CRG Indian Ocean members

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Akhtar

Iqbal S. Akhtar

Florida International University, Florida Department of Religious Studies, Department of Politics and International Relations

Topics: Origins of the Khōjā peoples, Asian merchants and transnational caste networks between Zanzibar, Oman,and Bombay

Allen

Richard Allen

Framingham State University

Topics: European slave trading and abolitionism in the Indian Ocean world; social and economic history of the Mascarene Islands (Mauritius, Réunion); comparative slavery; indentured labour migration during the 19th and early 20th centuries

Alpers

Edward A. Alpers

Department of History, UCLA, Los Angeles

Topics: Slavery, slave trade and the diaspora of Africans in the Indian Ocean world.

Bertz

Ned Bertz

University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu

Topics: Diaspora, nationalism, Indian Ocean history, East Africa, and South Asia

Bezabeh

Samson A. Bezabeh

African Studies Centre Leiden

Topics: Migration in the western corner of the Indian Ocean

Borah

Abikal Borah

Department of History, University of Texas at Austin

http://www.liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/graduate/gradstudents/profile.php?id=a…
Topics: 19th and 20th Century Africa, Africa and the Indian Ocean Realm, History of Migration, History of Violence, South Africa

Bortolot

Alexander Bortolot

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Boyer-Rossol

Klara Boyer-Rossol

University Paris 7 Denis Diderot France

Brugioni

Elena Brugioni

Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem, Departamento de Teoria Literária, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP

Topics: Comparative African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, Indian Ocean Literatures

Cacee

Cacee Hoyer

Topics: History of Africa

Cannon

Brendon Cannon

Khalifa University, Institute of International and Civil Security, Abu Dhabi

Topics: Security in the Horn of Africa and East Africa, ports and dual-use infrastructure, external state influence in the Horn of Africa, the Indo-Pacific and Eastern Africa

Carter

Marina Carter

School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh

http://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/about-us/staff-profiles/profile…
Topics: Indian Ocean migration, slavery, indenture, history of the South West Indian Ocean islands

Cavallo

Giulia C. Cavallo

Anthropology, ICS, Institute of Social Science of the University of Lisbon

Topics: Southern Mozambique, healing practices of Zion churches in Maputo

Cavazos

Roger Cavazos

The Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, Berkeley

Topics: Military, strategy and campaigns, China and North Korea

Chachage

Chambi Chachage

Department of African and African American Studies - Harvard University

http://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/chambi-chachage
Topics: http://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/chambi-chachage

Crouzet

Guillemette Crouzet

Paris Sorbonne University

Topics: North Western Indian Ocean, Oman, Persian Gulf, British Empire, Imperialism, South Asia, trade and networks in the Indian Ocean, Slave trade in the Indian Ocean

de Jong

Marlotte de Jong

University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability

Topics: Human and environmental insecurity along Kenya's northern coast

De Silva Jayasuriya

Shihan de Silva...

Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Topics: Diaspora Studies, Cultural History, Historical Linguistics

Declich

Francesca Declich

DISCUI - University of Urbino 'Carlo Bo'

http://www.uniurb.it
Topics: Migration, refugees, muslim brotherhhods, Mozambique, Somalia

Desai

Gaurav Desai

Tulane University, New Orleans, Department of English and Program of African and African Diaspora Studies

Topics: Africa, India

Desplat

Patrick Desplat

University of Göttingen, Forum for Interdisciplinary Religious Studies/ Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/dr.+patrick+a.+desplat/564152.html
Regions and countries of specialization: East Africa, Ethiopia, Madagascar
Topics: Islam, Urban Anthropology, Sociality, Youth

Despres

Altaïr Despres

IMAF- Institut des mondes africains/ Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago

http://imaf.cnrs.fr/spip.php
Regions and countries of specialization: East Africa, Tanzania
Topics: Globalization, Intimacy, Gender, Sexuality, Migration, Tourism

Eagleton

Catherine Eagleton

British Library, London

Topics: Zanzibar and Mauritius, currencies and trade in the 19th and 20th centuries, Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean.

