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. 71, no. 7-9 (Jan.-March 2011). This is the 89th quarterly supplement to American and Canadian
Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses on Africa, 1974-1987 (1989).
Agriculture
Gill, Thomas Brooke. Potential adoption of grain amaranth production in HIV/AIDS-affected rural
Kenyan communities. Ph.D., U. of Florida, 2010.
Huckett, Steven P. A comparative study to identify factors affecting adoption of soil and water
conservation practices among smallhold farmers in the Njoro River watershed of Kenya. Ph.D., Utah
State U., 2010.
Martinez, Barbara Therese. Forest restoration in Masoala National Park, Madagascar: The contribution
of the red-ruffed lemur (Varecia rubra) and the livelihoods of subsistence farmers at Ambatoladama.
Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 2010.
Parker, Margaret None. Territoriality and scent marking behavior of African wild dogs in northern
Botswana. Ph.D., U. of Montana, 2010.
Shepande, Chizumba. Development of geospatial analysis tools for inventory and mapping of soils of
the Chongwe region of Zambia. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 2010.
Thakadu, Olekae Tsompi. Relative effects of two communication methods and prediction of
environmental knowledge sharing behaviors: Okavango Delta, Botswana. Ph.D., U. of Florida, 2010.
Wahlert, Gregory A. Phylogeny, biogeography, and a taxonomic revision of Rinorea (Violaceae) from
Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. Ph.D., Ohio U., 2010.
Wurster, Karl W. Management matter?: Effects of charcoal production management on woodland
regeneration in Senegal. Ph.D., U. of Maryland, College Park, 2010.
Anthropology
Adunbi, Omolade. Belonging to the (s)oil: Multinational oil corporations, NGOs and community conflict
in postcolonial Nigeria. Ph.D., Yale U., 2010.
Blanco, Marina Beatriz. Reproductive biology of mouse and dwarf lemurs of eastern Madagascar, with
an emphasis on brown mouse lemurs (Microcebus rufus) at Ranomafana National Park, a southeastern
rainforest. Ph.D., U. of Massachusetts Amherst, 2010.
Grady, Sandra J. Improvised adolescence: A study of identity formation among Somali Bantu teenage
refugees. Ph.D., U. of Pennsylvania, 2010.
Heinrich, Adam R. A zooarchaeological investigation into the meat industry established at the Cape of
Good Hope by the Dutch East India Company in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Ph.D.,
Rutgers U. of New Jersey – New Brunswick, 2010.
Hill, Jane Ann. Interregional trade, cultural exchange, and specialized production in the Late
Predynastic: Archaeological analysis of el-Amra, Upper Egypt. Ph.D., U. of Pennsylvania, 2010.
Kombo, Brenda Khayanga. The policing of intimate partnerships in Yaounde, Cameroon. Ph.D., Yale
U., 2010.
Koomson, Robert Kofi. A spirituality of unity and hospitality among the Akans in Ghana and Chicago
and the challenges of the matrilineal inheritance kinship structure. D.Min., Garrett-Evangelical Theo.
Sem., 2010.
Kutty, Vinodh. Tol, xeer, and Somalinimo: Recognizing Somali and Mushunguli refugees as agents in
the integration process. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 2010.
Nolan, John S. Mud sealings and Fourth Dynasty administration at Giza. Ph.D., The U. of Chicago,
2010.
Ofunniyin, Ajani Ade. The Os[dotbelow]ogbo connection: Transnational identities, modernity and world
view of Yoruba Americans in Sheldon, South Carolina and Alachua County, Florida. Ph.D., U. of
Florida, 2008.
Petersen, Timothy R. Taxonomic implications of basicranial variation in Australopithecus africanus.
Ph.D., The U. of New Mexico, 2010.
Robinson, Lance W. Participatory development and the capacity of Gabra pastoralist communities to
influence resilience [Kenya]. Ph.D., U. of Manitoba (Can.), 2009.
Scherz, China. The ethics of inequality: Charity, sustainable development, and the problem of
dependence in Central Uganda. Ph.D., U. of California, San Francisco, 2010.
