Current Projects

Queen Elizabeth Scholarship-Advanced Scholars Program-West Africa  | 2022 – 2024

The Africa Indigenous Knowledge Research Network | 2024-2026

Recent Projects

The Continental Forum on Diaspora, Higher Education, Research and Innovation in Africa | 2019 – 2020

African Union–EU Relations, Regional Partnerships for Actorness in Effective Global Governance, (Project AURORA) | 2022 – 2024

The Uganda Collection | Archives and Special Collections

Sexual Violence and Conflict in Africa

Artisanal and small-scale mining and gender in sub-Saharan Africa

The African Court Research Initiative (ACRI)

Conferences

10th Anniversary: Conference & Banquet  | 2020

Solidarity and the Shifting Structures of Hegemony in Southern Africa: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. A Conference and Festschrift honoring Professor Linda Freeman March 1 – 2, 2018

Beyond SDG 5: African Women Innovation and the Future, May 18th, 2017

From Climate Change to Environmental Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for Africa and Canada, May 4, 2016

Human Rights and the Public Sphere in Africa, March 4-5, 2016.

5th Annual Institute of African Studies Undergraduate Research Conference, October 5, 2019

4th Annual Institute of African Studies Undergraduate Research Conference, October 13, 2018

3rd Annual Institute of African Studies Undergraduate Research Conference, 2017

2nd Annual Institute of African Studies Undergraduate Research Conference, October 2016

Inaugural Carleton University Institute of African Studies Undergraduate Conference, October 17, 2015

Publications

The role of the diaspora in advancing higher education

Tapping into the diaspora – The search for sustainability

The African diaspora scholar – Living in a ‘third space’

Reconfiguring diaspora – From brain drain to brain gain

Journal of Pan-African Wisdom (previous articles)

“Remember the Women of Osiri”: Women and Gender in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Migori County, Kenya (Buss et. al)(Forthcoming)

Gender and ASM: Implications for Formalization (Buss et. al)

Gendering Women’s Livelihoods in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: An Introduction (Buss and Rutherford)

Conflict Minerals and Sexual Violence in Central Africa: Troubling Research (by project researcher Doris Buss) (paywall)

Women in Democratic Republic of Congo Create Network to Empower Women in Mining Communities (IMPACT)

Women in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: Challenges and opportunities for greater participation