore conflict in wildlife corridors of the Rift Valley, Kenya
Juliana Friend, Anthropology. The Pleasures of Pedagogy: Sex Education and Postcolonial Statecraft in Senegal
Justine Davis, Political Science. Consolidating Democracy: Violence, NGOs and Post-Conflict Democracy Promotion in Côte d’Ivoire
Shakirah Hudani, City and Regional Planning. Urban environmentalism and environmental planning in Rwanda
Wolfgang Alders, Anthropology. Community, social inequality and globalization in Zanzibar, Tanzania: AD 1000-1850
2016
Aaron Young, City and Regional Planning. A Field of Meaning: The Urban Land Question in South Africa
Alexis Schaffler, Landscape Architecture. The emergence of multifunctional infrastructure in Johannesburg
Brittany Birberick, Socio-cultural Anthropology. Photography and urban transformation in Johannesburg, South Africa
James Mizes, City and Regional Planning. Marketing Dakar: The politics of value in urban West Africa
Kaitlyn Gaynor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Wildlife ecology in shared spaces: Effects of human activity on animal behavior, distribution, and population dynamics in post-war Mozambique
Stephen McIsaac, Anthroplogy/Medical Anthropology. The Shifting Terrains of Violence and Trauma in Post-apartheid South Africa
2015
Adeola Oni-Orisan, Anthropology. Miraculous Motherhood: Pentecostalism, Maternal Mortality, and the Fifth Millennium Development Goal in Southwest Nigeria
Briana Abrahms, Environmental Science., Policy & Management. Movement ecology and conservation genetics of endangered African wild dogs in Southern Africa
Danny Choi, Political Science. Strongmen or Strawmen: Incumbent Survival in Emerging African Democracies
Paul Thissen, Political Science. Order and violence on the edges of weak states: A study of institutional legacies
Selina Makana, African American Studies. Soldiering Women: Gender and Militarized Armed Struggle in Southern Africa and Cuba
Sylvan Herskowitz, Agricultural and Resource Economics. Causes and Consequences of Intensive Sports Betting in Uganda
Youssef Carter, Anthropology. "Remembering God: Religious Subjectivities, Spiritual Networks, and Diasporic Existence among African-American and Senegalese Muslims"
2014
Cullen Goldblatt, Comparative Literature. Political Imagination in Historical Narratives (Thiaroye, Dakar and District Six, Cape Town)
David Dow, Political Science. Political Reconstruction Strategies after Civil War: Coercion, Administration, & Distribution
Hallie Wells, Anthropology. Malagasy Slam Poetry at the Intersection of Politics, Performance, and Transnational Circulation
Katherine Seto, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Fish, Fishers, and Fleets: Marine Resource Competition and the Impacts for Sustainability and Conflict in West Africa
Peter Dixon, Sociology. International Criminal Law, Transitional Justice, Global Governance, D.R. Congo
Sarah Holcombe, Bixby Center at UC Berkeley. Legal Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: Ethiopia’s 2005 Reform of Criminal Code on Abortion
Tristan Nunez, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Hippopotamus Ecology and Conservation in a Changing Kenya
Victoria Massie, Anthropology. Transnational Uses of Genetic Ancestry Testing Among African Americans
Youssef Carter, Anthropology. Religious Subjectivities, Spiritual Networks, and Diasporic Existence among African-American and Senegalese Muslims
2013
Aharon de Grassi, Geography. Agricultural Investment and Accumulation in Post-Conflict Oil-Boom Angola
Allan Mugishagwe, Music. On Choreographing Productive Citizenship: The Cultural Work of Music in NGOs in Uganda
Jonathan Cole, History. Medicalizing Maternity: Gender, Health, and the Politics of Reproduction in twentieth-century Senegal
Kathryn Fiorella, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Natural Resource Use, Livelihoods, and Health Outcomes: Interactions of fishery resources in Western Kenya
Merrill Baker-Medard, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Sunken Treasures: Marine Conservation & Gendered Resource Use During Madagascar's Political Crisis
Nicole List, Geography. Negotiating Landed Inequalities: Politics of Urban Land Grabs in Senegal's Dakar Region
Tendro Ramaharitra, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Linking rural household's decision to land use and land cover change around Makira Protected Area, Madagascar
2012
April Sizemore-Barber, Performance Studies. Over the rainbow? Constituting Queerness and Performing Nation in Post-(post)-Apartheid South Africa
Beth Rabinowitz, Political Science. Reversal of Fortune: Regime Strategies and Political (In)Stability in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana, 1950-2000
George Willcoxon, Political Science. Insurgency and the State: Core Institutions under Extreme Stress
Jeffrey Schauer, History. Imperial Ark: wildlife policy and colonial governance in East and Central Africa, 1890-1974
Joshua Williams, Performance Studies. Performance and Political Violence in East Africa during the Cold War
Margaret Frye, Sociology/Demography. The Recursive Reconstruction of Future Aspirations in Southern Malawi
Miriam Tsalyuk, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Using satellite imagery to assess the impacts of herbivore distributions with application to rangeland management and conservation in Southern Africa
Oluwakemi Balogun, Sociology. Contesting Nationalisms: Gender, Globalization and Cultural Representation in Nigerian Beauty Pageants
Sharone Tomer, Architecture. Architectural Practices after Apartheid: Urban Imaginings and Nation Building in Cape Town, 1984 to 2010
2011
Alice Kelly, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Putting the "Fortress" into Fortress Conservation: Militarizing State Control in Waza National Park, Cameroon
Brendan McSherry, Political Science. What impact will the Muslim Manifesto actually have on the 2010 General Elections?
