Lisa Mueller

Lisa Mueller is Associate Professor of Political Science at Macalester College, where she served as Director of African Studies from 2019 to 2020.

Mueller earned her Ph.D. from UCLA and was selected as a Fulbright Research Scholar atthe University of Bordeaux and a Residential Fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study.

Her work has appeared in leading scholarly journals and she is a sought-after expert on political and economic development, having advised the World Bank, the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation & Development, USAID the State Department and others.