Shani, Serah. "I will not lose my children": The New York City Ghanaian network village and their
academic success pursuits. Ph.D., Columbia U., 2010.
Shenoda, Anthony George. Cultivating mystery: Miracles and a Coptic moral imaginary. Ph.D., Harvard
U., 2010.
Sheppad, Kathleen. The lady and the looking glass: Margaret Murray's life in archaeology. Ph.D., The
U. of Oklahoma, 2010.
Wakefield, Monica Lynn. Socioecology of female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the
Kibale National Park, Uganda: Social relationships, association patterns, and costs and benefits of
gregariousness in a fission-fusion society. Ph.D., Yale U., 2010.
Warden, Leslie Ann. The relationship of pottery and economy in Old Kingdom Egypt: A question of
state control. Ph.D., U. of Pennsylvania, 2010.
Biological Sciences
Baker, Lynne Rae. Sclater's monkey in Nigeria: Outlook good or just hanging on? Ecological and
human dimensions of hunted and sacred populations. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 2009.
Chisholm, Ryan Alistair. The ecology and economics of alien invasive species with a case study from
the South African Fynbos. Ph.D., Princeton U., 2010.
Land, Allison M. The role of HIV-1 recombination and APOBEC3F/G-mediated hypermutation in HIV-1
pathogenesis [Kenya]. Ph.D., U. of Manitoba, 2010.
Nowak, Michael. A molecular phylogenetic study of historical biogeography and the evolution of selfincompatibility RNases in Indian Ocean Coffea (Rubiaceae). Dennis, Duke U., 2010.
Olives, Casey Stevens. Improving LQAS for monitoring and evaluation of health programs in resourcepoor settings [Kenya]. Ph.D., Harvard U., 2010.
Roelke, Corey Edward. The herpetofauna of the Virunga Mountains, with an emphasis on two species
of Albertine Rift endemic treefrogs in the genus Leptopelis [Rwanda]. Ph.D., The U. of Texas at
Arlington, 2010.
Sako, Aboubakar. River and lake geochemistry and otholith elemental and isotopic ratios of selected
pelagic fish species in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa. Ph.D., Arkansas State U., 2005.
Smith, Jennifer Elaine. Evolutionary and ecological forces shaping patterns of cooperation among
spotted hyenas [Kenya]. Ph.D., Michigan State U., 2010.
Business Administration
Fishlock, Janet. But the white man peeked: Impacts, opportunities and dilemmas within social
development and private sector cooperation in the international mining sector in sub-Saharan Africa.
Ph.D., York U. (Can.), 2010.
Cinema
Dima, Vlad. Sound moves: Displacement and modernity in French and Senegalese cinemas. Ph.D., U.
of Minnesota, 2010.
Miller, Jade L. The globalization of cultural industries: Nollywood-The view from the South. Ph.D., U. of
Southern California, 2010.
Earth Sciences
Benesh, Nathan Philip. The mechanics of fault-bend folding and tear-fault systems in the Niger Delta.
Ph.D., Harvard U., 2010.
Cohen, Phoebe Agigail. Investigations of enigmatic Neoproterozoic eukaryotes [Namibia]. Ph.D.,
Harvard U., 2010.
Haradon, Catherine Marie. The ecological context of the Acheulean to Middle Stone Age transition in
Africa. Ph.D., The George Washington U., 2010.
Maxwell, Sara M. Effectiveness of marine protected areas for top predators along the central West
African and US west coasts. Ph.D., U. of California, Santa Cruz, 2010.
Economics
Aksan, Anna-Maria. Three essays on disease and economic development. Ph.D., U.of Oregon, 2010.
Badibanga, Thaddee Mutumba. Essays on economic growth, education, and the distribution of income:
A structural analysis for the case of South Africa. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 2010.
Blimpo, Moussa Pouguinimpo. Essays in development economics and the economics of education
[Benin]. Ph.D., New York U., 2010.
El-Karaksy, Hoda. The economic implications of the prospective Free Trade Agreement between the
United States and Egypt. Ph.D., The U. of Alabama, 2010.
