susannedmueller@gmail.com

Susanne D. Mueller is a Research Affiliate at Boston University’s African Studies Center. Previously, she worked for the UN, its food agencies, and the World Bank on economic, agricultural and political development in most of the countries of Eastern and Southern Africa, Moldova, Ukraine, India and the Maldives, while based in Kenya, Tanzania, the UK, and the U.S. Earlier, Mueller was an assistant professor/lecturer at the University of Nairobi and before that, taught at Princeton University while holding a faculty appointment at its Center for International Studies. Supported by post-doctoral and field research grants from Harvard, Princeton and the Social Science Research Council, she has published widely. Her 2008 “The Political Economy of Kenya’s Crisis” won the best article of the year award from the American Political Science Association’s African Politics Conference Group. Mueller received a Ph.D. and M.A. from Princeton University, an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. from Smith College.

Kenya, Ethnicity, Conflict and Violence, International Law, Government/Governance, Elections