Associate Chair of Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Director of Graduate Studies; Joel Samoff Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Afroamerican and African Studies
About
Professor Anne Pitcher's research comparatively examines the political economy of urban residential development, the distribution of goods under authoritarianism, and the role of regulatory agencies in Africa. She has undertaken extensive fieldwork in Mozambique, Angola, South Africa, and Zambia. In addition, she has built a dataset on the characteristics of privatization agencies in 29 African countries and is also currently geo-coding all the residential projects that have been completed in Luanda, Angola. Her book, Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa’s Democracies (Cambridge, 2012) won Honorable Mention for best book award from the African Politics Conference Group, an organized section of the American Political Science Association and the ASA. She has also recently published articles in the Journal of Public Policy and African Affairs. She has been awarded a fellowship for 2018 from the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in South Africa to undertake a comparative study of urban residential development in Luanda and Nairobi. Currently, she serves as the President of the African Studies Association.
Courses
- African Politics
- Business and Politics in Developing Countries
- Proseminar on Interdisciplinary Approaches to African Studies (graduate)
Affiliations
- Department of Political Science
- Center for Political Studies
Fields of Study
- Comparative Politics
- Political Economy
