Hanan H. Sabea
Anthropology
Sociology-Egyptology-Anthropology Department
The American University in Cairo
PO Box 74 New Cairo, Egypt
(w): +20-2-2-2615-1867
hsabea@aucegypt.edu
Education
Johns Hopkins University, 1989-2001
2001 Ph.D. Anthropology
1992 M.A. Anthropology
American University in Cairo, 1981-1987
1987 M.A. Anthropology-Sociology
1985 B.A. Anthropology
Professional Employment
2012- Associate Professor, Anthropology, American University in Cairo
2006-12 Assistant Professor, Anthropology, American University in Cairo
2000-06 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African and African-American Studies, University of Virginia
1996 Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Specializations
Ethnographic Area
Tanzania, East Africa; Southern Africa (Mozambique and South Africa); Egypt and North Africa
Subject Concentration
Cultural Anthropology; political economy, labor and plantations; migration; legal and political anthropology; colonialism and post-colonialism; history production and memory; history of anthropology of Africa; gender studies; political economy of knowledge production.
Languages
German (R,W,S), French (R)
Kiswahili (R,W,S), Arabic (R,W,S)
Research Experience
2022- 2023 Research on women’s killings in Egypt in public space
2023-2023 Research on women’s rights to custodianship (welaya) debate with special focus on the Welaya Haki’iy campaign
2008- 2022 Research on the meanings of crossing the seas among irregular Egyptian migrants to Europe and the regulatory schemes to halt labor migration across the Mediterranean and into Southern Europe (partially funded by Pilot Research Projects, Ford Foundation, Gender and Region Project).
2016-17 Oral history and women’s museum in collaboration with the Women and Memory Forum, DEDI, Women’s Museum in Denmark.
2011- 2013 Ethnographic research on “Imagining the Political and Young Women’s Political Participation in Egypt” with special focus on three sites: cultural centers and performative arts; universities and student movements; emerging NGOs and women’s movement in Egypt; project funded by the International Development Research Center (IDRC) Canada.
2007-2013 Comparative research on the constructions of gender categories in the Global South in relation to social science knowledge production processes and policy interventions, focusing on the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America; project funded by the Ford Foundation.
1993-96 Ethnographic fieldwork in Tanga region, Tanzania, on sisal plantations, laboring subjects and governmentality; project funded by the Social Science Research Center MacArthur Foundation Fellowship on Peace and Security in a Changing World and the Ford Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Middle East Research Competition (MERC).
1992-93 Ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in London, UK, on transnational corporations, the sisal industry and the hard fiber international market; project funded by the Social Science Research Center MacArthur Foundation Fellowship on Peace and Security in a Changing World and the Ford Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Middle East Research Competition (MERC).
Grants, Fellowships, And Awards
2020-2025 Country Coordinator, New generation of Social Science, Egypt. The Arab Council for Social Science.
2016-2017 Co-Researcher and Applicant, “Towards a Women’s Museum in the Arab World”; funded by Fund for Academic Cooperation and Exchange between Denmark and the Arab World (FACE) in collaboration with DEDI, Women’s Museum in Denmark, Women and Memory Forum, Institute for Gender and Women Studies, AUC; Total Amount: 1485144 KDD.
2015 Ford Foundation, International Educational Exchange Grant, to host South African Historian Noor Nieftagodien, May 2015. Amount $2500.
2011- 2013 Co-Principal Investigator (with Martina Rieker, Director of Institute of Gender and Women Studies, American University in Cairo) of the International Development Research Center (IDRC, Canada) Research Grant titled “Imagining the Political: Young Women’s Political Participation and the Crafting of the Political in Egypt,” Project # 106481-001; Total Amount of Grant: CAD$161,600.
2007-2013 Co-Principal Investigator (with Martina Rieker, Director of Institute of Gender and Women Studies, American University in Cairo) of the Ford Foundation Research Grant titled “Gender and Region” research project; Grant # 1075-1197; Total Amount of Grant: US$199,000.
2011 Co-Grantee (with Mark Westmoreland, Anthropology, American University in Cairo) of the South-South Exchange Programme of Research on the History of Development (SEPHIS) Workshop Grants to hold a training workshop on “Visual Methodologies: Beyond the Written and Towards the Sensory” Cairo, Egypt, April 14-24, 2011; Project # 2849-DCO-0013857/res/sephis/visual methodologies workshop; Total Amount of Grant: US$50,000.
