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.
70, no. 9-11 (March-May 2010). Each citation ends with the order number, if any. See UMI Dissertation
Publishing at http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/ for abstracts and other details. This is
the 86th quarterly supplement to American and Canadian Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses on
Africa, 1974-1987 (1989)..
Agriculture
Diallo, Marthe. Diagnostic study of farmers seed quality and variety preference in southern Mali. Ph.D.,
Michigan State U., 2009. 3381112.
Gordon, Jeffrey Solomon. Reseeding tomato production in West Africa: Identification and deployment of
high yielding cultivars resistant to tomato yellow leaf curl disease. Ph.D., Cornell U., 2009. 3376559.
Anthropology
Bourdon, Natalie J. Mediated norms and legal encounters: Localizing women's human rights and feminism
in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Ph.D., Michigan State U., 2009. 3381094.
Fancher, Jason M. An ethnoarchaeological analysis of small prey bone assemblages produced by forest
foragers of the Central African Republic. Ph.D., Washington State U., 2009. 3382092.
Griffin, William D. The Matitanana archaeological project: Culture history and social complexity in the seven
rivers region of southeastern Madagascar. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2009. 3382197.
Jackson, Nicholas A. The spectacle of neoclassical economics: The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum
Development Project and exploitation in the Niger delta and the Chad basin. Ph.D., U. of Denver, 2009.
3372477.
Mahoney, Dillon. The art of connection: Negotiating the digital divide in Kenya's curio industry. Ph.D.,
Rutgers The State U. of New Jersey- New Brunswick, 2009. 3379158.
Malit, Nasser Richard. Reappraising African Homo erectus using phenetic and evolutionary methods.
Ph.D., State U. of New York at Binghamton, 2009. 3371879.
Muchiri, Margaret. The experiences of women who have said "no" to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): A
multiple case study among the Kikuyu of Kenya. Ph.D., Gonzaga U., 2009. 3377943.
Osei-Tutu, Brempong. Slave castles, African American activism and Ghana's memorial entrepreneurism.
Ph.D., Syracuse U., 2009. 3385837.
Phillips, Kristin D. Building the nation from the hinterlands: Poverty, participation, and education in rural
Tanzania. Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009. 3384372.
Smith, Courtney Paige. The politics of the marked body: An examination of female genital cutting and
breast implantation [Senegal]. Ph.D., U. of Oregon, 2009. 3377400.
Sumner, T. Alexandra. Learning and cognition among Middle Palaeolithic stone toolmakers of Egyptian
North Africa. Ph.D., U. of Toronto (Can.), 2009. NR52533.
Taylor, Craig P. The design and uses of bath-house palaestrae in Roman North Africa. Ph.D., U. of Alberta
(Can.), 2009. NR51252.
Biological Sciences
Affolabi, Dissou. Development of simple and inexpensive tools for the control of mycobacterial diseases in a
low-resource country [benin]. Ph.D., U. Antwerpen (Belg.), 2009. 3380649.
Ferreira de Lima Roque de Pinho, Maria Joana. "Staying together": People-wildlife relationships in a
pastoral society in transition, Amboseli ecosystem, southern Kenya. Ph.D., Colorado State U., 2009.
3385143.
Gregory, Nathan Cruse. Maintaining biodiversity in a working landscape: Anthropogenic fire and livestock
management shape the bird community in an East African savanna. Ph.D., Princeton U., 2009. 3378012.
Idaghdour, Youssef. Genetic and environmental components of human leukocyte gene expression variation
in Morocco. Ph.D., North Carolina State U., 2009. 3377574.
Machanda, Zarin Pearl. The ecology of male-female social relationships among East African chimpanzees
[Uganda]. Ph.D., Harvard U., 2009. 3385464.
McElhinny, Teresa Lynn. Morphological variation in a durophagous carnivore, the spotted hyena, Crocuta
crocuta. Ph.D., Michigan State U., 2009. 3381299.
McKinnon, Lyle. HIV-specific CD8+ T cell phenotype and HIV-1 genetic diversity: Understanding the
interplay [Kenya]. Ph.D., U. of Manitoba (Can.), 2009. NR53005.
Mugambi, George K. East African biodiversity and molecular systematics of wood inhabiting ascomycete
fungi (Ascomycota) [Kenya]. Ph.D., U. of Illinois, Chicago, 2009. 3381045.
