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1 Adrienne LeBas American University Department of Government School of Public Affairs 4400 Massachusetts Avenue Washington, DC Phone: ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Associate Professor of Government, School of Public Affairs, American University (September 2015 to the present). Assistant Professor of Government ( ). Residential Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC. September May Research associate, iig (Improving Institutions for Pro- Poor Growth) initiative, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford. October 2008 March Post- doctoral Prize Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. September 2005 July Assistant Professor of Political Science and African Studies, Michigan State University. August 2005 August EDUCATION Columbia University. Ph.D., M.Phil., M.A. Political Science. May Committee: Charles Tilly, Jack Snyder, Mahmood Mamdani. University of Florida. B.A. in Political Science and Economics with Honors. December BOOK From Protest to Parties: Party- Building and Democratization in Africa. Oxford University Press (2013 paperback). 300 pages. Best Book Award from the African Politics Conference Group, an organized section of the American Political Science Association and the African Studies Association. November Reviews: African Affairs, African Studies Review, Comparative Political Studies, Commonwealth and Comparative Studies, Foreign Affairs, Journal of Modern African Studies, Mobilization, Party Politics, Perspectives on Politics

2 ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS (Forthcoming). The Survival of Authoritarian Successor Parties in Africa: Organizational Legacies or Competitive Landscapes? chapter in James Loxton and Scott Mainwaring, eds., Life after Dictatorship: Authoritarian Successor Parties Worldwide (Cambridge University Press, 2018). With Cristina Bodea. The Origins of Voluntary Compliance: Attitudes toward Taxation in Urban Nigeria, British Journal of Political Science 46:1 (January 2016), A New Twilight in Zimbabwe? The Perils of Power- sharing, Journal of Democracy 25:2 (April 2014), Violence and Urban Order in Nairobi, Kenya, and Lagos, Nigeria, Studies in Comparative International Development 48:3 (September 2013), Polarization as Craft: Party Formation and State Violence in Zimbabwe, Comparative Politics 38:4 (July 2006), Honorable mention (sole), African Politics Conference Group Best Article Award, The Politics of Institutional Subversion: Organized Labour and Resistance in Zambia, in John Chalcraft and Yaseen Noorani, eds., Counterhegemony in the Colony and Postcolony (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), Une alliance qui se délite? Contrôle partisan et dynamiques internes dans le Zanu- PF, Politique Africaine 93 (March 2004), RESEARCH GRANTS With Ryan Moore. Tax Appeals and Social Intermediaries in Lagos, Nigeria. Evidence in Governance & Politics (EGAP) Metaketa Initiative $176,479. Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation grant for The Local Organization of Violence in Nigeria. January December $26,743. Team Co- Principal Investigator (for Nigeria). 120,000 from the Department for International Development (DfID, UK). In collaboration with Etannibi Alemika (University of Jos) and Nic Cheeseman (Oxford University) LeBas had primary authority for all survey design and implementation. Pilot survey in Lagos (600 respondents), urban survey in eleven cities (2750 respondents). Capacity- building programs with CLEEN, a Nigerian NGO dedicated to justice sector reform and oversight. American University International Travel Grant. $3000. Summer Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University. Small grant for survey Political Competition and Violence in Kenya, 600 respondents in Nairobi slums. May John Fell Research Fund, Small Award. Grant for Electoral Competition and the Organization of Violence in Kenya, Faculty Research Initiative Award, College of Social Sciences, Michigan State University. Grant for research on violence in Kenya, $

