Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Lynn Schler is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Government and the Head of the Inter-University Program in African Studies. Lynn’s research examines the intersections between African societies and cultures and western colonial and postcolonial interventions in Africa.
Research interests: Social and cultural history of Africa, colonialism and postcolonialism, nationalism in Africa, development, urban history
Contact: lynnsch@bgu.ac.il
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
In recent years, Ruth’s research has focused on African soldiers serving in the French army during the colonial period. Her current research deals with murder investigations in colonial Senegal from the end of the 19th century to the 1920s.
Research interests: French colonialism in Africa, African soldiers in the French Army
Contact: rginio@bgu.ac.il
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Since joining the Tamar Golan Africa Centre in March 2015, Anat has been working on finalizing a book manuscript on HIV treatment programs in Malawi, and publishing three additional articles on HIV and pediatric health care in Malawi and other low-resource environments. In addition, she is leading the new collaboration between Ben-Gurion University and Africa University in Zimbabwe.
Research interests: Social and cultural effects of epidemics and infectious diseases, healthcare delivery in resource-limited settings
Contact: anatros@bgu.ac.il
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
During the last academic year, Leonardo Cohen continued his research on the history of the Horn of Africa as well as on the history of the Society of Jesus. His new research seeks to deepen our knowledge of the development of Afro- Marxist currents of thought that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century.
Research interests: Ethiopia during the 16th-17th centuries, the missionary strategies of the Jesuits in Ethiopia
Contact: leocohen2000@gmail.com
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Guy’s current research focuses on translation and academic editing of four Portuguese ethnographic descriptions from the last decade of the eighteenth century. These texts describe the political structures and cosmological worldview of the various ethnic groups in the regions of southeastern Africa where the Portuguese presence was significant.
Research interests: Pre-Colonial history of South-East Africa, Portuguese colonialism in Africa
Contact: roufe@bgu.ac.il
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Ornit Avidar is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Politics and Government in the African Studies track at Ben-Gurion University. Her research aims to examine the reasons behind unsustainability of water-related projects in Africa. Her analysis will be via systems thinking theory and from the perspective of rural communities who are the recipients and beneficiaries of water projects.
Research interests: Water accessibility, development in Africa
Contact: ornit@water-ws.com
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
David’s current research focuses on the invention of a chair: “Tradition in Ethiopia: the Aksum Chair.” This research looks at the production of furniture in contemporary workshops in Addis Ababa and Aksum that have created a “new tradition” in Ethiopian chair design – the Aksum chair.
Research interests: Arts and design
Contact: dgoss@bgu.ac.il
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Prof. Chaim Hames took up the rector’s postion on August 1, 2018
He served as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev from 2016, until he was elected rector.
Prof. Hames received his PhD in Medieval History from Cambridge University in 1996, and since then has been a lecturer in the Department of General History at BGU. From 2011-2015, he was the department chair.
In 2013, he set up the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters as part of the I-CORE initiative (one of two Center’s funded in the Humanities and the only Center based in BGU).
His research interests include Medieval and Renaissance Jewish, Christian and Muslim mysticism and philosophy, apocalypticism, inter-religious polemics, conversion, Bible and Talmud translations and issues dealing with religious conversion.
מייל: hames@bgu.ac.il
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Yael’s research deals with the history of Africa in the field of international development and poverty, past, present and future. Her current research explores the following questions; how does international development work? Why does it fail or succeed? And particularly, how do Africans perceive development?
Research interests: African development philosophy, urban development in Africa
Contact: yaelabessira@gmail.com
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Anita Nudelman is an Applied Medical Anthropologist, with a vast experience in qualitative research and program development on issues related to sexual health and AIDS prevention in Israel and Africa.
Research interests: Applied Medical Anthropology
Contact: anitanudelman@hotmail.com
