RECENT DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS
compiled by
Joseph J. Lauer (Michigan State University)
The U.S. and Canadian theses listed were below reported in Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI), vol.
69, no. 12-vol. 70, no. 2 (June-August 2009). Each citation ends with the order number, if any. American
and Canadian theses are usually available from Proquest. See UMI Dissertation Publishing at
http://www.proquest.com/products_umi/dissertations/ for abstracts and other details.
This is the 83rd quarterly supplement to American and Canadian Doctoral Dissertations and Master's
Theses on Africa, 1974-1987 (1989). Print supplements in ASA News stopped as of July, 2009.
Agriculture
Gesimba, Robert Morwani. Screening Passiflora species for drought tolerance, compatibility with purple
passion fruit, fusarium wilt resistance and the relationship between irrigation, drenching and media
composition in the control of fusarium wilt [Kenya]. Ph.D., Ohio State U., 2008. 3338305.
Namubiru, Evelyn Lwanga. Coping with top-down institutional changes in forestry [Uganda]. Ph.D., Indiana
U., 2008. 3342198.
Obura, Pamela Achieng. Effect of soil properties on bioavailability of aluminum and phosphorus in selected
Kenyan and Brazilian acid soils. Ph.D., Purdue U., 2008. 3344101.
Persha, Lauren. Decentralized forest management, anthropogenic disturbance patterns and forest change
in the Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. Ph.D., Indiana U., 2008. 3337272.
Raik, Daniela Beth. Governance in community-based forest management: The case of Madagascar. Ph.D.,
Cornell U., 2008. 3339804.
Stephens, S. Sky. Biodiversity and exosystem function: The role of overstory tree diversity in Ghana, West
Africa. Ph.D., Northern Arizona U., 2008. 3343289.
Zhang, Huaping. Characterization of bioactive phytochemicals from the stem bark of African mahogany
Khaya senegalensis (Meliaceae). Ph.D., Clemson U., 2008. 3344280.
Anthropology
Burell, Andrew S. Phylogenetics and population genetics of central African baboons [Southern Africa].
Ph.D., New York U., 2009. 3342424.
Covington, Yolanda Denise. Embodied histories, danced religions, performed politics: Kongo cultural
performance and the production of history and authority. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2008. 3343039.
Denham, Aaron R. The spirit child phenomenon and the Nankani sociocultural world [Ghana]. Ph.D., U. of
Alberta (Can.), 2008. NR46305.
Dueppen, Stephen A. Reinventing equality: The archaeology of Kirikongo, Burkina Faso. Ph.D., U. of
Michigan, 2008. 3343054.
Dunsworth, Holly M. Proconsul heseloni feet from Rusinga Island, Kenya. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State U.,
2006. 3343677.
Edwards, Michelle LeAnne. A new Pan-Africanism: Diaspora African transnational entrepreneurs and
philanthropy between Ghana and Atlanta, USA. Ph.D., U. of Florida, 2008. 3347124.
French, Todd Jeffrey. "Like leaves fallen by wind": Resilience, remembrance, and the restoration of
landscapes in central Mozambique. Ph.D., Boston U., 2009. 3348597.
Glasser, Jonathan. Genealogies of al-Andalus: Music and patrimony in the modern Maghreb. Ph.D., U. of
Michigan, 2008. 3343071.
Grossman, Aryeh. Ecological and morphological diversity in catarrhine primates from the Miocene of Africa
[Kenya]. Ph.D., State U. of New York at Stony Brook, 2008. 3340104.
Halvorson, Britt E. Lutheran in two worlds: Remaking mission from Madagascar to the Midwest United
States. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2008. 3343081.
Hemmalin, Holly A. Reproductive success of migrant hamadryas baboons in anubis baboon groups
[Ethiopia]. Ph.D., New York U., 2009. 3342407.
Lamzah, Assia. The impact of the French protectorate on cultural heritage management in Morocco: The
case of Marrakesh. Ph.D., U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008. 3347431.
Landua-McCormack, Dawn. Dynasty XIII kingship in ancient Egypt: A study of political power and
administration through an investigation of the royal tombs of the late Middle Kingdom. Ph.D., U. of
Pennsylvania, 2008. 3346149.
Masters, Michael P. Modern variation and evolutionary change in the hominin eye orbit [South Africa].
Ph.D., The Ohio State U., 2009. 3340384.
Mathis, Sarah M. After apartheid: Chiefly authority and the politics of land, community and development.
