Graduate Program

I am a 3rd year graduate student, with interests in African politics, political economy, institutions and institutional change, land politics, and processes of liberalization (political and economic). My dissertation work is on local democracy and public goods provision in West Africa.

I received a B.A. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007.  Shortly afterwards, I joined the Peace Corps; I worked in the Small Enterprise Program in Togo.  I recently returned to West Africa (summer 2011) to conduct an initial round of field research in Benin.