Oyugi, Julius Otieno. The role of CD4 polymorphism on HIV infection and disease progression. Ph.D., U. of
Manitoba (Can.), 2009. NR53007.
Pelc, Robin Alicia. Realized dispersal patterns in the ocean and the consequences for marine reserves
[South Africa]. Ph.D., U. of California, Santa Barbara, 2009. 3371675.
Turner, Wendy Christine. The ecology of orally ingested parasites in ungulates of Etosha National Park
[Namibia]. Ph.D., U. of California, Berkeley, 2009. 3383563.
Wertheim, Joel Okrent. Reconstructing the evolutionary history of RNA viruses using relaxed molecular
clocks. Ph.D., U. of Arizona, 2009. 3378827.
Business Administration
Coyle, E. Thomas. Fundamental constructs affecting business sustainability: An analysis of six mineral rich
African nations. Ph.D., U. of Texas-Pan American, 2008. DP18087.
Ezeogba-Odoemena, Peace C. C. Impact of African orphanage leadership on successful adoptions of
African orphans by American families. D.M., U. of Phoenix, 2009. 3384625.
Olanrewaju, John A. The influence of leadership on employees' commitment to the Nigerian Public Service:
Implications for organizational effectiveness. Ph.D., Capella U., 2009. 3379676.
Oyedele, Adesegun. Advertising appeals and cultural values in emerging consumer markets: Comparing
television commercials in sub-Saharan Africa. Ph.D., U. of Texas, 2008. DP18100.
Razakamanifidiny, Patrick Dany. Preparer une firme-reseau dans le transport routier des hydrocarbures le
cas de TOTAL Madagascar. D.B.A., U. de Sherbrooke and U. du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres (Can.), 2009.
NR50585.
Cinema
Ugor, Paul Ushang. Youth culture and the struggle for social space: The Nigerian video films. Ph.D., U. of
Alberta (Can.), 2009. NR51254.
Earth Sciences
Dutta, Tanima. Integrating sequence stratigraphy and rock-physics to interpret seismic amplitudes and
predict reservoir quality [Equatorial Africa]. Ph.D., Stanford U., 2009. 3382936.
Everett, Melanie Amber. Molecular and isotopic indicators of paleoenvironmental change in low-organiccarbon soils with applications to Pleistocene archaeological sites in Greece, Algeria, and Ethiopia. Ph.D.,
Indiana U., 2009.
3378345.
Moore, Jacob C. The role of mafic heterogeneity in the generation of lavas on Mauritius. Ph.D., Cornell U.,
2009. 3376629.
Economics
Adelman, Sarah W. Early childhood nutritional responses to targeted food aid and social network
disruptions in Ugandan internally displaced person's camps. Ph.D., U. of Maryland, College Park, 2009.
3372958.
Aminata Diagne, Mame Fatou Irene. Essays on the economics of information, education and job search
[South Africa]. Ph.D., U. of California, Berkeley, 2009. 3383046.
Ashraf, Quamrul H. Essays on deep determinants of comparative economic development. Ph.D., Brown U.,
2009. 3377097.
Baquedano, Felix G. Increasing incomes of cotton farmers in Mali: Effects of price increases, productivity
gains, and alternative crops. Ph.D., Purdue U., 2009. 3378692.
Bellows, John Lewis. Essays on the economics of voting, violence, and job search [Sierra Leone & South
Africa]. Ph.D., U. of California, Berkeley, 2009. 3382838.
Chantarat, Sommarat. Pro-poor risk management: Essays on the economics of index-based risk transfer
products [Kenya]. Ph.D., Cornell U., 2009. 3376520.
Dogbey, John. Spillover effects in financial and international development. Ph.D., West Virginia U., 2009.
3381178.
Garber, David S. Oil, investment, and economic development A detailed look at the advent of Chad's oil
sector. Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009. 3384544.
Green, Alan Morgan. The role of political institutions in economic development: An empirical investigation
[Madagascar]. Ph.D., Cornell U., 2009. 3376561.
Lee, Yoon. Economics of sustainable watershed management under alternative climate change scenarios
[Egypt & Sudan]. Ph.D., U. of Connecticut, 2009. 3377032.
Mishili, Fulgence Joseph. Grain legumes trade and markets: Spatial and temporal analysis for common
beans trade in Tanzania and its neighbors. Ph.D., Purdue U., 2009. 3378834.