Ph.D., Emory U., 2008. 3344477.
Mayor, Mireya Irene. A conservation genetics investigation of lemur diversity in Madagascar: Sifakas as a
case study. Ph.D., State U. of New York, 2008. 3340121.
McDermott, Melissa H. Culture and leadership in transition: Comparing perceptions of cultural values,
cultural practices, and leadership preferences across generations in Israel, South Africa, and the United
States. Ph.D., Regent U., 2008. 3340924.
Nikolov, Boris. Care of the poor and ecclesiastical government: An ethnography of the social services of the
Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo, Egypt. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins U., 2009. 3339958.
Schreir, Amy L. The influence of resource distribution on the social structure and travel patterns of wild
hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas) in Filoha, Awash National Park, Ethiopia. Ph.D., City U. of New
York, 2009. 3344999.
Smid, Karen E. How tomorrow precedes yesterday: Visions of time and locations of authority for Muslims in
the Fouta Djallon, Guinea. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2008. 3343215.
Biological Sciences
Alkema, Leontine. Uncertainty assessments of demographic estimates and projections [West Africa].
Ph.D., U. of Washington, 2008. 3345574.
Asowata, Charles Aiyudubie. Biothreat to peace-keeping forces in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ph.D., George
Mason U., 2009. 3346865.
Craft, Meggan E. Predicting disease dynamics in African lion populations [Tanzania]. Ph.D., U. of
Minnesota, 2008. 3338936.
Gross-Camp, Nicole D. Dispersion of large-seeded tree species by two forest primates: Primate seed
handling, microhabitat variability, and post-dispersal seed fate [Rwanda]. Ph.D., Antioch New England
Graduate Sch., 2009. 3345837.
Isaac, Marney Elizabeth. Ecological and social interactions in sustainable agroforestry management: Cocoa
in Ghana. Ph.D., U. of Toronto (Can.), 2008. NR44725.
Lisy, Matthew R. Systematics and bower-building behavior of the Tramitichromis Eccles and Trewavas
(Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the southeast arm of Lake Malawi, Africa. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State U., 2006.
3343698.
Otoidobiga, Lenli Claude. Biology and control strategies for whitefly (Bemisia tabaci Gennadius)
(Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) populations in Burkina Faso (West Africa). Ph.D., McGill U. (Can.), 2003.
DC52819.
Wieland, Michelle Lynn. Wildlife conservation in social, economic, and ecological contexts: Multiple
stakeholders and extraordinary resource value in a Congolese national park [Congo]. Ph.D., U. of
Minnesota, 2008. 3338989.
Business Administration
Ani, Victoria. Regulatory responses to the bank crisis in Nigeria: The role of transformational leadership and
stakeholder commitment. D.B.A., U. of Phoenix, 2008. 3345048.
Nnadi, Stanley E. The impact of globalization on the Nigerian economy. Ph.D., Walden U., 2008. 3336742.
Ogula, David Clyde Neintare. Stakeholder involvement in corporate social strategy: An ethnographic study
of the Niger Delta, Nigeria. D.M., U. of Phoenix, 2008. 3345054.
Cinema
Agorde, Wisdom Setsoafia. Men and masculinities in selected Ghanaian video films. Ph.D., U. of Alberta
(Can.), 2008. NR46268.
Ouedraogo, Ousmane. Gender and sexuality in West African francophone cinema. Ph.D., U. of Louisiana
at Lafayette, 2008. 3343425.
Earth Sciences
Kosarian, Minoo. Lithospheric structure of north Africa and western Eurasia. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State U.,
2006. 3343694.
Liebe, Jens Reiner. Hydrology of small reservoirs in semi-arid northern Ghana. Ph.D., Cornell U., 2009.
3346695.
Zalmout, Iyad Saleh. Late Eocene sea cows (Mammalia, Sirenia) from Wadi Al Hitan in the Fayum Basin,
Egypt. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2008. 3343259.
Economics
Castleman, Joshua. The role of human recognition in economic development: Theory, measurement, and
evidence [Kenya]. Ph.D., George Washington U., 2009. 3344750.
de Araujo, Pedro Falcao. Heterogeneity in macro models of asset accumulation. Ph.D., Indiana U., 2008.
3337250.
Dillon, Andrew Scott. Child labor and agricultural production in northern Mali. Ph.D., Cornell U., 2008.
3339816.
