Sara Rich Dorman

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Lecturer (Politics and International Relations)
Affiliation	University of Edinburgh, UK
Email	sara.dorman@ed.ac.uk
Mailing Address	School of Social and Political Studies Chrystal MacMillan Building 15 A George Square Edinburgh EH8 9LD UK
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 0131 650 4239 fax: 0131 650 6546
Countries of Specialization	Zimbabwe ; Eritrea
Research Interests	African Politics, with an emphasis on post-liberation states: Zimbabwe and Eritrea. The politics of NGOs, churches, elections, election-observing, and state-society relations. The politics of nationalism, nation and state-building in Africa, especially in the Horn of Africa and Southern Africa. See also: http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/african_politics African Politics Research Group: http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/african_politics Publications: http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk African Affairs: http://www.afraf.oxfordjournals.org
Publications	Recent publications: Sara Dorman, Dan Hammett and Paul Nugent, (eds) "Making Nations, Creating Strangers: States and Citizenship in Africa" (Brill, Leiden 2007) http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=18&pid=28238 Sara Rich Dorman, "Post-liberation Politics in Africa: examining the political legacy of struggle," Third World Quarterly, vol. 27, No. 6. (2006), pp.1085-1101. "Studying Democratization in Africa: A Case Study of Human Rights NGOs in Zimbabwe" in Between a Rock and a Hard Place, African NGOs, Donors, and the State, Tim Kelsall and Jim Igoe, eds. Carolina Academic Press 2005, pp 33-59. "'Make sure they count nicely this time': The Politics of Elections and Election-observing in Zimbabwe," Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 43.1 June 2005. "Narratives of nationalism in Eritrea: research and revisionism," Nations and Nationalism 11.2, March 2005, pp 203-222. "Past the Kalashnikov: Youth, Politics and the State in Eritrea", J. Abbink & I. van Kessel, eds., Vanguard or Vandals? Youth, Politics and Conflict in Africa. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2004, pp 189-204. "From the Politics of Inclusion to the Politics of Exclusion: State and Society in Zimbabwe, 1997-2000," Journal of Southern African Studies. Volume 29, Number 4 December 2003. "Rocking the Boat? Church NGOs and Democratization in Zimbabwe," African Affairs 101 (2002).
Keywords	African poiltics ; post-liberation states ; NGOs ; religion ; nationalism ; state-building.