Officers & Committee Members

Secretary
Term: 2022 – 2024

Jasmine Blanks Jones is a cultural anthropologist who works in Liberia and with African immigrant and African American youth in the United States. As an Africanist, Jasmine is attentive to the contributions of young people across the Black World to how the discipline of anthropology understands how power works, especially for those deemed to be at the margins. Taking a performance arts focus, she is particularly concerned with how the work of anthropologists may bolster the efforts of Black communities in improving their own quality of life, especially in the areas of health and education. She is the Executive Director of the Center for Social Concern, a lecturer in the Program in Racism, Immigration and Citizenship, and Founder of B4 Burning Barriers Building Bridges Youth Theatre.

Treasurer
Term: 2022 – 2024

Jennie E. Burnet is an associate professor of anthropology and director of the Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta, United States of America. She is the award-winning author of Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory, and Silence in Rwanda. Her forthcoming book, To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue during the Rwandan Genocide, examines how and why some Rwandans risked their lives to save Tutsi from the carnage. Her research has appeared in Politics & Gender, African Affairs, African Studies Review, and Women’s Studies International Forum.

Program co-Editor
Term: 2022 – 2024

Omolade Adunbi is a political and environmental anthropologist and Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Professor of Law (courtesy) and the Director of the African Studies Center. He is a Faculty Associate, Program in the Environment (Pite), the Donia Human Rights Center (DHRC) and the Energy Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His areas of research explore issues related to governance, infrastructures of extraction, environmental p