Shimamura, Yasuharu. Three essays on children's education and rural credit programs in less developed
countries: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia [Malawi]. Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin - Madison,
2009. 3383960.
Suliman, Adil H. Three essays on the determinants of foreign direct investment in sub-Saharan Africa.
Ph.D., U. of Texas, 2007. DP18081.
Uaiene, Rafael Nemba. Determinants of agricultural technical efficiency and technology adoption in
Mozambique. Ph.D., Purdue U., 2008. 3373253.
Education
Ande, Taiwo A. Academic leadership experiences of foreign-born African immigrants in American
institutions of higher education. Ph.D., Indiana State U., 2009. 3374720.
Awokoya, Janet Tolulope. "I'm not enough of anything!": The racial and ethnic identity constructions and
negotiations of one-point-five and second generation Nigerians. Ph.D., U. of Maryland, College Park, 2009.
3372817.
Collins, Christopher Steven. Higher education and knowledge for nation-state development: The role of the
World Bank and U.S. universities in poverty reduction in the developing world [Uganda]. Ph.D., U. of
California, Los Angeles, 2009. 3374932.
Collins, John M. Examining the role of schooling in the HIV and AIDS pandemic: Disentangling schooling's
effect on infection, sexual behavior, and decision-making [Ghana]. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State U., 2009.
3374469.
Dadzie, Dominic S. Cost sharing and equity in higher education: Experiences of selected Ghanaian
students. Ph.D., Ohio U., 2009. 3371486.
Davis-Craig, Andrea-La Toya. Building community: African dancing and drumming in the little village of
Tallahassee, Florida. Ph.D., Florida State U., 2009. 3373983.
Dongkore, Gregory B. The church and state in partnership: Toward a new day for rural education in
northern Ghana. Ph.D., Claremont Graduate U., 2009. 3386143.
Dryden-Peterson, Sarah Elizabeth. Where is the village? Pathways to integration for African migrants to the
United States. Ed.D, Harvard U., 2009. 3385015.
Henriques, Simao. An evaluation of English as a foreign language textbooks for secondary schools in
Angola. Ph.D., U. of Kansas, 2009. 3372353.
Kajuna, Laxford W. Implementation of technology integration in higher education: A case study of the
University of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania. Ph.D., Ohio U., 2009. 3372309.
Lehr, Sabine. The children of the isle of youth: Impact of a Cuban South-South education program on
Ghanaian graduates. Ph.D., U. of Victoria (Can.), 2008. NR52955.
Major, Thenjiwe Emily. Perceptions of pre service primary student teachers of their preparatory program:
The case of Botswana. Ed.D., Ball State U., 2009. 3379195.
Mawila, Felicity Ntwanano Kaluke. Manifestations of race and gender equity post-merger: A case study of a
merger in South African higher education. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2009. 3382283.
Medhanit, Belayneh. Impact of acculturation on the socialization patterns of Ethiopian immigrant students in
the Twin Cities. Ed.D., St Mary's U. of Minnesota, 2009. 3372716.
Mekonnen, Emebet. Empowering African women using education as a key: A case study of women in
Ethiopia. Ed.D., Alliant International U., Fresno, 2009. 3378340.
Nur, Mohamed Ali. Do Spanish speakers have advantage over Somali speakers as English language
learners?. Ph.D., TUI U., 2009. 3377689.
Nyarambi, Arnold. A historical analysis of post-genocide Rwandan special education: Lessons derived and
future directions. Ph.D., Tennessee Technological U., 2009. 3379415.
Owu-Ewie, Charles. Enhancing the thinking skills of pre-service teachers: A case study of Komenda
Teacher Training College. Ph.D., Ohio U., 2008. 3375100.
Phan, Ha T. Correlates of mathematics achievement in developed and developing countries: An HLM
analysis of TIMSS 2003 eighth-grade mathematics scores [Egypt & South Africa]. Ph.D., U. of South
Florida, 2008. 3376214.
Piper, Benjamin. Student-centered pedagogy's causal mechanisms: An explanatory mixed methods
analysis of the impact of in-service teacher professional development in Ethiopia. Ed.D., Harvard U., 2009.
3385031.
Plonski, Patrick J. Use of test score and interview data in a comparative case study of the influence of
donated English language books upon reading fluency and comprehension scores for Tanzanian secondary
school students. Ph.D., U.of Minnesota, 2009. 3371894.
