Courses
Graduate/Undergraduate
Field Research Methods
Undergraduate
Globalization in Africa
Democracy and Citizenship in Africa
Education, Citizenship, and Democracy
African Elections
Social Capital
Bambara 
Islam 
Songhrai
Current Advisees
ANDREA PEÑA-VASQUEZ, https://www.andreapenavasquez.com
PAUL FRIESEN, https://www.paulfriesenpolitics.com
SHANA SCOGIN, https://shanascogin.com
*NOTE: Please contact me directly for contact information for excellent research assistants in Mali.
Syllabi
Field Research Methods – Spring Semester 2020
This course introduces students to a range of methodological approaches to generate and gather original data. The course will highlight “best practices” in research design and implementation, but it will also address the logistical constraints and trade-offs that graduate students face while conducting fieldwork. Over the course of the semester, all students will develop multiple strategies to strengthen and evaluate their own research questions.
African Elections – Fall Semester 2020
This university seminar explores current issues and trends in African elections. Students participate in real-time analysis of electoral politics in three African countries that have elections in fall 2020: Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and Ghana. The course utilizes primary source materials from these countries including candidate speeches, social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, newspapers, and election monitoring reports in order to better understand the most important campaign issues, the candidates, and their constituencies.
Globalization in Africa – Fall 2019
This course is designed to offer an inside look into the processes of globalization in Sub Saharan Africa. This course will focus on the ways that international forces and new technologies are affecting citizens and countries on the continent as well as the way that African countries and actors are influencing the rest of the world. We will explore a diverse set of topics including technological change and development, immigration, art and culture, foreign aid, and China’s role in Africa. The course will attempt to highlight the new opportunities for citizens as well as the challenges that remain for African countries in the globalized world.
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