Graduate Students
PhD student, Department of African and African American Studies
Research Interests: Religion and the Reproduction of Educated Elites in Africa; Comparative History of Capitalism and Militarism in Eastern and Southern Africa; Regional Formation, Land Formalization and Identity Formulation in Post-Socialist Tanzania
Ed.M. Candidate, International Education Policy
Research interests: International education, social entrepreneurship in Africa, literacy education, post conflict/disaster areas, development, African history, and institutional change. Countries of focus: Ghana, Liberia and South Africa
Research Interests: Impact of traditional authorities on voting behavior; clientelism; and state spending in West Africa
Research interests: Politics of business in developing countries; geographic focus on West Africa, Nigeria specifically
JD, MPA-ID
Research Interests: Property rights, agriculture, economic development, East Africa, impact evaluation, governance, transitional justice, access to justice
Public Policy G3
Research Interests: Incentives in International Development Bureaucracies
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Government
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, African Politics, Democratization, Party System Development, Legislative Institutions, Political Reform
Research Interests: 19th & 20th-century African history, British imperial history, Kenya, South Africa, & Indian Ocean world
Research Interests: bureaucratic-political relations, service delivery, agricultural-certification evaluation. (focus country: Ghana)
Research Interests: Media, Health and Culture
PhD candidate, Government Department
Research Interests: institutions, institutional change, and the interactions between state and local institutions; decentralization; state-building; development; Benin/West Africa
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
Interests: Development and Industrial Organization
Department of African and African American Studies
Research Interests: Film, digital media, and music in conflict regions, expressive culture and social/political activism in DRC, cultural theory
Research Interests: Randomized Controlled Trials, maternal and child health, incentives for healthy behaviors, how technological innovations can improve health in Africa
M.D.-Ph.D. Candidate, Social and Medical Anthropology
Research Interests: South Africa, HIV, TB, labor migration
Health Policy PhD, Management track
Research interests: health care workforce, coordination, collaboration, incentive design, low-resource settings, program evaluation
Ph.D. student, Department of History
Research Interests: Modern South Africa, Chinese diaspora in Africa, China-Africa relations, Japan-Africa relations