Englert

Birgit Englert

Department of African Studies, University of Vienna

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/persons/birgit-englert(b29989a6-cfac-418a-a…
Topics: popular culture, translocality, Comorian diaspora, mobilities, solidarity networks

Evers

Sandra Evers

VU University Amsterdam,Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences

Topics: Cultural transmission and social change

Fay

Franziska Fay

Institute of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

https://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/jun-prof-dr-franziska-fay/
Regions and countries of specialization: East Africa, Kenya, Tanzania
Topics: (Swahili-speaking) diaspora and belonging in Oman; contemporary feminist politics in Tanzania; child protection and punishment in Zanzibar political anthropology, feminist theory, linguistic anthropology, visual methodologies East Africa (Zanzibar, Tanzania, Kenya), Arabian Peninsula (Oman)

Fee

Sarah Fee

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Department of World Cultures

Topics: Island of Madagascar, dress and weaving traditions of the Indian Ocean, textile trades, cross-cultural appropriations of cloth, gender, ceremonial exchange, spinning and dye technologies

Ferrão

R. Benedito Ferrão

William and Mary

Topics: Literature of the Goan diaspora, focus on British East Africa, the Portuguese Empire and its connections with African slavery, Asian American Studies, Diaspora and transnationalism, Goan Studies, Indian Ocean World, Gender and Sexuality, Afro-Asian Connections, Literature, Portuguese Colonialism and Decolonizaton

Finch-Boyer

Héloïse Finch-Boyer

UK National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

Topics: French Empire in the Western Indian Ocean, history of race and creolisation in Reunionand slavery and indentured labour migration between East Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands

Gervase Clarence-Smith

William Gervase...

SOAS, University of London

https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff30773.php
Topics: 19th & 20th century trade in pearls, mother-of-pearl, donkeys, mules, and horses

Goni

Marian Nur Goni

EHESS, L’ecole des Haute Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Topics: Photography, collections

Goto

Manami Goto

Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Honorary research fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter

Topics: Gulf Studies (main areas of interest are dress, material culture, oral history, and the rituals of women in the Persian Gulf)

Gray

Sarah Gray

SOAS University of London

Gulema

Shimelis B. Gulema

Stony Brook University, New York Department of African Studies

Topics: Modern and contemporary Africa, the African Diaspora, urbanization, modernity/modernization, migration, national and transnational identities and ideologies, political economy, governance, development, and the politics of knowledge production

Gupta

Pamila Gupta

WiSER, University of the Witwatersrand

http://wiser.wits.ac.za/users/pamila-gupta

Hand

Felicity Hand

Departament de Filologia Anglesa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/ratnakara/
Topics: Indian Ocean literatures and cultures, South Asian diaspora, Indian cinema, Life Writing

Harre

Dominique Harre

Cfee (Centre Français des Etudes Ethiopiennes), Addis Ababa

Topics: Indians in Ethiopia & the Horn of Africa 19th and 20th centuries; Trade and material culture networks between India, Aden, and Ethiopia; Heritage and memory studies; Economic history of Ethiopia 19th and 20th centuries

Hundle

Anneeth Kaur Hundle

Makerere University, Kampala

Topics: Intellectual history, social theory, historical and political anthropology; global political economy, sovereignty and governance; the anthropology of security; urban politics and youth, citizenship and exclusion; diaspora, transnationalism and migration; race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality

Hussain

M. Azhar Hussain

ISG, Roskilde University, Roskilde

Topics: Research interests include developing countries, particularly Mozambique and other Sub--Saharan Africa countries. Also some interest in Denmark, European Union, and English speaking countries. Focus is usually on welfare distribution measurement, including poverty, inequality, deprivation, and consistent multidimensional welfare comparisons across countries and within countries (provinces, districts, etc.), poverty mapping. Presently also looking into tax-benefit incidence for Ghana.