Bruno Reinhardt, Anthropology. African modernity and the rhetoric of charisma: becoming a pastor in contemporary Ghana
Christopher Golden, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. The interaction between natural resource use and human health outcomes in rural Madagascar
Jonathan Cole, History. In Sickness and in Health: Urban Space and the Social Contexts of Health and Disease in Dakar, 1914-1996
Miriam Tsalyuk, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Using satellite imagery to assess the impacts of herbivore distributions with application to rangeland management and conservation in Southern Africa
Sarah Sawyer, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Habitat Suitability and Landscape Connectivity in the Takamanda-Mone Region of Cameroon
Sarah Zimmerman, History. A Social History of West African colonial soldiers who served in French Empire
Steve Bellan, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Understanding the spatiotemporal distribution of wildlife disease with opportunistic surveillance and scavenger movement data:
Tobias Warner, Comparative Literature. Conceptions of Literacy and Literature in Senegalese Fiction, Poetry and Film
2010
Abdoulaye Sy, Agricultural and Resource Economics. Civil Conflicts and the Spread of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Sub Saharan Africa
Beth Rabinowitz, Political Science. A comparative analysis of changes in political stability in Ghana & Cote d'Ivoire, from 1950-2000
Joshua Dimon, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Strategic Institutions and Collaborative Extractives? A Paradox of Fossil Fuel Development and Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Mozambique
Marcel Paret, Sociology. Immigration and State-Economy Relations: A Comparative Study of Post-WWII Labor Systems in California and South Africa
Steve Bellan, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Ecology of anthrax and scavengers in Etosha National Park
2009
Carrie Cizauskas, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Ecology of anthrax in Etosha National Park, Namibia
Charles Kirubi, Energy and Resources Group. Assessment of Community-Based Electric Micro-Grids as an Option for Off-grid Rural Electrification in Kenya
China Scherz, Medical Anthropology. Childhood and the Ethics of Care: Orphan Support and NGOs in Central Uganda
Jay McEntee, Integrative Biology. The Diversification and Conservation of Eastern Arc Mountain Double-Collared Sunbirds
2008
Charles Kirubi, Energy and Resources Group. As if Institutions Matter: The Case of Rural Electric Mini-grids in Kenya
Dan Fahey, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Post-Conflict Development in Uganda, 1986-2006
Erin Mahaffey, Anthropology. Publicity, Secrecy, and Medical Confidentiality in Zanzibar, East Africa
Jessica Leino, Economics. Essays on social service provision in developing countries: evidence from Kenya
Karen Weinbaum, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Sustainability of bushmeat hunting in Central Africa
LaToya Beck, African Diaspora Studies. Performing (Racial) Identity in Postcolonial India: Sidis, Blackness, and Diaspora
Mahad Ibrahim, Information Management. An Institutional Eye on ICT4D projects: How do institutional policies and practices reflect and affect utilization of Egyptian IT
Mark Massoud, Jurisprudence and Social Policy. Law in a Failed State: Grassroots Legal Groups and Development in Sudan
2007
Ippolytos Kalofonos, Medical Anthropology/Public Health/Medicine. HIV/ AIDS interventions in Central Mozambique
Jenny Aker, Agricultural and Resource Economics. Of Markets and Famines: Understanding Market Performance during the 2005 Niger Food Crisis
Mark Massoud, Jurisprudence and Social Policy. Law in a Failed State: Grassroots Legal Groups and Development in Sudan
Natoschia Scruggs, African Diaspora Studies. Engendering Somali Refugee Resettlement in Egypt and the United States
Wendy Turner, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Coinfections between gastrointestinal parasites and anthrax in ungulates of Etosha National
2006
Andrew Lyons, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. An investigation of land use and cover change dynamics using a multi-agent system model
