Education: Ph.D., (sociology and African Studies) Michigan State University
M.A., Michigan State University
B.S., Georgetown University

Teaching Interests: Research methods/field methods in Africa; participatory research methods, Islam in Africa, Communication in the Muslim World.

Research Interests: Rural development in Africa, social movements in Africa, Islam and socio-cultural change, children and African development.

Productions & Publications: Howard, W. Stephen, “Children and the Five Pillars: How Islam Is Learned,” 2004. Democracy and Education, v. 15, #1.
Howard, Stephen, “Africa Moves,” review of Mobile Africa, H-Africa, H-Net Reviews, September 2003. URL: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews.showrev.cgi?path=133441066977043.
Howard, W.S., “The Possibilities of African Leadership: Children and HIV/AIDS, What shall we do?” 2003 in Singhal and Howard, eds.
The Children of Africa Cope with AIDS: Challenges and Possibilities. Ohio University Press.
Howard, W.S., “Ethnography and Exile” 2003, UWC Papers in Education, Cape Town.
Howard, W.S., “Transforming Islamic Society: Mahmoud Mohammed Taha and the Republican Brotherhood,” Fall 2003, Journal for Islamic Studies.
Howard, W.S., “Transformational Leadership in Islam: Mahmoud Mohammed Taha and the Possibilities of Faith,” Kultur, 2002, Islamic University of Indonesia.
Howard, W.S., “Mahmoud Mohammed Taha,” in Lobban, et. al. eds., Historical Dictionary of the Sudan. Scarecrow Press, 2002, pp 287-288.
Howard, W.S., “Republican Brotherhood,” in Lobban, et.al., eds. Historical Dictionary of the Sudan. Scarecrow Press, 2002, pp 336-338.
Howard, W.S., “Making Childhood Possible: Education and Health for Africa’s Children,” 2002, Institute for the African Child Working Papers Series #1, Athens. Howard, W.S., War and Slavery in Sudan by Jok Madut Jok, book review, Middle East Journal, January 2002.
Howard, W.S., “Chalk and Dust: Teachers Lives in Rural Sudan,” in Bowen and Early, eds. Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East, 2nd edition, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2002, pp 189-198.
Howard, W.S., “Sudanese Brotherhoods,” in Stephen Glazier, ed., Encyclopedia of African and African American Religion. Berkshire Press, 2001, pp 330-334.
Howard, W.S., “A Possibility of Inclusion,” Democracy and Education, v. 14, #1, 2001.
Howard, W.S., “Human Rights Everyday: Sudanese Possibilities,” Bulletin of the Center for Advanced Study in International Development. East Lansing, Fall 2000, pp 68-72.
Howard, W.S., “World Traveler,” Democracy and Education, v. 13, #4. 2000.
Howard, W.S., “Introduction,” in Retold Tales from Northern Sudan, by Ali Lotfi, Interlink Press, 1999, pp ix-xv.
Howard, W. S. book review, War and Drought in Sudan by E. Eltigani, MESA Bulletin #33, 1999, pp 89-90.
Howard, W. S. and Harold Herman, co-editors, Democracy and Education “Coping with Rapid Change: focus on South Africa’s Teachers 1998.
Howard, W. S., editor and author, lead article, Democracy and Education. “Knowing Democracy: Teachers, Schools and Global Transformation.” 1997, p. 2.
Howard, W.S., “Participation and Development,” Communication and Development, 1995.

Professional Organizations: African Studies Association, Sudan Studies Association, Middle East Studies Association.