Djabir, Twahibu Kambi. Essays on monetary integration in Southern Africa. Ph.D., Concordia U. (Can.),
2008. NR45655.
Ewnetu Ayele, Zeleke. Smallholder farmers' decision making in farm tree growing in the highlands of
Ethiopia. Ph.D., Oregon State U., 2009. 3348632.
Gajigo, Ousman. Entrepreneurship, credit constraints, risk and ethnic networks [Gambia]. Ph.D., U. of
Wisconsin - Madison, 2008. 3348812.
Gbegbelegbe Dofonsou, Sika. Ex ante economic impact of Bt cowpea in Nigeria, Niger and Benin. Ph.D.,
Purdue U., 2008. 3344187.
Hailu, Fesessu. Technical efficiency of Ethiopian coffee production: An empirical study. Ph.D., Howard U.,
2009. 3344528.
Kim, Hankook. Three essays on foreign direct investment and economic development. Ph.D., U. of
Toronto, 2008. NR44718.
Kirimi, Lilian Wambui. Essays on disease-related working-age adult mortality: Evidence from rural Kenya.
Ph.D., Michigan State U., 2008. 3348140.
Medrano, Patricia A. Three essays on social effects of public policies in emerging countries [South Africa].
Ph.D., Boston U., 2009. 3345666.
Mtenga, Kibiby Jabir. Comparative analysis of strategies for linking farmers to market: Discourse on gender
equity, community empowerment and soil fertility management in Malawi. Ph.D., U. of Florida, 2007.
3347159.
Mwangi, E. Wairimu. The correlates of HIV/AIDS vulnerability: A multilevel study of the impact of
agricultural-consumption regimes on women's vulnerability in Kenya. Ph.D., Ohio State U., 2008. 3345828.
Nagarajan, Subha. Migration, remittances, and household health: Evidence from South Africa. Ph.D.,
George Washington U., 2009. 3349555.
Nguyen, Trang V.. Education and health care in developing countries [Madagascar]. Ph.D., Massachusetts
Inst. of Technology, 2008. 0821482.
Onyekwere, Emmanuel H. Privatization of state-owned enterprises as an instrument of socioeconomic
development in Nigeria: Just learning from Latin America's experience. Ph.D., Walden U., 2009. 3344869.
Ortiz Bolanos, Alberto. Essays on structural macroeconometrics [South Africa]. Ph.D., Boston U., 2009.
3348615.
Saleh, Gehan. The dynamic relation between stock prices and exchange rates in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and
UAE. Ph.D., U. of Illinois at Chicago, 2008. 3345490.
Soumaila, Issoufou. A general equilibrium analysis of potential use of natural resources revenue in Niger.
Ph.D., Oklahoma State U., 2008. 3341765.
Takeshima, Hiroyuki. Ex-ante welfare effects from scale-neutral productivity growth for semi-subsistence
orphan crops: Genetically modified cassava in sub-Sahara Africa [Benin]. Ph.D., U. of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, 2008. 3347544.
Education
Abraham, Solomon. African migrant students in African and U.S. mathematics classroom. Ed.D., U. of
Massachusetts Amherst (U.K.), 2008. 3336970.
Apoh, Ray Wazi. The Akpinis and the echoes of German and British colonial overrule: An archaeological
investigation of Kpando, Ghana. Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton, 2008. 3339390.
Asunka, Stephen Atimbilla. Ghanaian university students' perceptions of collaborative online learning
environments: A case study. Ed.D., Teachers Coll., Columbia U., 2009. 3348568.
Batzer, Anastasia. Teaching white South African literature in high school: The legacy of apartheid in the
21st century. Ph.D., U. of Connecticut, 2008. 3345195.
Beilke, Machelle. Building teacher capacity through teacher group meetings for Faith Works teachers in
Zambia. Ed.D., U. of Washington, 2008. 3345628.
Boersma, Emily Joy. Ethiopian instructors experience with accommodating EFL students' learning styles at
Bahir Dar University. Ph.D., Oklahoma State U., 2008. 3342082.
Chiu, Belinda H.Y. Carrie's will: A family narrative of the Phelps-Stokes Fund. Ph.D., Teachers coll.,
Columbia University, 2009. 3348346.
Dajani, Nizar N. Perceptions of Arab students, faculty members, and administrators at the American
University in Cairo towards e-learning: An exploratory case study. Ph.D., Capella U., 2009. 3341865.
Dako-Gyeke, Mavis. Ghanaian preschool and kindergarten teachers' beliefs about children's play. Ph.D.,
Texas Woman's U., 2008. 3347057.