Sackey, Margaret Mary. An examination of preschool services in selected communities in Tema
municipality (Ghana). Ph.D., Ohio U., 2009. 3371598.
Salem, Muhammad Solyman Abdel-Sayed. The effect of journal writing on written performance, writing
apprehension, and attitudes of Egyptian English majors. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State U., 2007. 3380780.
Sow, Amadou Beidy. An understanding of the leadership characteristics of Malian teacher-politicians 19922007. Ph.D., Ohio U., 2009. 3371599.
Udemgba, Simon Ibezimchi. Implications of literacy to perceived wellness and positive self-concept: A
causal comparative analysis of enrolled versus non-enrolled adults in literacy programs [Nigeria]. Ph.D.,
Capella U., 2009.
3372750.
Ugwuozor, Felix. Democratic education in Nigeria: Context and imperatives. Ed.D., Montclair State U.,
2009. 3382434.
Wiley, Jennifer. Voices of urban township principals in the new South Africa: A source of hope and renewal
for a multiracial democracy. Ed.D., U. of Washington, 2009. 3377088.
Wilson, Felicia Renee. Girls' Education Movement (GEM): Study of program implementation and
partnerships for education development in Cape Town, South Africa. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State U., 2009.
3374565.
Environmental Sciences
Boya Busquet, Mireia. Rapport a la nature et strategies integrees de conservation et developpement: Le
cas de Sao Tome et Principe. Ph.D., U. de Montreal (Can.), 2008. NR52867.
Ibrahim, Asma Turadu. Use of MERIS data to detect the impact of flood inundation on land cover changes
in the Lake Chad Basin. Ph.D., Hong Kong Polytechnic U. (H.K.), 2009. 3384846.
Watkins, Cristy A. Natural resource use in a forest-adjacent village in western Uganda: Attitudes, behaviors
and the links in between. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2009. 3382469.
Fine Arts
Bridges, Nichole Neypes. Contact, commentary, and Kongo memory: Souvenir ivories from Africa's Loango
Coast, ca. 1840-1910. Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin- Madison, 2009. 0822093.
Pruitt, Jennifer A. Fatimid architectural patronage and changing sectarian identities (969-1021) [Egypt].
Ph.D., Harvard U., 2009. 3385476.
Geography
Beardsley, Karen. An impact analysis of future human settlements on biological resources and greenhouse
gas emissions in California, and on wildlife corridors in a Maasai group ranch in Kenya. Ph.D., U. of
California, Davis, 2009. 3385731.
Lopez, Anna Carla. Spatial patterns of urban food security in Accra, Ghana: A geographic analysis of
household hunger in an African city. Ph.D., U. of California, Santa Barbara and San Diego State U., 2009.
3379488.
Negi, Rohit. Copper capitalism today: Space, state and development in North Western Zambia. Ph.D., Ohio
State U., 2009. 3375914.
Tomaszewski, Brian Michael. A geovisual analytics approach for producing geo-historical context [Sudan].
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State U., 2009. 3374553.
Health Sciences
Bellows, Benjamin West. Social and structural determinants of prevalence and treatment of sexually
transmitted infections in southwestern Uganda. Ph.D., U. of California, Berkeley, 2009. 3382837.
Bowles, Margaret Elizabeth. Culture care beliefs, meanings and practices related to health and well-being
of South Sudanese "Lost Boy and Lost Girl" refugees. Ph.D., Duquesne U., 2009. 3374252.
Braunstein, Sarah Lomax. The added value of data on HIV incidence rates and risk factors, and the
promise of new methodologies [Rwanda]. Ph.D., Columbia U., 2009. 3386122.
Brown, Darigg Collis. Reducing HIV and AIDS stigma among university students in South Africa. Ph.D.,
Pennsylvania State U., 2009. 3380878.
Butler, Lisa Michelle. Epidemiologic studies of human herpes virus 8 [South Africa & Uganda]. Ph.D., U. of
California, Berkeley, 2009. 3382847.
Dey, Subhojit. Urban-rural differences of female cancers in Gharbiah, Egypt. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2009.
3382060.
Douglas,, Gerald Paul. Engineering an EMR system in the developing world Necessity is the mother of
invention [Malawi]. Ph.D., U. of Pittsburgh, 2009. 3375276.
Fleming, Jessica Ann. Effectiveness of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) conjugate vaccine in the
prevention of Hib meningitis in Senegal. Ph.D., U. of Washington, 2009. 3377238.
