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Timothy Longman
Associate Professor of Political Science
and Africana Studies
Vassar College
Box 393
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie NY 12604
(845) 437-5563
email: tilongman@vassar.edu
Timothy Longman serves as associate professor of Political Science and
Africana Studies at Vassar College, where he has taught since 1996. His
research focus is on African Politics, with specializations in religion
and politics, ethnicity and politics, state-society relations, and
genocide and human rights. He has published articles,
book chapters, and human rights reports on Rwanda, Burundi, and the
Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire). Courses he teaches
include African Politics, Human Rights and Politics, Introduction to
Comparative Politics, and a seminar in Comparative Identity
Politics. Professor Longman also teaches as a visiting lecturer
in the International Human Rights Exchange
at the University of the
Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
From 2001to 2006, Dr. Longman was the Rwanda research director for the Human Rights Center at the University of
California, Berkeley. From 2001-2003, Dr. Longman was based in
Berkeley, directing a number of research projects funded by the
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Sandler Family
Supporting Foundation, and Hewlett Foundation looking at the process of
social reconstruction in Rwanda. Inital findings from these research
projects were published in a volume from Cambridge University
Press, My Neighbor, My Enemy. The Berkeley research team also
received a major grant from the United States Institute for
Peace to work with the Rwandan Ministry of Education in developing a
new history curriculum for Rwandan high schools. Dr. Longman is
currently completing a manuscript on Memory,
Justice, and Power in Post-Genocide Rwanda based on the research
from these projects.
Prior to coming to Vassar, Dr. Longman was
head of the field office for Human Rights Watch and the Federation
International des Ligues des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH) in Butare,
Rwanda. He continues to work periodically as a consultant to Human
Rights, the International
Center for Transitional Justice, and USAID and the State Department
working on Rwanda, Burundi, and Congo.
Dr. Longman received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his B.A. in Religion and Politics
from Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma. He taught for one year at
Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Sample Course Syllabi:
· African
Politics
· African American Politics
· Human
Rights and Politics
· Introduction to Comparative Politics
· Comparative Identity Politics
Seminar
· Africa and the World: Introduction to
Africana Studies
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