Fenske, James. Property rights in rural West Africa: Causes and consequences [Nigeria]. Ph.D., Yale
U., 2010.
Lee, Jean Nahrae. Essays in development economics and labor economics [Kenya]. Ph.D., Harvard U.,
2010.
Robles, Omar. Essays on education, health and marriage [Tanzania]. Ph.D., Harvard U., 2010.
Szabo, Andrea. Essays on industrial organization and development economics [South Africa and
Ghana]. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 2010.
Education
Akom, George Viche. Using formative assessment despite the constraints of high stakes testing and
limited resources: A case study of chemistry teachers in Anglophone Cameroon. Ph.D., Western
Michigan U., 2010.
Borkum, Evan. Essays on the economics of education in developing countries [South Africa]. Ph.D.,
Columbia U., 2010.
Butcher, Kenneth Chukwudi. Perspectives of African immigrant students in American public schools.
Ph.D., U. of Missouri - Kansas City, 2010.
Casteal, David B. Breaking the circle: The migration and return of the jembe. A qualitative study of the
exportation of the jembe and its impact on the role of the jembe and drumming education in West Africa.
Ph.D., Capella U., 2010.
Coutinho, Maria Teresa N. Bicultural & vocational identities: Promoting school engagement in a sample
of Cape Verdean immigrants. Ed.D., Boston College, 2010.
Dant, William Patrick. Squaring their roots: Leadership perceptions and practices of some U.S.-trained
African professionals in the public sector [Ethiopia, Ghana, and Mozambique]. Ph.D., U. of Maryland,
College Park, 2010.
Day, Kathryn Louise. The development of conceptions of the right to literacy in traditional rural Africa.
Ph.D., U. of California, Berkeley, 2010.
Ganda Nabi, Mahamadou. Teacher professional development: The needs of TESOL teachers in the
Republic of Niger. Ph.D., Indiana U. of Pennsylvania, 2010.
Gerzher-Alemayo, Selam. "Development from abroad": Ethiopian migrants and community-level
educational development in Ethiopia. Ph.D., Ohio U., 2010.
Karis, Daniel Gerald. Preparing peacekeepers: An analysis of the African contingency operations,
training, and assistance program command and staff operational skills course. Ph.D., Kansas State U.,
2010.
Kiche, Anne Omwango. The educational and occupational aspirations of Sudanese refugee youth in an
American public high school in the Midwest. Ph.D., The U. of Iowa, 2010.
Lavusa, Nifredah Imali. Guidance-related needs of adolescents in Kenya. Ph.D., U. of Calgary (Can.),
2010.
Minkus, Bonnie. The case of EFA in Sub-Saharan West Africa: How notions of human capital shape the
discourse of EFA policymakers and EFA teachers in Sub-Saharan West Africa. Ph.D., The U. of New
Mexico, 2010.
Seidenfeld, David. Obstacles to access: An evaluation of a condom distribution program in rural
Zambia. Ph.D., U. of Pennsylvania, 2010.
Stone-MacDonald, Angela K. From goats to gardens: Preparing children with developmental disabilities
for community integration in rural Tanzania. Ph.D., Indiana U., 2010.
Environmental Sciences
Dana, Genya Vera. Testing stakeholder engagement in ecological risk analysis: A case study of
genetically modified maize and South African biodiversity. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 2010.
Katsongo, Kamathe. Alternatives de partenariats pour la gestion de l'eau potable dans les quartiers
pauvres des zones urbaines: Cas de Kinshasa. Ph.D., U. de Montreal (Can.), 2010.
Fine Arts
Martin, Mary Rhoads. Legal issues in African art. Ph.D., The U. of Iowa, 2010.
Scruggs, Dalila. "The love of liberty has brought us here": The American Colonization Society and the
imaging of African-American settlers in Liberia. Ph.D., Harvard U., 2010.
Geography
Opare, Service. Guarding the Garden of Eden: Community led water resource management in rural
Ghana. Ph.D., U. of Calgary (Can.), 2010.
