Africa Program
Scholars
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Religious Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia
Robert Baum was born in Washington and grew up in Silver Spring. He attended Wesleyan University for his bachelor’s degree, where he first took a course on Apartheid and decided to concentrate in African history. Upon graduation, he received a Watson Fellowship, which enabled him to spend an entire year in a Diola village in southern Senegal, where he learned the language and began field res...
Independent Scholar, Visiting Research Fellow, Open University, UK
Coline Covington has worked as a Jungian analyst in private practice for over twenty years in London. Born in the US, Coline came to England after receiving her B.A. in political theory from Princeton University. She went on to do an M.Phil. in criminology at Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in sociology at LSE. She worked for many years as a consultant to local government agencies throughout the...
Secretary and Trustee of an English-registered charity, Together for Sudan, and of Friends Together for Sudan, a not-for-profit organization incorporated in Virginia
Alan Goulty retired in 2008 after 40 years service in the British Diplomatic Service, including postings as Ambassador to Tunisia (2004-8) and Sudan (1995-9), and as the UK Special Representative for Sudan (2002-4) and Darfur (2005-6), when he led the UK team in the Naivasha and Abuja peace talks. He was Director (Assistant Secretary-equivalent) for the Middle East and North Africa in t...
Ann was Director of the Program for Security, Stability, Transition & Reconstruction at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch, Germany. Since leaving the Marshall Center in August 2011, she lectures and is writing a book on stabilization and reconstruction missions.Prior to her arrival at the Marshall Center in September 2007, Ann was professor of i...
Ann was Director of the Program for Security, Stability, Transition & Reconstruction at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch, Germany. Since leaving the Marshall Center in August 2011, she lectures and is writing a book on stabilization and reconstruction missions.Prior to her arrival at the Marshall Center in September 2007, Ann was professor of i...
Visiting Researcher, African Studies Center, Boston University; Consultant
Affiliated with the African Studies Center at Boston University, Marc Sommers is an internationally recognized expert on youth concerns in war and post-war countries. After serving as the headmaster of a girls’ school in Kenya and directing a Red Cross-sponsored community health program in New York, Marc earned his Ph.D. in anthropology from Boston University, choosing as his dissertation topic th...
Emeritus Professor, City University of New York
Professor Herbert Weiss has been a student of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since 1959. He is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at City University of New York and Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, CUNY. The main focus of his research has been nationalism, independence struggles, mass mobilization, protest, democratization, elections, decentra...