Florey, Lia Smith. Epidemiology of polyparasitism in coastal Kenya: Determinants, interactions and health
effects of Plasmodium species and Schistosoma haematobium infections. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2009.
3382182.
Gimbel-Sherr, Kenneth. Health workforce and HIV care: Task shifting to non-physician clinicians in
Mozambique. Ph.D., U. of Washington, 2009. 0822051.
Guthrie, Brandon L. Transmission and potential resistance among HIV-1-discordant couples [kenya].
Ph.D., U. of Washington, 2009. 0822054.
Iwuagwu, Stella C. Sexual and reproductive decisions and experiences of women living with HIV/AIDS in
Abuja, Nigeria. Ph.D., Southern Illinois U. at Carbondale, 2009. 3372530.
Jennings, Larissa. Quality and impact of maternal and newborn care counseling by skilled and lay health
providers in Zou/Collines, Benin. Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins U., 2009. 3381485.
MacIntyre, Linda Margaret. How can non-government organizational perspectives inform community based
participatory research in Malawi, Central Africa?. Ph.D., U. of California, San Francisco, 2009. 3378499.
Medina, Rebecca A. Biologically active cyclic depsipeptides from marine cyanobacteria [Madagascar].
Ph.D., Oregon State U., 2009. 3376794.
Schwandt, Hilary M. Abortion, unmet need, and family planning service provision among gynecology
patients in Ghana. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins U., 2009. 3381658.
Semrau, Katherine Elizabeth Amanda. Breastfeeding and HIV: Relationships between infant feeding
patterns, breast pathology and maternal health [Zambia]. Ph.D., Boston U., 2009. 3382582.
Vanderwal, Londa Sue. Improving the health, safety, and productivity of women vegetable farmers in the
Gambia. Ph.D., U. of Iowa, 2009. 3383176.
Woodroffe, Jennifer Abigail. Identifying genes and loci for complex diseases: Examples from primary open
angle glaucoma and schizophrenia [South Africa]. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2009. 3382476.
Wouters, Edwin. Building HIV/AIDS care capacity in society: A social study of achievements and challenges
in antiretroviral treatment rollout in a resource-constrained setting [South Africa]. Ph.D., U. Antwerpen
(Belg.), 2009. 3380659.
History
Adal, Raja. Nationalizing aesthetics: Art education in Egypt and Japan, 1872-1950. Ph.D., Harvard U.,
2009. 3385523.
Aiyar, Sana. Nation, race and politics amongst the South Asian diaspora: From colonial Kenya to
multicultural Britain. Ph.D., Harvard U., 2009. 3385524.
Chowdhury, Amitava. Horizons of memory: A global processual study of cultural memory and identity of the
South Asian indentured labor diaspora in the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean [Mauritius]. Ph.D.,
Washington State U., 2008. 3375814.
Derr, Jennifer Leslee. Cultivating the state: Cash crop agriculture, irrigation, and the geography of authority
in colonial southern Egypt, 1868-1931. Ph.D., Stanford U., 2009. 3382713.
Duke Bryant, Kelly M. The politics of education in Senegal, 1885-1914. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins U., 2009.
3381536.
Goldsworthy, Patricia Marie. Colonial negatives: The prohibition and commodification of photography in
Sharifian and French Morocco. Ph.D., U. of California, Irvine, 2009. 3371643.
Harris, Shannon Vance. Politics, discourses and contradictions: Galandou Diouf in French colonial Senegal,
1890-1941. Ph.D., Michigan State U., 2009. 3381230.
Johnson, Andi. Human performance: An ethnographic and historical account of exercise physiology [Kenya
& South Africa]. Ph.D., U. of Pennsylvania, 2009. 3381628.
M'bayo, Tamba Eadric. African interpreters, mediation, and the production of knowledge in colonial
Senegal: The lower and middle Senegal Valley, ca. 1850s to ca. 1920s. Ph.D., Michigan State U., 2009.
3381298.
Moindi, Kennedy Mokaya. State economic policy and development in Kenya: A study of African
entrepreneurship in Kisii Township and its environs, 1930-1978. Ph.D., West Virginia U., 2008. 3376439.
Morrison, Heidi. Childhood, modernity, and nation-building in Egypt, 1890-1939. Ph.D., U. of California,
Santa Barbara, 2009. 3371667.