Soliman, Aiman Sami. Temporal remote sensing of thermal diffusion waves in bare soil subsurface at
multi-spatial scales [Egypt]. Ph.D., U. of Guelph (Can.), 2010.
Walker, Michael Madison. Enclosing the commons?: A political ecology of access to land and water in
Sussundenga, Mozambique. Ph.D., Michigan State U., 2010.
Washington-Ottombre, Camille. The role of local institutions in shaping household responses to climate
change and variability: A case study along the slopes of Mt. Kenya. Ph.D., Purdue U., 2010.
Gerontology
Okafor, Maria-Theresa C. The relationship of acculturation to health outcomes among African
immigrant adults: A life-course perspective. Ph.D., U. of Maryland, Baltimore, 2010.
Health Sciences
Adwok, John A. Changing lifestyles and risk of hypertension in an African population: The alcohol factor
[Sudan]. Ph.D., Capella U., 2010.
Backes, Danielle Marie. Natural history of human papillomavirus infection among young men from
Kisumu, Kenya. Ph.D., The U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010.
Dikamba, Madiya Nelly. Determinants of preterm delivery and low birth weight in five rural health zones
of Equateur Province, Democratic Republic of Congo.Ph.D., Tulane U., 2010.
Ens, Carla Daun Loeppky. Palliative and hospice care in South Africa: The confluence of context and
education. Ph.D., U. of Manitoba, 2009.
Filauri, Elizabeth. State capacity influences on the epidemiology of neglected tropical and vector-borne
diseases in Africa. Ph.D., Walden U., 2010.
Harbertson, Judith. Seroprevalence and risk factors for human immunodeficiency virus in the Rwanda
Defense Forces. Ph.D., U. of California, San Diego and San Diego State U., 2010.
Herforth, Anna Whitson. Promotion of traditional African vegetables in Kenya and Tanzania: A case
study of an intervention representing emerging imperatives in global nutrition. Ph.D., Cornell U. of 2010.
Kapito-Tembo, Atupele Patience. Malaria and anemia in HIV-infected pregnant women in Malawi:
Associations with cotrimoxazole prophylaxis, submicroscopic malaria, iron supplementation and iron
deficiency. Ph.D., The U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010.
Kilroy-Marac, Kathleen. The impossible inheritance: Memory and postcolonial subjectivity at the Fann
Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal. Ph.D., Columbia U., 20102.
Little, Eric Ryan. The politics of anti-retroviral drugs in Africa. Ph.D.,Michigan State U., 2010.
Meghdadpour, Susanne. Substance use and sexual risk behavior among orphaned and non-orphaned
youth in South Africa. Ph.D., The U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010.
Mirza, Mansha Parven Qamar Husain. Global ethnography with disabled refugees: Combining
individual narratives with systems & policy analysis. Ph.D., U. of Illinois at Chicago, 2010.
Moreland, Patricia. Determinants of nonadherence to pediatric follow-up care for HIV-exposed infants in
Rwanda. D.N.Sc., Colimbia U., 2010.
Mupere, Ezekiel. Body wasting among tuberculosis patients in urban Uganda.Ph.D., Case Western
Reserve U., 2010.
Ntandou Bouzitou, Gervais Deleuze. Transition nutritionnelle et facteurs de risque de maladies
cardiovasculaires au Benin: Etude dans la ville secondaire de Ouidah et sa périphérie rurale. Ph.D., U.
de Montréal, 2010.
Parker, Megan Elizabeth. The feasibility of replacement feeding as an HIV prevention method: The
breastfeeding, antiretroviral and nutrition (BAN) study in Lilongwe, Malawi. Ph.D., The U. of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010.
Powers, Kimberly Anne. HIV transmission dynamics: Infectivity, sexual partnership patterns, and the
role of early infection. Ph.D., The U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010.
Rydzak, Chara Elaine. The application of decision analytic methods to diverse public health problems in
underserved populations. Ph.D., Harvard U., 2010.
Thomas, Roshan Mariam. Determinants of prenatal nutritional status and adverse birth outcomes in
HIV-infected, pregnant Malawian women. Ph.D., The U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010.
