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Mike McGovern, Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D., Emory 2004). Curriculum Vitae He is a political anthropologist who works in West Africa. McGovern uses a variety of sources from kinship idioms to the aesthetics of state-sponsored folklore to try to understand postcolonial states within the arc of longer historical trajectories. He is completing a book on the dramaturgy, sociology, and political economy of the Ivorian civil war entitled Making War in Côte d'Ivoire. His PhD research focused on the Republic of Guinea, where his thesis was an ethnography of Guinea's socialist and post-socialist states as they were experienced by a denigrated ethnic minority. After completing a B.A. at Columbia, M.St. at Oxford and Ph.D. at Emory, he worked from 2004-2006 as the West Africa Project Director of the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank that analyzes the causes of armed conflict. In that position he researched and wrote papers on the social reintegration of ex-combatant youths, American counterterrorism programs in the Sahel region, and the links between political economy and political rhetoric in Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire.
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Courses: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Bandits, Rebels and Freedom Fighters: Anthropologies of Insurgency |
