The Comparative Politics workshop will be meeting on Monday, 11/11 from 11-12 pm in CHI 2113. We will be hosting Joan Ricart-Huguet (Loyola University Maryland). Professor Ricart-Huguet’s research covers political elites, colonial investments and legacies, education, and culture, with regional focus on East and West African countries. His research has been published or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Historical Political Economy, Journal of Modern African Studies, Journal of Politics, Public Choice, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Studies in Comparative International Development, World Development and World Politics.

Professor Ricart-Huguet is sharing with us a chapter from his book manuscript Unequal Education: The Origins of Elite Power in Contemporary Africa.