Dr. Sara Berry

Dr. Berry is currently a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on leave from her position as Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Berry has been an advisor to the Student Movement at Hopkins, providing intellectual guidance and sponsorship of independent study work affiliated with the organization. She is a professor of African history, anthropology and political economy, specializing in the study of social, economic and political change. She has published several books and numerous articles on 20th century African economic and social history, agrarian change, and development studies, including Fathers work for their sons: accumulation, mobility and class formation in an extended Yoruba community (1985), No condition is permanent: the social dynamics of agrarian change in sub-Saharan Africa (1993); and Chiefs know their boundaries: essays on property, power and the past in Asante, 1896-1996 (2000). Dr. Berry received her BA at Radcliffe College and her MA and PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan.

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