Patterson, Molly Benjamin. South Arabian maritime expansion and the origins of East African Islam: 12001500. Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin- Madison, 2009. 3384399.
Patterson, Monica Eileen. Constructions of childhood in apartheid's last decades. Ph.D., U. of Michigan,
2009. 3382324.
Russ-Fishbane, Elisha R. Between politics and piety: Abraham Maimonides and his times [Egypt]. Ph.D.,
Harvard U., 2009. 3385438.
Van Beurden, Sarah. Authentically African: African arts and postcolonial cultural politics in transnational
perspective (Congo (DRC), Belgium and the USA, 1955-1980). Ph.D., U. of Pennsylvania, 2009. 3381878.
Journalism
Onyebadi, Uche. Towards an examination and expansion of the agenda setting theory: Did the media
matter in Kenya's presidential election, 2007?. Ph.D., U. of Missouri, 2008. 3374913.
Language
Brugman, Johanna Christina. Segments, tones and distribution in Khoekhoe prosody [Namibia]. Ph.D.,
Cornell U., 2009. 3376514.
Versluys, Eline. "We the Dakarois have a broken wolof": The construction of social identity in a multilingual
context. Dr., U. Antwerpen (Belg.), 2009. 3383896.
Law
Odinkonigbo, Jirinwayo Jude. Re-thinking the Nigerian tax policy toward achieving tax compliance. Ph.D.,
York U. (Can.), 2009. NR51758.
Literature
Brust, Imke. Narrating the imagination of unified nations in post-apartheid South Africa and post-wall
Germany. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State U., 2009. 3374458.
Green-Simms, Lindsey. Postcolonial automobility: West Africa and the road to globalization. Ph.D., U. of
Minnesota, 2009. 3371850.
Knight, Lucienne. Violent legacies: Family and nation in post 1990s Algerian literature. Ph.D., Emory U.,
2009. 3378449.
Ong'oa-Morara, Rose. One size fits all: The interplay of kanga, makawa Swahili poetry, and taarab in the
communication of Zanzibari women. Ph.D., Arkansas State U., 2009. 3379650.
Payet, Marie-Ange. Les femmes dans le marronnage a l'ile Bourbon de 1662 a 1848 [Reunion]. Ph.D., City
U. of New York, 2009. 3378616.
Phillips, Delores Bobbie Jean. In questionable taste eating culture, cooking culture in Anglophone
postcolonial texts. Ph.D., U. of Maryland, College Park, 2009. 3372901.
Ratcliff, Anthony J. Liberation at the end of a pen: Writing Pan-African politics of cultural struggle. Ph.D., U.
of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. 3372273.
Runia, Robin. Hearkening to whores: Reviving eighteenth-century models of sensible writing [South Africa].
Ph.D., U. of New Mexico, 2009. 3374708.
Shringarpure, Bhakti. "Warscapes": Perspectives on a literature of postcolonial violence. Ph.D., City U. of
New York, 2009. 3378642.
Tanoukhi, Nirvana. The scale of world literature: Strategies of contextualization in the postcolonial novel
and beyond. Ph.D., Stanford U., 2009. 3382901.
Waliaula, Kennedy Athanasias. The incarcerated self: Narratives of political confinement in Kenya. Ph.D.,
Ohio State U., 2009. 3375770.
Mass Communications
Dako-Gyeke, Phyllis. Examining the meaning-making of HIV/AIDS media campaign messages: A feminist
ethnography in Ghana. Ph.D., Bowling Green State U., 2009. 3377862.
Douai, Aziz. International broadcasting and the management of foreign public opinion: The case of Al-Hurra
Television in the "Arab Street" [Morocco]. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State U., 2009. 3374480.
Elmasry, Mohamad Hamas. Producing the news in Egypt: A press system study of Cairo newpapers.
Ph.D., U. of Iowa, 2009. 3383132.
Gathigi, George W. Radio listening habits among rural audiences: An ethnographic study of Kieni West
Division in Central Kenya. Ph.D., Ohio U., 2009. 3372302.
Ofori-Birikorang, Andrews. Promoting a new health policy in the Ghanaian media: Newspaper framing of the
national health insurance scheme from 2005-2007. Ph.D., Ohio U., 2009. 3372359.
Music
Emberly, Andrea. "Mandela went to China...and India too": Musical cultures of childhood in South Africa.
Ph.D., U. of Washington, 2009. 3377342.
