Senegal

Kerry Cook

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Kerry Cook's research centers on predicting and understanding climate change and climate variability around the world, including Africa, South America, and the central U.S. Her group uses numerical models of the climate system, including atmosphere, ocean, and vegetation components, along with observational analysis to improve understanding about processes at the earth's surface interact with atmospheric circulation and precipitation fields.

Celina de Sá

Anthropology, African & African Diaspora Studies

Celina de Sá's research focuses on performance and race through grassroots social networks in West Africa, looking at the Afro-Brazilian martial art, capoeira, as a window into the contemporary dynamics of both racial self-making and coloniality in Senegal.

Melanie Lamotte

History, French and Italian

Melanie Lamotte is a historian of race, colonialism, and slavery in the early modern period. Her work focuses on the French colonial world, with an emphasis on Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, French Louisiana, Senegal, India and Isle Bourbon, in the South-West Indian Ocean.

Vijay Mahajan

Marketing

Vijay Mahajan's areas of expertise include marketing strategy, product diffusion, research methodology and the Global South.

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