University of Richmond political science professor named Fulbright Scholar, will teach democracy and politics in Sierra Leone
April 3, 2009
Jimmy Kandeh, a political science professor at the University of Richmond, has been named a Fulbright Scholar to teach and conduct research at Fourah Bay College of the University of Sierra Leone in Freetown next year.
Kandeh will focus on the process of democratization and state building in Sierra Leone. He also will lecture on the politics of cultural pluralism and subaltern politics.
Kandeh said Sierra Leone is a "test case for the liberal peace project in Africa, a continent where the mode of ruling class accumulation enfeebles the state and threatens democracy."
Kandeh earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy and political science from Fourah Bay, founded in 1827 and the oldest college in West Africa. He received master's and doctoral degrees in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), under a cooperative agreement with the United States Department of State, administers the traditional Fulbright Scholar Program that sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals to 140 countries to lecture, research, or participate in seminars. At the same time, approximately 800 foreign faculty come to the United States each year.