Areas of Interest: Science & technology policy in the Global South, colonial sciences, interaction between technosciences and indigenous knowledge systems, public sector organizational culture and learning, politics of knowledge, transformation of higher education in pluralistic societies, black transnationalism, critical global humanities, Southern Africa and Brazil.
Geri Augusto is a Watson fellow, an adjunct associate professor of public policy at Brown's Taubman Center, an honorary research associate at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, and an associate fellow at the Centre for Caribbean Thought, University of the West Indies.
From 1973 to 1991, she worked in Southern Africa, in a variety of posts in Tanzania and Angola, including as project economist and technical editor for SADC. She also worked as a Portuguese/English interpreter, for a variety of ministerial, Frontline states, and UN meetings in Southern Africa and Europe. Since 1994, she has collaborated on numerous projects in the South African science and technology, higher education, and indigenous knowledge sectors, including the National Commission on Higher Education; the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology's System-wide Review of the Science, Engineering and Technology Institutions; and the First National Workshop on Indigenous Knowledge Systems.
Augusto taught courses fulltime in organization studies in the masters degree and executive programs of the Kennedy School of Government (Harvard), from 1994 to 2002. She has consulted widely to public and nonprofit sector executives on organizational transformation.
She holds a BA (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in economics (Howard), MPA (Kennedy School, Harvard) and EdD, Human and Organizational Learning (GWU Graduate School of Education).
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