Staff
Sita Ranchod-Nilsson, Director
Dr. Ranchod-Nilsson is a specialist in sub-Saharan Africa and women in politics. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University, where she wrote a dissertation on the gender dimensions of rural mobilization during the decade-long guerrilla struggle in Zimbabwe. Her subsequent research explored the gender dimensions of state consolidation in Zimbabwe and the politics of women's NGOs in Zimbabwe and Kenya. Before coming to Emory, she taught at Iowa State University and Denison University, and held post-doctoral fellowships at the Ohio State University and the University of Chicago. Dr. Ranchod-Nilsson directed and helped establish the interdisciplinary International Studies Program at Denison University. Her work appears in major international journals as well as several edited collections and she co-edited Women, States, and Nationalism: At Home in the Nation? with Mary Ann Tetreault (Routledge 2000). Her recent research has focused on the Indian government's diaspora policies and the Indian population in South Africa.
Casey Dunning, Administrative Coordinator
Casey Dunning recently graduated from Emory University with Highest Honors in International Studies. While at Emory, she did research on political institutions and ethnicity with a case study of Northern Ireland. This research culminated in a thesis which garnered first prize in the national thesis contest for Pi Sigma Alpha. Ms. Dunning's interests center upon political economy and ethnic conflict with a special emphasis on religion. She has interned with the International Rescue Committee and The Carter Center as well as studied abroad at Oxford University and Trinity College, Dublin.