Catherine Corson, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Rethinking Conservation and Development in Madagascar
Charles Kirubi, Energy and Resources Group. Evaluating the Impacts of Modern Energy Services on Microenterprises in Kenya
Ippolytos Kalofonos, Medical Anthropology/Public Health/Medicine. HIV/AIDS Interventions in Central Mozambique
Ivy Mills, History of Art. Sutura: Subalternity, Disclosure and the Gendering of the Senegalese Subject
Martha Johnson, Political Science. Unsettling the Bureaucracy: Presidential Leadership and State Institutions in Post-2000 Senegal
Michael Nelson, Political Science. African State Power: on the influence of African states in the international legal system
Rebecca Ghanadan, Energy and Resources Group. Public Services or Commodity Goods? The Social and Political Significance of Electricity Reforms in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Robin Turner, Political Science. States and markets revisited: nature tourism and the local political economy
2005
Andrew Lyons, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. An investigation of land use and cover change dynamics using a multi-agent system model
Catherine Corson, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Rethinking Conservation and Development in Madagascar
George Wittemyer, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. The Spatial and Social Structure of the Sumburu Elephant Population
Ivy Mills, History of Art. Sutura: Subalternity, Disclosure, and the Gendering of the Senegalese Subject
Kristin Reed, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Washing Ashore: The Tides of Oil Capitalism and Violence in Northern Angola
Laura Hubbard, Anthropology. Lusaka sounds, Johannesburg markets: making and selling culture in Southern Africa
Rebecca Ghanadan, Energy and Resources Group. Negotiating Reforms: The Politics of Urban Energy in Tanzania (Social and Political Significance of Energy Reforms)
Robert Bailis, Energy and Resources Group. Social and technical analysis of charcoal production in Narok, Kenya
Ruth Uwaifo-Oyere, Agricultural and Resource Economics. Geopolitic and time differences in returns to education in Nigeria: fact or fantasy?
Saida Hodzic, Medical Anthropology. Sites of Contention: NGO Interventions against Female Genital Cutting in Ghana
2004
Andrew Lyons, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. An investigation of land use/ cover change dynamics using a multi-agent system model
Catherine Corson, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Rethinking Conservation and Development in Madagascar
David Cohen, Archaeology. Culture-contact at the Kalahari's edge; the archaeology of serfdom, trade, marriage, and poverty, Botswana, c. AD 500- AD 1500
George Wittemyer, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. The Spatial and Social Structure of the Sumburu Elephant Population
Ivy Mills, History of Art. Sutura: Subalternity, Disclosure, and the Gendering of the Senegalese Subject
Kristin Reed, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Washing Ashore: The Tides of Oil Capitalism and Violence in Northern Angola
Laura Hubbard, Anthropology. Lusaka sounds, Johannesburg markets: making and selling culture in Southern Africa
Rebecca Ghanadan, Energy and Resources Group. Negotitating Reforms: The Politics of Urban Energy in Tanzania ( Social and Political Significance of Energy Reforms)
Robert Bailis, Energy and Resources Group. Social and technical analysis of charcoal production in Narok, Kenya
Ruth Uwaifo-Oyere, Agricultural and Resource Economics. Geopolitic and time differences in returns to education in Nigeria: fact or fantasy?
Saida Hodzic, Medical Anthropology. Sites of Contention: NGO Interventions against Female Genital Cutting in Ghana
Zewdineh Beyene, Law (Boalt Hall). Revisiting Africa's Architecture and Capacity for Regional Peace and Security
2003
Anna Schmidt, Political Science. Global Theory and Local Practice of the International Refugee Regime
Arielle Levine, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Community-based maritime conservation in Zanzibar, Tanzania: a comparitive study of NGO and private sector programs.
