Advisory Board for the Maxwell African Scholars Union

A.H. Peter Castro

Professor Emeritus, Anthropology Department

Robert D. McClure Professor of Teaching Excellence

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Advisory Board Member, Maxwell African Scholars Union

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1988

Areas of Expertise

Applied anthropology, rural development policy and planning, environmental conflict management, climate change, forestry, food security, refugees, East Africa

Christopher Green

Senior Research Associate and Advisory Board Member, Maxwell African Scholars Union

Associate Professor, Linguistics, College of Arts & Sciences

Ph.D., Indiana University, 2010

Jok Madut Jok

Professor, Anthropology Department

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Advisory Board Member, Maxwell African Scholars Union

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1996

Areas of Expertise

Violence and public health, women’s reproductive health, Pastoralism, seasonal migration and cattle raiding in East Africa, medical anthropology, Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda

John McPeak

Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

Senior Research Associate, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Advisory Board Member, Maxwell African Scholars Union

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1999

Areas of Expertise

Development economics, natural resource economics, African agricultural development

Danielle Smith

Professor, African American Studies, College of Arts & Sciences

Director, Renée Crown University Honors Program

Advisory Board Member, Maxwell African Scholars Union

Ph.D., University of South Carolina, Columbia

Areas of Expertise

Gender studies, population displacement and migration, post-conflict reconciliation and reconstruction, global health and development, Africa and its diaspora, the United States

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