l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Assistant Professor

Columbia University, New York, New York

jk2002@columbia.edu

School of International & Public Affairs
Columbia University
1305A International Affairs
420 West 118th Street, MC 3323
New York, New York 10027 USA

phone: 212 854 7476
fax: 212 854 5765

Kenya

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.

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.

sustainable land use ; development ; democratization ; violence ; corruption.