History
Bedasse, Monique. A Pan-African imagined community: Anti-colonialism, Rastafarians and postcolonial Tanzania, 1961-1992. Ph.D., U. of Miami, 2010.
Daddi Addoun, Yacine. L'Abolition de l'esclavage en Algerie: 1816-1871. Ph.D.,York U. (Can.), 2010.
Graboyes, Melissa. Surveying the "pathological museum": A history of medical research and ethics in
East Africa, 1940-1965. Ph.D., Boston U., 2010.
Hamza, Ibrahim. "Cargill's mistakes": A study of British colonial policies in the Madaki District, Kano
Emirate, Northern Nigeria, c. 1903-1919. Ph.D., York U. (Can.), 2010.
Irwin, Ryan. The Gordian knot: Apartheid & the unmaking of the liberal world order, 1960-1970. Ph.D.,
The Ohio State U., 2010.
Komaradat, Chotirat. Friends fall apart: The wax and wane of Indo-Egyptian relations, 1947-1970.
Ph.D., Harvard U., 2010.
Marsans-Sakly, Silvia. The revolt of 1864 in Tunisia: History, power, and memory. Ph.D., New York U.,
2010.
Shenoda, Maryann Magdalen. Lamenting Islam, imagining persecution: Copto-Arabic opposition to
Islamization and Arabization in Fatimid Egypt (969-1171CE). Ph.D., Harvard U., 254.
Yatsuhashi, Akira V. In the bird cage of the muses: Archiving, erudition, and empire in Ptolemaic Egypt.
Ph.D., Duke U., 2010.
Information Science
Etim, Alice Sunday. The adoption and diffusion of information and communication technology in the
Base of the Pyramid population of Sub-Saharan Africa: A study of Nigerian university students. Ph.D.,
The U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010.
Journalism
Aborisade, Olubunmi P. How technology transforms journalism business through citizen-reporters in
Nigeria. Ph.D., Capella U., 2010.
Zerai, Abdissa. U.S. press representation of the southern Sudanese civil war,1983-2005. Ph.D., The U.
of New Mexico, 2010.
Language
Boes, Cynthia D. Defending Darfur: The problems and potential of speaking for others. Ph.D., The
Pennsylvania State U., 2010.
Diercks, Michael J K. Agreement with subjects in Lubukusu [Kenya]. Ph.D.,Georgetown U., 2010.
Greiner, Karen P. Exploring dialogic social change. Ph.D., Ohio U., 2010.
McFarland, Kelly M. All about the wordplay: Gendered and Orientalist language in U.S.-Egyptian
foreign relations, 1952-1961. Ph.D., Kent State U., 2010.
Morkus, Nader. The realization of the speech act of refusal in Egyptian Arabic by American learners of
Arabic as a foreign language. Ph.D., U. of Florida, 2009.
Shaw, Jason A. The temporal organization of syllabic structure [Morocco].Ph.D., New York U., 2010.
Takam, Alain Flaubert. Strategies de promotion et de revitalisation des langues minoritaires
autochtones au Cameroun et au Canada. Ph.D., Dalhousie U. (Can.),2009.
Law
Oshionebo, Evaristus A. Transnational corporations in Africa's extractive industries: Challenges in the
regulation of corporate conduct. Ph.D., York U. (Can.), 2006.
Literature
Commander, Michelle Denise. Flights of the imagination: Black American travelers journey toward
Africa in Ghana and Bahia, Brazil. Ph.D., U. of Southern California, 2010.
Donovan, Frederique. The theatrical incarnation of the letter in three contemporary literary works: "De
l'autre côté du regard" by Ken Bugul, "Autoportrait en vert" by Marie NDiaye and "Lettre d'été" by
Pascale Roze [Senegal]. Ph.D., Boston U., 2010.
Dumont, Jennifer. Assia Djebar's novel designs: From variations on the couple to new couples in "The
Algerian Quartet". Ph.D., New York University, 2010.
El Sherif, Mona A. Selim. Cairo-Paris: The urban imaginary of the self. Ph.D.,U. of California, Berkeley,
2010.
