Each applicant will be expected to select a potential mentor from the list below and describe how your research complements the research of the mentor within the application.
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Les candidates devront choisir un mentor potentiel de la liste ci-dessous et expliquer, dans le cadre de leur demande, comment leur recherche enrichira celle du mentor. Les mentorats en langue française sont indiqués.
| Potential Mentors | Research Interests |
| Aaron Nsakanda | Management science and operations management; Quantitative modelling; French or English mentorship
Gestion scientifique et gestion opérationnelle ; modélisation quantitative. (Mentorat en français ou en anglais) |
| Aboubakar Sanogo | African and Afro-diasporic cinemas; Documentary film theory; History and form; Transnational and world cinemas; Film preservation and restoration; Colonial cinema; Early and silent cinema; Film festival studies; French or English mentorship
Cinéma d’Afrique et de la diaspora africaine ; théorie des films documentaires ; histoire et forme ; cinéma transnational et mondial ; conservation et restauration de films ; cinéma colonial ; début du cinéma et cinéma muet ; étude de festivals de films. (Mentorat en français ou en anglais) |
| Aisha Ibrahim (Co-PI) | African feminist scholar; Gender equality and social inclusion advocacy; Artisanal mining; Access to justice; Gender-based violence and disability; English mentorship |
| Blair Rutherford | Sociology and anthropology; Politics and international development, civil society in sub-Saharan Africa; Rural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa; Anthropology of citizenship, gender, state, and globalization; French or English mentorship
Sociologie et anthropologie ; politique et développement international ; société civile en Afrique sub-saharienne ; vie rurale en Afrique sub-saharienne ; anthropologie de la citoyenneté, du genre, de l’État, et de la mondialisation. (Mentorat en français ou en anglais) |
| Christine Duff | Institute of African Studies and the Department of French; Literature of French expression in Africa and the Caribbean, women’s writing, postcolonial studies; French or English mentorship
Institute of African Studies et Département de français ; littérature en langue française de l’Afrique et des Antilles ; écriture féminine ; études post-coloniales. (Mentorat en français ou en anglais) |
| Dana Brown | Business; International business; Social entrepreneurship; English mentorship |
| Diane Isabelle (Co-PI) | International business; International entrepreneurship; Technology & innovation management; French or English mentorship
Commerce international ; entrepreneuriat international ; gestion des technologies et de l’innovation. (Mentorat en français ou en anglais) |
| Doris Buss (Co-PI) | Law and legal studies; Gender and global governance; Rural mining livelihoods and gender in Sub-Saharan Africa; Gender and epistemology; French or English mentorship
Droit et études juridiques ; gouvernance mondiale et genre ; travail minier et genre en région rurale en Afrique sub-saharienne ; genre et épistémologie. (Mentorat en français ou en anglais) |
| Edana Cassol | Immunology and infectious disease; Investigating how chronic innate immune activation and dysregulated metabolism contribute to the pathogenesis of viral infections (HIV and SARS-CoV-2) and delayed wound healing; English mentorship |
| Farah Hosseinian | Pharmaceutical science; Phytochemicals with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities; Phytochemicals with anti-stress activities; Environmentally friendly extraction techniques including microwave and supercritical CO; Agri-food byproducts and their potential as a source of nutraceutical and functional food ingredients; English mentorship |
| Isaac Otchere | Finance; Sustainable investing; Corporate Social Responsibility; Climate change impact on financial Institutions; FDI & Host country competitiveness; Corporate Governance; Corporate board gender diversity; English mentorship |
| James Milner | Refugees and forced migration; Peacebuilding; United Nations and global governance; Humanitarian action: English mentorship |
| Julie Garlen | Interdisciplinary studies; Childhood; Early childhood education; Popular culture; Cultural curriculum studies; English mentorship |
| Monica Patterson (Co-PI) | Interdisciplinary studies; Children and youth; Childhood; Memory; Violence; Racism; Public history; Museums; Collaborative curating; Community engagement; English mentorship |
| Natasha Artemeva (Co-PI) | Linguistics and language studies; Writing studies; Applied linguistics; Education; English mentorship |
| Nduka Otiono (PI) | Institute of African Studies; Cultural studies; Oral performance and literature in Africa; Postcolonial studies; Media and communication; Globalization and popular culture; English mentorship |
| Onita Basu (Co-PI) | Environmental engineering; Wastewater Treatment; Biofiltration; English mentorship |
| Sanjeena Dang | Computational Statistics; Biostatistics; Bioinformatics; Machine Learning; Clustering; Classification; High dimensional data; Microbiome data; RNAseq data; Multi-omics analysis; English mentorship |
| Shireen Hassim (Co-PI) | Institute of African Studies; Feminist theory; Politics, social movements, and collective action; English mentorship |
| Shirley Mills (Co-PI) | Mathematics, and statistics; Data mining; Applied statistics; English mentorship |
| Utkarsh Dang | Health outcomes and biomarkers; Computational statistics; Biostatistics; Bioinformatics, specifically on mixture model-based clustering, health outcomes (from clinical trials, natural history studies, biomarkers), and statistical phylogenetics; English mentorship |
| Vivian Solana | Sociology and anthropology; Political anthropology; Feminist anthropology; Postcolonial theory; Forced displacement; Humanitarianism; Gender; English mentorship |