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Mailing Address Department of Political Science University of Delaware 347 Smith Hall Newark, Delaware 19716 USA

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Countries of Specialization Namibia ; Botswana.

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Research Interests My research focuses on labor, politics, and women in Namibia and southern Africa. I teach courses on: Third World/South Women in Politics; African Politics; African Women in Politics; Southern African Politics. During a January to August 2002 sabbatical leave, I was a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Public Policy Research in Windhoek, Namibia. During a January to July 2009 sabbatical leave, I was a Visiting Researcher in the the Department of Sociology at the University of Botswana in Gaborone, Botswana. I am currently working on articles on women in politics in Botswana and a co-edited volume with Manon Tremblay on Women in Executives: A Global Overview.

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Publications * Books Women in African Parliaments. With Hannah E. Britton, eds. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006, 237 pp. Politics in Southern Africa: State and Society in Transition. With Scott D. Taylor. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005, 404 pp. Labor and Democracy in Namibia, 1971-1996. Athens: Ohio University Press, Oxford: James Currey, and Cape Town: David Philip, 1998, 229 pp. Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters "Namibia: A Success Story?" With Christiaan Keulder. In Necla Tschirgi, Francesco Mancini and Michael Lund, eds. Security and Development: Searching for Critical Connections. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009: 211-254. "Taking the Fast Track to Parliament: Comparing Electoral Gender Quotas in Eastern and Southern Africa." In Muna Ndulo and Margaret Grieco, eds. Power, Gender and Social Change in Africa. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009: 8-25. Revised version appears in: "50/50 by 2020: Electoral Gender Quotas for Parliament in East and Southern Africa." International Feminist Journal of Politics. 2008. 10(3): 348-368. "Uganda: Reserved Seats for Women MPs: Affirmative Action for the National Women's Movement or the National Resistance Movement?" In Manon Tremblay, ed. Women and Legislative Representation: Electoral Systems, Political Parties, and Sex Quotas. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008: 27-39. "Nothing to Lose but Their Subordination to the State"? Trade Unions in Namibia Fifteen Years after Independence." In Jon Kraus, ed. Trade Unions and the Coming of Democracy in Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007: 229-254. "Women in African Parliaments: A Continental Shift?. With Hannah E. Britton. In Bauer and Britton, eds. Women in African Parliaments, 2006: 1-30. "Namibia: Losing Ground Without Mandatory Quotas." In Bauer and Britton, eds. Women in African Parliaments, 2006: 85-110. "'The Hand that Stirs the Pot Can Also Run the Country': Electing Women to Parliament in Namibia." Journal of Modern African Studies. 2004. 42(4): 479-509. "Namibia in the First Decade of Independence: How Democratic?" Journal of Southern African Studies. 2001. 27(1): 33-55.

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