Fellows

 Akiko Takeyama is associate professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas. Her research and teaching interests lie in changing gender, sexuality, and class dynamics in the context of neoliberal globalization. Her first book, Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club (2016 Stanford University Press), which theorizes the commercialization of feelings, emotions, and intimate relationships in contemporary Japan’s service-centered economy, was shortlisted for 2017 Michelle Rosaldo Book Prize, Association of Feminist Anthropology in American Anthropological Association. Her second book project explores the interrelation among politico-legal systems, information technology, and the global economy through the

I received a PhD in Law from the University of Tokyo. My research comprises the political and diplomatic history of modern Japan. In 2003 I published my first book about the formation of the opposition party in Japan. My second book, published in 2010, is about Meiji Japan’s restoration of sovereignty through the revision of “unequal treaties” (now under translation into English). Recently, my interest stretches to several other fields including the history of political lies and the challenges to them in the form of rhetoric and literature, which results in my third book, “Political History of Deception: Insincere Politics

Fatma Osman Ibnouf is an Assistant Professor, Researcher, and Trainer at Development Studies and Research Institute (DSRI), University of Khartoum, Sudan. Dr. Ibnouf obtained her BSc in Agriculture Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Egypt. She obtained an MSc in Animal Production, Faculty of Animal Production, University of Khartoum, Sudan. Her PhD thesis focused on “Role of Women in Providing and Improving Household Food Security in Sudan”, which she received from the Center of Development Studies, University of Wales Swansea, UK. Since then she has participated in many training courses and workshops on issues such as gender, women studies,

Dr. Jeremiah O. Arowosegbe is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. His areas of research interest and teaching specialization include African Development, African Intellectual History, and African Studies, as well as African Politics, African Political Thought, Political Theory, and Political Thought, respectively. He has held visiting academic appointments and positions as A. C. Jordan Fellow of African Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa (2013-2014); Andrew W. Mellon Fellow of the Humanities at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa (2010-2011); Guest Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden

Peace A. Medie is a Research Fellow in the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD) at the University of Ghana and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. Her research centers on the dynamics of violence during and after conflicts and the steps that state and non-state actors take to address this violence. Her book manuscript, Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence against Women in Africa, examines how international organizations and the women’s movement have influenced the implementation of gender-based violence norms in Liberia and

Tendai Joseph Chari is a senior lecturer in the Media Studies Department, School of Human and Social Sciences, University of Venda, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, and a Master’s in Media and Communication Studies from the University of Zimbabwe. Dr. Chari is widely published in the field of Media Studies and his research interests span a number of specializations, such as political communication, environmental communication, media and development, media ethics, and new media and society. Some of his publications have appeared in the Journal of African Media Studies, African