2011 Co-Grantee (with Martina Rieker, Director of the Institute of Gender and Women Studies, American University in Cairo) of the South-South Exchange Programme of Research on the History of Development (SEPHIS) Workshop Grants to hold a workshop on “The Neoliberalizing Academe and the Field of Gender and Women Studies in the Middle East and North Africa: a Comparative Dialogue with the South Asian and South African Contexts” Cairo, Egypt, April 28-30, 2011; Project # 2849-DCO-0013857/sephis/res/women and gender ME workshop; Total Amount of Grant: Euro €20,000.
2011 Co-Grantee (with Fernanda Beigel, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina) of the South-South Exchange Programme of Research on the History of Development (SEPHIS) Publication Grant to publish and translate a bi-lingual (Spanish and English) book on Academic Dependency: The Challenge of Constructing Autonomous Social Sciences in the South. Project # 2849-DCO-0013857/ res/ sephis/ 2011/ Academic Dependency Publication; Total Amount of Grant: Euro € 10,000.
2011 American University in Cairo, Conference Travel Grant (to attend the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Montreal, Canada, November 16-20, 2011).
2010 Co-Grantee (with Martina Rieker, Director of Institute of Gender and Women Studies, American University in Cairo) of International Development Research Center (IDRC, Canada) to hold “Young Women’s Political Participation” international workshop, Cairo, Egypt, Sept 20-23, 2010; Grant # 105890-003; Total Amount of Grant: US$40,204.
2005-06 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Individual Research Grant Award.
2003 Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Maryland, the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora (Declined).
1992-94 Social Science Research Center MacArthur Foundation Fellowship on Peace and Security in a Changing World (PhD Dissertation Research in Tanzania and UK).
1992-95 Ford Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation, Middle East Research Competition (MERC) Award (PhD Dissertation Research in Tanzania and UK).
PUBLICATIONS
2023 “Flashes of Revolutionary Times: The University as Meshwork of Revolutionary Hope, Despair and Endurance” In Affective Dynamics of Mass Protests. Cilja Harder and Bilgin Ayata (eds.). Routledge. Pp. 202-215.
2023 “New Generation of Social Scientists and Knowledge Production: Perspectives and Experiences” Forthcoming book chapter in Arab Council for Social Science, Beirut, Lebanon. (in Arabic).
2023 “Landscapes of Power: Sisal Plantations in Deutsch OstAfrika” In Deutsch-koloniale Baukulturen. Eine globale Architekturgeschichte in 100 visuellen Primärquellen. TU München/Architekturgeschichte Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte München.
2018 Hoda ElSadda and Hanan Sabea, Eds. Oral History in Times of Change: Gender, Documentation and the Making of Archives. Cairo Papers in Social Science. American University in Cairo. 35/1.
2017 Exhibition “Doing Well, Don’t Worry! Short Tales of Women, Work, Mobility” in collaboration with Danish Egyptian Dialogue, Women and Memory Forum, and the Women’s Museum in Aarhaus, Denmark. January 2017, Beirut, Lebanon.
2016 Exhibition “Doing Well, Don’t Worry! Short Tales of Women, Work, Mobility” in collaboration with Danish Egyptian Dialogue, Women and Memory Forum, and the Women’s Museum in Aarhaus, Denmark. May 2016, Cairo.
2015 Fernanda Beigel and Hanan Sabea, Eds. Academic Dependency and the Professionalization of the South: Perspectives from the Periphery, a Spanish-English Volume published by University of Cuyo (Argentina) and Latin American Council for Social Science (CLACSO).
2014 “Still Waiting: Labor, Revolution and the Struggle for Social Justice in Egypt” International Journal of Working Class History. 86: 1-5.
2014 “I Dreamed of Being a People: Egypt’s Revolution, the People and Critical Imagination” in Beyond the Arab Spring: the Political Aesthetics of Global Protest. . Pnina Webner, Martin Webb and Kathryn Spellman-Poots (eds). Edinburgh University Press. Pp. 67-92.