Hag-Mousa, Insaf. Moving on: Ugandan families and HIV/AIDS. Ph.D., U. of Alberta (Can.), 2008.
NR45441.
Karr, Valeria L. International perspectives of persons with disabilities on human rights, self-determination,
and quality of life [Zambia]. Ph.D., Columbia U., 2009. 3343513.
Lancaster, Illana Michelle. Racing, classing, and gendering school-related violence in three Johannesburg
secondary schools. Ph.D., U. of Maryland, College Park, 2008. 3341448.
Mensah, Wisdom Yaw. "Marginal men" and double consciousness: The experiences of sub-Saharan
African professors teaching at a predominately White university in the Midwest of the United States of
America. Ph.D., Ohio U., 2008. 3339513.
Nabie, Michael Johnson. Cultural games in Ghana: Exploring mathematics pedagogy with primary school
teachers. Ph.D., U. of Alberta (Can.), 2008. NR45572.
Okom, Ogbiji Victor. Uprooted: Liberian refugees students in a midwest public high school. Ed.D., U. of St.
Thomas, 2008. 3345477.
Okpalaoka, Chinwe L. "You don't look like one, so how are you African?" How West African immigrant girls
in the U.S. learn to (re)negotiate ethnic identities in home and school contexts. Ph.D., Ohio State U., 2008.
3345821.
Parmegiani, Andrea. The power of English and academic literacy: Students' perceptions and theoretical,
political, and pedagogical implications. A case study of students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Ph.D.,
City U. of New York, 2009. 3349500.
Ralaingita, Wendi D.S. Re-making the Namibian teacher: A study of teacher reflection in an era of social
transition and policy reform. Ph.D., U. of Maryland, College Park, 2008. 3341443.
Swai, Elinami Veraeli. Construction of womanhood in Africa: The case of women in rural Tanzania. Ph.D.,
The Pennsylvania State U., 2006. 3343721.
Ternieden, Marie DeLucia. A case study of community participation in primary education in three rural
village schools in Ethiopia. Ph.D., The George Washington U., 2009. 3338887.
Environmental Sciences
Brinson, Ayeisha A. Incorporating recreational and artisanal fishing fleets in Atlantic billfish management
[Ghana]. Ph.D., U. of Miami, 2008. 3341030.
Fine Arts
Griffith, Kyle L. Ritual, cult, and sacred space: Transcending death in the painted tomb of Roman Libya.
Ph.D., U. of Washington, 2008. 3345690.
Odhiambo, Seonagh. A conversation with dance history: Movement and meaning in the cultural body
[Kenya]. Ph.D., Temple U., 2008. 3344400.
Werts, Julia Kim. Imperial vogue: Photography and the fashioning of modernity in twentieth century
Ethiopia. Ph.D., Cornell U., 2009. 3346714.
Folklore
Salifu, Abdulai. Names that prick: Royal praise names in Dagbon, northern Ghana. Ph.D., Indiana U.,
2008. 3344619.
Geography
Hartter, Joel Nathan. Landscape change around Kibale National Park, Uganda: Impacts on land cover, land
use, and livelihoods. Ph.D., U. of Florida, 2007. 3347131.
Shipman, Aimee. The structure of susceptibility: A multi-scalar investigation of linkage between economic
development, social organization and HIV susceptibility in Sub-Saharan Africa [Botswana]. Ph.D., U. of
Idaho, 2008. 3347528.
Health Sciences
Astle, Barbara Jean. Building and sustaining international partnerships in higher education in nursing
[Ghana]. Ph.D., U. of Alberta (Can.), 2008. NR45398.
Camlin, Carol Suzanne. HIV on the move: Sex differences in patterns of migration and HIV in South Africa.
Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2008. 3343022.
Chappuis, Francois. Evaluation of field diagnostic tests for visceral leishmaniasis [Uganda]. Ph.D., U.
Antwerpen (Belg.), 2008. 3345229.
Creel, Alisha H. Effects of a mass media intervention on HIV-related stigma and fear: "Radio Diaries"
program in Malawi. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins U., 2009. 3339697.
Ezeobele, Ifeoma E. Depression and Nigerian-born immigrant women in the United States: A
phenomenological study. Ph.D., Texas woman's U., 2008. 3347060.
Lori, Jody Rae. Cultural childbirth practices, beliefs and traditions in Liberia. Ph.D., U. of Arizona, 2009.
3344888.
