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MANSA Members MANSA Members Send all requests for updates to: Mark Worrell, SUNY Cortland, Department of Sociology and Anthropology [email protected] Updated: Nov. 29, 2010 ~A~ Akare John Aden Baxter Hall, Room 127 Wabash College Crawfordsville IN 47933 [email protected] Research Interests: Komo; Segu; history, Mali African Studies Association Rutgers University, Douglass Campus 132 George St. New Brunswick NJ 08901-1400 Http://www.africanstudies.org Noemie Arazi Chausee de Foret 287 B1190 Brussels, BELGIUM [email protected] Research Interests: Mali oral traditions, historical sources, ceramics, archaeology, ethnoarchaeology in relation to Ghana, Mali, Songhai Empire, Mali Mary Jo Arnoldi Smithsonian Institution 4600 Connecticut Ave., NW, #220 Washington DC 20008 [email protected] Research Interests: Visual and performing arts; public culture in Mali; museums, monuments, and popular visual representations; social organization; gender, Mali Laura Arntson 106 Walnut St., NW Washington DC 20012 [email protected] Research Interests: Music and verbal art; history, migration, and identity; relief and development program planning, monitoring, and evaluation; Sankaran Maninka, Guinea, Sierra Leone Catherine Ash Wayne State Univ. Dept of History 3094 Faculty/Administration Bldg. Detroit MI 48202 [email protected] Research Interests: labor; colonial history, Mali Ralph Austen U. Chicago, Comm. for African & Afr-Am St. 5828 South University Ave. Chicago IL 60637 [email protected] Research Interests: Political economy and cultural dimensions of European overseas expansion; the Atlantic Slave Trade in African and African- American memory and the historical development of African oral and written literature (focusing on the Mande region) ~B~ Issaka Bagayogo Direction Nationale des Industries, s/c Mme Bagayogo Mariam Sidibe BP 278 Bamako MALI Research Interests: Alpha Bah College of Charleston Dept. of History Charleston SC 29424 [email protected] Research Interests: African history, African diaspora; Islam in Africa , Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea Mamadou Sadialiou Bah Universit de Kankan B.P. 209 Kankan, GUINEA Maladho Siddy Balde Universit de Conakry Dpartement d'Histoire B.P. 1147 Conakry GUINEA [email protected] Research Interests: History of the Rio Pongo , Guinea Tom Bassett University of Illinois Dept. of Geography 220 Davenport Hall 607 South Matthews Ave. Urbana IL 61801 [email protected] Research Interests: Land rights; savanna environments; agrarian systems; Fulani pastoralism; history of cartography , Senegal, Guinea Wenda Bauchspies Society & Women's Studies Pennsylvania State University 101 Old Botany Building University Park PA 16802 [email protected] Research Interests: science, gender and culture in West Africa , Guinea Abdoulie Bayo P.M.B. 151 Banjul, THE GAMBIA Larry Becker Oregon State University Dept. of Geosciences 104 Wilkinson Hall Corvallis OR 97331- 5506 [email protected] Research Interests: Peasant agriculture; impact of natural resource policy reform; fieldwork experience in Mali and Cote d'Ivoire , Mali, Cote d'Ivoire Rogier Bedaux Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde Koningslaan 35 3583 GH Utrecht The Netherlands Research Interests: Marlies Bedeker Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, G.J. de Jonghweg 4-6, 3015 GG Rotterdam The Netherlands, email: [email protected] Research interests: urban development, citizenship, and community development Louise Bedichek Office of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Bureau of African Affairs, Dept of State Washington DC 20520 [email protected] Research Interests: Guinea Stephen Belcher Humphrey Fellows, Penn State 4781 Shavers Creek Rd. Petersburg PA 16669 [email protected] Research Interests: African epic and historical narratives; world mythology; literature; folklore Alice Bellagamba Univ of Milan-Bicocca, Human Sciences for education Via Legnano 4 10128 Torino ITALY [email protected] Research Interests: Gambian Fuladu colonial and post-colonial history; Fuladu historical narrations; particular interest in power and symbols Robert Bellinger Suffolk University History Department 8 Ashburton Place Boston MA 02108 [email protected] Research Interests: Senegalese history and culture; Malinke music and cultural traditions Ms. Amie Bensouda P.O. Box 907 Banjul, THE GAMBIA Sekou Berte University of Oregon Dept of Anthropology 1585 - 13th Avenue Eugene OR 97403-5209 [email protected] Research Interests: Ms. Fatou Bin Jobe c/o P.O. Box 907 Banjul THE GAMBIA Caroline Bledsoe Northwestern University Department of Anthropology 1810 Hinman St. Evanston IL 60208 Research Interests: Social organization, demography, Liberia, Sierra Leone, The Gambia Jeff Bodony 20342 Widme Road