Jeffery

Laura Jeffery

Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh

http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/social_anthropology/jeffery_laura
Regions and countries of specialization: Mauritius, Morocco, Seychelles
Topics: Anthropology of displacement, migration studies, environmental knowledge, conservation and development, connective infrastructure, political and legal anthropology, critical heritage studies, digital ethnography, islands of the Western Indian Ocean, especially Mauritius, Chagos, Rodrigues, Agalega, Seychelles, Maldives, and Reunion

Kaarsholm

Preben Kaarsholm

Department of Social Sciences and Business

https://ruc.dk/en/department-social-sciences-and-business
Regions and countries of specialization: East Africa, Southern Africa
Topics: Development and global studies, African studies, Indian Ocean studies

Kamuzora

Aurelia N. Kamuzora

Institute of Development Studies, Mzumbe University, Tanzania

Topics: Law and economics; women investment return in Zanzibar

Kapteijns

Lidwien Kapteijns

Wellesley College

http://www.wellesley.edu/history/faculty/kapteijns
Regions and countries of specialization: East Africa, Somalia, Sudan
Topics: In the context of Somalia: Islam, gender and women history, history of clan-based violence against civilians, popular culture, discourse analysis; source publications of Arabic and Somali texts; most recently especially the Islamic knowledge production of the small port city of Brava (on the Somali Benadir coast) in the 19th and 20th century

Karugia

John Njenga Karugia

AFRASO (Africa's Asian Options) and Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform Goethe Frankfurt University

http://www.afraso.org/en/users/johnnjengakarugia
Topics: Global Studies, African Studies, Memory Studies, Indian Ocean Studies, Asia-Africa

Kirby

James kirby

Durham University

Topics: The role of African and Global South actors in the evolution of international human rights law, norms, and institutions; history of human rights and decolonisation in Botswana from 1960 to 1980; The Gambia’s foreign policy on international human rights mechanisms in the 1970s, and Mauritius’ foundational role in the spread of national human rights institutions in the 1960s; history of human rights, contemporary African politics, and decolonisation.

Krijtenburg

Froukje Krijtenburg

VU University Amsterdam, Social and Cultural Anthropology

Topics: Large-scale land acquisitions, anthropological linguistics, discourse analysis and cultural semantics

Laheij

Christian Laheij

London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology

Topics: Dispute management in the setting of an Islamic revival in Nampula City in northern Mozambique

Lavery

Charne Lavery

University of Oxford, UK

Topics: Postcolonial literature and theory, critical theory, Indian Ocean studies, African and Indian literature, Wittgenstein, women's writing, modernism, colonial literature, spatial theory, philosophy of language, world literature, English language and literature, and Sigmund Freud

Leite

Pedro Pereira Leite

Centro for Social Sciences - Coimbra University

http://www.ces.uc.pt/investigadores/index.php?action=bio&id_investigador=677&id_…
Topics: Biographical Research, Heritage and Social Memory, Peace Studies and conflict Resolutions, Mozambique and Slave Trade

Lewis

Krishna Lewis

Harvard University, Cambridge; W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute; Hutchins Center for African and African American Research

Topics: African diaspora, Southasian diaspora, literary studies, gender studies

Longai

Sarah Longai

The British Museum, London Department of Learning, Volunteers and Audiences

Topics: Zanzibar in the colonial period, in particular material culture, photography and architecture. The development of museums around the Indian Ocean. The movement of material culture and architectural styles within the Indian Ocean during the British imperial period.

MacDonald

Andrew MacDonald

University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg; Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA)

Topics: South Africa, Mozambique, Chinese, Indian, Portuguese, Assyrian diasporas in southern Africa, Labour Migration, Ports, smugglers, c. 1850--1950

Machado

Pedro Machado

Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington

Topics: South Asian merchant networks, 18th & 19th century East and South East Africa; Material exchange, East Africa and South Asia; Consumer tastes, African and Indian, and broader western Indian Ocean; Slave trade in western Indian Ocean; Cloth exchange; Ivory trade

Maïlys

Maïlys Chauvin

LAM - Les Afriques dans le Monde, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux, France

Topics: East african coast cities, mobilities, identities, places, space, connections, diaspora

Maiyo

Josh K. Maiyo

Social and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, VU University Amsterdam

Topics: International discourses and local realities of large-scale land acquisitions in Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar and Uganda; politics of development

Massey

Simon Massey

Coventry University, African Studies Centre

Topics: Comoros/ Mayotte, Madagascar; International Security, peacekeeping, evolution of the concept of African self-policing and Western peacekeeping capacity enhancement initiatives in Africa; African Politics, democratisation process in Africa with particular reference to current developments in Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar and Comoros; Terrorism, border and territorial disputes in Africa, political/electoral process in Francophone and Lusophone Africa, extractive industries in Africa, human trafficking between Africa and Europe, British settlement migration and indigenous dispute management practice in Africa