Harrison, Olivia C. Cross-colonial poetics: Reading Palestine in Maghrebi literature. Ph.D., Columbia
U., 2010.
Karajayerlian, Asdghig. Large worlds/small places: Critical cosmopolitanism and stereoscopic vision in
the global postcolonial novel. Ph.D., Case Western Reserve U., 2010.
Kassel, Deborah. To have and have not: A poetics of ambivalence in the cine-ecriture of Marguerite
Duras, Assia Djebar, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala [Algeria]. Ph.D., City U. of New York, 2010.
MacDonald, T Spreelin. Steve Biko and black consciousness in post-apartheid South African poetry.
Ph.D., Ohio U., 2010.
Planche, Jill. "In a large landscape": Resonance of land and landscape in the literature and art of South
Africa. Ph.D., York U. (Can.), 2008.
Mass Communications
Akindes, Gerard A. Transnational television and football in francophone Africa: The path to electronic
colonization? [Senegal, Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina, and Cameroon]. Ph.D., Ohio U., 2010.
Carlson, Andrew F. Small business and the 2010 FIFA World Cup: The use of communication
technology in South African micro-enterprise. Ph.D., Ohio U.,2010.
Dillion, Katherine Gail. Friends watching "Friends": American television in Egypt. Ph.D., Arkansas State
U., 2006.
Hamilton, Kerry-Ann. The role of mobile phone technology in health interventions in rural communities:
A Kenyan exploratory study. Ph.D., Howard U., 2010.
Igboaka, Primus Chuks. Internet technology use and economic development: A case study of the rural
population of Ihiala village in southeastern Nigeria. Ph.D.,Bowling Green State U., 2010.
Zaid, Bouziane. Public service television policy and national development in Morocco. Ph.D., U. of
South Florida, 2009.
Music
Neely, Sionne Rameah. Sensing the sonic and mnemonic: Digging through grooves, Afro-feelings and
Black markets in Ghana, 1966-present. Ph.D., U. of Southern California, 2010.
Thielen-Gaffey, Tina L. David Fanshawe's African Sanctus: One work for one world [approx] through
one music [Egypt, Sudan, Uganda, and Kenya]. D.M.A., The U. of Iowa, 2010.
Philosophy
Basita, Germaine. Capacity development in conflict scenarios: Assessing donor support strategies to
local NGOs in Burundi. Ph.D., U. of Pittsburgh 2010, 206.
Joslin, Isaac V. Baroque and post/colonial sub-Saharan francophone Africa: The aesthetic embodiment
of unreason. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 2010.
Physical Sciences
Alabi, Omowumi Oluwayemisi. An investigation on using GIS to prospect for renewable energy in
Nigeria. Ph.D., U. of Missouri - Kansas City, 2010.
Patricola, Christina Marie. Processes and prediction of climate change in northern Africa and the central
United States. Ph.D., Cornell U., 2010.
Political Science
Alazandani, Bakeel Ahmed. The Bush Doctrine, the War on Terror, and American promotion of
democracy in the Middle East: The cases of Egypt and Yemen. Ph.D.,U. of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2010.
Baldwin, Kate. Big men and ballots The effects of traditional leaders on elections and distributive
politics in Zambia. Ph.D., Columbia U., 2010.
Barrett, Robert Sean. Strategy and the forces of group violence in Africa: The case of Toto Local
Government. Ph.D., U. of Calgary (Can.), 2010.
Bouasria, Abdelilah. The secret politics of the Sufi: The sultan and the saint in modern Morocco. Ph.D.,
The American U., 2010.
Castillo Diaz, Pablo. The international criminal court in Central and Eastern Africa: Between the
possible and the desirable. Ph.D., Rutgers The State U. of New Jersey - Newark, 2010.
Cohen, Dara Kay. Explaining sexual violence during civil war [Sierra Leone]. Ph.D., Stanford U., 2010.
Gebremariam, Kassu. The Horn of Africa: Protracted conflicts in the struggle for state-building. Ph.D.,
York U. (Can.), 1996.
