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Charlie Piot is a Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African & African American Studies at Duke University, where he has been a faculty member since 2011. His research focuses on political economy and history in rural West Africa. He has authored significant works, including "Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa" (1999) and "Nostalgia for the Future: West African Culture during the Cold War" (2010), which both explore the relationship between local and global processes in the region. Beyond his teaching and publication endeavors, he has served as a Principal Investigator for multiple National Science Foundation grants, addressing topics such as workforce development in the new digital economy and post-conflict humanitarian interventions in Uganda and Benin. Piot's contributions to the field are underscored by his interdisciplinary involvement, also being a Bass Fellow since 2006, and his participation in contemporary discussions on culture and identity through frameworks that emphasize the complexities of informality in urban Africa.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)