Benjamin Gardner, Geography. Producing Pastoral Power: Youth and the Culture of Politics of Education, Conservation and Rights in Tanzania
Clare Conry-Murray, Education. Moral Reasoning About Gender Hierarchy in Benin: The Role of Informational Assumptions and Pragmatic concerns.
Laura Hubbard, Anthropology. Lusaka sounds, Johannesburg Markets: Making and Selling Culture in Southern Africa
Saida Hodzic, Medical Anthropology. Rhizomic Networks: NGO Interventions in Women's Rights and Women's Health Among Gurune in Ghana.
Xavier Livermon, African Diaspora Studies. Kwaito: An Examination of Popular Culture in Post-Apartheid South Africa.
Zewdineh Beyene, Law (Boalt Hall). The New African Architecture and Capacity for Regional Peace and Security
2002
Anna Schmidt, Political Science. Global Theory and Local Practice of the International Refugee Regime.
Arielle Levine, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Community-based Marine Conservation in Tanzania.
Arne Jacobson, Energy and Resources Group. The Solar Revolution Will Be Televised: Understanding the Social Implications of Market Based Solar Electrification in Kenya.
George Wittemyer, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. The Spatial and Social Structure of the Samburu Elephant Population.
Khalid Medani, Political Science.
Scott Straus, Political Science. The Rwandan Genocide: Institutions, Ideology, and War: The Rwandan Genocide in Comparative Perspective.
Victor Peskin, Political Science. Conflicts of Justice: International Criminal Tribunals and the Politics of State Cooperation
2001
Mary Galvin, Political Science. Development is Political: The Effect of Development Interventions on Local Politics in Rural Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
Peter Baxter, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Modeling the Impacts of African Elephant on Wood Plant Diversity in Kruger National Park, South Africa
2023
Abdulrazzak Tamim, Economics. Quality Upgrading, Subsidies, and Competition in Agricultural Input Markets
Pranav Kuttaiah, City & Regional Planning. Unpacking Migrant Political Subjectivities in Mumbai and Johannesburg
Grady Killeen, Economics. Search frictions in the market for helmets in Nairobi, Kenya
Katherine Culbertson, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Investigating Novel Secondary Forest Communities and Restoration Efficacy in Eastern Madagascar
Dan Miswa Basil, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Beyond the Limits of Climate Smart Agriculture Frameworks in Kenya
Katherine Culbertson, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Investigating Novel Secondary Forest Communities and Restoration Efficacy in Eastern Madagascar
Dan Miswa Basil, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Beyond the Limits of Climate Smart Agriculture Frameworks in Kenya
2022
Auwal Abubakar, Public Health. Perspectives of religious leaders on Childhood Immunization in Bauchi, Nigeria
Jessica Kersey, Energy and Resources. Towards equitable energy access for the urban poor: Participatory surveys of slum communities of Kampala, Uganda
Joseph Greenbaum, Political Science. Land Grabs and Topologies of Toxicity from e-Waste Processing in East Africa
Veronarindra Ramananjato, Integrative Biology. Travelling seeds: how do they survive in human-modified landscapes?
2021
Calvin Chiu, Public Health - Health Policy. Altruism, social norms and group level decision-making: field evidence from maternity grants from savings groups in Zambia
David Qihang Wu, Economics. Misinformation and Turnover: Evidence from Ethiopian Manufacturing Workers
2020
Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Energy and Resources Program. Coupling Outreach & Financial Mechanisms in LPG Adoption in East Africa
Gustavo Capela, Anthropology. Spaces of imagination: an ethnographic inquiry into the construction of Eko Atlantic City in Lagos, Nigeria.
