Professor Emmanuel Kreike

Emmanuel Kreike is a Professor of History and the head of the African Studies Department at Princeton University. He received a Ph.D. in history from Yale University (1996) and a second doctorate in environmental sciences from Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands (2006). Emmanuel’s research and teaching interests focus on the intersection of war/violence/population movements, environment, and society. He is particularly interested in how violence and war and ensuing forced migration led to the destruction of human landscapes and how people rebuild lives and livelihoods in often, alien environments. He has done extensive research across southern Africa, particularly in Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, and South Africa and has worked for and with a number of organizations in Africa, including UNDP, UNHCR, USAID, SIDA as well as various NGOs