Paul de Morais (they/them) studies and teaches literature and culture of the Romantic period (French, German, British, Anglo-American, Spanish, and Portuguese), focusing especially on prose and the novel. In their dissertation they analyzed the fiction of George Sand, Honoré de Balzac, and Bettine von Arnim in relation to discourses about genre framing the authors' works and the interwoven topics of gender, politics, aesthetics (idealism and realism), nature, and idealist philosophy. They show how the novel writing practices and literary ideologies of Sand, Balzac, and Arnim, which took...
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.
Interim Director, Center for African Studies, Associate Professor, History
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Professor Hall's research is focused on the intellectual and social history of a region of West Africa called the Sahel, which straddles the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. It encompasses the modern countries of Mauritania, Mali and Niger. Most of the research that he has carried out has been based in and around the northern Malian town of Timbuktu, in a sub-region of the Sahel called the Niger Bend. He has worked in Timbuktu because it is the site of remarkable collections of written sources in Arabic from across the Sahel and further a field in the Muslim world. His work is located...
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...