Kpessa, Michael Whyte. Resistance, continuity, and change: he politics of pension reforms in Englishspeaking Sub-Saharan Africa. Ph.D., McMaster U. (Can.), 2009.
Long, Catherine Anne. Structuring decentralization: Hybrid institutions in Tanzanian public health and
financial management interventions. Ph.D., Boston U., 2010.
Macalou, Marietou. The politicization of the Malian civil service in the context of democratization.
Ph.D., U. of Pittsburgh, 2010.
Marin, Victor Claudio. Arms racing and conflict in the Third World: 1970-2000.Ph.D., Rice U., 238.
Marr, Stephen D. Spaces of aspiration, liberation and exclusion: The politics of urban space in an
African democracy [Botswana]. Ph.D., U. of Florida, 2008.
Masebo, Oswald. Society, state, and infant welfare: Negotiating medical interventions in colonial
Tanzania, 1920-1950. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 2010.
McIntyre Miller, Whitney. Postconflict community development in Sierra Leone: Western, cultural, and
national influences. Ph.D., U. of San Diego, 2010.
Mohamed Elowny, Mohamed Kamal. Civil society organizations in Egypt (1981-2008): A comparative
analysis of the critical factors affecting their performance and development. Ph.D., U. of Idaho, 2010.
Moult, Kelley. Gatekeepers or rights keepers?: Domestic violence court clerks and the administration of
justice in South Africa. Ph.D., The American U., 2010.
Orubebe, Bibobra Bello. Environmental legal implications of oil and gas exploration in the Niger Delta of
Nigeria. Ph.D., The American U., 2009.
Sajed, Alina. Postcolonial encounters in the Maghreb: Transgressing international relations. Ph.D.,
McMaster U. (Can.), 2008.
Sneyd, Adam. Globalization, cotton and poverty south of the Sahara. Ph.D., McMaster U. (Can.), 2009.
Taye, Yitayew Alemayehu. The state, nongovernmental organizations and the making of the Charities
and Societies Proclamation No. 621 of 2009 in Ethiopia-historical and institutional perspectives. Ph.D.,
Northeastern U., 2010.
Taylor, Gwendolyn Hall. Choosing to fight: The dynamics of civil war participation in Burundi. Ph.D.,
New York U., 2010.
Tiky, Narcisse L. The causes of corruption: Explaining the high levels of corruption in developing
countries [Cameroon]. Ph.D., The U. of Texas at Dallas, 2010.
Wai, Zubairu. Interpreting African conflicts: Power, knowledge and the discourse of violence on the
Sierra Leone Civil War. Ph.D., York U. (Can.),2010.
Walley, Bernard Jagre. Essays on international research and development spillovers. Ph.D., The U. of
Nebraska - Lincoln, 2010.
Psychology
Bentley, Jacob A. Cross-cultural assessment of psychological symptoms among Somali refugees.
Ph.D., Seattle Pacific U., 2011.
Hudson-Koster, Marie. The making of Mau Mau: The power of the oath. Ph.D.,Rice U., 2010.
Kagume, Daphne Wambui. A multiple case study of social cognitive influences on career choice in
Science, Mathematics and Technology among Kenyan women. Ph.D., Oregon State U., 2010.
Kamau, Thomas M. Psychosocial correlates of adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in people
living with HIV in Kenya. Ph.D., Seton Hall U., 2010.
Lin, Nancy J. Journeys to selves and identities: Cambodian and Southern
Sudanese refugee experiences. Ph.D., U. of Massachusetts Boston, 2010.
Mbuge, Sipho. Political violence in South Africa: A case study of "necklacing" in Colesberg. Ph.D.,
Duquesne U., 2010.
Ngazimbi, Evadne E. Exploring the relationship between marital expectations and marital satisfaction
between married African immigrant couples and United States born married couples. Ph.D., U. of
Central Florida, 2009.
Osemwegie, Stella T. Privileging the voices of Nigerian children: A phenomenological study of their
lived experiences following the loss of loved ones to stigmatized death. Ph.D., Capella U., 2010.