2014 “Pioneers of Empire? The Making of Sisal Plantations in German East Africa, 1890-1917” In German Colonialism Revisited: African, Asian and Oceanic Experiences, Nina Berman, Klaus Mühlhahn, Patrice Nganang, eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Pp. 114-129.
2012 A “Time out of Time”: Tahrir, The Political and the Imaginary in the Content of the January 25th Revolution in Egypt” Cultural Anthropology Hot Spots Special Forum Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt. Julia Elyachar and Jessica Weniger (eds). 27, 2012.
2012 Hanan Sabea and Mark Westmoreland, Eds. Visual Productions of Knowledge: Toward a Different Middle East. Cairo Papers in Social Science, American University in Cairo Press.
2012 Hanan Sabea and Mark Westmoreland. 2012. “Beyond the Written: Visual Productions and Sensory Knowledge” In Visual Productions of Knowledge: Toward a Different Middle East. Cairo Papers in Social Science, American University in Cairo Press. Pp. 1-10.
2012 Iman Hamdy, Malak Rouchdy, Reem Saad and Hanan Sabea, Eds. How to Read the Arab World? Alternative Perspectives from the Social Sciences. (Cairo: Al-Ain).
2012 Iman Hamdy, Malak Rouchdy, Reem Saad and Hanan Sabea. 2012. “Introduction.” In How to Read the Arab World? Alternative Perspectives from the Social Sciences. (Cairo: Al-Ain). Pp. 1-7.
2011 “Experimenting with Possibilities: The Visual, the Sensory and the Affective…” Introduction as Guest Editor of Special Issue “Visual Methodologies: Beyond the Written and Toward the Sensory” Global South, Vol. (4), October 2011.
2010 “Codifying Manamba: History, Knowledge Production, and Sisal Plantation Workers in Tanzania” Special Issue: Imperial Plantations Past and Present, Guest Editors: Piya Chatterjee, Monisha Das Gupta and Richard Cullen Rath, Journal of Historical Sociology 23(1): 590-616.
2009 “The Limits of Law in the Mandated Territories: Becoming Manamba and the Struggles of Sisal Plantation Workers in Tanganyika” African Studies 68(1): 135-161.
2008 “Transnational What? Encounters and Reflections on Questions of Methodology” Feminist Africa 11: 13-28.
2008 “Mastering the Landscape? Sisal Plantations, Land and Labor in Tanga Region, 1893-1980s” International Journal of African Historical Studies 41(3): 411-432.
2007 “Plantation Labour in Africa” In New Encyclopedia of Africa, John Middleton and Joseph Miller (eds.). Gale Thompson.
2001 “Reviving the Dead: Entangled Histories in the Privatization of the Sisal Industry in Tanzania” Africa 71(2): 286-313.
2004 Review of The Struggle for Meaning: Reflections on Philosophy, Culture and Democracy in Africa, by Paulin Hountondji. Africa Today 51(1): 126-129.
Forthcoming
“The Spectacle of Killings: Gendered Bodies and Normalized Violence” in Tunisian Review of Political Science.
“While Waiting for the Alternative to Arrive: Hope, Despair and the Remains of the Everyday” (forthcoming in edited collection on transitional justice).
“Crossing the Sea: Discourses of Legality, Morality and Citizenship among Egyptian Migrants to Europe”.
Present Pasts: Colonial Power and Laboring Subjects on Sisal Plantation in Tanzania. (University of Ohio Press expressed interest to publish).
CONFERENCES and Panels Organized
2023 Co-Organizing the Cairo Papers in Social Science and CEDEJ workshop “Animals and Humans in Contemporary Egyptian Cities” October 2023, AUC.
2023 Organizing the Logic of Academic Writing Workshop, Cairo Papers in Social Science, May 2023, AUC.
2023 Organizing the Arabic Academic Writing Workshop, Cairo Papers in Social Science, February 2023, AUC.
2022 Organizing the “Landmarks in the Anthropology of Egypt: Essays in Honor of Nicholas Hopkins” April 1st, 2022, AUC.
2019-21Co-Organizer of IGWS workshops on Methodologies, Gender and the Social Sciences on the theme of “Ethnography, Precarity and the Everyday”, AUC.