Medley, Amy Michelle. Antenatal HIV counseling and testing in Uganda: Women's experiences, counselors'
challenges, and men's attitudes. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins U., 2009. 3339945.
Metenou, Simon. Immunity to Plasmodium falciparum in pregnant women and their newborns [Cameroon].
Ph.D., Georgetown U., 2006. 3339908.
Moisi, Jennifer C. Mortality, morbidity, immunization coverage and distance to health facilities in Kilifi
District, Kenya. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins U., 2009. 3339950.
Protopopoff, Natacha. Vector control in a highland province of Burundi: Towards a targeted strategy for the
prevention of malaria in African highlands. Ph.D., U. Antwerpen (Belg.), 2008. 3345223.
Sharkey, Alyssa B. The health and social context of infant death: Reflections from South Africa. Ph.D.,
Johns Hopkins U., 2009. 3339996.
Zidron, Amy M. The impact of orphanhood on Luo children [Kenya]. Ph.D., Ohio U., 2008. 3339502.
History
Benson, Koni. Crossroads continues: Histories of women mobilizing against forced removals and for
housing in Cape Town South Africa, 1975-2005. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 2009. 3344200.
Bizuneh, Belete. An agrarian polity and its pastoral periphery: State and pastoralism in the Borana
borderlands (Southern Ethiopia), 1897-1991. Ph.D., Boston U., 2008. 3348589.
Carpenter, Elise Audrey. The social practice of HIV drug therapy in Botswana, 2002--2004: Experts,
bureaucrats, and health care providers. Ph.D., U. of Pennsylvania, 2008. 3346222.
Coleman, Sterling Joseph, Jr. Empire of the mind: Subscription libraries, literacy & acculturation in the
colonies of the British Empire [Nigeria]. Ph.D., Florida State U., 2008. 3348483.
Elfenbein, Caleb Heart lyer. Differentiating Islam: Colonialism, Sayyid Qutb, and religious transformation in
modern Egypt. Ph.D., U. of California, Santa Barbara, 2008. 3342011.
Hagen, Katrina M. Internationalism in Cold War Germany. Ph.D., U. of Washington, 2008. 3328403.
Haghani, Fakhri. The "New Woman" on the stage: The making of a gendered public sphere in interwar Iran
and Egypt. Ph.D., Georgia State U., 2008. 3342517.
Heaton, Matthew Michael. Stark roving mad: The repatriation of Nigerian mental patients and the global
construction of mental illness, 1906--1960. Ph.D., The U. of Texas at Austin, 2008. 3341968.
Kimpton, Jennifer L. The Egyptian manuscripts of Jean-Baptiste Adanson at the Johns Hopkins University:
Hieroglyphs and antiquities through the eyes of an eighteenth century dragoman. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins U.,
2009. 3339856.
Lofkrantz, Jennifer. Ransoming policies and practices in the western and central bilad al-sudan, c18001910 [Nigeria & Mali]. Ph.D., York U. (Can.), 2008. NR46002.
Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanesta. The mobile workshop: Mobility, technology, and human-animal
interaction in Gonarezhou (National Park), 1850-present [Zimbabwe]. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2008.
3343158.
McInneshin, Michael Todd. The landscape history of the lower Pangani Basin, 1848-1916 [Tanzania].
Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 2009. 3344218.
Muntz, Charles Edward. Diodorus Siculus, Egypt, and Rome. Ph.D., Duke U., 2008. 3346770.
Ngugi, Charles Muiru. Free expression and authority in contest: The evolution of freedom of expression in
Kenya. Ph.D., Emory U., 2008. 3344484.
Prais, Jinny Kathleen. Imperial travelers: The formation of West African urban culture, identity, and
citizenship in London and Accra, 1925-1935. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2008. 3343190.
Richardson, Kristina Lynn. Blighted bodies and physical difference in Cairo, Damascus and Mecca, 14001550 CE. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2008. 3343196.
Williams-Black, Joy. The expansion of higher education for Kenyans, with special emphasis on women,
from 1959--1969. Ph.D., U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008. 3347563.
Language
Bosire, B. Mokaya. Sheng: The phonology, morphology and social profile of an urban vernacular [Kenya].
Ph.D., State U. of New York at Albany, 2008. 3348180.
Harrison, Annette Renee. Directives in Lingala: Participation and subjectivity in a Congolese women's
church group. Ph.D., U. of California, Santa Barbara, 2008. 3342018.