Mathews

Nathaniel Mathews

Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

Topics: Africa, East Africa and the Indian Ocean; Omani Arab diaspora in the 20th century; Africa in the Indian Ocean

Mbogoni

Lawrence Mbogoni

William Paterson University of New Jersey, Wayne

Topics: Africa, East Africa, Zanzibar

McMahon

Elisabeth McMahon

Department of History, Tulane University

Topics: Slave trade, slavery, and emancipation of Africans in the western Indian ocean; family, gender, and women’s history; affect, emotion and violence

Miran

Jonathan Miran

Western Washington University Bellingham, WA., USA

Topics: History, societies and cultures in the Red Sea and western Indian Ocean regions Northeast African history in transregional and global perspectives Social history of Muslim Northeast Africa Islam and Muslim societies in Africa, with focus on Northeast Africa Port cities and towns in the western Indian Ocean area

Mirzai

Behnaz A. Mirzai

Brock University

Topics: African Diaspora and slavery in Iran and the Persian Gulf; history of modern Iran; comparative and cross-cultural studies, ethnicity, slavery, gender; social, economic and religious interactions in the Middle East

Mitchell

Laura J. Mitchell

University of California, Irvine, USA History Department

Topics: Development of colonial society at the Cape of Good Hope within the broader context of Dutch East India Company exchange networks

Mohr

Susanne Mohr

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim)

Topics: East Africa, Zanzibar, tourism, language choices, language use, language contact and multimodality

Mukherjee

Rila Mukherjee

Dept of History, University of Hyderabad, India

Topics: Trade, networks, ports in the Indian Ocean

Nativel

Didier Nativel

Department of History – CESSMA Laboratory – Paris Diderot University

http://www.cessma.univ-paris-diderot.fr/spip.php?article204
Topics: Urban and Cultural Studies, African Studies, Indian Ocean Studies

Nicolini

Beatrice Nicolini

Department of Political Sciences

http://docenti.unicatt.it/ita/beatrice_nicolini/
Topics: Western Indian Ocean Histiory slavery, slave trade route. East Africa and Gulf political and historical relations

Olsson

Hans Olsson

Omenya

Gordon Onyango ...

Department of Social Sciences, Pwani University, Kilifi, Kenya

Othman

Aïsha Othman

University Library Frankfurt, Specialized Information Service African Studies

https://www.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/afrika/sammlung.html
Topics: (Oral) iterature, poetry, music, Zanzibar, Comoros

Owiti

Joseph Obok Owiti

Pagnucco

Ronald Pagnucco

College of St. Benedict/ St. John's University St. Joseph, MN, Department of Peace Studies

Topics: Kenya, human rights, peacebuilding and intergroup tension reduction, social and political reconciliation, social movements, conflict resolution, religion, politics and peace, East Africa, especially Kenya, experiential learning, service learning

Paleker

Nisa Paleker

University of Pretoria, Department of Historical and Heritage Studies

Topics: The history of film for African audiences, colonial cinematic exchanges between East and Southern Africa and South and South-East Asia; history of Africa (pre-colonial, colonial and independent)

Pallaver

Karin Pallaver

University of Bologna, Department of History and Cultures

Topics: East African economic history, focus on 19th-early 20th century, precolonial and colonial currencies in East Africa, history of glass beads as currency in East Africa, colonial monetization of East Africa

Patel

Chandani Patel

Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago

Regions and countries of specialization: East Africa, Southern Africa, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda
Topics: Indian Ocean Literature, 20th and 21st century Anglophone and Lusophone literature, Mauritian literature, postcolonial literary studies

Pearson

Michael Pearson

niversity of New South Wales, Lennox Head

Topics: Swahili Coast, India, Indian Ocean

Pierre Ballarin

Marie Pierre Ba...

Institute of Research for Development (IRD)

http://www.ird.fr / http://urmis.unice.fr/
Topics: Slavery Studies, Heritage Studies, East Africa (Kenya) and Western Indian Ocean (Madagascar and islands)

Pombo

Pedro Manuel So...

Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Gandhinagar, India

http://www.hss.iitgn.ac.in
Topics: African studies, Indian studies, Indian ocean, narratives, senses of belonging, spatial studies, colonialism

Prestholdt

Jeremy Prestholdt

Department of History, University of California, San Diego

https://history.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/prestholdt.html
Topics: African history, Indian Ocean history, global history, Tanzania, Kenya, the Comoros, South Africa, consumer culture, politics

Raia

Annachiara Raia

African Studies Centre (ASCL) / Leiden University Center for the Arts in Society (LUCAS)

Topics: Swahili poetry, manuscript and print culture; literary networks and performative practices; endangered archives and digitization

Rajani

Shayan Rajani

Tufts University, Medford

Topics: Slave trade in the Indian Ocean, history, Islamic studies, South Asian studies, border studies and Pakistan

Ramhota

Pavitranand Ramhota

Topics: Mauritius

Ramos

Manuel João Ramos

Department of Anthropology, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon

http://iscte-iul.pt/en/departamentos/38/apresentacao.aspx
Regions and countries of specialization: Horn of Africa, Ethiopia
Topics: Ethiopian studies, heritage studies, symbolic anthropology, risk studies

Ramtohul

Ramola Ramtohul

Sociology and Gender Studies, Department of Social Studies, University of Mauritius

Topics: Gender; intersectionality and citizenship; higher education in Africa; gender and politics

Regnier

Denis Regnier

F.R.S.-FNRS & Université Libre de Bruxelles

https://sites.google.com/site/denisregnieranthropologist/
Topics: kinship, marriage, post-slavery, cognition, learning, education, naming systems, healing, funerary practices, ancestorhood, rural livelihoods, environment and local politics

Regourd

Anne Annick Regourd

ERC "Islam in the Horn of Africa", Faculty of Hummanites, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies University of Copenhagen (DK)

http://www.islhornafr.eu/index.html
Topics: Red Sea studies, Indian Ocean studies (Yemen, Ethiopia, Egyptian coast, India), Textual studies & Codicology, Paper trade

Robbins

Kenneth X. Robbins

Topics: African elites in India

Robinson

Morgan Robinson

Mississippi State Univeristy

Topics: Zanzibar, Tanzania, Swahili language

Roque

Ana Cristina Roque

Center of History (CH-U), School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon

Regions and countries of specialization: Mozambique
Topics: Precolonial History of Mozambique and the Indian Ocean

Rosario

Carmeliza Rosario

Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen

http://www.uib.no/en/antro
Topics: African studies (Mozambique, Zambezia), Women, Indian Ocean networks

Salvadore

Matteo Salvadore

Gulf University for Science and Technology, Hawalli Chair, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Topics: The encounter between westerners and non-westerners, ideas of otherness, race and difference with particular reference to the encounter between Africans and Europeans in the early-modern and modern era

Schindler

Melissa Schindler

State University of New York, Buffalo, English Department

Topics: African diaspora(s), African literatures and Lusophone literatures.Interest area includes African diaspora studies, Luso-‐Afro-‐Brazilian studies, Luso-‐African studies, African studies, African American studies, African American literature, English literature, English as a second language

Schürmann

Felix Schürmann

University of Erfurt, Forschungskolleg Transkulturelle Studien / Sammlung Perthes

https://www.uni-erfurt.de/forschungskolleg-transkulturelle-studien
Regions and countries of specialization: Subsaharan Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa, Great lakes, Horn of Africa, Angola, Cape Verde, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa), Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Uganda
Topics: Felix Schürmann is a historian specialising in modern Africa and its global entanglements, the maritime world, and early film. Since 2018 he is a project leader at the University of Erfurt for a research association that investigates how the cartography of the oceans facilitated globalisation during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Besides he is working on a monograph about the history of Rubondo Island (Tanzania), which has been transformed into Africa’s first conservation island during the postcolonial transition in the 1960s and 1970s. In is PhD thesis (Goethe University Frankfurt, 2014) he investigated encounters and relations between littoral societies on the east and west coasts of Africa and whaling crews from North America and Great Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Further research interests include the history of islands and processes of islanding in the global tropical belt and the significance of waterbodies in the modern history of Africa.