2017 Co-Organizer, City Affect Series, IGWS HUSSLab, Mellon Foundation, funded monthly workshops.
2012 Co-Organizer of the SEPHIS-CROP-AARC International Conference on “The Political Economy of Poverty and Social Transformation in the Global South,” Cairo, Egypt, December 9-12, 2012.
- Co-Organizer of the Ford Foundation Final Workshop of the Gender and Region Project, “Knowledge, Comparability, and Political Engagement” Cairo, Egypt, October 2012.
2011 Co-Organizer (with Martina Rieker, Institute for Gender and Women Studies, American University in Cairo) of the South-South Exchange Programme of Research on the History of Development (SEPHIS) Workshop “The Neoliberalizing Academe and the Field of Gender and Women Studies in the Middle East and North Africa: a Comparative Dialogue with the South Asian and South African Contexts” Cairo, Egypt, April 28-30, 2011.
2011 Co-Organizer (with Mark Westmoreland, Anthropology, American University in Cairo) of the South-South Exchange Programme of Research on the History of Development (SEPHIS) Workshop “Visual Methodologies: Beyond the Written and Towards the Sensory” Cairo, Egypt, April 14-24, 2011.
2010 Co-Organizer (with Mark Westmoreland, Anthropology, American University in Cairo) of the Nineteenth Annual Cairo Papers in Social Science Symposium on “Sights of Knowledge: Debates about Visual Production in the Middle East,” Cairo, Egypt, April 10, 2010.
2010 Co-Organizer (with Martina Rieker, Director, Institute of Gender and Women Studies, American University in Cairo) of “Young Women’s Political Participation” International workshop, Cairo, Egypt, Sept 20-23, 2010.
2009 Co-Organizer of Third International Workshop of the Gender and Region Project, November 11-14, 2009, Mexico City, Mexico.
2008 Co-Organizer of Second International Workshop of the Gender and Region Project, April 24-25, 2008, Cape Town, South Africa.
2008 Co-Organizer of First International Workshop of the Gender and Region Project, Feb 14-15, 2008, Cairo, Egypt.
Select Paper Presentationsand Conferneces
2023 “El-Welya Haki’iy: Gender, Law and the Question of Custodianship” Paper presented at the Feminist Africa Annual Conference, Re-strategizing African Feminist Activism for the New Normal, Kampala, May 29-June1st, 2023.
2023 Invited Panelist on ACSS organized Roundtable Safeguarding Knowledge in Times of Polycrises, Arab Council for Social Science Conference, May 2023, Beirut, Lebanon.
2022 “Possibilities in Permanent Crises: Collaborative Translations as Nodes in Knowledge Production” Paper presented at an invited panel organized by the Arab Council for Social Science and MESA on Collaboration, Criticality and Crisis: Producing Knowledge in and on the Arab Region, MESA, Denver, November 2022.
2019 “Nodes of Knowledge: Possibilities in and Beyond the University” Paper presented at the ECAS 2019 Annual Conference, Edinburgh, June 11-14, 2019.
2018 “Anthropology of Science,” Keynote Address (with Martina Rieker) at the STEM UCDAR workshop, UC Davis, March 9-11, UC Davis.
2016 “While Waiting for the Alternative to Arrive: Hope, Despair and the Remains of the Everyday” Keynote at the Transitional Justice Workshop, Kwakbi Center and York University, Tunis, September 17-22, 2016.
2015 “Savages of New Era? African Irregular Migrants and the Theater of Violence in the Mediterranean. Paper Presented at the African Mobilities International Conference, Point Sud, Dakar, Senegal, April 10-12, 2015.
2014 Panelist on the “Towards A General Labor History of Africa: an ILO Project” University of Urbino, Italy, August 25-29, 2014.
2014 “Agricultural Labor” Paper presented at the First Authors Conference, Global Labor History of Africa Volume II, Addis Ababa, Dec 10-13, 2014.
2014 Global Scholar at the University of Miami, Ohio. This included serving as a panelist on the opening session of the Freedom Summer International Conference, delivering a paper at the conference on Global Resistance Movements, and offering 7 lectures at the various classes and seminars.
2014 “Discourses of Free Flow, Practices of Containment: The Unbound Laboring Body and Migration in Tanzania and Egypt” Paper presented at the European Social Science History Annual Conference, Vienna, April 23-26, 2014.
