l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Professor, Political Science & Women's Studies; Director of the Women's Studies Research Center

University of Wisconsin, Madison

atripp@wisc.edu

Department of Political Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
401 North Hall, 1050 Bascom Mall
Madison, Wisconsin 53706 USA

phone: 608-263-1873
fax: 608-274-2691

http://www.polisci.wisc.edu/users/tripp/

Tanzania, Uganda

comparative politics, African politics,
women and politics (global), women and social movements in comparative
perspective, women and the global economy, women and contemporary change
in Africa.

comparative politics, African politics,
women and politics (global), women and social movements in comparative
perspective, women and the global economy, women and contemporary change
in Africa.

Co-authored with Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga, and Alice Mungwa.
African Women's Movements: Transforming Political Landscapes.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Edited with Myra Marx Ferree.
Global Feminism: Transnational Women's Activism, Organizing,
and Human Rights. New York: New York University Press. 2006.

Editor of Sub-Saharan Africa: The Greenwood Encylopedia of Women's
Issues Worldwide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 2003.

Coedited with Joy Kwesiga. The Women's Movement in Uganda: History,
Challenges and Prospects. Kampala: Fountain Publishers. 2002.

Author of Women & Politics in Uganda. Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press; Oxford: James Currey and Kampala: Fountain Press. 2000.
(Co-winner of the 2001 Victoria Schuck Award of the American Political
Science Association for the best book published in women and politics.
Recipient of a 2001 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles Award)

Author of Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the
Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania. Berkeley and Los Angeles:
University of California Press. 1997.

Coedited book with Marja-Liisa Swantz. What Went Right in Tanzania?
People's Responses to Directed Development. Dar es Salaam:
University of Dar es Salaam Press. 1996.

I have also published articles and chapters on women and politics in
Africa; women's responses to economic reform; and transformations of
associational life in Africa.

comparative politics ; African politics ; gender politics ; social movements ;