Dr. Sam Cherribi

Economic Development Plans for Mali

Link: Emory University News Release - mali.

Students Propose Economic Development Plans for Mali Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, head of The Carter Center and a member of the Emory faculty, hopes the university will be a center for scholarship about the developing world. The former president recently asked Emory officers what could be done here to help the plight of the impoverished African nation of Mali, where The Carter Center has worked for many years to help eradicate guinea worm.

Sociology lecturer Sam Cherribi stepped up to the plate and created an interdisciplinary course, Economic Development in Africa, that includes students from the undergraduate college and schools of business, public health and law. Teams of students developed plans for potential economic development programs to address real-world issues in the country where a quarter of all children die from malaria before their fifth birthday. "The idea is to create programs of genuine solutions that can be applied to Africa's economic plight," says Cherribi.

Emory Profile: Sam Cherribi

Link: Emory Profile: Sam Cherribi.

December 6 , 2004 Political Personality BY Eric Rangus Politics in Europe is just a bit different than it is in the United States. Politicians here hire armies of media advisers and operatives whose collective job is to craft the candidate's image through advertising, speeches and all manner of public appearances. But it's a good bet no one came up with the idea to put, say, Cynthia McKinney's smiling face on the side of a bus. "Politicians are a lot different here," says Sam Cherribi, assistant to the provost and senior lecturer in sociology, and he knows what he is talking about.

Loïc Wacquant at CSPS

Link: Programs and events, fall 2004

Pierre Bourdieu, the State, and Democratic Practice Loïc Wacquant, Distinguished University Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, New School University