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Phone: (413) 585-3563
Office: Wright
Hall 104; Hours:
E-mail: cnewbury@smith.edu
Catharine Newbury is Professor of Government at Smith
College , and Five College Professor of Government and African Studies. She received
her B.A. from Willamette University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include ethnicity and the state in Africa
, democratization, the politics of peasants and women, and the politics of violence
in Francophone Central Africa. She is the author of The Cohesion of Oppression:
Clientship and Ethnicity in Rwanda and many articles on multiple aspects of Central
African political processes.
Newbury teaches courses on African politics, women and
politics in Africa, the Rwanda genocide in comparative perspective, and the politics
of development. She is currently Director of the Five College African Scholars Program,
a fellowship program which brings African scholars to the Five Colleges for research
and writing .
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