Associate Professor of Anthropology
Louisa Lombard is a cultural anthropologist who studies African borderland areas where the state is largely absent, and a range of actors govern. Her research locales, primarily the remote and little-populated eastern reaches of the Central African Republic (C.A.R.), are further marked by violent histories that continue into the present. Lombard received an A.B. in Development Studies from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University.