Email: ampson at live.unc.edu
Phone: N/A
Office:
Alumni Hall 403B
Research Interests:
Medical Anthropology, humanitarianism, African/Black existentialism, race and idiom/metaphor, Saharan migration, West Africa, Maghreb, Niger, Algeria, geography and resistance
Education:
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Anthropology (in progress)
M.A. Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017
M.P.H. Public Health, Brown University, 2013
B.A. French, The Ohio State University, 2011
Awards:
2018-2020 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (Niger)
2018-2019 UNC Graduate School – Off-Campus Dissertation Fellowship
2017-2018 UNC Center for Faculty Excellence – Graduate Student Fellowship
2016 Harriet J. Kupferer Graduate Exploratory Summer Research Award – UNC Department of Anthropology
2016-2017 Saharan Crossroads Fellowship – American Institute for Maghrib Studies and West African Research Association
2016-2017 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Arabic) – US Department of Education
2016 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Hausa) – US Department of Education
2015-2016 Initiative for Minority Excellence Scholarship
2013 Brown University Masters in Public Health Research Assistantship – Evaluation Internship at Rhode Island Department of Health
2011-2013 Master of Public Health Program Scholarship – Brown University