3 Smith Richardson Travel Grant, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University. Summer $2500. CURRENT MAJOR PROJECTS Book project: The Organizational Roots of Persistent Electoral Violence in Africa. Supported by a residential fellowship from Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars ( ), a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation grant (2017), as well as other smaller grants. Field experiment on tax compliance in Lagos, Nigeria Part of the EGAP Metaketa II: Taxation. SELECTED WORKING PAPERS Who trusts? Ethnicity, integration, and attitudes toward elected officials in urban Nigeria. Available as UNU- WIDER Working Paper 126/2017 (June 2017). Currently revise and resubmit at Comparative Political Studies With Adam Auerbach and Alison Post. Cities and Methodological Innovation: Creative Responses to Data Scarcity and Social Complexity, introduction to a special issue on urban politics in the developing world. Under review. With Roxana Gutierrez- Romero. When do voters sanction violence? A Vignette Experiment in Kenya. Under review. Can Polarization be Positive? Conflict and Institutional Development in Africa. Under review. Ethnicity & the Willingness to Sanction Violent Politicians: Norm Enforcement in Nairobi. With Cristina Bodea and Masaaki Higashijima. Coup Risk and Fiscal Decisions in Developing Countries. Opposition Parties and Political Change in Zimbabwe, chapter in Jocelyn Alexander and Blessing Miles Tendi, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Politics in Zimbabwe (Oxford University Press, under contract). In progress. With Jeff Paller. Survey Research in African Cities: Obstacles and Opportunities. In progress. OTHER PUBLICATIONS Term Limits and Beyond: Africa s Democratic Hurdles, Current History 115:781 (May 2016), Briefing on Current Zimbabwe Socio- Political Relations, prepared for the Center for Strategic Intelligence Research, National Intelligence University. March Available online. Research Transparency, DART, and the Challenges of Fieldwork in Africa, African Politics Conference Group Newsletter 12:2 (August 2016). 3

4 Using Film to Teach African Politics, African Politics Conference Group Newsletter 10:1 (February 2014). Book review of Anne Pitcher, Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa s Democracies. Perspectives on Politics 11:4 (December 2013), Book review of Timothy Scarnecchia, The Urban Roots of Democracy and Political Violence in Zimbabwe: Harare and Highfield, Journal of Modern African Studies 51:1 (March 2013), The Origins of Social Contracts: Attitudes toward Taxation in Urban Nigeria, CSAE (Oxford) Working Paper WPS 2013/2, January Ethnicity and the Willingness to Sanction Violence Politicians, Afrobarometer Working Paper No December Co- author (anonymous), Prospects for Non- Violent Change in Zimbabwe, United States Institute of Peace Special Report, no August Available at Under a Shadow: Civil and Political Rights in Zimbabwe, Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper, June 6, Available at Review article, Children s Rights, Journal of International Affairs 55:1 (Fall 2001), AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Washington, DC Visiting fellow, joint with Varieties of Democracy (V- Dem) & Quality of Governance (QoG) Institutes, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. May African Politics Conference Group, 2011 Best Book in African Politics. November New Voice in the Social Sciences, Social Science Research Council (SSRC). May African Politics Conference Group, 2006 Best Article Honorable Mention. November Dissertation nominated for the Juan Linz Prize, APSA Comparative Democratization section. March Prize Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford Graduate fellow of the Institute for Social and Economic Policy Research (ISERP), Columbia University Alternate, Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship, United States Institute of Peace Cordier Fellow (declined), SIPA, Columbia University Travel grant, International Political Science Association Pre- Doctoral Fellow, Institute of African Studies, Columbia University Mellon Fellow of the Sawyer Seminar on Democracy and Inequality, Institute for Historical Social Science, Columbia University Young Africanist Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Washington, D.C. Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) award in Swahili. Summer Presidential Fellow, GSAS, Columbia University, academic years. 4

5 University of Florida CLAS Undergraduate Research Award; National Merit Scholar at University of Florida ; Florida Undergraduate Scholar CONFERENCES & INVITED TALKS Invited talks: New York University Abu Dhabi (March 8, 2017), Temple University (October 10, 2016), Williams College (February 16, 2016), Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (February 2, 2016), George Mason University, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (November 11, 2016), University of Bergen, Norway (June 2, 2015), University of Gothenburg, Sweden (May 19, 2015); University of Korea, Seoul (May 7, 2015), Wesleyan University (October 26, 2014), Northwestern University (March 31, 2014), International Food Policy Research Institute (March 26, 2014), University of Florida (November 15, 2013), U.S. Naval Academy (February 20, 2013), Johns Hopkins- SAIS (October 24, 2012), McGill University (October 19, 2012), Yale University (November 29, 2011), School of Oriental and African Studies (January 28, 2009). Invited participant, first annual conference of the Program on Governance and Local Development (GLD), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. May 11-12, Discussant, book workshop for Laryssa Chomiak s untitled manuscript on the politics of dissent in Tunisia before April 18, Invited participant, workshop Comparative Perspectives on Polarization. Budapest, Hungary. March 12-14, Invited participant, workshop Political Implications of Group- based Inequalities, United Nations University, Helsinki, Finland. September 9-10, Discussant, Workshop on Mass Killings in the Shadow of Civil Conflict: Causes and Lessons for Prevention, Georgetown University. May 11-12, Discussant, book workshop for Jeffrey Paller s Accountability in Unexpected Places: Democratic Politics in African Slums. Columbia University, May 6, Tax Appeals and Social Intermediaries in Lagos, Nigeria, invited to present design at 2016 World Bank / Working Group on African Political Economy (WGAPE) workshop. World Bank, Washington, DC. April 29-30, Discussant, George Washington University Conference on the Economics and Political Economy of Africa. April 28, Discussant, book workshop for Yonatan Morse s Parties and Patrons: The Sources of Competitiveness in Multiparty Africa. Georgetown University, April 16, Invited participant, workshop Polarized Parties prior to 2016 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association. Atlanta, Georgia. March 14-15, Co- organizer and Participant (with Leo Arriola, Adam Auerbach, and Alison Post). Workshops on Methodological Innovation in Urban Political Research. First workshop: University of California Berkeley. April 30- May 1, Second workshop: American University. October 29-30, Invited speaker, Democracy in Africa conference, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University. October 24-25,