- “Genealogies of Agricultural Labor in Africa” Paper presented at the First Authors Conference, Global Labor History of Africa, Addis Ababa, ILO, December 11-12, 2013.
2013 “Savages of the New Era? African Irregular Migrants and the Theater of Violence in the Mediterranean.” Paper presented at the 56th Annual African Studies Association Conference, as part of the “Mobility and Authority: Illicit Mobility and Subverting Authority” Panel. Baltimore, US, November 21-24, 2013.
2013 “I Dreamed of Being a People: Egypt’s Revolution, the People, and Critical Imagination” Paper presented at the Wenner Gren Workshop “Beyond the Arab Spring: The Politics of Aesthetics of Protest and Popular Revolt,” Aga Khan University, London, March 14-17, 2013.
2011 “A Time out of Time: Tahrir, The Political and the Imaginary in the Context of the January 25th Revolution in Egypt” Paper at Invited Session “Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa: An Anthropological Perspective” American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Montreal, Canada, November 16-20, 2011.
2011 “Disciplined by the State, Market and Science: The Question of Social Sciences and Humanities” Invited Paper at the FLACSO Workshop “The Contribution of Higher Education to Socioeconomic and Political Development in the Global South. Lessons from the Past for Present and Future Challenges.” Mexico City, Mexico, Sept 6-7, 2011.
2011 “Savages of the New Era? Irregular Migration and the Making of Social Order, the Case of Egypt” Paper at the Fourth European Conference on African Studies – ECAS 4, Uppsala, Sweden, June 15-18, 2011.
2011 “Genealogies of Revolution: Egypt and January 25th” Paper at the “Revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East: Perspectives from the Global South” Workshop, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands, June 24, 2011.
2011 “Legality and Illegality: Disposable Bodies and Irregular Migrants to Europe” Paper presented at the “Spaces in Movement: New Perspectives on Migrations in African Settings” International Workshop, Point Sud, Center for Research on Local Knowledge, Bamako, Mali, January 20-23, 2011.
2010 “Disciplining the Social Sciences: Questions of Value and Conversions” Keynote Speaker at the “The Challenge of Constructing Autonomous Social Sciences in the South” Keynote Address at the Academic Dependency Workshop II, Mendoza, Argentina, November 3-6, 2010.
2010 Invited Paper “Café Riche: Documentation of Downtown Cultural and Intellectual History” at the Redevelopment Visions of Downtown Cairo: Market, Institutions and Spatial / Urban Politics, Cairo Seminars Series II, December 10-11, 2010, Cairo University, organized by the Center for Political Research and Studies, Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences, Cairo University in collaboration with Egyptian Earth Construction Association and Almasry Alyoum, English Edition under the sponsorship of Konrad-Adenauer Foundation.
2010 “Crossing the Sea: Discourses of Legality, Morality and Citizenship among Egyptian Migrants to Europe” Paper presented at the “Legality and Illegality: Discourse and Practice in Regulation of Migration” Panel of the Eighth European Social Science History Conference, Ghent, Belgium, April 13-16, 2010.
2010 Invited Lecturer at the Women and Memory Forum Ford Foundation funded Workshop on “Feminism and Feminist Methodologies,” Women and Memory Forum, Cairo, February 9, 2010.
2010 Invited Lecturer on “The Present in History” at the “Social Movements in Egypt” Workshop, American University in Cairo, January 10, 2010.
2009 “Genealogies of Labor and Violence: Gender Studies in Africa” Paper presented at the Third International Workshop of the Gender and Region Project, Mexico City, Mexico, November 11-14, 2009.
2009 Invited Lecturer at SEPHIS sponsored workshop on “Alternative Methodologies: Oral history and the Archives,” SEASRUP, University of Philippine, Manila, Philippine, October 19-27, 2009.
2008 “Pioneers of Empire? The Making of Sisal Plantations in German East Africa, 1890-1917” Paper presented at a double-panel on “African and Asian Responses to German Colonialism I: Resistance in East Africa” at the German Studies Association Annual Meetings, St. Paul, October 2008.
2008 “The Limits of Law in The Mandated Territories: Becoming Manamba and the Struggles of Sisal Plantation Workers in Tanganyika” Paper presented at the “Labour Crossings: Work, World and History” International Conference organized by The History Workshop, University of Witwatersrand and the Centre for Sociological Research, University of Johannesburg, September 2008.
