Danny Hoffman

Danny Hoffman is the Bartley-Dobb Professor for the Study and Prevention of Violence, and Chair of the African Studies Program in the University of Washington’s Jackson School for International Studies. Trained as a photojournalist and an anthropologist, Hoffman is the author of two books on the Mano River region of West Africa: The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and Monrovia Modern: Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia.