News-Press

Articles (Commissioned):

Lundy, Brandon D. 2012. The Lukewarm Response from the International Community to the Crises in Guinea-Bissau. e-International Relations, October 1.

Lundy, Brandon D. 2010. Field Notes: They Expect Me to Bring Fish: The Local Costs of International Fish Trade in Guinea-Bissau. Knowledge Exchange Section. Dinah Winnick, ed. Anthropology News 51(2):26.

 

Press:

Casto, Amy. 2018. Students travel to West Africa for environmental research. The Sentinel, September 24. Department of Geography and Anthropology. 2018. Dr. Brandon Lundy and Students Help Restore U.S.- Guinea-Bissau Relations. News, August 31.

Winsor, Morgan. 2015. Guinea-Bissau’s Fragile Democracy at Risk of Military Coup, Losing Aid Dollars amid Political Unrest. [Country Expert]. On August 14, 2015. Politics: International, Business Times.

 

Consulting:

2015-present. Adviser on the Bissau Campus Project. West African Vocational Schools (WAVS).

2015. Key Dynamics in Guinea-Bissau. Invited country specialist for Executive Analytic Exchange on Senegal and Guinea-Bissau for Ambassador James Zumwalt, sponsored by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the U.S. State Department for the benefit of the U.S. Ambassador to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. January 12.

2000. Cape Verde. Peace Corps, World Wise Schools Water in Africa Project.

 

Book Reviews (Refereed):

Lundy, Brandon D. 2019. Ivan V. Small. Currencies of Imagination: Channeling Money and Chasing Mobility in Vietnam. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018. 216 pp. (Review). American Ethnologist 46(4): 542-543.

Lundy, Brandon D. 2019. Mike McGovern. A Socialist Peace?: Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. (Review). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 25(3): 644-645.

Lundy, Brandon D. 2018. Patrick Chabal and Toby Green, eds. Guinea-Bissau: Micro-State to ‘Narco-State’. London: C. Hurst & Company, 2016. Distributed by Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016. xxvi + 290 pp. Map. Forward. Note and Acknowledgements. Glossary and Acronyms. Biographical Sketches. Timeline. Notes on Contributors. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1849045216. (Review). African Studies Review 61(3):247-248.

Lundy, Brandon D. 2018. Pamela Aall and Chester A. Crocker, eds. The Fabric of Peace in Africa: Looking beyond the State. Waterloo, ON Canada: Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) Press, 2017. 370 pp. (Review). African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review 8(1):103-106.

Lundy, Brandon D. 2017. Joanna Davidson. Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment and Development in Rural West Africa. Ohio University Press, 2016. 249 pp. (Review). African Studies Review 60(1):197-198.

Lundy, Brandon D. 2017. Beth Buggenhagen. Muslim Families in Global Senegal: Money Takes Care of Shame. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012. 256 pp. (Review). Journal of West African History 3(1):112-114.

Lundy, Brandon D. 2016. Paolo Gaibazzi. Bush Bound: Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa. New York: Berghahn Books, 2015. 218 pp. (Review). American Ethnologist 43(2):386-387.

Lundy, Brandon D. 2014. Obadare, Ebenezer, and Wendy Willems, eds. Civic Agency in Africa: Arts of Resistance in the 21st Century. Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2014. 236 pp. (Review). The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 45(4):609-611.

Lundy, Brandon D. 2012. Elliot Fratkin. laibon: An Anthropologist’s Journey with Samburu Diviners in Kenya. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2012. 179 pp. (Review). American Ethnologist 39(4):847-848.

Lundy, Brandon D. 2012. Ntarangwi, Mwenda. Reversed Gaze: An African Ethnography of American Anthropology. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. 183 p. (Review). African Studies Quarterly 13(3):105-107.

Lundy, Brandon D. 2011. Newitt, Malyn, ed. The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670: A Documentary History. NY: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 246 p. (Review). African Studies Quarterly 12(4):96-98.

Lundy, Brandon D., and Jessica Lopes. 2010. Fikes, Kesha. Manging African Portugal: The Citizen-Migrant Distinction. Durham: NC: Duke University Press, 2009. 195 p. (Review). African Studies Quarterly 12(1):81-82.

Lundy, Brandon D. 2010. Ntarangwi, Mwenda, David Mills, and Mustafa Babiker, eds. African Anthropologies: History, Critique, and Practice. Dakar: CODESRIA, 2006. 274 p. (Review). African Studies Quarterly 11(4):148-150.

Lundy, Brandon D. 2010. Vigh, Henrik. Navigating Terrains of War: Youth and Soldiering in Guinea-Bissau. NY: Berghahn Books, 2006. 258 p. (Review). African Studies Quarterly 11(2and3):141-143.

 

Invited Guest Lectures and Other Presentations:

2017.   Leadership Issues at Local and National Levels: The Anthropology of Leadership. Leadership and Conflict Management Workshop for Staff of Selected Nigerian Universities. School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development, KSU, July 25.

2016. Leadership for Sustainability from the Perspective of UN Sustainable Development Goals. Panelist, UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Training and Research)/UTFPR (Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná), Curitiba, March 31.

2014. Diversity, Conflict, and Peacebuilding (Diversidade, conflitos e a construção da Paz) through indigenous conflict management in Brazil. Invited to present four times at the SARU conference at the Universidade Salvador (UNIFACS), CEDEPE Business School and Faculdade Guararapes in Recife, and Faculdade Internacional da Paraíba (FPB) in João Pessoa, November 22 – December 3.

2014. Cabral and Rodney in Anti-Colonial Dialogue. Book Launch and Authors’ Roundtable. The Second Annual Walter Rodney Public Speaker Series. Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta, GA, February 20.

2012. Recent political developments in West Africa (Senegal, Mali and Guinea Bissau). Invited Roundtable discussant sponsored by the Center for African and African Diaspora Studies, KSU, April 18.

 

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