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Professor Jennifer Brinkerhoff (George Washington University) is visiting PAIS on Jan. 8-9, 2014 in the context of academic activities of the European Council Starting Grant Project “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty.”

Professor Jennifer Brinkerhoff will give:

• a Master class “On Policy-relevant and Internet-based Research,” on Jan. 8, 12.30- 2.30 pm in the Wolfson Research Exchange (3). For more information, click here.
• a PAIS Department Talk: “The In-Between Advantage: Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Institutional Reform” on Jan. 8, 4.00-5.30 pm in S. 018, refreshments will be served from 3.30 pm. The talk will be based on her new book. Please click here for more information.
• Workshop “Diasporas and International Politics” on Jan. 9, 2014, based on in-depth reading of papers.

Professor Brinkerhoff is specialist in international development, governance, public-private partnerships, NGOs, and diaspora politics. Her publications include six books, three co-edited journal issues, and over fifty articles and book chapters on topics ranging from policy evaluation, to NGOs, failed states, governance, diaspora identity, development, and citizenship. She is the author of Digital Diasporas: Identity and Transnational Engagement (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Partnership for International Development: Rhetoric or Results? (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002); the editor of Diasporas and Development: Exploring the Potential (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008); and co-editor of NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007).