Professor of Government Stephen Orvis spoke on the current situation in Kenya at the Conference on East Africa, co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the National Intelligence Council, on Thursday, Sept. 13. The conference, which was unclassified and off the record, was held in honor of the new State Department Director of the East Africa Bureau, James Knight. Orvis also spoke at a similar conference, the Conference on Conflict in the Horn of Africa hosted by the U.S. Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the U.S. Department of State, last September.
Orvis is the author of The Agrarian Question in Kenya and has served as an international election observer in Kenya's transitional elections to democratic rule. He has led Hamilton students on the Kenya Field School in the summers of 2000 and 2004.
