Bruce Whitehouse is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Lehigh University, where he is also affiliated with the Africana Studies and Global Studies programs. He teaches courses pertaining to culture, globalization, capitalism, humanitarianism and development, and contemporary African societies. His first book, Migrants and Strangers in an African City (Indiana University Press, 2012), examines the multigenerational flow of people from West Africa to the Congo River Basin. His second book, Enduring Polygamy (Rutgers University Press, 2023), studies the resilience of plural marriage in Bamako, Mali. His research has been published in journals including African Studies Review, Global Networks, Hommes et Migrations, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly. He lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Caste discrimination or persecution, Ethnic discrimination or persecution, Female genital mutilation/circumcision/FGC, Forced marriage, LGBTQ, Political persecution, Government/state actor persecution, Risk of retaliation, Safe internal relocation, Sufficiency of protection, Tribal discrimination or persecution
Providing sworn affidavits and occasionally remote testimony (phone or video link) for 22 cases in US courts, 1 in a UK court
BOOKS: "Enduring Polygamy: Plural Marriage and Social Change in an African Metropolis" (2023), Rutgers University Press; "Migrants and Strangers in an African City: Exile, Dignity, Belonging" (2012), Indiana University Press.
CHAPTER: “Mali: Collapse and Instability" (2021), in The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel, edited by Leonardo A. Villalon, Oxford University Press, pp. 127-145
ARTICLES: “‘When a Father Speaks, the Child Cannot Answer Back’: Patriarchal Anxiety, Gender Equality, and Malian State Authority” (2023), Africa Today 70 (1): 54-73; “Pluri-nuptialité et changement social à Bamako : Vers une polygamie durable ?” (2002), Mande Studies 24: 201-221; “Left in the Cold: The Mirage of Marriage and Family Law Reform in Post-Colonial Mali” (2022), Journal of Legal Anthropology 6 (1): 73-94; “Male dominance versus female hidden power: Patriarchy, marriage, and gender in Bamako, Mali” (2022), L’Ouest Saharien 16: 119-142.