Associate Professor and Director of the African Studies Program
Expertise Geographic Areas
Africa | Sub-Saharan Africa Issues
corruption and transnational crime | developing nations | economic development | economics | ethnic conflict | foreign aid and global poverty | governance | international political economy | nation-building and democratization | oil politics | World Bank and International Monetary Fund Background and Education
Former professor at American University and Michigan State University; consultant to USAID, The Carter Center, the Ford Foundation, the U.S. Department of State and the World Bank; senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; member of the Research Council and the International Forum for Democratic Studies; Ph.D., politics, Princeton University Publications
Growing Apart: Oil, Politics and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria (2007); Deregulation and the Banking Crisis in Nigeria: A Comparative Study, co-editor (2002); Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa, co-author (1999); Stabilizing Nigeria: Sanctions, Incentives and Support for Civil Society, co-author (1998); Africa: Dilemmas of Development and Change (1997); numerous book chapters and articles in World Politics, The Journal of Modern African Studies, African Affairs, Journal of Democracy, World Development and others | 