Sebiane

Maho Sebiane

Center for Research in Arts and Language EHESS/CNRS-CRAL, Paris Center for Research in Ethnomusicology LESC-CREM

http://cral.ehess.fr/index.php
Regions and countries of specialization: East Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, United Arab Emirates
Topics: Western Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, Sultanate of Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, History of Slavery in Arabia, African Diaspora, Anthropology of Music and Rituals, Cultural Circulation (Persian Gulf - East-Africa)

Simpson

Edward Simpson

SOAS, University of London, UK

Topics: History, religion, catastrophe and environment, focus on the regions of Kutch (also spelled Kachchh and Cutch) and Saurashtra, rural change in post-colonial India

Spence

Daniel Owen Spence

University of the Free State, Bloemfontein International Studies

Spies

Eva Spies

Department for the Study of Religion, University of Bayreuth

http://www.religion.uni-bayreuth.de/en/staff/Professoren/Spies-Eva/index.php
Topics: Study of religion, Madagascar, Religious Diversity, Religion and Development

Ssemwanga

Andrew Ssemwanga

Kigali Independent University

Topics: Institutional evaluation, business ethics and University Governance, corporate governance, financial management and accounting that relates to companies and organisations

Staudacher

Sandra Staudacher

University of Basel, Institute of Social Anthropology

Topics: Health, ageing, care, agency, gender, city, transnationalism, migration, Islam. Regional focus is East Africa (especially Zanzibar, Tanzania), Oman, Indian Ocean

Tchokothe

Rémi Tchokothe

University of Bayreuth, Germany

Topics: Comorian Literatures, Literature and Migration, Swahili Literature

Trentini

Daria Trentini

WiSER, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Department of Anthropology

Topics: Northern Mozambique, spirit possession, healing, anthropology of Islam, violence and memory

Ugur

Hatice Ugur

Leipzig University, History Department, African Studies

Topics: East Africa and Zanzibar Sultanate in the late 19th century under Ottoman sources, Ottoman sources for African History.

Usov

Vyacheslav Usov

Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Institute for African Studies

Topics: India-Africa relations and development of cooperation in the Indian Ocean, military-political cooperation aspects within the Indian Ocean Rim, India's African policy

Vahed

Goolam Vahed

University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban History, Society & Social Change Cluster

Topics: The making of Indian identities in South Africa, 1914-1949, the colonial encounter between Indians, Africans and whites in KwaZulu Natal, the transformations of Indian identities in South Africa, Islam and Muslims (particularly KwaZulu Natal), and the role of sport and culture (particularly cricket) in South African society

Verne

Julia Verne

Department of Geography, University of Bonn

https://www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/das-institut/personal/wissenschaftliches-pers…
Topics: Cultural Geography, Indian Ocean Studies, Digital Geographies

Vernet

Thomas Vernet

IMAF

http://imaf.cnrs.fr/spip.php
Regions and countries of specialization: Subsaharan Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
Topics: Pre-nineteenth century African history, Swahili World ca.1500-1820, East Africa and the Indian Ocean, medieval and early modern African history, Swahili Coast, Urbanism, Social history, coast-mainland connections, African Archaeology, Slavery, Slave trade.

Walker

Iain Walker

Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

http://www.mpg.de/153644/ethnologische_forschung
Regions and countries of specialization: Comoros, Kenya, Tanzania, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Topics: Anthropology of migration and diasporas, identities and belonging

Ward

Kerry Ward

History Department, Rice University

http://history.rice.edu/faculty/kerry-r-ward
Topics: South African history, Southeast Asian history, Indian Ocean studies, world history, comparative slavery

Wasserman

Herman Wasserman

Rhodes University, Grahamstown, School of Journalism and Media Studies

Topics: Global media, media flows and contraflows between the BRICS countries, with a specific focus on China’s involvement in the African media sphere

Zavaree

Sara Zavaree

PhD student at the Institute of African Studies and Egyptology at the University of Cologne

Topics: The spirit possession practice of zar among descendents of African in the Persian/Arabian Gulf.

Zondi

Siphamandla Zondi

University of Pretoria

Topics: Africa's international diplomacy, Africa's strategic partnerships in Asia and Latin America, Africa‐EU relations and South‐south cooperation