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TITLE: Associate Professor; also: 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
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