Gbolonyo, Justice Stephen Kofi. Want the history? Listen to the music. Historical evidence in Anlo Ewe
musical practices: A case study of traditional song texts. Ph.D., U. of Pittsburgh, 2009. 3375285.
Pier, David G. The Senator National Cultural Extravaganza of Uganda: A branded African traditional music
competition. Ph.D., City U. of New York, 2009. 3372797.
Philosophy
Diddy, Kondjo Brossala. The missing profiles and co-presencing: Finding a horizon of mutuality and
intersubjectivity for a democratic political society in Husserl's phenomenology [Chad]. Ph.D., Boston Coll.,
2009. 3384619.
Johnson, Leigh M. Haunted democracies and the politics of possibility: A deconstructive analysis of truth
commissions [South Africa]. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State U., 2007. 3380750.
Physical Sciences
Arthur, Maria de Fatima Serra Ribeiro. On the energy sources of Mozambican households and the demandsupply curves for domestic electricity in the northern electrical grid in Mozambique. Ph.D., Colorado State
U., 2009. 3385136.
Mechtenberg, Abigail Reid. Understanding the importance of an energy crisis [Uganda]. Ph.D., U. of
Michigan, 2009. 3382286.
Political Science
Ayachi, Kacem A. Mass attitudes and support for democracy in the Arab world: An empirical study of
Algeria, Egypt, Jordan and Morocco. Ph.D., U. of Texas at Dallas, 2009. 3373931.
Christou, Odysseas. The ties that bind: Norms, networks, information, and the organization of political
violence [Sierra Leone]. Ph.D., U. of Texas at Austin, 2009. 3372453.
Kinya, Mbaari. An assessment of human development in Kenya in relation to external aid: 1975-2000.
Ph.D., Union Institute and U., 2009. 3384978.
Kyarimpa, Genevieve Enid. Comparative administrative reform: The rhetoric and reality of the Civil Service
reform programs in Uganda and Tanzania. Ph.D., Florida International U., 2009. 3381959.
McAntony, Tilla Sewe. Public sector management reforms in Africa: Analysis of anticorruption strategies in
Kenya. Ph.D., Syracuse U., 2009. 3384577.
Milburn, Sarah Stafford. Power, patronage and "presence": How France preserved its influence in the
former "Afrique equatoriale francaise," 1960-1995. Ph.D., Rutgers The State U. of New Jersey- New
Brunswick, 2009. 3379162.
Ngqulunga, Bongani. Elusive equity: Democracy and the politics of social reform in South Africa after
apartheid. Ph.D., Brown U., 2009. 3377176.
Scarcelli, Marc Robert. Fault lines and battle lines: The causes of civil war [Cote d'Ivoire]. Ph.D., U. of
California, Davis, 2009. 3385716.
Selway, Joel Sawat. Constitutions, cleavages and coordination a socio-institutional theory of public goods
provision [Mauritius]. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2009. 3382401.
Thiam, Thierno. The paradigmatic logic of the emergence of international and security communities in
Africa. Ph.D., Purdue U., 2009. 3378892.
Tuomi, Krista Lauren. Fundamentals, tax incentives and foreign direct investment [South Africa]. Ph.D.,
American U., 2009. 3374303.
Whitehead, Richard L. Single-party rule in a multiparty age: Tanzania in comparative perspective. Ph.D.,
Temple U., 2009. 3372003.
Psychology
Borisova, Ivelina I. Child soldiers returning home from war: Family and caregiver impact on psychosocial
reintegration [Sierra Leone]. Ed.D., Harvard U., 2009. 3385008.
Brodeur, Michael David. Assessment of resilience and its protective factors in outreach volunteers
[Botswana& South Africa]. D.Psy., Antioch New England Graduate Sch., 2009. 3385340.
Tobias, Jutta Mathilde. Intergroup contact caused by institutional change: An exploration of the link between
deregulation in Rwanda's coffee sector and attitudes towards reconciliation. Ph.D., Washington State U.,
2008. 3382994.
Religion
Anyanwu, Chinenye Celestine. The relationship between universal law and particular law: An analysis of the
particular complementary norms of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria (CBCN). Ph.D., U. of
Ottawa (Can.), 2008. NR52329.
Kalembo, Alfred Mateyo. Caring for orphans in the Pilgrim Wesleyan Church of Zambia. D.Min., Asbury
Theological Seminary, 2009. 3385077.