6 Invited speaker, closing panel, After the Dust Settles: Social Media in Political Transitions, United States Institute of Peace. September 29, Invited senior mentor for post- doctoral scholar Aditi Malik, African Studies Center of The Pennsylvania State University. Also delivered public seminar When do Voters Sanction Violence? September 17-18, Invited participant, workshop Authoritarian Successor Parties and Democracy: Causes and Consequences. Notre Dame University. April 17-18, Discussant, POMEPS Book Development Workshop for Dina Bishara s Contesting Authoritarianism: Challenges to State Corporatism in Egypt. Yale University, October 24-25, Discussant, book incubator workshop for Celeste Arrington s Accidental Activists: Victim Redress Movements in Japan and South Korea. September 26, Invited panelist, APSA Short Course Urbanization and Local Politics in the Developing World, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. August 27, The Sources of Dominant Party Survival and Defeat in Africa, presented at conference Dominant Party Systems (invited), University of Michigan, May 9-10, Discussant, book incubator for Lucan Way s Pluralism by Default. May 1, Invited participant, workshop on taxation in Nigeria, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University, April 29, Invited speaker at the Annual Congress of the International Centre for Taxation and Development. Lome, Togo. December 10, Discussant, Conference The Gap from Parchment to Practice: Constitutions in Democratizing Countries. American University. May 28-29, Invited discussant, conference Challenges of Party Building in Latin America. Harvard University. November 14, Invited participant, Workshop on the findings and policy recommendations of the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy & Security. Yale University. March 2, The Persistence of Political Violence in Kenya. Presented at conference Elections, Accountability and Democratic Government in Africa (invited), Cornell University, April 20-21, Discussant, book workshop on Ato Onoma s The Politics of Encounters, May Violence and Community Order in Nairobi and Lagos, presented at conference Violent Cities: Challenges of Democracy and Governance in the Urban Global South (invited), Brown University, April 27-29, Ethnicity and the Willingness to Sanction Violent Politicians, presented at Workshop on Ethnic Politics (invited), George Washington University, October 15-16, Party Organization and the Evolution of Party Systems in Africa, presented at Political Parties in the Developing World conference (invited), Princeton University. April 30 May 1, Citizens attitudes towards violence, party campaigns and vote buying, presented at Neglected Themes of the Kenya Crisis workshop, Oxford, October 23,