Jackie Childers, Integrative Biology. Expedition Eritrea: Uncovering the Horn of Africa’s Hidden Biodiversity
2019
Adrian Thomas Wilson, Anthropology. The Anthropological Imaginary of Development Economics in East Africa
Tamara Kerzhner, City and Regional Planning. Labour aspects of informal transportation systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
2018
Catlan Reardon, Political Science. The Potential Perverse Effects of Social Capital in sub-Saharan Africa
Isabelle Cohen, Economics. Tax Capacity and Fiscal Decentralization: Experimental Evidence from Uganda
Raphael Frankfurter, Medical Anthropology. Biosecurity in the Post-Ebola Kissi Triangle: An Ethnographic Study of Remote Clinics in Sierra Leone and Guinea
2017
Nancy Ortiz, Public Health-Epidemiology. Birth Outcomes in Pregnant Women and Infants in Mali: an analysis of the effects respiratory illness in high risk groups
2016
Brian Klein, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Mining for Territory: Pressures, Practices, and Policy in Madagascar’s Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector
Christine Wilkinson, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Mapping Critical Regions of Human-Wildlife Conflict and Resource Use in Wildlife Dispersal Areas of Southern Kenya
2015
Kaitlyn Gaynor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. The effects of human settlement and activity on wildlife behavior and distribution in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
Nicholas Rolle, Linguistics. Analyzing tone melodies in the languages of Nigeria: Case studies from Esan, Degema, Eastern Ijo, and Lake Kainji
2014
Adeola Oni-Orisan, Anthropology. Charismatic Childbirth: Pentecostalism, Maternal Mortality and the Fifth Millennium Development Goal in Southwest Nigeria
Annah Peterson, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. The political ecology of rosewood in Madagascar
Brittany Birberick, Socio-cultural Anthropology. South African Craft Art, Contemporary Art, and the Political
Stephen McIsaac, Anthroplogy/Medical Anthropology. A Memory From the Future: Psychiatric Reform, Trauma, and Therapeutic Space in Postapartheid South Africa
2013
Selina Makana, African American Studies. Unveiling the Voices of Women behind the Pan-African Movement: 1945-1970 West Africa
Tristan Nunez, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Hippopotamus Movement Ecology and Conservation
Victoria Massie, Anthropology. Use of genetic ancestry testing among the African Diaspora in transnational spaces
2012
Francesca Nicosia, Anthropology. Global Health, Palliative Care and the Management of Pain in East Africa
2010
Carrine (Meyer) Brody, Public Health. Examing the Impact of New Aid Financing Models on Maternal Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa
George Willcoxon, Political Science. Insurgency and the State in Africa: political violence and state capacity
Jeffrey Schauer, History. Imperial Ark: wildlife policy and colonial governance in East and Central Africa
Kathryn Fiorella, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. People, Wildlife, and Parasitic Worms: Health Impacts of Zoonotic Disease Transmission
Marlee Tichenor, Anthropology. A biography of anti-malarial pharmaceuticals and the institutions that surround them
Rachel Niehuus, Anthroplogy/Medical Anthropology. State and Nonstate Actors in the Making of Health Policy in the Post-Conflict State
2009
Merrill Baker-Medard, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Social and Environmental Impact of Gemstone Mining in Madagascar
Niels Tomijima, Energy and Resources Group. Methods of Disseminating Improved Energy Technologies Effectively and Efficiently: The KUUTE Stove in Tanzania
Patience Fielding, Education: Language & Literacy. Indigenous Languages and Globalization: The Case For Mungaka
2008
Alice Kelly, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. People and Parks: An interdisciplinary study of community-based ecotourism in Cameroon
Mark Rosenberg, Political Science. Affective Beliefs and the Maintenance of Dominant Party Systems (South Africa)
Sarah Sawyer, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Applying habitat vulnerability, irreplaceability, and human-wildlife interactions to corridor design in West Africa (Cameroon)
Tobias Warner, Comparative Literature. The Transformation of Reading and Writing Practices in Senegal
2007
Christopher Golden, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Trends of Bushmeat Consumption in Madagascar's Eastern Rainforests
Liza Buchbinder, Medical Anthropology/Public Health/Medicine. Youth Resiliency in West African Labor Market
Steve Bellan, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Scavenger Ecology and Anthrax Epidemiology in Etosha National Park
Tendro Ramaharitra, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Model of Land Use and Land Cover Change, comparaison of different zones in the eastern rainforest of Madagascar
2006
Erin Mahaffey, Anthropology. Reproductive/Human Rights, Contraception/Abortion, Statistical Technologies
Joshua Dimon, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Rivers of Extraction, Rivers of Life: Extractive Capitalism and Rural Livelihoods along the Zambezi River, Mozambique
Joshua Dimon, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Rivers of Extraction, Rivers of Life: Extractive Capitalism and Rural Livelihoods along the Zambezi River, Mozambique
Sarah Zimmerman, History. Sub-Saharan African Colonial Conscripts Participation in Maghribi Anti-colonial Wars
2005
Dan Fahey, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Environmental Protection and Post-Conflict Development in the Great Lakes Region of Africa
Jennifer Brass, Political Science. Theories of bureaucratic hollowing "informalization" and "privatization" in the African State.
