Geri Augusto
Adj. Assistant Professor in Public Policy:
Center for Public Policy & American Institutions
Phone: +1 401 863 2201
Phone 2: +1 401 863 2289
Geri_Augusto@brown.edu
Biography
Dr. Augusto's current research and practice focus on knowledge dynamics in complex interactive systems marked by power inequalities, including sociocultural relations between contemporary indigenous African therapeutic knowledge and the biosciences, local and global sciences, and historically black and historically white universities. Other interests include learning networks and systems of innovation, organizational learning and transformation, and practitioners' knowledge. She is 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. Geri Augusto holds a B.A. (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in economics (Howard), M.P.A. (Kennedy School, Harvard) and Ed.D., Human and Organizational Learning (GWU Graduate School of Education).
Degrees
MPA (Harvard), Ed.D. (GWU)
Awards
Phi Beta Kappa
Littauer Fellow, 1992 (Harvard Kennedy School)
Affiliations
Honorary Research Associate, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town
American Anthropological Association
Teaching
Organization studies, organization theory, organizational culture and learning, higher education policy, science & technology policy in the global South, policy at the intersection of indigenous knowledge systems/institutionalized sciences, practitioners' knowledge & epistemologies of practice, transnational knowledge