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Name: Pearl T. Robinson
Title: Assistant Professor & Director, Africa in the New World Interdisciplinary Minor
Departmental Affiliation: Political Science Department
Degrees: PhD Political Science, Columbia University Certificate in African Studies, Columbia University
MA Political Science, University of California, Davis
BA French& Political Science, UC Davis
Expertise: Comparative Politics & Democratization
African Studies
African-American Politics
African Diaspora
E-Learning & E-Pedagogy
Major Awards: ACE/AT&T Award for use of technology as a Tool for Internationalization, 2003; Included in Boston Public Library Photo Exhibit of 200 Boston area intellectuals, 2002; Honorary Member of the Golden Key National Honor Society, 1999; Commencement Speaker UC Davis 1996, Cal Aggie Alumni Association Citation for Excellence Award, 1994
E-mail: pearl.robinson@tufts.edu

Scholarship & Research: “Area Studies in Search of Africa,” in David Szanton, ed., The Politics of Knowledge: Area Studies and the Disciplines (University of California Press, 2004)

“Curriculum Co-Development with African Universities: Experiments in Collaboration across Two Digital Divides,” in Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Adebayo Olukoshi, eds., African Universities in the 21st Century (CODESRIA, 2004)

"The National Conference Phenomenon in Francophone Africa" in Comparative Studies in Society and History

"Whither the Future of Blacks in the Republican Party?" in Political Science Quarterly

Working on an intellectual biography about Ralph Bunche, the Africanist

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