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Jennifer A. Riggan
Professor, Historical and Political Studies
Easton 235 1 (215) 572-8617 Tuesday 2-3 Thursday 11-12 and by appointment Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
About Me
Dr. Jennifer Riggan is a Professor of International Studies in the Department of Historical and Political Studies at Arcadia University. She began teaching at Arcadia in 2007. She is a political anthropologist whose ethnographic research focuses on political identities and state formation in Eritrea and Ethiopia. She has published on the changing relationship between citizenship and nationalism, the de-coupling of the nation and the state, and the relationship between militarization, education and development. Her current research explores the effects of new paradigms in global migration management on Ethiopian refugee policy and Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia. She is the author of The Struggling State: Nationalism, Mass Militarization and the Education of Eritrea (2016) which is available through Temple University Press and for free download from Knowledge Unlatched at: http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=605457. She is the 2019 Georg Arnhold Professor in Education for Sustainable Peace at the Georg Eckert Centre for International Textbook Research. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Addis Ababa University during the 2016-17 academic year. Previously, her research has been supported by a Spencer/National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship and a Fulbright student fellowship.
Areas Of Focus
Nationalism, Anthropology of the State, Citizenship, Political Identity, Refugees, Critical Development Studies, Childhood and Youth, Teachers, the Anthropology of Peace and Conflict, Authoritarianism, Democratization, Horn of Africa, Education
Hometown
Philadelphia
Home Country
USA
Education History
University of Pennsylvania 2007
PhD, Major in Education, Culture and Society
Trinity College 1992
BA, Major in English- Creative Writing
Minor in Spanish