South Africa

Steven Abrams

Nutritional Science, Medicine

Steven Abrams' research focuses on the use of stable isotopes to determine mineral requirements and physiological turnover rates in infants and children. This includes mass spectrometric methods and analytical approaches allowing populations throughout the world to obtain critical data needed for food fortification strategies to be effective.

Deji Akinwande

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Deji Akinwande's research focuses on 2D materials and nanotechnology, pioneering device innovations from lab towards applications. This manifests as translational nanotechnology from materials to devices to circuits, blurring the boundaries between chemistry, electronics, physics, materials science and mechanics.

Richard Albert

Government, Law

Richard Albert's research interests are constitutionalism, democracy, and the rule of law, with specific focus on constitutional reform, constitution-making, and comparative constitutionalism.

Stephen Anderson

Marketing

Stephen Anderson is a quantitative researcher who studies management and policy questions at the intersection of marketing and development economics. His research program focuses on stimulating more inclusive, equitable growth in disadvantaged communities through marketing and entrepreneurship.

Michael Benedikt

Architecture

Michael Benedikt is a professor of architecture and teaches design studio and architectural theory. His interests include architectural design, theory, and urbanism.

Daniel Breecker

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Daniel Breecker is interested in pursuing a process-based understanding of the critical zone with a focus on the formation of calcium carbonates in soils and caves and the stabilization of organic carbon in soils. His research goals include improving and developing paleoclimate proxies and better understanding changes in climate and the carbon cycle across a range of timescales.

Charles Carson

Musicology & Ethnomusicology

Charles Carson is a musicologist whose interests are African-American/American expressive cultures, popular music, jazz, film music, and music and culture.

Karen Engle

Law, Latin American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies

Karen Engle writes on the interaction between social movements and law, particularly in the fields of international human rights law, international criminal law, and Latin American law.

Veit Erlmann

Musicology & Ethnomusicology

Veit Erlmann is a cultural historian, anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. His areas of interest include music and popular culture in South Africa and Indonesia, sound studies, and the anthropology of intellectual property law.

Michael Findley

Government

Michael Findley's research addresses civil wars, terrorism, and development. Findley uses field experiments, statistical and computational models, and interviews.

William Forbath

History, Law

William Forbath's research concerns the role of law in the creation of the modern American state, social and economic rights in the courts, and social movements of South Africa. His interests also include constitutional law, civil procedure, the intersection of social and constitutional theory, the history of the American labor law and of the New Deal, populist movements in American history, and legal and constitutional history.

Jeanne Freeland-Graves

Nutritional Sciences, Human Ecology

Jeanne Freeland-Graves focuses on genetic relationships of obesity with cardiovascular risk factors, liver function markers, and insulin resistance. She has explored the nutritional, environmental and psychological and social influences on weight retention in minority, low-income women after childbirth, as well as the biological and behavioral responses of both mothers and their children to nutrition and physical activity interventions.

Neville Hoad

English, Women's and Gender Studies

Neville Hoad's research focuses on Victorian feminism, psychoanalysis (particularly Freud and Klein), contemporary feminist theory in French and English, lesbian and gay studies, queer theory, international human rights law pertaining to sexual orientations, and sexuality and gender issues in Southern Africa. His writings have focused on the literary and cultural representations of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Orlando Kelm

Spanish & Portuguese, Marketing

Orlando Kelm is a linguistics professional whose interests center on the use of language and culture for professional purposes, such as Business Spanish & Portuguese. Kelm's research focuses on the creation of instructional materials, including the use of innovative technologies in foreign language instruction.

Rajinder Koul

Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

Rajinder Koul's research efforts have primarily focused on understanding the symbol, referent, and instructional variables that influence graphic symbol learning in persons with severe communication impairment as a consequence of developmental or acquired disabilities.

Vijay Mahajan

Marketing

Vijay Mahajan's areas of expertise include marketing strategy, product diffusion, research methodology and the Global South.

Matthew Malkowski

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Matthew Malkowski's research focuses on using sediment and the sedimentary record to study how mountain belts and ocean basins evolve in responses to external forces, such as climate, tectonics, sea level changes, and human impacts.

Leticia Marteleto

Sociology, Medicine

Leticia Marteleto's research focuses on inequalities in women's reproductive behaviors and childbearing related to the Zika and Covid-19 outbreaks in Brazil.

Jennifer Miller

Geography and the Environment

Jennifer Miller's general research interests lie at the confluence of GIScience, spatial analysis, and biogeography, specifically in the application area of species distribution modeling and movement pattern analysis. Previous research has used GIScience to address issues as broad as location privacy, voting patterns, animal movement & interaction, biodiversity, climate change, invasive species, human health, and epizootic disease spread.

Manikum Moodley

Medicine

Manikum Moodley specializes in pediatric multiple sclerosis and neuro-immunological diseases, neurofibromatosis, autonomic disorders and neonatal neurology.

Leonard Moore

History

Leonard Moore researches Black power, the Civil Rights Movement, the history of the segregated South, and teaches courses on Black history and politics.

Lisa Moore

English, Women's and Gender Studies

Lisa L. Moore researches gender and sexuality in literature and art history, with particular attention to literary forms such as the novel and the sonnet, and visual culture such as garden history and botanical illustration. A specialist in the 18th-century, she also writes about the history of feminisms and the literature and art of the feminist and queer liberation movements in the 20th- and 21st-centuries.

Anton Nel

Music Performance

Anton Nel is a pianist and continues to tour internationally as recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician and teacher. He has performed with some of the world’s finest instrumentalists at festivals on four continents.

Daniel Nielson

Government

Daniel Nielson's research focuses on international development, foreign aid, the control of corruption, and international organization. He specializes in the use of transnational field experiments to learn about causal effects in political economy.

Abena Dove Osseo-Asare

History, Medicine

Abena Dove Osseo-Asare studies medicine and science in African societies. Her research includes the ways that communities share medical and scientific knowledge and how differential access to knowledge shapes global health.

Rajeev Patel

Public Affairs

Rajeev Patel is a research professor who studies the world food system and alternatives to it. He has testified about hunger and food sovereignty, and has written about food systems, economics, philosophy, politics, international development, and public health.

Samantha Pinto

English, African and African Diaspora Studies, Women's and Gender Studies

Samantha Pinto's research explores the discourses of race, gender, and human rights along with science in the African American and African Diaspora culture.

Jorge Prozzi

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Jorge Prozzi and his research team have ongoing experimental research on testing and behavior of road building materials, such as the design and rehabilitation of pavements, asphalt technology, accelerated pavement testing, and pavement management systems. His research involves mechanistic and empirical design and applications of probability and statistics to pavement engineering problems.

Ellen Rathje

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Ellen Rathje's research is focused on evaluating seismic hazards related to earthquake ground shaking and earthquake-induced ground failure due to slope failures and liquefaction. Rathje's group uses a wide range of approaches and tools, including computational simulation, statistical analysis, and artificial intelligence and machine learning.

John Rumrich

English

John Rumrich focuses on Shakespeare, Milton, early modern English literature, and detective fiction.

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