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Severine Autesserre
Lehman 419, Barnard College
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Phone: 212-854-4877
www.columbia.edu/~sa435/
autesser@barnard.edu
Biography:
Severine Autesserre is an Assistant Professor of Political Science, specializing in international relations and African studies, at Barnard College, Columbia University. She works on civil wars, peace building and peace keeping, humanitarian aid, and African politics. Her last research project focused on local violence and international intervention in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where she has travelled regularly since 2001. Research for this project has appeared in Foreign Affairs, International Organization, the Review of African Political Economy, the African Studies Review, and the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs. She also has a book, entitled The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press (20010). Her new research project studies how Western and non-Western cultures influence peacebuilding interventions on the ground.
Her research has won numerous prizes and fellowships, including a Peace Fellowship from the United States Institute of Peace (2004-2005), a Mellon Dissertation-Writing and Research Fellowship in Security and Humanitarian Action (2004-2006), and a Fulbright Fellowship (1999-2000). Before being an academic, Severine Autesserre worked for humanitarian and development agencies in Afghanistan, Kosovo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nicaragua and India. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from New York University (2006), and M.A.s in political science and international relations from Science-Po (France, 1999) and Columbia University (2000).
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