Africa: Faculty
RALPH A. AUSTEN Ph.D., Harvard University, 1966. Professor Emeritus of African History, Committee on the General Studies in the Humanities, International Relations, Jewish Studies, and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1967.
wwb3@uchicago.edu or 702-8344
SPECIAL INTERESTS: African economic history; comparative slavery and slave trade; colonialism and imperialism; African literature; witchcraft.
RACHEL JEAN-BAPTISTE Ph.D., Stanford University, 2005. Assistant Professor of African History and in the College. Teaching at Chicago in 2007.
rjeanbaptiste@uchicago.edu or 834-8767
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Francophone Africa; Central Africa; Gender and sexuality; Urbanization; Customary and modern law; Postcolonial theory.
EMILY LYNN OSBORN Ph.D. Stanford University, 2000. Assistant Professor of African History and the College. Teaching at Chicago in 2007.
eosborn1@uchicago.edu or 834-9019
SPECIAL INTERESTS: African History; Francophone Africa; Gender in Africa; Colonialism; Technology Transfer and Diffusion.
For a list of affiliated faculty, see the homepage for the Committee on African and African-American Studies.