 Associate Professor
 Pearl T. Robinson - Comparative Politics,
Africa, African-American PoliticsPh.D. Columbia University, 1975 Professor
Robinson is an author of more than 20 articles and book chapters on
African and African American politics. She is co-author of
Stabilizing
Nigeria: Sanctions, Incentives and Support for Civil Society (The
Century Foundation Press) and co-editor and co-author of
Transformation and Resiliency in Africa (Howard University Press)
member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Senior Advisor to the
Boston Pan-African Forum, she has served on the boards of
Oxfam-America and TransAfrica; as an advisor to the African Academy of
Science’s Research Programme on the Education of Women and Girls; as a
curriculum consultant for the PBS/BBC series The Africans: A Triple
Heritage; and as an advisor for Hopes on the Horizon, a 2-hour
documentary film about Africa premiering on PBS. Robinson spent two
years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger doing public health
education in a rural Hausa town. A Director of the University’s
International Relations Program, Professor Robinson organized a
symposium on Jazz and International Relations as well as a three-day
conference and film festival around the theme Small States in a
Changing World: Globalization, Regionalism, Culture and Identity.
Robinson is currently launching a Curriculum Co-Development project
that will link students studying African International Relations at
Tufts University, Makerere University (Uganda) and University of Dar
es Salaam (Tanzania) through a shared web site. Prof. Robinson's Curriculum Vitae
A Life Studying Africa
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