Classes

Course Description: In a story titled Africa Rising (2011), The Economist argued that the continent epitomizes both the "transformative promise of [capitalist ] growth and its bleakest dimensions." This workshop will explore Africa's changing place in the world - and the new...

This course is a practicum designed to help students craft effective research and grant proposals, learn how to constructively critique others’ proposals, and develop enduring collaborative relationships. Many writing problems are fundamentally thinking and design problems...

This course is being taught as part of the African Studies Workshop at Harvard (ASW). It will consist of two components: (i) a public session, to be held every Monday evening at 6.00-8.00, at which a speaker invited from outside the university, a member of the Harvard...

This course examines the changing place of medicine in the long history of modernity. Focusing on key moments - the birth of the clinic, the colonial frontier (where biomedicine met its therapeutic "others"), the consolidation of medicine as self-governing profession, the...