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Rachel Beatty Riedl (Fall ’08), assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University, contributed “Transforming Politics, Dynamic Religion: Religion’s Political Impact in Contemporary Africa” to African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review 2, 2 (2012). With Noam Lupu (Fall ’11), she coauthored “Political Parties and Uncertainty in Developing Democracies,” Comparative Political Studies 46, 12 (2013).