Welcome new faculty members to the Dept of African Studies

On behalf of the Center for African Studies at Howard, we welcome new faculty members to the Department of African Studies! 

Amsale Alemu is a newly appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of African Studies. She holds a PhD in African and African American Studies and AM in History from Harvard University. Her current book project examines revolutionary history, higher education, and U.S. geopolitics in the Horn of Africa, with attention to relationships among Ethiopian and Eritrean activists and anticolonial collaborators in the 1960s and 1970s. Her research can be read in the upcoming issue of Radical History Review, as well as Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East and The Global Ethiopian Diaspora (Boydell & Brewer). She is thrilled to be joining the Department and returning to DC, the city where she was born and raised.

Chambi Chachage will also join Howard’s faculty this semester as an Assistant Professor of African Studies. His teaching and research focuses on: ‘Religion and the Reproduction of Educated Elites in Africa’; ‘Comparative History of Capitalism and Militarism in Eastern and Southern Africa’; ‘Regional Formation, Land Formalization and Identity Formulation in Post-Socialist Tanzania’. He holds a PhD (African Studies) from Harvard University and an MSc (African Studies) from the University of Edinburgh. He previously served as an assistant professor at Carleton University. His articles have appeared on various online platforms and academic journals.