Malini Ranganathan, Energy and Resources Group. Enhancing Energy Access in Senegal through Rural-Urban Interactions and Improved Bioenergy Sources
Mark Massoud, Jurisprudence and Social Policy. The Mobilization of International Law in Religious Societies: Cases of Sudanese NGOs
Sarah Staveteig, Sociology/Demography. Beyond Greed and Profit: The Socio-Political and Demographic Dynamics of Civil War in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa
2004
Christopher Blattman, Economics. Investigation of Effects of Global Trade and Aid Flows on East African Economic Development
Martha Johnson, Political Science. The relationship between newly elected political leaders and the existing national bureaucracy in situations of democratic transition
Nadege Clitandre, African American Studies. The Pace-Bound Contiuum and Articulations of Home in Haitian Literature
2003
Ashtari Negar, Geography. Land policy, local government and cultural politics in peri-urban areas in Botswana.
2022
Purba Chatterjee,School of Public Health
Dimitri Diagne, History
2021
Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Energy and Resources Group
Christopher Jon Ehrmann, School of Journalism
Crossley Pinkstaff, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Joseph Greenbaum, Political Science
Peter Vale, History
Purba Chatterjee, School of Public Health
2020
Abibat Rahman-Davies, Global Studies
Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Energy and Resources Group
Crossley Pinkstaff, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Joseph Greenbaum, Political Science
Peter Vale, History
Rasheed Shabazz, City and Regional Planning
Rebecca Astatke, School of Public Health
Stephanie Bonds, Economics
2019
Anna Spadafora, Comparative Literature
Crossley Pinkstaff, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
John Walsh, Music
Mariam Zagub, School of Journalism
Rachel Mueller, School of Journalism
Rasheed Shabazz, City and Regional Planning
Rebecca Astatke, School of Public Health
Stephanie Bonds, Economics
2018
Crossley Pinkstaff, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Daniel Bowen, History
Elizabeth Resor, Information Management and Systems
Lee Mengistu, School of Journalism.
Rachel Mueller, School of Journalism
Wolfgang Alders, Anthropology
2013
Andrew Crane-Droesch, Energy and Resources Group
Dylan Isaacson, School of Public Health
Erin Milner, School of Public Health
Paul Thissen, Political Science
Rita Cuckovich, School of Public Health
Rose Calnin, School of Public Health
Tiffany Clarke, School of Public Health
Vanessa Reed, Agricultural and Resource Economics
2012
Andrew Crane-Droesch, Energy and Resources Group
Caitlin Scholl, Comparative Literature
Caroline Ritter, History
Diana Gergel, History
Dylan Isaacson, School of Public Health
Jessica Clarkson, Peace and Conflict Studies
Julie Freccero, School of Public Health
Rachel Jamison, School of Law
Rachel Niehuus, Anthroplogy/Medical Anthropology
Rena Lipkowitz, School of Public Health
Rose Calnin, School of Public Health
Sara Adelman, Development Studies
Vanessa Reed, Agricultural and Resource Economics
2011
Andrew Crane-Droesch, Energy and Resources Group
Caitlin Scholl, Comparative Literature
Casey Rogers, City and Regional Planning
Diana Gergel, History
Jacobus Van Der Merwe, City and Regional Planning
Margaret Frye, Sociology/Demography
Matthew Gichohi, Political Science
2010
Amanda Wheeler, School of Public Health
Bob Bell, School of Information and Management Systems
Karen Weidert, School of Public Health
Suzanne Bell, School of Public Health
Vanessa Roderick, Linguistics
Zoe Chafe, School of Public Health
2009
Aharon de Grassi, Geography
Jason Price, Anthropology
Nicole List, Geography
Niels Tomijima, Energy and Resources Group
2008
Anjali Gupta, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Jessyka Finley, African Diaspora Studies
Jonathan Cole, History
Laura Swift, Public Health
Merrill Baker-Medard, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Niels Tomijima, Energy and Resources Group
2007
Benjamin Bellows, School of Public Health
Erin Mahaffey, Anthropology
Karen Weinbaum, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Malika Crutchfield, African Diaspora Studies
Tanya Jones, Sociology
2006
Erin Mahaffey, Anthropology
Katy Guimond, Geography
Naim Darghouth, Energy and Resources Grou.