7 When Do Parties Compete? Party Formation and Conflict in Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe, presentation at 50 th Anniversary conference of the Centre d Etude d Afrique Noir, Sciences Po, Bordeaux. September 3-5, The Politics of Collapse: Political Responses to Violence and Displacement in Zimbabwe, presented at Political Economies of Displacement in Zimbabwe international conference, Johannesburg (invited). June 9-11, Invited discussant, MineWatch Zambia Conference. Oxford University. May American Political Science Association (APSA) presenter: 2004, 2005 (awarded graduate travel grant), 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, Discussant: 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, African Studies Association (ASA) presenter: 2001, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, Discussant: 2010, 2012, Roundtable participant: 2014, Centre for the Study of African Economies Annual Conference: 2012, 2013, Discussant: European Political Science Association (EPSA) presenter & discussant: 2012, 2013, European Council on African Studies (ECAS) presenter: 2013, OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Consultant, Freedom House, Africa expert for Freedom in the World, present. Consultant on scoring methodology, Invited participant, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) workshop on Phase II of Theories of Democratic Change. December 9, Invited speaker, State Department briefing for incoming U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Harry K. Thomas. December 10, Invited speaker, State Department colloquium The Role of the Opposition in Sub- Saharan Africa. August 27, Consultant to the Lagos State Panel Survey panel survey funded by the Lagos State Government on the links between public goods delivery, attitudes toward taxation, and tax compliance in Lagos, Nigeria. April 2013 October Invited speaker on African security issues at both the National Defense University & the State Department s Foreign Service Institute Invited speaker, U.S. State Department conference on Kenyan elections. February 22, Invited speaker, U.S. State Department briefing on Zimbabwe for Ambassador Bruce Wharton, September 7, Invited speaker, U.S. State Department- sponsored conference on Kenya. December 1, Consultant on Africa (southern, east and central), Oxford Analytica. Appointment to write briefing papers and provide general guidance. March 2007 to Invited speaker, Zimbabwe s Latest Crackdown: Responses and Consequences, roundtable sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace. April 23,

8 Invited speaker, U.S. State Department briefing on Zimbabwe for Ambassador Christopher Dell. August 10, Consultant and Writer, Human Rights Watch. New York. Appointment to coordinate and conduct research, write reports, and provide general guidance on conditions in Zimbabwe. March to November Participant, Early Warning Experts Meeting co- sponsored by the Office for Coordinated Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA) and the International Peace Academy. New York, NY. November 17, Invited speaker, U.S. Department of State- sponsored conference on Zimbabwe. January 7, TEACHING Undergraduate Introduction to Comparative Politics (Hunter College 2005; American 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015) Dynamics of Political Change (American University 2010, 2011) Political Violence and Civil Wars (American University 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016) Honors Seminar: Power and Protest (American University 2010, 2013) Contemporary African Politics (400- level: MSU 2007, Lehigh 2005) International Relations of Africa (Lehigh University 2005) Graduate Comparative Politics Subfield Survey (American University 2014, 2016) Social and Political Movements (American University 2010, 2012) Political Violence in Comparative Perspective (American University 2010, 2014) Contemporary African Politics (MA- level course: American 2009, 2011, 2014) Problems in the Study of Democratization (MSU 2006) Comparative Qualitative Research Methods (contributing lecturer, Oxford 2006) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE University service: AU Educational Policy Committee , AU School of Public Affairs Steering Committee 2013, AU Department of Government By- Laws Revision Committee , American University Student Conduct Council Member, MSU Comparative Politics Field Committee, Nuffield College Strategy & Resources Committee , Nuffield College Governing Body , Nuffield College Art Committee Disciplinary service: Executive Council, APSA Urban Politics organized section, present; APSA Comparative Politics Sage Paper Prize selection committee, 2017; APSA Comparative Democratization Best Fieldwork Award selection committee, 2017; Treasurer, African Politics Conference Group (APSA organized section), ; 2015 Midwest Political Science Association conference section chair (African Politics); APCG Best Article Committee 2010, APSA Comparative Democratization Best Article Committee 2008, APCG ASA Panel Committee 2006, APCG Best Book Award Committee

9 Dissertation committee member: Jennifer Yelle (American, defended 2013); Alanna Van Antwerp (George Washington University, defended 2014); Jeremy Streatfeild (George Washington University, defended 2015); Chandra Dunn (American, defended 2015). External examiner: Ingvild Skage (University of Bergen, Norway, defended 2016). Reviewer for Journals: African Affairs, Africa Today, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies, Feminist Review, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of East African Studies, Journal of Modern African Studies, Journal of International Relations and Development, Journal of Peace- building and Development, Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Studies in Comparative International Development, Theory and Society, and World Politics. Presses: Continuum, Lynne Rienner, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, University of Michigan Press, Ohio University Press. Grant- making bodies: European Social Research Council (ESRC) FIELDWORK Fieldwork of greater than one month: Zimbabwe (1999, , 2008), Kenya ( ), Zambia ( ), Nigeria (2010, 2013, 2017), Senegal (2016) 9