Visiting Scholars

José Muñoz, Post-doctoral Fellow in Development Studies, 2010 - 2012

José-María Muñoz is currently a Lecturer in International Development, at the University of Edinburgh's Centre of African Studies. He was a postdoctoral fellow in Emory's Program in Development Studies from 2010 until September 2012. His work is on legal and administrative reforms in West and Central Africa. As an attorney in Spain, his home country, he practiced family and corporate law in the Jose Munoz photolate 1990s. He earned his Ph.D. in cultural anthropology in 2009 from Northwestern University. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Cameroon on topics ranging from cross-border trade, repertoires of finance, rural livelihoods, and Muslim identities to development non-governmental organizations, corporate social responsibility, public contracts, and taxation. He has published articles in the African Studies Review, Politique Africaine, Revista de Libros, and the Law & Society Review. He presently works on a book manuscript that explores the impact of new regulation of economic activities in Adamawa, northern Cameroon.


Peter Gufu Oba, Visiting Professor and Scholar in Development Studies, 2011-2012

Professor Peter Gufu Oba, a Kenyan national, received his Ph.D. in Range Science from Gufu Oba Photothe University of Oslo in 1996, where he also held a post-doctoral fellowship in ecology during 1997-1999. He currently is Professor of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences. His work centers on studies of human ecology, East African pastoralism, development studies, arid and semi-arid ecosystems, local environmental knowledge systems, and environmental change.  Dr. Oba has authored or co-authored more than 55 articles in scientific journals, including Human Ecology, Journal of Environmental Management, and Land Degradation and Development. During his time at Emory, he completed a writing project on pastoralist ecology, development, and history of the Borana people in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya entitled Nomads in the Shadows of Empires: Contests, Conflicts and Legacies on the Southern Ethiopian-Northern Kenyan Frontier.  For more on Dr. Oba, click here.


Workneh Negatu, Visiting Fulbright Scholar in Development Studies, 2011

Dr. Workneh Negatu received his Ph.D. in Development Studies and Economics from the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) in 1997. His work centers around studies of food security, technology, agricultural knowledge, poverty, and natural disasters. Workneh Negatu photoDr. Negatu is a professor at the College of Development Studies, Addis Ababa University, where he also serves as the director of the Institute for Rural Development. From January - August, 2011, Dr. Negatu was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar in the Development Studies Program. During this time at Emory he completed a writing project on market integration and development in northeastern Ethiopia, with a focus on technology and market exchanges between highland and lowland agrarian systems.