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    The Kellogg Institute for International Studies, part of the University of Notre Dame’s new Keough School of Global Affairs, is an interdisciplinary community of scholars that promotes research, provides educational opportunities, and builds linkages related to democracy and human development.

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Regions

West Africa

Included Countries: Benin Burkina Faso Cape Verde Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Gambia, The Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Togo
Research

Reasearch In West Africa

Research conducted by members of the Kellogg intellectual community on the themes of democracy and human development is at the core of what the Institute does.

Opportunity for Education of Those with Special Needs Disabilities in Sierra Leone
Grace Ducat: International Development Studies
2021-2022
The Birth of the Slave Plantation System in Benguela, 1760-1860
Esteban Salas: Former Kellogg Doctoral Student
2020-2021
Municipal Governance in Mali: Exploring Performance Based Funding to Increase Accountability
Jaimie Bleck: Faculty Fellow
2019-2020
African Labor Markets in Flux
Taryn Dinkelman: Faculty Fellow
2019-2020
Fugitive Blackness: Finding African Diasporic Self-Governance in the Early Circum-Caribbean
Karen B. Graubart: Faculty Fellow
2018-2019
Mentorship as a Hand Out of Poverty: Evidence from Four Countries
Wyatt Brooks: Former Faculty Fellow Terence Johnson: Former Faculty Fellow Bruce Wydick: Distinguished Research Affiliate
2018-2019
Zoonotic Disease and Food Security in Rural Sierra Leone
Catherine Bolten: Former Faculty Fellow
2016-2017
A Study on the Supply and Demand for Magico-Religious Protection in Benin
Rahul Oka: Faculty Fellow
2013-2014
Growth and Income Distribution Aspects of Ghana’s Economic Recovery Program
Bartholomew Kingsley Armah: Former Kellogg Doctoral Student
1986
People

People Researching West Africa

For more than three decades, our faculty and visiting fellows have helped set the scholarly agenda on our core themes of democratization and human development. Our work has had a significant impact on policy and practice.

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Terence McDonnell

Faculty Fellow
Drew Marcantonio

Drew Marcantonio

Faculty Fellow
Anivesh Bharadwaj

Anivesh Bharadwaj

PhD Fellow
Portia Chigbu

Portia Chigbu

PhD Fellow
David Ipogah

David Ipogah

Doctoral Student Affiliate
Joachim Ozone

Joachim Ozonze

Doctoral Student Affiliate
Sarah Pollnow

Sarah Pollnow

Doctoral Student Affiliate
Fr. Kenneth Amadi

Fr. Kenneth Amadi

Doctoral Student Affiliate
Adedoyin Okanlawon

Adedoyin Okanlawon

Doctoral Student Affiliate
Julie Hawke

Julie Hawke

Doctoral Student Affiliate

Bernadette Miramontes ‘17

International Scholar
Susan Shepler

Susan Shepler

Former Visiting Fellow
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