African Universities Panel Particiant
George Clement Bond, Teachers College
George Clement Bond is the William F. Russell Professor of Anthropology and Education and the Director of the Center for African Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. A former director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia and a well-respected scholar, his research interests include education and elite formation in the U.S. and Africa, African religions and politics, agrarian transformations, and cultural dimensions of urban and minority populations. His numerous publications include The Politics of Change in a Zambian Community, The Social Construction of the Past, AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean, and Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories. Professor Bond received a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the London School of Economics, and since the mid-1960s, he has conducted longitudinal research in northern Zambia and throughout the African continent.