Gender-Based Violence Perspectives from Africa, the Middle East, and India

Yanyi K. Djamba is Director of the Center for Demographic Research and Professor of Sociology at Auburn University in Montgomery, Alabama. He received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology from Louisiana State University, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Djamba has previously worked at Brown University and Southeastern Louisiana University, where his last position was Associate Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator. He has received many professional awards and grants from different sources and has served as a consultant to a variety of organizations, as well as the United Nations. Dr. Djamba is the author and co-authors of many publications including Sexual Health of Young People in the U.S. South (2012), Sexual Behavior of Adolescents in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa (2004) and numerous peer-reviewed articles and newspaper columns on population related topics.

Sitawa R. Kimuna is Associate Professor of Sociology at East Carolina University. Her research is interdisciplinary and covers substantive areas from gender based violence, social demography, population dynamics and immigration to sexual behavior and HIV in sub-Saharan Africa and socioeconomic support of older people. Dr. Kimuna’s Ph.D. degree in Sociology is from Kansas State University. She was a Population Reference Bureau Communications fellow and a Rockefeller Foundation fellow. She has served also as a consultant to United Nations Fund for Population’s Humanitarian Response Unit. Dr. Kimuna has publications in peer-reviewed journals and also co-edited a book on Women in African Development: The Challenge of Globalization and Liberalization in the 21st Century.