Leonardo Arriola studies ethnic politics, party systems, and political economy in Africa. His current research focuses on the formation of multiethnic electoral coalitions among opposition parties in Africa. He has conducted field research in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Senegal. He has previously been a Fulbright scholar at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at Addis Ababa University, a visiting researcher at the West African Research Center in Dakar, Senegal, and a predoctoral fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. He earned a BA from Claremont McKenna College, an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, and a PhD in political science from Stanford. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley and Professor & Dean of the College of Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities at UC Merced.
Political Economy, Democratization, Ethnic Politics, Sub-Saharan Africa