Mwita, Leonard Chacha. Verbal tone in Kuria [Kenya & Tanzania]. Ph.D., U. of California, Los Angeles,
2008. 3343322.
Tang, Katrina Elizabeth. The phonology and phonetics of consonant-tone interaction [Nigeria]. Ph.D., U. of
California, Los Angeles, 2008. 3343336.
Law
Marong, Alhagi B.M. The role of law in sustainable development: A case study of the petroleum industry in
Nigeria. D.C.L., McGill U. (Can.), 2003. DC52781.
Literature
Bryson, Devin. Masculine dimensions: Migration and gender in francophone literature and culture. Ph.D.,
U. of Pennsylvania, 2008. 3345910.
Correa, Cherif Ayouba. Representations of Islam and the question of identity in the postcolonial context:
Mariama Ba's "Une Si Longue Lettre", Ousmane Sembene's "Ceddo" and "Guelwaar", and Cheikh Hamidou
Kane's "L'aventure Ambigue". Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2008. 3348770.
Curto, Roxanna Nydia. Inter-tech(s): Colonialism and the question of technology in twentieth-century
French and Francophone literature. Ph.D., Yale U., 2008. 3342572.
Francis, Gladys M. The rebellious female body: L'autre, autobiography, violence and rhizome subjectivities -- A contemporary textual study of postcolonial transgressional women's writings [Gabon]. Ph.D., Purdue U.,
2008. 3343971.
Galvagni, Katherine Farley. The world errant and the creolization of Africa [Djibouti & Senegal]. Ph.D., City
U. of New York, 2009. 3344970.
Gueydan, Alexandra. (Post)national ImagiNation of Algeria: Identity politics and practice in Algerian
Francophone literature. Ph.D., Yale U., 2008. 3342597.
Gueye, Fallou. Creolization and Africanite in Francophone literature: Africa and the Caribbean. Ph.D., City
U. of New York, 2009. 3344976.
Gueye, Khadidiatou. Mapping the liminal identities of mulattas in African, African American, and Caribbean
literatures [Senegal & South Africa]. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State U., 2006. 3343682.
Ibironke, Olabode. Between African writers and Heinemann Educational Publishers: The political economy
of a culture industry. Ph.D., Michigan State U., 2008. 3348122.
Im, Jeannie. Modernity in translation: Figures of empire in the works of Mary Shelley, Samuel Beckett, and
Assia Djebar. Ph.D., Columbia U., 2009. 3348390.
Kowino, Hilary Chala. The problem of home and space in African literature: Reconciling multiple belongings
and unbelongings in the global age. Ph.D., Michigan State U., 2008. 3348141.
Le Breton, Mireille Catherine Therese. La jeunesse issue de l'immigration maghrebine en France:
Production culturelle et creation d'un espace identitaire. Ph.D., Stanford U., 2009. 3343649.
Mirmotahari, Emad. Islam and the eastern African novel: Revisiting nation, diaspora, modernity. Ph.D., U.
of California, Los Angeles, 2008. 3343347.
Ngong, Benjamin. Pouvoir, violence et resistance en postcolonie: Une lecture de "En attendant le vote des
betes sauvages" d'Ahmadou Kourouma. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 2008. 3338968.
Rabenarivo, Fara Lee. The city in island literature (Madagascar and Martinique): Toward a poetics of urban
space. Ph.D., U. of Iowa, 2008. 3347241.
Rajakumar, Mohanalakshmi. National allegories, personal stories: The use of domestic narratives in India
and Algeria. Ph.D., U. of Florida, 2008. 3347171.
Sibley, Pamela Jean. Ethos and answerability in the novelized epic: Passional readings of Elizabeth Barrett
Browning's "Aurora Leigh", David Jones's "In Parenthesis", and Chenjerai Hove's "Bones" [Zimbabwe].
Ph.D., Texas A&M U., 2008. 3348023.
Smith, Dorsia. A dark vision of "a third world's third world": V. S. Naipaul's Africa. Ph.D., U. of Puerto Rico,
Rio Piedras, 2008. 3340787.
Walter, Allison Ann. Textual performances [Algeria]. Ph.D., U. of California, Irvine, 2008. 3328064.
Wang, Ching-Jen. Ibrahim al-Kuni's magical realist writings: A psychoanalytical approach [Libya]. Ph.D., U.
of Pennsylvania, 2008. 3346213.
Mass Communications
Farthing-Chesser, Amy K. Promoting national values for social change: Evaluating the Heartlines life
orientation campaign in South Africa. Ph.D., Regent U., 2008. 3342617.
