Kimuli Kunihira Kasara (Columbia University, New York, New York)

Submitted: Mon, February 22, 2010


Kimuli Kunihira Kasara
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Columbia University
704 International Affairs
420 West 118th Street, MC 3320
New York, New York  10027  USA

phone:  212-854-6508
fax:    212-854-5670  
e-mail: kk2432@columbia.edu


Kimuli Kasara received her Ph.D. from Stanford in 2006. Her dissertation 
focused on ethnic politics in Africa and on African political economy. Her 
current work concerns colonialism in East Africa, communal violence and 
political parties.  

Published Work:

2007  "Tax Me If You Can: Ethnic Geography, Democracy, and the Taxation 
of Agriculture in Africa." American Political Science Review 101 (1).

2007  With James Fearon and David Laitin. 
"Ethnic Minority Rule and Civil War Onset." American Political Science 
Review 101 (1).


Unpublished working papers:

A Prize too Large to Share: Opposition Coalitions and the Kenyan 
Presidency

Explaining Ethnic Mobilization in Rwanda and Burundi in the 1950s

Ethnic Beachheads and Vote Buying: The Creation of New Administrative 
Districts in Kenya, 1992-2001