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• Full Biography: <table style="width: 100%;"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#A9A9A9"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>Areas of Expertise</strong></span></td> <td bgcolor="#A9A9A9"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 50%;">Region</td> <td>Sub-Saharan Africa</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 50%;">Topic(s)</td> <td>Adoption, Africa, agency, children/childhood, child protection, children’s rights, citizenship, development, education, HIV/AIDS, child institutionalization, humanitarianism, orphans, political, economy, sexuality, sexual and reproductive rights, surrogacy, vulnerability</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 50%;">Non-anthropological Affiliations or Partnerships</td> <td>Alternative Care Uganda, CABA Working Group Netherlands, Share-Net NL, Children’s Rights European Academic Network, Policy Consultant to Hope & Homes for Children; Research Consultant to Netherlands Initiative for Capacity Development in Higher Education; Lead Research for Oak Foundation's Adolescents' Perceptions of Healthy Relationships study in Bulgaria and Tanzania (2016-2018); Consultant on Ethical Volunteering for Nobis Project’s Think Tank: Global Education Toolkit</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 50%;">Methods</td> <td>Ethnography, child/youth participatory methods, qualitative</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 50%;">Child/Youth age range</td> <td>All age ranges</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 50%;">Policy Impact</td> <td>Does advocacy, capacity building, and consultation work in child protection and sexual and reproductive health.</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 50%;">Recent publications</td> <td>“International Commercial Surrogacy: Beyond Feminist Conundrums and the Child as Product”, 2018. In R. Rosen and K. Twamley (eds), Feminism and the Politics of Childhood: Friends or Foes?, 139-154. London: UCL Press. (with K.S. Rotabi, S. Mapp, R. Fong and R. McRoy) - “Regulating Commercial Global Surrogacy: The Best Interests of the Child”, Journal of Human Rights and Social Work, 2017, 2(3): 64-73. (with Auma Okwany) “Introduction: Toward social justice for children and youth in East Africa”, Childhood in Africa, 2017, 4(1): 4-10. (with Sylvia Namubiru Mukasa) “Embedding social justice in Ugandan adoption and legal guardianship cases”, Childhood in Africa, 2017, 4(1): 23-33. </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 50%;">Most influential academic work</td> <td>Crying for Our Elders: African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS (2017, The University of Chicago Press). “Addicted to Orphans: how the orphan industrial complex jeopardizes child protection”, 2014. In C. Harker, K. Horschelmann, and T. Skelton (eds), Conflict, Violence and Peace, Volume 11: Geographies of Children and Young People, 1-19. Singapore: Springer Science+Business Media. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-4585-98-9_3-1 Pillars of the Nation: Child Citizens and Ugandan National Development (2007, The University of Chicago Press).</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 50%;">Journals that have published the experts work?</td> <td>Adoption & Fostering, African Studies Review, AIDSCare, Anthropology Today, Childhood, Childhood in Africa, Children’s Geographies, Development & Change, European Journal of Development Research, Global Studies of Childhood, IDS Bulletin, International Social Work, Journal of Human Rights and Social Work</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>