2008 “Economies of Presence, Politics of Absence: The Gendering of Sisal Plantation Labor in Tanzania” Paper presented at the Second International Workshop on Gender and Region, April 2008, Cape Town, South Africa.
2008 Invited Lecturer at the Ford Foundation funded workshop on “Alternative Methodologies in Social Science” Cairo University, January 2, 2008.
Memberships in Professional Associations and Institutes
American Anthropological Association
American Ethnological Society
Association for Africanist Anthropology
African Studies Association
Tanzania Studies Association
March 9th Academic Freedom Association
Women and Memory Forum
Appointments to Regional and International Entities
2022- Associate Editor of Feminist Africa.
2021- Member of the Editorial Board of Cultural Anthropology.
2019-2021 Member of the Editorial Board of the Political and Legal Anthropology Journal.
2014-2015 Mentor, Arab Council for Social Science, New Paradigm Factory Program.
2013-2016 Member of the Scientific Committee of the Global Labor History of Africa Project, ILO, Africa Office and International Social History Institute, Amsterdam.
2009-2013 Member Representing the Middle East and North Africa on the International Steering Committee of SEPHIS, the South-South Exchange Programme in Research on the History of Development, Headquarters at the International Institute of Social History, The Netherlands.
University Service Activities
American University in Cairo
2023-24 Chair, SEA Department.
2023- Member of President Task force for Establishing a PhD program in Critical Social Science and humanities, AUC.
2023- Chair, Mona Abaza Award Committee.
2023 Member of the Nowaihi Award Committee.
2022 Member of the Tomorrow’s Leaders Selection Committee.
2022- Faculty Advisor of Anthropology, Sociology, Egyptology Student Association.
2022 Member of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Students Fellowship Committee.
2021- Editor-in-Chief of Cairo Papers in Social Science.
2021- 2022 Member and Chair of several cases of Misconduct Investigation Committees.
2021-2022 Provost Advisory Committee for Student Appeals.
2020-2023 Sociology-Anthropology Graduate Program Advisor.
2019- Member of Third year ad hoc Review Committees and Promotion and Tenure Review committees in HUSS.
2017-19 Anthropology Unit Head.
2017-19 Member, AUC Senate and Chair of Academic Affairs Committee, and Member of the Senate Executive Committee.
2016-17 Member, Accreditation Committee, AUC.
2014-16 SAPE Department Chair.
2015 Chair, Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science Review Committee.
2015-23 Committee Member, The January 25th Award Thesis Selection Committee.
2014 Committee Member of University Teaching Excellence Award Selection.
2012-13 University Ombuds.
2011 Member of Arab Women Fellowship Selection Committee.
2008-10 Anthropology Unit Head, Sociology-Anthropology-Psychology-Egyptology Department, the American University in Cairo.
2007-09 Provost Nominee to serve on the Zewail Award Committee.
2007- 09 Member of Editorial Board, Surfacing, Graduate Student Journal to debate Gender Studies in the Global South, American University in Cairo.
2007-09 Coordinator of the American University in Cairo Salon Afrique.
2007- 09 Member of the African Fellows Selection Committee.
2006 – Member of the Research and Graduate Advisory Committee of the Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies, American University in Cairo.
2006 – Member of the Editorial Board, Cairo Papers in Social Science, American University in Cairo.
2006 Member of the Provost Task Force Assessing International Education at the American University in Cairo.
University of Virginia
2005 Participant in the University of Virginia and Southern African Universities, Community Health Assessment.
2005 Member, Global Health Curriculum Development Program funded by the National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center.
2001-05 Member, Carter G. Woodson Institute Pre-Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Residential Fellowship Selection Committee.
2001-05 Member, Arts and Sciences Minority Recruitment and Retention Committee.
2002-05 Member, Roots, NEH-Summer Seminar Selection Committee, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
2004 Member, Anthropology Department Strategic Planning Committee.
2004 Member, Modern West Africa History Search Committee, Department of History and the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African and African-American Studies.
2002 Member, Carter G. Woodson Institute Ford Foundation Gant Advisory Board Review and Evaluation.