Music
Matiure, Sheasby. Performing Zimbabwean music in North America: An ethnography of mbira and Marimba
performance practice in the United States. Ph.D., Indiana U., 2008. 3344589.
Physical Sciences
Alo, Clement A. Potential biosphere response to climate change and its impact on hydrology and regional
climate prediction over western Africa. Ph.D., U. of Connecticut, 2009. 3340869.
Bowden, Jared Heath. Multi-scale climate change modeling study over the Greater Horn of Africa. Ph.D.,
North Carolina State U., 2008. 3345334.
Cowden, Joshua R. Planning and adaptation measures for urban slum communities in West Africa:
Stochastic rainfall modeling applied to domestic rainwater harvesting and climate change adaptation. Ph.D.,
Michigan Technological U., 2008. 3339425.
Fofanah, John Bundu. An infrastructure reconstruction decision-making model for postwar situations [Sierra
Leone]. Ph.D., U. of Alberta, 2008. NR45428.
Thamae, Thimothy Molefi. Developing and characterizing new materials based on natural fibres and waste
plastic [Lesotho]. Ph.D., Queen's U. (Can.), 2009. NR46207.
Vandersteen, Jonathan Daniel James. Humanitarian engineering in the engineering curriculum [Ghana].
Ph.D., Queen's U. (Can.), 2008. NR44607.
Von Holdt, Christopher James. Development of infrastructure asset management software solutions for
municipalities in South Africa. D.Eng., Texas A&M U., 2006. 3348054.
Political Science
Bandiaky, Solange. Engendering exclusion in Senegal's democratic decentralization: S. Ph.D., Clark U.,
2008. 3345294.
Benstead, Lindsay J. Does casework build support for a strong parliament: Legislative representation and
public opinion in Morocco and Algeria. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2008. 3343007.
Chakravarti, Sonali. Anger, resentment, despair: On the political philosophy of truth commissions [South
Africa]. Ph.D., Yale U., 2008. 3342567.
Finnegan, David Louis. Law and private sector development in Tanzania. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2008.
3343064.
Hammad, Fayez Yousef. The resiliency of Arab authoritarianism and the Arab-Israeli conflict: The United
States' role in the cases of Egypt and Jordan. Ph.D., U. of Southern California, 2008. 3341689.
Hogendoorn, Ernst Jan. The humanitarian impact of UN arms embargoes: Can arms embargoes end or
limit violent conflict?. Ph.D., Princeton U., 2008. 3338682.
Jung, Jai Kwan. The paradox of institution building after civil war: A trade-off between short-term
peacemaking and long-term democracy building [Mozambique]. Ph.D., Cornell U., 2008. 3339765.
Kenley, Donna L. Political will and the prevention of violent ethnic conflict and genocide: A regional
intervention model for the international community [Rwanda]. Ph.D., George Mason U., 2009. 3346872.
King, Elisabeth. The role of education in violent conflict and peacebuilding in Rwanda. Ph.D., U. of Toronto
(Can.), 2008. NR44809.
Lugalambi, George W. An assessment of democratic deliberation in Uganda: A case study of the framing of
key political issues in the press. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State U., 2006. 3343700.
MacKenzie, Megan Hazel. Disciplining development: Sex, power and the (re)construction of women in postconflict Sierra Leone. Ph.D., U. of Alberta (Can.), 2008. NR46374.
Masoud, Tarek El-Miselhy. Why Islam wins: Electoral ecologies and economies of political Islam in
contemporary Egypt. Ph.D., Yale U., 2008. 3342649.
Rowe, Paul Stanley. Ancient crosses and tower-keeps: The politics of Christian minorities in the Middle
East [Egypt]. Ph.D., McGill U. (Can.), 2003. DC52834.
Sahgal, Neha. Divided we stand, but united we oppose: Opposition alliances in Egypt and Pakistan. Ph.D.,
U. of Maryland, College Park, 2008. 3341442.
Schoon, Michael L. Building robustness to disturbance: Governance in southern African peace parks.
Ph.D., Indiana U., 2008. 3344618.
Sebastian, Antoinette G. Transboundary water politics: Conflict, cooperation, and shadows of the past in the
Okavango and Orange river basins of Southern Africa. Ph.D., U. of Maryland, College Park, 2008. 3339458.
Seymour, Lee Joseph Marshall. Pathways to secession: The institutional effects of separatist violence
[Northeast Africa]. Ph.D., Northwestern U., 2008. 3336764.
