Dan Connell
Dan Connell is a visiting scholar at BU’s African Studies Center and a retired senior lecturer in journalism and African studies at Simmons College, with four decades of research and writing on Africa. His reports and commentary have been carried by Associated Press, Reuters, BBC, The Boston Globe, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, The Nation, The Washington Post and other major media. His articles have appeared in such journals as Development in Practice, Foreign Affairs, Middle East Report, Race and Class, and Review of African Political Economy. He is the founder and former director of Grassroots International and has consulted for the United Nations, Oxfam America, Human Rights Watch, and other NGOs. He currently chairs the Cape Ann Forum in Gloucester, Mass., and sits on the boards of the Washington-based Middle East Research and Information Project and the Cambridge-based CDA Collaborative Learning Projects.
Connell is the author of seven books, including "Against All Odds: A Chronicle of the Eritrean Revolution" (1997); "Rethinking Revolution: New strategies for democracy & social justice" (2002); "Conversations with Eritrean Political Prisoners" (2004); and the "Historical Dictionary of Eritrea" (2010). He has also edited the proceedings of a National Union of Eritrean Women conference (1999) and two anthologies of student writing—"Women to Women: Young Americans in South Africa" (2006) and "Old Wrongs, New Rights: Student Views of the New South Africa" (2008).
He is currently working on a book on refugees and migration routes for which he has interviewed more than 500 Eritreans in camps and communities in 19 countries across five continents since 2014. Articles from this research have appeared in Middle East Report, Foreign Policy in Focus and the Mail & Guardian and can be accessed on his website, along with a current CV.
Education
M.A. in English: University of Buffalo (1968)
B.A. in English : Hobart College (1966)