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BA, University of Utrecht
PhD, Yale University

Comparative and African politics

Ethnic politics, clientelism, Sub-Saharan Africa, democratization

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University of Chicago, 2010-12

BOOKS: 

National Identity in Africa: Peace, Democracy and Everyday National Narratives. Forthcoming. Oxford University Press. 

Beyond Ethnic Politics in Africa. 2016. Cambridge University Press.

ARTICLES: 

“Unspoken Hierarchies: The Enduring Effects of Caste Discrimination in Africa” (with Leonardo Arriola and Martha Wilfahrt). Forthcoming in Perspectives on Politics

“Elite Collusion and Dismantling of Democracy in Benin,” 2024. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 712: 211-222. Special Issue on Democratic Backsliding: How It Happens and How It Can Be Countered 

“Africa and Ethnic Politics”, 2023. Nationalities Papers 51, 2: 245-257.

“Accidental Nation-building in Africa”, 2021. Nations and Nationalism 27: 862-879. 

"Presidents' Ethnic Identity and Citizens' National Attachment in Africa”, 2019, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 25, 2: 122-151.

 “Costly Electoral Campaigns and the Changing Composition and Quality of Parliament: Evidence from Benin”. 2017, African Affairs 116, 465: 573-596.

“King-makers: Local Leaders and Ethnic Politics in Africa,” 2013 World Politics 65, 2
   Winner of the Gregory Luebbert Award for Best Article in Comparative Politics.
   Winner of the African Political Conference Group 2013 Best Article Award.

“Urban and Rural Voting Patterns in Senegal: The Spatial Aspects of Incumbency, c.1978-2012,” 2013. The Journal of Modern African Studies 51, 4.