Professor Jok conducts research across a number of fields of inquiry: anthropology, history, African studies and public health. He has written extensively on Sudanese politics, the civil conflict and the 2005 Sudanese peace agreement, gender based violence and reproductive health, and the politics of race and identity in the region. Born in the state of Warrap in South Sudan, Dr Jok completed his Bachelor of Arts in arts and humanities at the University of Alexandria, Egypt, and pursued an MA in medical anthropology from the American University in Cairo. He went on to complete his doctorate in anthropology from UCLA. Dr Jok has received numerous awards and honors, including a Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowship and the Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship at the United States Institute for Peace.