Aili Mari Tripp (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Submitted: Fri, December 12, 2008


Aili Mari Tripp
Professor, Political Science & Women's Studies
Director of the Women's Studies Research Center
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Address:
Department of Political Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
401 North Hall, 1050 Bascom Mall
Madison, Wisconsin  53706  USA

phone:   608-263-1873
fax:     608-274-2691
email:   atripp@wisc.edu 


Web site: http://www.polisci.wisc.edu/users/tripp/


My publications include the following books:

Co-authored with Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga, and Alice Mungwa.
African Women's Movements: Transforming Political Landscapes.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Edited with Myra Marx Ferree.  
Global Feminism: Transnational Women's Activism, Organizing,
and Human Rights. New York: New York University Press. 2006.

Editor of Sub-Saharan Africa: The Greenwood Encylopedia of Women's 
Issues Worldwide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.  2003.  

Coedited with Joy Kwesiga. The Women's Movement in Uganda: History, 
Challenges and Prospects.  Kampala:  Fountain Publishers.  2002.

Author of Women & Politics in Uganda. Madison: University of 
Wisconsin Press;  Oxford: James Currey and Kampala: Fountain Press.  2000.  
(Co-winner of the 2001 Victoria Schuck Award of the American Political
Science Association for the best book published in women and politics.  
Recipient of a 2001 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles Award)

Author of Changing the Rules:  The Politics of Liberalization and the 
Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania.  Berkeley and Los Angeles:  
University of California Press.  1997.

Coedited book with Marja-Liisa Swantz.  What Went Right in Tanzania? 
People's Responses to Directed Development.  Dar es Salaam: 
University of Dar es Salaam Press.  1996. 


I have also published articles and chapters on women and politics in
Africa; women's responses to economic reform; and transformations of
associational life in Africa.

My teaching includes courses in:  comparative politics, African politics,
women and politics (global), women and social movements in comparative
perspective, women and the global economy, women and contemporary change
in Africa.