Jeffrey W PallerJeffrey W. Paller is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco. He has conducted fieldwork in Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa and his work is published in Polity, African Studies Review, Africa Today, the Journal of Moern African Studies, Africa Spectrum, and Current History. His dissertation won the African Politics Conference Group-Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation in African Politics Award. He is secretary for the African Politics Conference Group and chair of the Comparative Urban Politics Related Group for the American Political Science Association. He curates the weekly news bulletin, This Week in Africa. Read More Read Less