Stephen Orvis (Ph.D., Wisconsin), Associate Professor of Government, studies comparative politics with an emphasis on Africa. His articles on rural development in Kenya and African democratization have appeared in African Studies Review,Studies in Comparative International Development, and Journal of Asian and African Studies . His book, The Agrarian Question in Kenya, is published with University Presses of Florida. He served as an international election observer in Kenya's transitional elections to democratic rule, and led 11 Hamilton students on the Kenya Field School in Summer 2000.
Topics: African politics, democracy and elections in Africa
