Faculty

David Wiley (Ph.D., Princeton) specializes in social inequality, social ecology of Africa and its environment (rural and urban), social movements, social stratification and religion, and internationalization of higher education. His major research projects include a) community mobilization on environment and development in South Africa, b) socio-economic impacts of biological change on Lake Victoria (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania), c) stratification and religion in the U.S. and Zambia, d) African urbanization and housing and e) sociology of racial, ethnic, and national stereotyping. He is Director of the MSU African Studies Center.

Wiley has been President of the African Studies Association and chairperson of international committees of the NSF, American Sociological Association, and American Association for the Advancement of Science. Currently, he is co-chairperson of the Council of Directors of Title VI National Resource Centers.  He has been Vice-Chair of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO and the co-chair of the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars.

100 International Center
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
(517) 353-1700
wiley@msu.edu