People
Meet Our Director
Dr. J. Jarpa Dawuni is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University, Washington D.C. She has an LLB from the University of Ghana and is a Barrister-at-Law before the Ghana Superior Courts of Judicature. Her primary areas of research include judicial politics, gender and the law, international human rights, women’s civil society organizing and democratization.
She is the co-editor ofInternational Courts and the African Woman Judge: Unveiled Narratives(Routledge, 2018) and Gender and the Judiciary in Africa: From obscurity to parity? (Routledge, 2016). Her works have appeared in journals such as Studies in Gender and Development in Africa, Journal of African Law and Africa Today. Her areas of teaching are largely anchored between Comparative Politics and International Relations, with a focus on gender and the law, African politics and international human rights.
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Krista Johnson
Position at Howard: Director
School / College: College of Arts & Sciences
Department / Office: Center for African Studies
Additional Position: Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, African Studies, Co-Convenor, COAS Center: Women, Gender, and Sexualities Collective
Carolyn Byerly
Position at Howard: Chair
School / College: School of Communications
Department / Office: Communication Culture and Media Studies
Additional Position: Graduate Professor, COAS Center: Women, Gender, and Sexualities Collective, Communication, Culture & Media Studies Department
Thomas Forster
Position at Howard: Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs & Social Sciences; LGBTQ Affairs
School / College: College of Arts & Sciences
Department / Office: Office of the Dean, College of Arts and Science
Additional Position: COAS Center: Women, Gender, and Sexualities Collective
Jeanne Maddox Toungara
Position at Howard: Former Associate Professor of History
School / College: College of Arts & Sciences
Department / Office: History
Additional Position: Former Director of the History Graduate Program, COAS Center: Women, Gender, and Sexualities Collective
Okianer Dark
Position at Howard: Associate Provost and Professor of Law
School / College: School of Law
Department / Office: Office of Faculty Development
Additional Position: Associate Provost for Faculty Development in the Office of the Provost for Howard University, Professor of Law, COAS Center: Women, Gender, and Sexualities Collective, Former Associate Dean for Academic Affairs