Mas, Ruth. Margins of Tawhid: Liberalism and the discourse of plurality in contemporary Islam [North
Africa]. Ph.D., U. of Toronto (Can.), 2006. NR52761.
Matti, Aaron Kiura. Why charisma works: A case study exploring the effects of charismatic leadership on
the Kenyan East African Pentecostal Churches' denomination. Ph.D., Regent U., 2008. 3377769.
Pulei, Moses S.
Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary, Sch. of Theology, 2009. 3377744.
Smith, Milton R. Spiritual care for missionaries within the ministry context of Make Way Partners [Sudan].
D.Min, Gardner-Webb U., 2009. 3378425.
Tidjani, Serge Danialou. La formation des pretres diocesains au Benin a la lumiere de la legislation
canonique actuelle. Ph.D., U.of Ottawa (Can.), 2009. NR51805.
Wamutitu, Joseph Warui. Economic empowerment for missions: Empowering the church in Kenya for
holistic and cross-cultural ministry. Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary, Sch. of Theology, 2009. 3383824.
Social Work
Ukpo, Emmanuel E. Family leadership: Development of a parental leadership model for Sub-Saharan Africa
[Nigeria]. D.M., U. of Phoenix, 2009. 3375979.
Sociology
Akintayo, Michael O. Parenting among Pentecostal Nigerian Yoruba in the United States: A
phenomenological approach. Ph.D., Capella U., 2009. 3371715.
Al-Huraibi, Nahla Abdullah. Islam, gender and integration in transnational/heterolocalist contexts a case
study of Somali immigrant families in Columbus, Ohio. Ph.D., Ohio State U., 2009. 3375848.
Collins, Gregory Allen. Connected: Developing Somalia's telecoms industry in the wake of state collapse.
Ph.D., U. of California, Davis, 2009. 3385734.
Frost, Ashley E. Exploring the nature of gender-equitable attitudes among Ghanaian men: A mixed methods
study. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State U., 2009. 3380901.
Grant, Monica J. Education in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic: Three essays on the case of Malawi.
Ph.D., U. of Pennsylvania, 2009. 3381615.
Griffith, Fareeda M. Race and space in post-apartheid South Africa, 1996-2001. Ph.D., U. of Pennsylvania,
2009. 3381970.
Naanyu, Violet. Social context, stigma, and the role of causal attributions: Public evaluations of mental
illness in South Africa. Ph.D., Indiana U., 2009. 3378374.
Priest, Kersten Bayt. "Caring for the least of these": Christian women's short-term mission travel [South
Africa]. Ph.D., Loyola U., 2009. 3377753.
Reed, Holly Elizabeth. Networks in the new democracy: Internal migration and social networks in late
twentieth century South Africa. Ph.D., Brown U., 2009. 3377192.
Rombo, Dorothy Owino. Marital risk factors and HIV infection among women: A comparison between
Ghana and Kenya. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 2009. 3371897.
Schensul, Daniel. Remaking an apartheid city State-led spatial transformation in post-apartheid Durban,
South Africa. Ph.D., Brown U., 2009. 3377200.
Voyer, Andrea M. Doing difference: Diversity training, diversity talk and Somali immigrant incorporation in
Lewiston, Maine. Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009. 3384152.
Speech Communication
Diab, Rasha K. H. Rhetorical in(ter)vention and the dialectic of conflict and conflict resolution: Sulh and
Sadat's peacemaking rhetoric. Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009. 3384460.
Theater
Ball, John Agee. Missed connections: Antony Sher's Titus Andronicus in Johannesburg. Ph.D., U.of
Pittsburgh, 2009. 3375252.
Theology
Bekele, Girma. Listening to the cry of Hagar: David Bosch's theology of the Missional Alternative
Community viewed through the lens of Christian mission in Ethiopia. Ph.D., U. of St. Michael's Coll. (Can.),
2009. NR53117.
Women's Studies
Gilika, Mpho M. Lived experiences of Batswana women in national leadership positions. Ph.D., Capella U.,
2009. 3379266.
Nyamongo, Grace. Gusii women and small-scale family tea farming in Kenya. Ph.D., York U. (Can.), 2009.
NR52159.
Scruggs, Natoschia. Multiple exiles, myriad motives: Somali female migrants in Egypt. Ph.D., U. of
California, Berkeley, 2009. 3383449.