Poulsbo WA 98370 [email protected] Research Interests: music, jaliya & traditional stories & culture Louise Bourgault Northern Michigan University Dept. of CAPS 1401 Presque Isle Ave. Marquette MI 49855 [email protected] Research Interests: all aspects of Media in Africa; recent focus on HIV/AIDS pandemic, especially in Mande & Southern Africa & how popular arts, including the media, have been used in the struggle against HIV/AIDS Dinie Bouwman, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Gr.Kruisstraat 2/1, 9712 TS Groningen, The Netherlands Research Interests: Arabic, Islam in West Africa; Sociolinguistics; Education, and Language Policy [email protected] Manuel Braga Departamento de Historia Alameda de Universidade 1600-214 Lisboa PORTUGAL Research Interests: Saskia Brand BP E-825 Bamako, MALI [email protected] Anneke Breedveld Schubertlann 143 2324 CS Leiden The Netherlands Research Interests: Sarah Brett-Smith 287-A Nassau Street Princeton NJ 08540 [email protected] Research Interests: Bamana/Malinke sculpture and the rituals surrounding its manufacture; Dogon, Senufo, Bobo textiles esp. mudcloth, symbolism of traditional mud cloth; menstruation, childbirth, menopause, and fertility issues for women, Mali George Brooks Indiana University 1615 E. University St. Bloomington IN 47401- 5201 [email protected] Research Interests: Western Africa, with special interests in Guinea-Bissau, trade networks, climate patterns, Kru, and Luso-Africans, Guinea-Bissau, Senegambia Stephan Buehnen Bremer Stiftung fr Geschichte Parkallee 257 28213 Bremen GERMANY [email protected] Research Interests: History, social-cultural anthropology; precolonial Senegambia and Western Sudan, prehistorical Europe Stephen Bulman Newman College Genners Lane, Bartley Green Birmingham B32 3NT UNITED KINGDOM [email protected] Research Interests: Epic of Sunjata and related oral traditions; use of oral traditions for historical research; Kulikoro and traditions about Sumanguru (Sumaworo) Kante and Soso (Susu), Mali, Guinea ~C~ Bachir Camara Chef, Sect. Arts & Culture Dir. Pref. de la Jeunesse des Arts & Sports B.P. 141 Kindia GUINEA Research Interests: Brahima Camara Universit du Mali FLASH Departement d'Allemande B.P. 241 Bamako MALI [email protected] Research Interests: Mande hunters' literature; the work of Bala Jinba Diakite, the famous Malian hunters' bard, and Siramori Diabate, Mali Samou Camara, Instituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, Rome, ITALY Research Interests: Paleoanthropology and Prehistory. Scientific Director of the Italian Archaeological and Anthropological Research Mission in the Sankarani Valley (Municipality of Sere Moussa ani Samou di Siékorolé) in Mali. [email protected] Sekou Camara Lycee de Ibrahim Ly Banankabougou BPE 1069 Bamako MALI Research Interests: Seydou Camara Institut des Sciences Humaines BP 159 Bamako, MALI, Research Interests: Manding plateau, pre-colonial history, decentralization, oral traditions, Mali Tracey Carter 339 Palm Ave. Oakland CA 94610 [email protected] Research Interests: Female griots in the Gambia. Fieldwork in the Gambia and Maliplanned; interested in African diaspora retentions, particularly those issues relating to the power of speech Baba Ceesay National Council for Arts & Culture, PMB 151 Banjul, THE GAMBIA Saikou Ceesay P.O. Box 81 Banjul, THE GAMBIA, Research Interests: Eric Charry Music Department Wesleyan University Middletown CT 06459 [email protected] Larry Childs Timbuktu Heritage Institute c/o Cultural Survival 215 Prospect St. Cambridge MA 02138 [email protected] Research Interests: Conserve Timbuktu manuscripts in Mali, fostering sustainable development, Mali Maria Luisa Ciminelli, Via Pier Paolo Pasolini 51/F8, (1) 00135 Rome, ITALY, [email protected] Research Interests: Ethnopsychiatry; cognitive semantics; cultural translation; kinship; Bamana, Mali Oumar Cisse Institut des Sciences Humaines BP 159 Bamako, MALI Research Interests: Seydouba Cisse Archives Nationales BP 561 Conakry GUINEA [email protected] Research Interests: Annie Clment Univ. de Montreal 2670 Boul. Du Lac Brl Chertsey Quebec J0K 3K0 CANADA [email protected] Victoria Bomba Coifman U. Minnesota, Dept. of Afr Am & African St. 808 Soc. Sci. Bldg. 267- 19th Ave. S. Minneapolis MN 55455 [email protected] Research Interests: History - Rios Pongo & Nunes, Guinea Ibrahima Conde Librairie N'Ko BP 1119 Conakry GUINEA [email protected] Research Interests: Sociologist; Professor and specialist of Nko and of Soulemana Kante, member of the Nko Academy, Curator--Nko bookstore, Guinea David C. Conrad P.O. Box 72 Stinson Beach CA 94970 [email protected] Research Interests: History: early kingdoms of the savannah, oral tradition, influence of Islam, development of social structure,
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