Rosalind Fredericks, Geography
Tanya Jones, Sociology
Thera Crane, Linguistics
Tobias Warner, Comparative Literature
2005
Brendan McSherry, Political Science
Duncan Allard, Music
Erin Mahaffey, Anthropology
Ippolytos Kalofonos, Medical Anthropology/Public Health/Medicine
Michael McElroy, School of Public Health
Naim Darghouth, Energy and Resources Group
Rachel Giraudo, Anthropology
Rosalind Fredericks, Geography
2004
Amanda Riley, School of Public Health
Elizabeth Boner, Graduate School of Education
Erin Brock, UC/UCSF MD/PhD Program
Martha Johnson, Political Science
Rachel Giraudo, Anthropology
Rebecca Tanner, School of Law
Renee Kuriyan, Energy and Resources Group
Sadie Ryan, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Sarah Zimmerman, History
Zakiyyah Jackson, African Diaspora Studies
2003
Amanda Riley, School of Public Health
Andrew Lyons, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Andrew Simpson, Linguistics
Benjamin Gardner, Geography
Corrie Decker, History
Ivy Mills, History of Art
Lesley Bennett Pereira, School of Public Health
Libby Lewis, African Diaspora Studies
Martha Johnson, Political Science
Rebecca Ghanadan, Energy and Resources Group
Sadie Ryan, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Sean Brennan, School of Public Health
2002
Andrew Simpson, Linguistics
Benjamin Gardner, Geography
Catherine Corson, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Ivy Mills, History of Art
Jeff Good, Linguistics
Laura Hubbard, Anthropology
Rebecca Ghanadan, Energy and Resources Group
Xavier Livermon, African Diaspora Studies
2023
David Villani, History, Minor in Arabic
Dimitri Diagne, History
2022
Hannah Cox, French and Linguistics
Sarah Idunu Abidla Daniel, Political Science
Crossley Pinkstaff, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
2021
Anna Spadafora, Comparative Literature
Claudia Naa Densua Ankrah, History, UC Santa Barbara
Crossley Pinkstaff, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Dimitri Diagne, History
Joseph Greenbaum, Political Science
Rohit Krishnan, History
Taylor Baisey, School of Public Health
2020
Crossley Pinkstaff, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Lucayo Casillas, History - African History
Rohit Krishnan, History
Stephanie Bonds, Economics
2019
Crossley Pinkstaff, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
2010
Jonathan Cole, History
Jonathon Repinecz, French
Robia Charles, Political Science
2009
Reginold Royston, African American Studies
2008
Anjali Gupta, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. The Elephant Question: An Ethnography of Environmental Imaginaries in Chobe Enclave Community Trust, Botswana
Jasmine Johnson, African Diaspora Studies. Embodied Utterances: Investigating Performances of Africa Through West African Dance Classes (Ghana)
2006
Carrie Cizauskas, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Ecology of Anthrax in Etosha National Park, Namibia
Cole Burton, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Protected-area effectiveness and the landscape context of mammal conservation in Ghana
Karen Weinbaum, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Human/Wildlife dynamics at the Congo Basin forest margin
Michael Wasserman, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Primate Response to Protected Area Boundaries in western Uganda: Using Field Endocrinology to Examine Forest Edge Effects
2004
Wendy Turner, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. The ecology of anthrax in a community of herbivores in Etosha National Park, Namibia
2023
Brenda Umitoniwase, Folklore
Iqra Salah, School of Journalism
Latifa Khamis Mbarak, Development Practice
Linus Unah, School of Journalism
Millicent Akayesi, Architecture
Nantongo Molly, School of Welfare
Prisca Bakoandrisoa Rasimbazafy, Development Practice
2022
Cecil Chikezie, Bioengineering
Didien Meyahnwi, School of Public Health
Dowell Aluchukwu Mbanu-Jackson, Bioengineering
Elly Wanyonyi, City and Regional Planning
Idris Mukhtar, School of Journalism
Joyceline Marealle, Energy and Resources Group
Kenneth Ng'etich Kipruto, School of Journalism
Patricia Quaye, Development Engineering
Power Mukisa, Development Practice
Victor Okoro, Development Engineering
Vivian Omondi, Information and Management Systems
2021
Abdoul Aziz Sandotin Coulibaly, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Alex Winters Kairu, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Gloria Tumushabe, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2020
