Lecturer, Afroamerican and African Studies/Anthropology
About
Trained as an anthropologist and Africanist (PhD U-M, 2011), Dr. Florusbosch has extensive experience in the Higher Education sector across multiple continents (Africa, Europe, North America). She has taught at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, and in the departments of Anthropology and Afro-American and African Studies at U-M. She currently serves as the inaugural manager for the e-Health and Artificial Intelligence program (e-HAIL), a joint strategic initiative between the College of Engineering and the Medical School at the University of Michigan. Prior to this, she managed the University of Michigan's African Studies Center and the university's flagship U-M African Presidential Scholars (UMAPS) program. Her research background includes long-term ethnographic, archival, and community-engaged work in Mali, Senegal, Ghana, France, and Gabon. Her professional focus is on capacity strengthening in Higher Education in Africa; grant development and grant writing; and identifying and cultivating academic partnerships.