Rakwena, Kagelo Henry. Marital satisfaction and intimacy: Gender role attitudes and spousal support in
Botswana. Ph.D., Loma Linda U., 2010.
Religion
Andreicut, Gavril. The Church's unity and authority: Augustine's effort to convert the Donatists. Ph.D.,
Marquette U., 2010.
Ausec, Cindy Lee. Gods who hear prayers: Popular piety or kingship in three Theban monuments of
New Kingdom Egypt. Ph.D., U. of California, Berkeley, 2010.
Gardner, Amy Harriet. Incorporating divine presence, orchestrating medical worlds: Cultivating
corporeal capacities of therapeutic power and transcendence in Ifa everyday practice [Nigeria]. Ph.D.,
U. of California, Berkeley, 2010.
Hardwicke, Jim. An examination of the life and work of forgotten missionary pioneer T. J. Bowen
[Nigeria]. Ph.D., Southwest Baptist Theo. Sem., 2010.
McComb, Veronica Savory. The bonds of faith: Religion and community among Nigerian immigrants in
the U.S., 1965-present. Ph.D., Boston U., 2010.
Nwoji, Stanley. The missional status of African Christians in diaspora: A case of the African Christian
Fellowship and African-led churches in the United States of America. Ph.D., Asbury Theo. Sem., 2009.
Nyasulu, Timothy Kabulunga. "Bringing the sheep back to the corral": Moral discipline in the Church of
Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) Synod of Livingstonia, Malawi, 1995-2005. Ph.D., Trinity
International U., 2010.
Viale, Dorothea Kahena. When the Western gaze and Islamist attitudes collude: Raqs al-Sharqi in the
twentieth century [Egypt]. Ph.D., The Claremont Graduate U., 2010.
Social Work
Barney, Robert J. Diffusion attributes as antecedents of organizational commitment among PEPFAR
staff in South Africa. Ph.D., U. of Louisville, 2010.
Lomotey, Jonathan. Exploring the concepts of partnership and their implications for HIV and AIDS
prevention and care in two Ghanaian communities. Ph.D., Wilfred Laurier U. (Can.), 2010.
Tachble, Admasu A. Fathering perceptions and experiences of Ethiopian immigrant/refugee men in a
Canadian urban centre. Ph.D., U. of Calgary, 2010.
Sociology
Achvarina, Vera V. Child soldiers in intrastate conflicts: An empirical analysis [Liberia]. Ph.D., U. of
Pittsburgh, 2010.
Asave, Rebecca Ashley. Cocoa establishment and shade management in Ghana's Ashanti region:
Understanding the main factors driving farmers' decision processes and practices. Ph.D., Yale U.,
2010.
Moraes Dias de Silva, Graziella. Re-making race, class, and nation: Black professionals in Brazil and
South Africa. Ph.D., Harvard U., 2010.
Pendaz, Sadie. Collective identity and African American views of Africa, African immigrants, and
immigrant entitlements. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 2010.
Theology
Lugazia, Faith. Towards an African inculturation biblical pneumatology: A response to the rise of neoPentecostalism in Tanzanian Christianity. Ph.D., Luther Sem., 2010.
Women's Studies
Akita, Edward M. Hegemony, patriarchy and human rights: The representation of Ghanaian women in
politics. Ph.D., Ohio U., 2010.
Gailey, Robert Charles. Social capital and economic empowerment: A longitudinal analysis of the
relationship between changes in the value of accumulated assets and measures of social capital among
rural South African women. Ph.D., U. of San Diego, 2010.
Jatau, Phebe Veronica. Complications and complexities in the schooling experiences of young northern
Nigerian women living in Zaria. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 2010.
Mitchell, Stephanie L. Assimilation and acculturation: The effects of family, religion, and culture on the
public education of Somali females in rural southwest Minnesota. Ph.D., Capella U., 2010.
Murray, Donna L. Female North African-French students in France: Narratives of educational
experiences. Ph.D., U. of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2010.
Wertheimer, Sophie M. (Re)inserting women's accounts into HIV prevention in Ghana. Ph.D., U. of
Calgary (Can.), 2010.