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...
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.
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...
