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The Project on Contentious Politics will host Adrienne LeBas at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (S-CAR) on November 11th to discuss the reasons why election violence persists in some democratizing African countries. This topic is the focus of LeBas’ second and ongoing book project.
Adrienne LeBas (Ph.D., Columbia University) is Associate Professor of Government in the School of Public Affairs, American University. During the 2015-2016 academic year, LeBas is also a Residential Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC.
Prior to joining AU, LeBas was a Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and Assistant Professor of Political Science and African Studies at Michigan State University. Her research interests include social movements, democratization, and political violence. Adrienne’s most recent work studies attitudes toward taxation in urban Nigeria.
LeBas is the author of the award-winning From Protest to Parties: Party-Building and Democratization in Africa (Oxford University Press, 2011) and articles in the British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Democracy, Comparative Politics, and elsewhere. She also worked as a consultant for Human Rights Watch in Zimbabwe, where she lived from 2002 to 2003.