Evan Lieberman

Evan Lieberman is the Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lieberman received his BA from Princeton University, and his MA and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar at Yale University, and was Professor of Politics at Princeton University before coming to MIT in 2014.
He conducts research in the field of comparative politics, with a focus on development and ethnic conflict in sub-Saharan Africa.
Areas of Expertise
- Democratic governance in Africa
- Ethnic conflict
- Public health
- Comparative politics

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Democracy and Development: Perspectives from Africa (edX)

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Learn about the drivers of democratic development in contemporary Africa. On a continent once dominated by closed political systems, democratic political institutions have taken root in more than a dozen African countries over the past 20 years. In this course, you’ll learn about this remarkable experiment, and try to [...]

Democratic Development

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