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Faculty

Faculty in the African Studies minor at NYU Abu Dhabi come from all over the world with a wide range of teaching and research interests. You will find biographies, course listings, research and publications, and contact information on each faculty member's individual profile.

  • Awam Amkpa, Dean of Arts and Humanities; Professor of Drama, Social and Cultural Analysis; Affiliation: NYU New York
    Email: aa67@nyu.edu
    Education: BA Obafemi Awolowo University (Ile-Ife); MA Ahmadu Bello University (Zaria); PhD Bristol University

    Research Interests: modernisms in film and theater, postcolonial film and theater, Black Atlantic films and theater, vis...

  • Samuel Mark Anderson, Lecturer Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: sma326@nyu.edu
    Education: BA University of Washington; MA New York University; PhD University of California Los Angeles

    Research Interests: visual ethnography; aesthetics; politics; performance; media; postcolonial theory; violence; war; hu...

  • Andrew J. Eisenberg, Associate Professor of Music; Global Network Associate Professor of Music Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: aje2000@nyu.edu
    Education: BMus New York University; MA, PhD Columbia University

    Research Interests: anthropology of music; anthropology of sound; African popular music; sound and space; ethnicity and ...

  • Morgan Hardy, Associate Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: morgan.hardy@nyu.edu
    Education: BA Columbia University; PhD Brown University

    Research Interests: Development economics; Firms; Labor markets; Social networks

  • Jonathan Andrew Harris, Associate Professor of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: jah26@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD in Government, Harvard University

    Research Interests: Institutions and political behavior in Africa

  • Martin Klimke, Vice Provost; Associate Professor of History; Global Network Associate Professor of History Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: klimke@nyu.edu
    Education: MA, PhD University of Heidelberg

    Research Interests: intersections of political and cultural, diplomatic, and transnational history, 20th century US-Euro...

  • Yaw Nyarko, Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU New York
    Email: yn1@nyu.edu
    Education: BA University of Ghana; MA and PhD Cornell University

    Research Interests: Human capital; Economic growth

  • Erin Pettigrew, History Program Head; Associate Professor of History and Arab Crossroads Studies; Global Network Associate Professor of History Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: erin.pettigrew@nyu.edu
    Education: BA Hollins University; MA University of California Los Angeles; PhD Stanford University

    Research Interests: 19th and 20th century West Africa, histories of Islam, race, and healing

  • Nathalie Peutz, Associate Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies and Anthropology; Network Associate Professor of Anthropology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: npeutz@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Princeton University

    Research Interests: forced migration and displacement; mobility and immobility; conservation and development; identity a...

  • Melina Platas, Associate Professor of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: mrp335@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Political Science, Stanford University; BA in Human Biology, Stanford University

    Research Interests: Comparative political and human development in sub-Saharan Africa

  • Peter Cornelis van der Windt, Program Head of Political Science; Associate Professor of Political Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: petervanderwindt@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Columbia University; MPhil(cum laude) Tilburg University

    Research Interests: Africa; Experiments; Governance; Displacement; Poverty