Elisha P. Renne

Associate Professor, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
Associate Professor, Anthropology

Polio Initiative in Northern Nigeria. Study of the international polio eradication initiative in Northern Nigeria, focusing on the historical, cultural, political context of this campaign (current).
New Technologies of Machine-Embroidered Robe Production and Changing Gender Roles in Zaria, Nigeria with Dr. Salihu Maiwada, Ahmadu Bello University (2005, Fulbright Senior Fellowship).
GIEU: Undergraduate Research on Household Environmental Pollution in Ghana with Frieda Ekotto. This project researches the problem of indoor air population and maternal/child health in Accra, Ghana, with fieldwork conducted in two urban neighborhoods (2004).
At Michigan, she has conducted graduate seminars on contemporary African societies, demographic anthropology, and African textiles and social history
and undergraduate courses on introductory anthropology, Africa and the African diaspora, childbirth and culture, and African women.
Areas of research interest include: African ethnology
medical anthropology
fertility and reproductive health
gender relations
the anthropology of development
religion and social change
and the anthropology of cloth.

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