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I am a
political scientist in the
Department of International Development
at the LSE.
I hold degrees from Princeton University (BA) and
the LSE, where I studied nationalism and ethnicity for my MSc and completed
a dissertation on the politics of ethnicity in Uganda for my PhD.
My background thus straddles the fields of
ethnic politics, African studies, and international development.
While based in the
discipline of political science, I have also developed a broad research
agenda on long-term development, public goods provision and ethnic and
national identity formation that has led me to cross disciplinary boundaries
into economics and sociology.
My book Assimilation
and Industrialization: Explaining Ethnic Change in the Modern World,
was
published by Cambridge University Press
in December 2022. My research has also appeared
in such journals as the British Journal
of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Economic Development
and Cultural Change, Ethnic and Racial Studies, International Studies
Quarterly, Studies in Comparative International Development
and World
Development. I am a current or former
member of the editorial boards of the
Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Modern African Studies,
Nations and Nationalism
and Regional
and Federal Studies, and I am
currently
a member of the Executive Committee of the
Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.
I gave my
inaugural lecture on the
topic of 'Industrialization and National Identity in Modern Africa' at the
LSE on 30 October, 2024; a podcast of the event is available
here.
Born
in Berlin, Germany, I grew up in Evanston, IL but have lived in London since
1999.
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