Abdoul Aziz Sandotin Coulibaly, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Armittage Adjah Annang, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Austin Brian Maina, Data Science in Letters & Science
Barbara Nasila, Architecture College of Environmental Design
Barbara Nasila, Architecture College of Environmental Design
Boikanyo Tefu, School of Journalism
Chukwuemeka Darlington Eze, Legal Studies
Daniel Shiferaw, Computer Science
Erick Maling'a, School of Pubilc Health
Esther Vuhya Julius, Interdisciplinary Studies
Gift Pola Kiti, School of Public Health - Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health
Gilbert Bahati, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Gloria Tumushabe, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Habiiba Malingha, Haas School of Business
Johnson Chidi Uwaeme, School of Social Welfare
Kita Nyabena Abuodha, Environmental Economics and Policy and Business Finance and Accounting
Mailess Phiri, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Marilyn Akinola, Development Practice
Marvin Mulima, College of Natural Resources
Meshach McBorrough, School of Public Health
Nicholas Koech, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Paula Ochiel, Development Practice
Sahara Farah Abdi, Mathematics
Samuel Akindele, Interdisciplinary Studies
Samuel Amanya, Economics
Sarah Lebu, School of Pubilc Health
Tafadzwa Brian Marombedza, Political Economy
Victoria Adebiyi, School of Public Health - Nutrition
2019
Abigail Adu-Daako, Public Policy
Adetutu Sadiq, School of Public Health
Alton Tatenda Mpungu, Development Practice
Carlos Mureithi, School of Journalism
Eshetu Feleke, Architecture
Fanice Nyatigo, Bioengineering
Hannibal Tesfahunegn, Graduate School of Public Policy
Jalang Conteh, School of Public Health
Nkiruka Menankiti, Nuclear Engineering
Rassidatou Konate, School of Public Health
Tsegab Mekonnen, Mechanical Engineering
2018
Ashley Sango, School of Public Health
Brenda Ogutu, City and Regional Planning
Emmanuel Bonsu, Mechanical Engineering
Grace Oyenubi, School of Journalism
Haggai Kaunda, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Linus Kipkoech, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Monicah Wambugu, Information Management and Systems
Mubarek Hassen, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Priscah Cheruiyot, School of Public Health
Rebeka Ramangamihanta, Development Practice
Victor Okoro, Development Studies
Victor Okoro, Development Studies
2017
Becky Mashaido, Applied Mathematics
Gladys Onyango, Development Practice
James Tayali, School of Public Health
Ravina Pattni, Economics
Rukudzo Muyengwa, School of Public Health
Thato Keineetse, Business Administration
Waringa Kamau,School of Journalism
Winnie Itago, Environmental Economics and Policy
2016
Diana Quelhas, School of Public Health
Jacinta Mbilo, City and Regional Planning
Lilian Kabelle, Civil Engineering
Thabani Nyoni, School of Social Welfare
2015
Gloria Kahamba, School of Public Health
Kagure Wamunyu, City and Regional Planning
2014
Keziah Mwang'a, City and Regional Planning
2020
Jonathan Jacob Moore, African-American and African Diaspora Studies. One Settler, One Bullet, One Poem: Post- Aparthied Poetics in Johannesburg
2019
Gathenji Njoroge, School of Public Health. This project addresses two problems: the overabundance of mosquito breeding sites and a scarcity of viable employment opportunities for Kenyans, especially Kenyan youth.
Rachel Mueller, Journalism. A multi-media story (video, print, podcast) about what the US can learn from HIV/AIDS prevention efforts in Namibia
2018
Samantha Schildroth, Public Health., Environmental Health Sciences. Diarrheal Disease Prevalence and Proximity to Contaminated Water Sources in Rural Tanzania
2017
Catlan Reardon, Political Science. Community Driven Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: How Recruitment & Targeting Influence Effectiveness
2018
Crossley Pinkstaff, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
2017
John Walsh, Music
Louise Nina Haug, History
2016
Brandi De Leuze, French and Franchophone Literature
Peter Vale, History
Wolfgang Alders, Anthropology
2015
Allyson Fritz, School of Social Welfare
Brandi De Leuze, French and Franchophone Literature
Brittany Birberick, Socio-cultural Anthropology
Brittany Meche, Geography
Erin Torkelson, Geography
James Mizes, City and Regional Planning
Naima Allcock, French
Stephen McIsaac, Anthroplogy/Medical Anthropology