Joshua Forrest, Ph. D.

TITLE: Associate Professor; Director of the Kerr Institute of African History, Politics & Culture

DEPARTMENT: History and Political Science

COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ATTENDED & DEGREES:

Ph.D., Political Science & Public Administration, University of Wisconsin-Madison

M.A., Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

B.A., French Area Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Summer (Political Science), Queens College , N.Y.C.

College Junior Year Abroad (French Civilization), University of Aix-Marseilles , Aix-en-Provence, France

PROFESSIONAL ADMINISTRATION:

Director, Kerr Institute of African History, Politics & Culture at La Roche College . Appointed January 2005. This institute is devoted to furthering the study of Africa at La Roche College and throughout the greater Pittsburgh region.

SCHOLARLY AWARDS:

2002-2003: Research Scholar, African Policy Studies, Graduate School for Public & International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh

1992-1993: Fulbright Research Fellowship: Namibia 's Regional Institutions, one year field research in Namibia

1987-1989: Junior Research Fellowship: Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University

1982-1984: Fulbright-Hayes Research Fellowship: History and Politics of Guinea-Bissau- two years field research in Guinea-Bissau and archival research in Senegal, Gambia, and Portugal

BOOKS PUBLISHED:

"Subnationalism in Africa." Ethnicity, Alliances, and Politics (Boulder, Co.: Lynne Rienner Press, 2004).

"Lineages of State Fragility: Rural Civil Society in Guinea-Bissau" (Athens, Oh: Ohio University Press, 2003). Namibia 's Post-Apartheid Regional Institutions: The Founding Year (Rochester, N.Y.: The University of Rochester Press, 1998).

"Guinea-Bissau: Power, Conflict and Renewal in a West African Nation" (Boulder: Westview Press Nations of Contemporary Africa, 1992).

RECENT PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS:

Paper Presentation: "The Power of Rural-based Civil Societies in Post-Conflict African Reconstruction and Democratization." American Political Science Association Meeting, Philadelphia, August 2006.

Paper Presentation: "Subnationalism and Post-Conflict Governance: Lessons from Africa." conference on Rebuilding Governance in Post-Conflict Societies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, May 2005.

ARTICLES: Eighteen book chapters in edited volumes and peer-reviewed articles in journals,including Journal of Modern African Studies , Historia: Journal of South African History, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Africana Journal, Journal of African Policy Studies , Peasant Studies, Studies in Comparative and International Development, Comparative Politics , Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics , Journal of Democracy, American Review of Public Administration, International Journal of Public Administration, Journal of Public Administration and Development, and World Policy Journal

JOINED LA ROCHE: 2004

HOMETOWN: New York City