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Aili Mari Tripp
Aili Mari Tripp is Professor of Political Science and Gender & Women's Studies. She is also director of the Women’s Studies Research Center. Her research has focused on women and politics in Africa, women’s movements in Africa, transnational feminism, African politics (with particular reference to Uganda and Tanzania), and on the informal economy in Africa. She is co-author (with Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga, and Alice Mungwa) of African Women’s Movements: Transforming Political Landscapes (2009) and author of Women and Politics in Uganda (2000) and Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania (1997). She has edited Sub-Saharan Africa: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide (2003), and co-edited The Women's Movement in Uganda: History, Challenges and Prospects (2002) as well as What Went Right in Tanzania? People's Responses to Directed Development (1996). She is currently working on a project on women’s rights in post-conflict countries. Aili Tripp co-edits the journal Politics & Gender of the Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association. She also co-edits a book series on Women in Africa and the Diaspora for the University of Wisconsin Press. Tripp has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Victoria Schuck award of the American Political Science Association for the best book on women and politics and has served as vice president of the organization. She is the chair of the 2009 Program Committee of the African Studies Association meeting in New Orleans.
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Recent Publications
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Aili Tripp: “Development and the New Rights Based Approaches in Africa,” Review of African Political Economy, 36 (120): 2009, 273-282.
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Aili Tripp: “Conflicting Agendas: Women’s Rights and Customary Law in Africa Today,” Constituting Equality, Ed. Susan Williams. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Aili Tripp, Alice Kang: "Gender Quotas: Female Legislative Representation." Americas Quarterly, Spring 2009.
http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/544
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Aili Tripp, Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga, and Alice Mungwa (co-authors) African Women’s Movements: Transforming Political Landscapes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521879309
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Aili Tripp “In Pursuit of Authority: Civil Society and Rights Based Discourses in Africa,” in John W. Harbeson and Donald Rothchild, eds., Africa in World Politics: Reforming Political Order (Westview Press, 2008).
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Current Courses taught for Fall 2009-2010
862 - State & Society in Comparative Perspective
Instructors: Aili Tripp Field: Comparative Politics
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