James Q. Davies is Professor of Music, editor of the UChicago Press book series New Material Histories of Music, and scholar with musicological interests and expertise in the long nineteenth century. He authored the books Romantic Anatomies of Performance (California: 2014) and Creatures of the Air: Music, Atlantic Spirits, Breath, 1817-1913 (Chicago: 2023). James grew up in Johannesburg, with first degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand. He wrote his PhD at the University of Cambridge, where he later received a Junior...
Tami Driver is the Special Projects Officer at the Center for Africa Studies where she oversees fellowships, grants, communications and events, and facilitates many aspects of the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program.
Dr. Duncan Omanga is an educationist, program manager, and academic with a deep commitment to the study of Africa. He currently serves as Associate Director at the Center for African Studies (CAS) and Manager of the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at the University of California, Berkeley.
Prior to joining CAS, Dr. Omanga was a Program Officer in the Africa Section of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Washington, D.C. He previously served as...
Student Services Advisor, Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program
Center for African Studies
Meron Semedar is an Educator, community organizer, human rights and international refugee advocate. Meron has addressed the UN, USCIS, One Young World, many universities and communities on the global refugee crisis and human rights in Eritrea. His works have been featured in Vanity Fair, Huffington Post, the G7G20, the International Organization for Migrants (IOM), African Voice, BBC Tigrinya, Voice of America and SBS Australia. A short version of his story has been published in a book called Refugees in America in 2019. He...
