When:
Friday, April 28, 2017
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM CT
Where: 1902 Sheridan Road, Buffett Institute Conference Room, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Y Thien Nguyen
Group: Comparative-Historical Social Science Working Group
Co-Sponsor:
Department of Political Science
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Martha Wilfahrt researches the political economy of development, with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. Martha is currently working on a book manuscript, based on her dissertation, which looks at historical legacies of pre-colonial statehood on the contemporary politics of public goods delivery in rural West Africa. Other ongoing work includes a project on the role of traditional authorities and informal institutions in the 2014-15 Ebola response as well as a series of papers on central-local fiscal transfers in decentralized Senegal. She is affiliated with the Buffett Institute and the Program in African Studies.