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FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES – Deborah Brautigam

Deborah Brautigam
Associate Professor
International Development

Phone
202-885-1696

Fax
202-885-2494

E-Mail
dbrauti@american.edu

Location
Hurst, Room 209A

Web site
www.american.edu/faculty/brautigam/

Biography
Professor Brautigam teaches in the International Development program, where she is an advisor for the concentrations in development policy, and in governance and democracy. She has also held faculty appointments at Columbia University in New York (1987-94), and Silpakorn University in Thailand (1978-79), and has also been a visiting fellow at the University of Liberia in Monrovia, the University of Mauritius, Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone, and the Christian Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. She has served as a consultant for the United Nations, the World Bank, and the U.S. Agency for International Development in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Egypt, and various Sub-Saharan African countries.

Brautigam has been a recipient of a Fulbright Senior Regional Research Award for Africa, and a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Grant, and has also been awarded fellowships from the Council on Foreign Relations, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the German Marshall Fund. She is the author of Chinese Aid and African Development: Exporting Green Revolution (St. Martin's Press, 1998) and Aid Dependence and Governance (Almquist & Wiksell, 2000), co-editor of Taxation and State-Building in Developing Countries: Capacity and Consent (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and some two dozen articles and book chapters on foreign aid, the political economy of development, and the politics of economic policy.

Her research has been published in Comparative Politics, World Development, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Journal of Developing Areas, Studies in Comparative International Development, Current History, Development Policy Review, Public Administration and Development, Africa Contemporary Record, The Journal of Modern African Studies, and African Affairs. She is currently working on a book about China's 'new' aid program in Africa and has another project on small states managing globalization with Mauritius as the central case.

Education
MALD, PhD, Tufts University
BA, Ohio Wesleyan University

Publications

• Chinese Aid and African Development: Exporting Green Revolution (St. Martin's Press, 1998).
• Aid Dependence and Governance (Almquist & Wiksell, 2000).
• Taxation and State-Building in Developing Countries: Capacity and Consent, co-editor (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

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