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Who we are?
DeBrenna Agbényiga
DeBrenna L. Agbényiga, Ph.D, LMSW
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work; and Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusive Academic Programs, College of Social Science.
She has worked extensively in Ghana and Togo, West Africa in the areas of child welfare, child labor, human rights, and development. Her primary research foci are: Diversity & higher education, international social work practice (focus on women, children, family, development and health), international social work education, cross-cultural comparative organizational analysis, organizational culture, and kinship/foster care (policy & service delivery).
E-mail: agbenyi1@msu.edu
Deborah J. Johnson
Professor, Family & Child Ecology, College of Social Sciences.
Johnson studies status-based, race, and culturally-related development, parental socialization and parent/child relations in early and middle childhood. Primarily focusing on racial/ethnic identity development and racial socialization in varying contexts including child care principally among African-American and other ethnic children and families, but also internationally, Africa, Australia.
E-mail: john1442@msu.edu
Robert K. Hitchcock
Professor & Chair, Development/applied anthropology, human ecology, human rights, Africa.
He has worked with San peoples in Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe for the past 30 years. In addition, he has worked with indigenous peoples in Guatemala, Hawaii, California, Canada, the Great Plains, and the southwest, as well as with various groups in eastern and central Africa (e.g. in Somalia, Uganda, and Gabon).
E-mail: hitchc16@msu.edu