Centre of African Studies

Will be appointed in 2012

Adam Higazi
King's College Cambridge and the Centre of African Studies would like to announce the appointment of Mr Adam Higazi to a Junior Research Fellowship in African Studies. The appointment is from 1 October 2010 for four years. Adam Higazi specialises on northern Nigerian history, politics and ethnography. He is completing a DPhil at Oxford (St Antony's College and the Oxford Department of International Development) on collective violence in Plateau State, based on fieldwork in the city of Jos and in rural areas of north-central Nigeria. The line of research, which will be taken further and deeper at Cambridge, spans contemporary Nigerian politics and society; the political and social history of northern Nigeria (especially the middle belt); and ethnic and religious movements, assertion and militancy. It also includes the study of agrarian issues in northern Nigeria, especially Fulani pastoralism, farmer-pastoralist relations, and the environment. Previously read social anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London (MA, 2001); taught classes/tutorials in history and politics, qualitative research methods, and an ethnographic course on West Africa, at Oxford and SOAS. Key publications to date are in the journals 'Africa' and 'Politique africaine'. He has also written on issues of development policy - on 'policy levers' and conflict prevention in Ghana; on informal migrant remittances between the UK and Ghana; and on EU development and migration policies.

Dr Ruth Prince
From October to December 2010, Ruth Prince was working on a Wellcome Trust-funded collaborative pilot project on "Producing Public Health in the African City: A study of Street Level Health Workers", together with anthropologists and historians at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Ruth Prince was appointed as the Mellon Teaching fellow from the first of January 2011
Research Interests: history and ethnography of medicine, health and healing; memory and material culture; politics of knowledge; the anthropology of the state and development in Africa; public health and the African city; postcolonial studies of science; African Christianities and public culture; African ethnography with a focus on East Africa.
Affiliations: Research Associate, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge;
Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Research group in Law, Organization, Science and Technology
http://www.eth.mpg.de/cms/en/research/mpfg01/bio-africa.html;
Anthropologies of African Biosciences group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine http://aab.lshtm.ac.uk/?q=node/3 ...
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