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Catherine Bolten

College of Arts and Letters, Keough School of Global Affairs

Office
O317 Hesburgh Center For International Studies
91³Ô¹Ï, IN 46556
Phone
574-631-5099
Email
cbolten@nd.edu

Professor of Anthropology and Peace Studies

  • Development anthropology
  • Youth
  • Structural violence
  • Poverty
  • Education
  • Food security
  • Ebola
  • Ethnoprimatology (human and non-human primate interactions) 

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African Arguments

French officials controlled every aspect of the administration and affairs of their colonies, and declared everything and everyone in these colonies to be French: “But more as in French property. In other words, as subjects of France rather than citizens. The idea behind the insistence of the rightness and dominance of French language and French culture was for Africans to aspire to be French, but of course they could never really be French because they were black and not actually from France,” Prof. Catherine E. Bolten of the University of 91³Ô¹Ï, told African Arguments.

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“Niger was the West’s strongest anti-authoritarian and anti-jihadist partner in the Sahel,” Dr. Catherine Bolton, a Professor of Anthropology and Peace Studies at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of 91³Ô¹Ï, observes.