Jacqueline M. Klopp

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Assistant Professor
Affiliation	Columbia University, New York, New York
Email	jk2002@columbia.edu
Mailing Address	School of International & Public Affairs Columbia University 1305A International Affairs 420 West 118th Street, MC 3323 New York, New York 10027 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 212 854 7476 fax: 212 854 5765
Countries of Specialization	Kenya
Research Interests	Dr. Klopp teaches the politics of development at Columbia. Her research focuses at the intersection of sustainable land use, development, democratization, violence, and corruption. She is currently working on a book on Land, Power and Poverty in Kenya and is a research affiliate at the Center for Sustainable Urban Development at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Klopp received her B.A. from Harvard University in Physics and her Ph.D. in Political Science from McGill University.
Publications	2010 forthcoming. With Prisca Kamungi. "The challenges of protecting the internally displaced through the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region", Journal of African conflicts and peace studies. 2009. "Kenya's unfinished agendas," Journal of international affairs, 62 (2): 143-158. 2008. "Kenya's path to peace," Open Democracy See: http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/kenyas_path_to_peace 2008. "Remembering the Muoroto Uprising: slum demolitions, land and democratization in Kenya," African studies, 67(3): 295-314. 2008. With Nuur Mohamud Sheekh. "Can guiding principles make a difference in Kenya?," Forced migration review, 19-20. 2008. With Prisca Kamungi. "Failure to protect: lessons from Kenya's IDP Network," Forced migration review, 28, 52-53. 2008. With Prisca Kamungi. "Violence and elections: will Kenya collapse?," World policy journal, 24 (4): 11-18, Winter 2007/2008. 2007. With Elke Zuern. "The politics of violence in democratization: lessons from Kenya and South Africa," Comparative politics, 39 (2): 127-46. 2002. "Can moral ethnicity trump political tribalism? The struggle for land and nation in Kenya", African studies, 61 (2): 269-294. 2002. With Janai R. Orina. "University crisis, student activism, and the contemporary struggle for democracy in Kenya", African studies review, 45 (1): 43-76. 2001. "'Ethnic clashes' and winning elections: the case of Kenya's electoral despotism", Canadian journal of African studies, 35 (2): 473-517. 2000. "Pilfering the public: the problem of land grabbing in contemporary Kenya", Africa today, 47(1): 7-26. Book chapters: 2009. "The National Council of Churches of Kenya and the struggle against 'ethnic clashes' in Kenya," in Religion and politics in Kenya: essays in honor of a meddlesome priest, edited by Ben Knighton. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2006. "Kenya's internally displaced: managing civil conflict in democratic transitions." in East Africa and the Horn: confronting challenges to good governance, edited by Dorina Bekoe. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.
Keywords	sustainable land use ; development ; democratization ; violence ; corruption.