Shulman, Debra Lois. Regime strategy and foreign policy in autocracies: Egypt, Jordan, and Syria in the
Gulf Wars. Ph.D., Yale U., 2008. 3342676.
Zerbe, Noah. International political economy and agricultural biotechnology: The case of Zimbabwe. Ph.D.,
York U. (Can.), 2004. NR46023.
Psychology
Azoulay, Bracha. Israeli Ethiopian mothers' perception of their children's mild mental retardation and/or
emotional disorder, mothers' ethnic identity, and use of social services. Ph.D., Northeastern U., 2008.
3341633.
Hanks, Tammy. Ubuntu: A theoretical examination of the potentialities of an emergent humanistic paradigm
[South Africa]. Ph.D., Saybrook Graduate Sch. & Research Ctr., 2008. 3344881.
Hess, Daniel Burton. The mental health sequelae and treatment of massive community violence in West
Africa [Sierra Leone & Liberia]. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 2008. 3338948.
Phillips DeZalia, Rebekah Anne. Social representations in the narratives of Rwandan Genocide orphans.
Ph.D., Clark U., 2008. 3345292.
Religion
Dube, Siphiwe Ignatius. The TRC of South Africa: A dialectical critique of its core concepts. Ph.D., U. of
Toronto (Can.), 2008. NR44811.
El Shazly, Yasmin Mohamed. Royal ancestor worship in Deir el-Medina during the New Kingdom. Ph.D.,
Johns Hopkins U., 2009. 3339712.
Kinchen, Thomas Alexander Jr. 'Africa is doubtless to be evangelized': Assessing Southern Baptist mission
focus, education, and spiritual awakening among Liberians, 1846--1880, through an examination of the
ministries of John Day, John H. Cheeseman, and Boston J. Drayton. Ph.D., Southeastern Baptist
Theo. Sem., 2008. 3343438.
Okure, Aniedi Peter. The Catholic Church as social and political actor: An analysis of the Catholic Bishops
Conference of Nigeria, 1960-1990. Ph.D., Catholic U. of America, 2009. 3348462.
Onyekwelu, Anthony Ugochukwu. The doctrine of the Trinity as a model for fostering an adult church in the
Catholic Diocese of Awka in Nigeria. Ph.D., Fordham U., 2009. 3340633.
Ugwoji, Matthew C. Interreligious relations and solidarity: Contextualizing the vision of Francis Cardinal
Arinze for religious education in Nigeria. Ph.D., Fordham U., 2008. 3342755.
Social Work
Imungi, Muthoni Gatwiri. Acculturative stress and psychological distress in adult female Liberian refugees in
the United States. Ph.D., Michigan State U., 2008. 3348123.
Schmid, Jeanette Elizabeth. The story of South African child welfare: A history of the present. Ph.D., Wilfrid
Laurier U. (Can.), 2008. NR46153.
Sociology
Arellano-Lopez, Fanny Sonia. The social construction of trade in the Bechuanaland Protectorate. Ph.D.,
State U. of New York at Binghamton, 2008. 3341864.
Decoteau, Claire Laurier. The bio-politics of HIV/AIDS in post-apartheid South Africa. Ph.D., U. of
Michigan, 2008. 3343047.
Kalanzi, Dorothy Julliet Nansikombi. Adherence behavior and the impact of HAART on quality of life of
Ugandan adults. Ph.D., Texas Woman's U., 2008. 3347070.
Offutt, Stephen W. The changing face of evangelicalism in the Global South: Networks and moral
entrepreneurship in El Salvador and South Africa. Ph.D., Boston U., 2009. 3345672.
Touati, Oumelkhir. Rapport au travail et dynamique de transformation du metier d'ingenieur dans le
contexte algerien: Le cas de l'entreprise Sonatrach. Ph.D., U. de Montreal (Can.), 2007. NR45387.
Train, Kelly Amanda. Authenticity, identity and the politics of belonging: Sephardic Jews from North Africa
and India within the Toronto Jewish community. Ph.D., York U. (Can.), 2008. NR46016.
Velyvis, Kristen A. Ties that bind and nets of support: The social networks and sexual behavior of migrant
women in Senegal and implications for the spread of HIV. Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2008.
3327736.
Women's Studies
Boateng, John Kwame. Women's health access and behaviors: Effects of urban residence, education, selfdetermination, and social supports in Ghana. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State U., 2006. 3343659.