KU AFRICANIST FACULTY

Index of biographies by last name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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Alassane Fall
Wolof Lecturer at KU since 2001
EDUCATION:
Certificate of International Humanitarian Law, International Institute of Humanitarian Law, Sanremo-Geneva, 2004
M.A., International Studies, University of Kansas, 2004
M.A., Political Science, Gaston Berger St. Louis, Senegal, 2000
B.A., Political Science, Gaston Berger St. Louis, Senegal, 1999
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
North-South Relationships: Co-operation between sub-Saharan Africa particularly francophone and North America: Canada and U.S.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
M.A thesis in International Studies: "Senegal between France and the United States of America: Foreign Policy, Cooperation and Conflict"
M.A. Thesis in Law & Political Science: "Co-operation between Senegal and North America: Canada and the United States of America"
Text Book "Road to Senegal: Wolof Language, Culture, and Everyday Life" (in progress)
COURSES TAUGHT AT KU:
All levels of Wolof
Black Leadership
Introduction to Africa
LANGUAGES:
Fluent in Wolof, French, English, basic knowledge of Spanish and Arabic
DISTINCTIONS:
Internships in Senegalese Foreign Ministry, 1998 and 2002
Member of West African Research Association (WARA)
Member of International Law Society, KU

Johannes J. Feddema
Associate Professor, Department of Geography; at KU since 1998
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Climatology, University of Delaware, 1990
M.S., Geography, University of Delaware, 1985
B.A., Biology and Geography, University of Delaware, 1982
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Hydroclimatology, Environmental Modeling, Spatial Statistics and GIS, Implications of global climate change for the future of the African water supply, Human-Environment Interactions.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Feddema, J.J., J. Shields, O. Taylor and D. Bennett (2004): Chapter 23: Simulating the development and migration of the monarch butterfly in Monarch Butterfly Biology and Conservation. Eds, K. Oberhauser and M. Solensky. Cornell University Press. Pp. 248.
Yu, F, K.P. Price, J. Ellis, and J.J. Feddema (2004). Monitoring the Interannual variations of the grassland boundaries bordering the Eastern edge of the Gobi desert in central Asia with time series NOAA/AVHRR data, International Journal of Remote Sensing,25(2), 327-346.
Slocum, T.A., D. Cliburn, J.J. Feddema, and J.R. Miller (2003). Evaluating the Usability of a Tool for Visualizing the Uncertainty of the Future Global Water balance. Cartography and Geography Information Science, 30(4), 299-317.
Park, S., J.J. Feddema, and S.L. Egbert. (2003). Impacts of hydrologic soil properties on drought detection with MODIS thermal data, Remote Sensing of Environment, 89(1): 53-62.
COURSES TAUGHT AT KU:
Environmental Conservation
Topics in Physical Geography: Climate and Climate Change
Microclimatology
Seminar in Geographic Information Systems
LANGUAGES:
Native knowledge of Dutch, fluent in English, conversational knowledge of French, and basic KiSwahili.
DISTINCTIONS:
Excellence in Undergraduate Advising Award, 2004
Teaching Excellence Award, from Center for Teaching Excellence at KU, 2004
Visiting Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, 1994, 2002
Student Paper Prize, Climate Specialty Group, AAG.
Raised in Rwanda and Kenya, graduate of St. Mary's High School, Nairobi, Kenya

David Frayer
Tenured Professor of Anthropology; at KU since 1975
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Michigan, 1976
M.A., Case Western Reserve University, 1971
B.A., Miami University, 1969
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Osteology, paleoanthropology
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
"Perspectives on Neanderthals as Ancestors. In Conceptual Issues in Modern Human Origins Research. Edited by G.A. Clark and C.M. Willermet. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. pp. 220 235. 1997.
"Troubled Times: Archaeological and Osteological Evidence for Violence in Past Populations." (D. Martin and D .W. Frayer, editors) Gordon and Breach. 1997.
"Fossil Evidence for the Origin of Speech Sounds" (with C. Nicolay). in The Origins of Music, N.L. Wallin, B.Merker, S.Brown (eds.), Cambridge: MIT press, pp.217-234 1999.
"Modern human ancestry at the peripheries: a test of the replacement theory" (with M.H. Wolpoff. J. Hawks, and K. Hunley). Science 291:293-97, 2001.
COURSES TAUGHT AT KU:
Hominid and Human Origins
Osteology
Primate Behavior
DISTINCTIONS:
Curator, "Neandertals in Kansas!." KU Museum of Anthropology (Dec 29 -Feb 12, 1999/2000)
Curator, "Early Us (and Them) in Africa." KU Museum of Anthropology (March 27-August 27, 2002)