Jane Kani Edward
Associate Professor and Chair, African and African American Studies Department, Arts and Sciences
Areas of Research:
Refugee and immigrant women’s experience, human rights and education, gender, race, class and representation, gender issues in conflict and post-conflict situations, and African immigration to the United States.
Dr. Jane Kani Edward was born and raised in South Sudan, and educated in Sudan, Egypt and Canada. Edward received her PhD in Sociology in Education from the University of Toronto in 2004. Currently she is Associate Professor and Chair, Department of African and African American Studies, Fordham University. She also directs the African Immigration Research of the Bronx African American History Project (BAAHP). She teaches courses on women in Africa, African History, Women, Power and Leadership in Africa, and African Immigration to the United States. Edward’s areas of research interest center on refugee and immigrant women’s experience, human rights and education, gender, race, class and representation, gender issues in conflict and post-conflict situations, and African immigration to the United States. Edward carried out research work among South Sudanese refugees and internally displaced persons in Egypt, Uganda, and South Sudan. She is the author of Sudanese Women Refugees: Transformations and Future Imaginings, 2007, and several book chapters, Journal, and opinion articles.