Kathryn Mathers is an Associate Professor of the Practice in International Comparative Studies and Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Her book, Travel, Humanitarianism, and Becoming American in Africa (2010) uses ethnographic observations of American travelers to southern Africa to ask why is Africa so important to Americans? She is co-producer of the documentary film When I Say Africa that challenges the image of Africa as a continent in need of saving.

• 1. Traveling Images and How Americans Learned to Care for Africa  2. The Barbie Paradox – How Parody is Trying to Save Africa  3. Becoming American in Wakanda or Black is Queen

Kathryn Mathers is an Associate Professor of the Practice in International Comparative Studies and Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Her book, Travel, Humanitarianism, and Becoming American in Africa (2010) uses ethnographic observations of American travelers to southern Africa to ask why is Africa so important to Americans? She is co-producer of the documentary film When I Say Africa that challenges the image of Africa as a continent in need of saving.

• 1. Traveling Images and How Americans Learned to Care for Africa  2. The Barbie Paradox – How Parody is Trying to Save Africa  3. Becoming American in Wakanda or Black is Queen

Kathryn Mathers is an Associate Professor of the Practice in International Comparative Studies and Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Her book, Travel, Humanitarianism, and Becoming American in Africa (2010) uses ethnographic observations of American travelers to southern Africa to ask why is Africa so important to Americans? She is co-producer of the documentary film When I Say Africa that challenges the image of Africa as a continent in need of saving.

• 1. Traveling Images and How Americans Learned to Care for Africa  2. The Barbie Paradox – How Parody is Trying to Save Africa  3. Becoming American in Wakanda or Black is Queen