David S. Wiley is professor of sociology at Michigan State University (MSU). He served as director of the MSU African Studies Center 1978-2008 and previously of the African Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1972–77). He has worked in Zimbabwe in the 1960s and, with research on urban and rural environments, in Zambia, Kenya, and South Africa. He was president of the African Studies Association (1993); Vice-Chairperson of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO; co-chair and co-founder of the Council of National Title VI Centers and the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars. He chaired international committees of the National Science Foundation, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Sociological Association. After 2000, his research has concerned environmental issues in South Africa, militarization in Africa, and international education in U.S. universities.[1]