Chair
Gregory MannColumbia University
“The History of Poverty in Ghana: Reflections from Recent Research"
Gareth AustinGraduate Institute Geneva
“African Poverty by Numbers"
Morten JervenSimon Fraser University
“Measuring Material Living Standards in Pre-colonial West Africa"
Klas RönnbäckUniversity of Gothenberg
Chair
Megan VaughanCity University of New York
“Poverty, Ignorance and Disease: Maternal and Child Health Policy for Nairobi During the Kenyatta Era"
Milcah Amolo AcholaNairobi University
“Poverty and the Religious Imagination in Northern Nigeria.”us Imagination in Northern Nigeria"
Shobana ShankarStony Brook University
“Wealth-in-Women: Demographic Crisis and Food Production at the Office du Niger (French Soudan), 1935-1946"
Laura Ann TwagiraWesleyan University
Chair
Rhiannon StephensColumbia University
“Hlonipha and Health: Livelihoods, Taboos, and Nutrition in mid-Twentieth Century Pholela, South Africa"
Abigail NeelyDartmouth College
“Nyakusa Food Security and Safwa ‘Poverty’ 1700-1900: History of Poverty and the Language Surrounding It"
Catherine Cymone FoursheySusquehanna University
“Statistical Comparability and Racial Incomparability: Conceiving Hunger in French West Africa under late Colonialism"
Vincent BonnecaseInstitut d’études politiques de Bordeaux
Chair
Mamadou DioufColumbia University
“Who is a Poor Child? Reflections from a Multigenerational Survey of Childhood in Twentieth Century Lagos"
Abosede GeorgeBarnard College
“Structural Unemployment, Gender and Poverty in Apartheid’s ‘Dumping Grounds’"
Laura EvansSheffield Hallam University
“‘Capitals of the Poor’: Spaces of Poverty and Poverty Reduction in Northern Ghana, 1942-2012"
Alice WiemersOtterbein University
“Tanzanian Poverty in the Period of Villagization"
James GiblinUniversity of Iowa
Chair
Rhiannon StephensColumbia University