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Board of Directors

Executive Committee


Sylvia Macauley
California State University at Northridge (Board President)

Sylvia Macauley is Professor of History and former Chair of the Africana Studies department at California State University at Northridge (CSUN).

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Cinder Cooper Barnes
Montgomery College (Board Vice President)

Cinder Cooper Barnes is presently a full-time faculty member in the English department at Montgomery College, where she designs and integrates decolonized curricula and pedagogical strategies into course material and serves as the director of the Global Humanities Institute. As part of her professional responsibilities, she serves as the college’s Fulbright Scholars liaison, writes proposals and grants; introduces and develops various programs promoting internationalization of the curriculum for faculty.

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Rita Kiki Edozie
University of Massachusetts – Boston (Board Secretary)

Professor of Global Governance, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance, and Associate Dean, McCormack Graduate School

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Ignatius G.D Suglo
University of Richmond (Director)

Ignatius G.D. Suglo is a media and cultural historian and a scholar of global media. His research engages with the African presence in Chinese media from the 19th century to the present and their role in knowledge production, circulation, and worldmaking. He is currently an assistant professor of Rhetoric & Communication studies at the University of Richmond. Prior to joining Richmond, Ignatius was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong, M.A. from Beijing Language and Culture University, and B.A. from the University of Ghana. His writing has appeared in Media, Culture & Society, Journal of Asian and African Studies, and Verge: Studies in Global Asias among others.

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Directors

Bright Gyamfi
University of California

Bright Gyamfi is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, and a former Presidential Fellow at Northwestern University.

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Brad Hounkpati
University of Georgia 

Brad Hounkpati, a Fulbright Scholar, is an entomologist specialized on West African Ladybeetles. He holds a PhD in Entomology, from the University of Georgia. He served as an Agricultural Engineer at Nouvelle Société Cotonnière du Togo (West Africa). Prior to his Fulbright experience, he was previously Assistant Technical Coordinator for the program of Natural Resource Management at U.S. Peace Corps in Togo. 

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Hillary Hungerford
Utah Valley University 

Hilary Hungerford is an associate professor of Earth Science at Utah Valley University, a dual-mission institution with both community college and university components. 

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Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué
University of Wisconsin- Madison

Jacquelin-Bethel Mougoué an Associate Professor of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the USA, with affiliations in the Department of History and the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies. She holds a doctorate in African History from Purdue University, a Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Purdue University, and a Certificate in Oral History from the University of California, Berkeley, California.

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Emilie Diouf
Brandeis University

Emilie Diouf is an Assistant Professor of English, African American and African Studies, Women and Gender Studies at Brandeis University.

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Jude Fokwang
Regis University 

Jude T. Fokwang is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Development Practice at Regis University, Denver, USA since 2013. He holds a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Toronto (2007) and has held previous teaching positions at the University of Cape Town & Rhodes University in South Africa, Trent University and the University of Toronto in Canada.

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Roger Orock
Lafeyette College

TBD

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S.N. Nyeck
University of Colorado – Boulder 

S.N. Nyeck is one of the founders of queer studies in Africa. She helped create and led the first pan-African Network of scholars doing queer research in Africa (2007-2011).

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Wunpini Mohammed
Cornell University

Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed (PhD, The Pennsylvania State University) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University.

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Ismael Montana
Northern Illinois University (Past President)

Since 2007, Ismael Montana has been closely involved with WARA’s various research and resource environment.

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