Aili Tripp
Areas of expertise: Women and politics, African politics
Regions: Africa
Languages: English
Contact info: (in order of preference)
Email: tripp@polisci.wisc.edu
Office: (608) 262-5805
Home: (608) 274-2825
Prefers not to be contacted after 10 p.m or before 5 a.m.
Willing to appear in: All Media
Aili Mari Tripp is Associate Dean of International Studies and Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies. Her teaching and research interests are in African politics, comparative politics, and gender studies in an international context. She has published articles and book chapters on women and politics in Africa; women's responses to economic reform; and transformations of associational life in Africa. Most recently she has been writing about the increase in women's legislative representation globally as a result of the introduction of electoral quotas. She also serves on the board of the National Council for Research on Women. Prior to coming to UW-Madison, Tripp worked as a research associate at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for two years. She has served as a consultant for the World Bank, United Nations Development Programme, UNESCO, and the State Department.
Key Publications:
- Women and Politics in Uganda (2000)
- Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania (1997)
- Women in Movement: Transformations in African Political Landscapes (with Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga and Alice Mungwa, Cambridge, forthcoming)
Awards:
- 2001 Victoria Schuck Award of the American Political Science Association for Women & Politics in Uganda for best book on women and politics in 2000 (co-winner)
- 2001 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award (Current Reviews for Academic Libraries) for Women & Politics in Uganda
Scott Straus
Areas of expertise: African politics, genocide
Regions: Africa
Languages: French, English
Contact info: (in order of preference)
Email: sstraus@wisc.edu
Office: 608-263-2036
Willing to appear in: All Media
His research focuses on the origins of large-scale violence against civilians, especially genocide. He has written extensively on the Rwandan genocide, and is currently conducting a comparative study on the causes of genocide. He also teaches and has published on African politics in general and on human rights. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his earlier work as a journalist, and has received fellowships from the National Science Foundation, United States Institute for Peace, and Social Science Research Council.
Key Publications:
- The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda (Cornell, forthcoming 2006)
- Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures (Lynne Rienner, 2003)
Michael Schatzberg
Areas of expertise: African politics, political legitimacy, culture, football (soccer)
Regions: Africa (esp. Central and Eastern Africa), Democratic Republic of the Congo
Languages: French, Lingala, Swahili, Cameroonian Pidgen
Contact info: (in order of preference)
Email: schatzberg@polisci.wisc.edu
All Media: (608) 263-2392
Prefers not to be contacted after 9:00 p.m.
Willing to appear in: All Media
Michael Schatzberg's major teaching and research interests are in African politics, comparative politics, and political culture. He is working on a research project that deals with the politics, economics, and culture of football (soccer) in sub-Saharan Africa. He was formerly a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.
Key Publications:
- Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa: Father, Family, Food (Indiana University Press, 2001)
- The Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire (Indiana University Press, 1988)
- Politics and Class In Zaire: Bureaucracy, Business and Beer in Lisala (Holmes & Meier, Africana, 1980)
- Mobutu or Chaos? The United States and Zaire, 1960-1990 (Foreign Policy Research Institute, 1991)