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Sep 19, 2017 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Angela Kachuyevski, associate professor of Historical and Political Studies, is the recipient of a J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship award to Ukraine– the third faculty member and fifth University member to earn a Fulbright award in the past two years. Beginning in February...
Jun 1, 2017 • Caitlin Burns
Throughout May, Dr. Jennifer Riggan, associate professor of Historical and Political Studies, was featured as an authority on Ethiopia’s involvement in the Eritrean refugee crisis in articles by MSN News UK, African Business, Africa-News, and GlobalPost. “Ethiopia strongly believes that...
Apr 21, 2017 • Caitlin Burns
Associate Professor of Historical and Political Studies Dr. Jennifer Riggan was featured in a story on April 17 by The Christian Science Monitor on Ethiopia’s acceptance of Eritrean refugees despite the harsh political climate between the two countries. Dr. Riggan, who has conducted a...
Apr 5, 2017 • Caitlin Burns
Zahra Ahmadi and Clifford Long, members of the Arcadia University Class of 2017, are the first undergraduate students in Arcadia University history to earn a Fulbright U.S. Student Award from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Ahmadi and Long were...
Mar 6, 2017 • Caitlin Burns
Arcadia University was ranked by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs as a top producer of the 2016-2017 Fulbright U.S. Scholars for the Bachelor’s Institution category. Faculty members Dr. Kalenda Eaton, associate professor of English, and Dr. Jennifer...
Aug 23, 2016 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Jennifer Riggan, associate professor of Historical and Political Studies, led 10 students on a Global Field Study course to Sierra Leone from May 21 to June 1, to study how the country is revitalizing its socio-economic conditions post-ebola. During the course, Beyond Ebola in Sierra Leone,...
Apr 19, 2016 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Jennifer Riggan, associate professor of Historical and Political Studies, will study how civic education has been implemented in Ethiopian secondary schools, through funding from the Teaching/Research Fulbright award. During her sabbatical, Dr. Riggan will teach two international research...
Feb 4, 2016 • Caitlin Burns
Jennifer Riggan, associate professor of international studies at Arcadia University, is celebrating the release of her new book, The Struggling State: Nationalism, Mass Militarization, and the Education of Eritrea with a book launch on Feb. 11 at 5:30 p.m. The book will be released on Feb. 16...
Jul 1, 2015 • Christopher Sarachilli
Maja Subasic, International Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR) program coordinator, Dr. Amy Cox, director of the IPCR program, and Dr. Jennifer Riggan, associate professor of international studies, attended "Teaching Peace in the 21st Century 7th Annual Summer Peacebuilding Institute...
Apr 22, 2015 • jretter Retter
Dr. Jennifer Riggan, associate professor in the historical and political studies department, was recently invited by the Institute for African Development (IAD) at Cornell University to present a paper titled “The Impracticalities of Pragmatic Education: The Disconnect Between Top-Down Human...
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.
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
University of Pennsylvania 2007
PhD, Major in Education, Culture and Society
Trinity College 1992
BA, Major in English- Creative Writing
Minor in Spanish
Author • 2016
Book, Temple University Press
Author • 2016
Book, Temple University Press (Download available through Knowledge Unlatched)
Author • 2015
Article, African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review
Author • 2016
Contribution to book, In Muna Ndolu & Mamoudou Gazibo, Eds. Democracy, Elections and Accountability in Africa. Oxford: James Curry.
Author • 2014
Article, Journal of Narrative Politics 1(1)
Author • 2013
Article, Africa Today 60 (2)
Author • 2013
Article, American Ethnologist 40(4):749-763.
Author • 2011
Article, Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 34(1) 131-154.
Lead Author • 2011
Article, Frontiers: The Journal of Study Abroad. 21: 236-253
Co-Authored with Sonya Gwak, Stacy Olitsky, Joy Lesnick & Kara Jackson
Author • 2009
Contribution to book, Biopolitics, Militarism, and the Developmental State: Eritrea in the 21st Century, Editors: David O’Kane and Tricia Redeker Hepner, Berghahn Books, Dislocations Series.