Dr. Dyer specializes in African history, performing arts and theater history. She received her PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. During her research on the political history of theater in Kenya, she collaborated with a number of Kenyan playwrights and theater groups. Her work offers new insights into the role of theatrical productions as political critique.
Associate Professor and Political Science Director, Associate Dean
Political Science, Center for African Studies, College of Letters and Sciences
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...
Emeka Kalu Ezera, Graduate Student Instructor and doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley, was killed tragically, July 12, 1990 in an automobile accident while traveling in Nigeria.
Born on April 30, 1959, Emeka was the first of four sons of Professor Kalu and Mrs.Onuma Ezera, who came...
Christine Wilkinson, ESPM PhD Student, was a Rocca Fellow in Summer 2016. She sent us the following report.
This past summer, I was able to use the generous support of a Rocca Pre-Dissertation Fellowship in order to explore potential field sites, network with communities and wildlife managers, and...
