Fellows

Kimberley Usher is a doctoral candidate with the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARCHI) in Social Policy, hosted by the Archie Mafeje Research Institute at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Born and raised in Zimbabwe to a strong, African, single mother of two – who herself was raised by a strong African, single mother of nine – the value of education as a means of overcoming poverty was emphasized from childhood. After completing a Bachelor of Social Sciences at Rhodes University, she was awarded a bursary under the Transformative Social Policy Program to complete her Honors degree and achieve …

Isaac Dery is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of South Africa (UNISA) and the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC). He obtained his PhD in 2018 from the University of Cape Town (UCT). His research interests focus on constructions of masculinities, social subjectivities, and gender-based violence, and the intersections between these areas within Ghanaian society. Isaac has been a Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Next Generation Social Science in Africa (Next Gen) 2016 Dissertation Research Fellow. He was recently selected as a Young African Scholar of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. His research has been published in journals such

Dr. Zheng Wang is the Director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS) and Professor in the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University. He is currently also a Global Fellow at the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Fellow of International Security at New America, and a member of the National Committee on United States- China Relations (NCUSCR).   Dr. Wang has extensive professional and academic experience in the Asia Pacific region. He has been a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United

Cindi Sturtz Sreetharan received her PhD in linguistic anthropology from UC Davis. After teaching for 12 years at CSU Sacramento, in 2015, she joined SHESC at ASU, teaching in the Anthropology and Global Health programs. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation, KCCJEE, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the Japan Foundation for her work on issues relating to Japanese language, gender, and dialect. Sturtz Sreetharan’s work on Japanese language and gender is novel because of its focus on men and non- Tokyo language varieties. Her keen interest in the Osaka variety of Japanese showcases the

Mame-Penda Ba is deputy dean of the Faculty of Law and Political science and professor of political science at Gaston Berger University of Saint-Louis–Senegal. She received her “agrégation,” which is the highest teaching diploma in the French system, in political science. Prof. Ba is currently the Scientific Director of the PhD program on Political Science. She also heads the Laboratoire d’analyse des sociétés et pouvoirs / Afrique-Diasporas (Research Laboratory on Societies and Powers Africa/Diaspora, LASPAD). Her research interests cover political sociology of religion, the analysis of public policies, gender studies, and the social genesis and dynamics of the State in