Adrienne Le Bas
Associate Professor at American University School of Public Affairs
Schools
- American University School of Public Affairs
Links
Biography
American University School of Public Affairs
Degrees
PhD, Columbia University
BA, University of Florida
Bio
Adrienne LeBas (PhD, Columbia University) joined the Department of Government in the fall of 2009. Prior to joining AU, LeBas was a Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and Assistant Professor of Political Science and African Studies at Michigan State University. Her research interests include social movements, democratization, and political violence. She is the author of the award-winning From Protest to Parties: Party-Building and Democratization in Africa (Oxford University Press, 2011) and articles in the British Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Democracy, Comparative Politics, and elsewhere. LeBas also worked as a consultant for Human Rights Watch in Zimbabwe, where she lived from 2002 to 2003.
During the 2015-2016 academic year, LeBas was a residential fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Her research has also been supported by grants from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Department for International Development (UK), the EGAP Metaketa program, and the John Fell Foundation. She is currently working on her second book, which investigates the reasons for persistent election violence in some democratizing countries, and she also continues her research on attitudes toward taxation in urban Nigeria.
Teaching
Spring 2018
- GOVT-130 Comparative Politics
- GOVT-435 Political Violence & Civil War
Fall 2018
- GOVT-432 Pol Inst& Process in Sel Count: Contemporary African Politics
- GOVT-730 Sem in Comparative Politics
- GOVT-898 Doctoral Continuing Enrollment
Videos
Africa's Evolving Security Landscape: Challenges and Opportunities - Adrienne LeBas
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