Ericka A. Albaugh

Assistant Professor

Fall 2009

  • Politics and Societies in Africa (AFRS 222)
  • The Politics of Development: Poverty, Prosperity, and Political Change (GOV 220)
  • Intermediate Independent Study in Government (GOV 291)
  • Advanced Independent Study and Honors in Government (GOV 401)
Phone (207) 721-5233
Title Assistant Professor
Department GOVERNMENT
Work Location 209A Hubbard Hall
E-Mail ealbaugh@bowdoin.edu
Ericka Albaugh: Bowdoin College

Education:

Ph.D., Duke University Durham, NC
M.A., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Medford, MA
B.A., Pepperdine University Malibu, CA

Selected Publications

“The Colonial Image Reversed: Language Preferences and Policy Outcomes in African Education.” International Studies Quarterly 53: 2 (forthcoming) June 2009).

“Language Choice in Education: A Politics of Persuasion.” Journal of Modern African Studies 45:1 (March 2007).

Review of Mobilizing the Masses: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Nationalist Movement in Guinea, 1939-1958 by Elizabeth Schmidt, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 37:3 (2006).

With Robert I. Rotberg, Peacekeeping and Peace Enforcement in Africa (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000)

With Robert I. Rotberg, Cyprus 2000: Divided or Federal? (World Peace Foundation, 1998)

Selected Presentations

“Written Languages and Political Activism in West Africa” Paper presented at the 51 Annual African Studies Association Conference, 13-16 November, 2008, Chicago, IL

“Messages of Development: In a Language of Esteem or a Language of Understanding?” Paper presented at the 48th Annual African Studies Association Conference, 17-20 November, 2005, Washington, DC.

“Written Words and Subtle Say: Determinants of Language Policy in African States.” Paper presented at the 47th Annual African Studies Association Conference, 11-14 November, 2004, New Orleans, LA.

“The Colonial Image Reversed: A New Politics of Language in African States.” Presented at the Society of Comparative Research Graduate Student Retreat, 14-15 May, 2004, UCSD, La Jolla, CA.

“Language Choice in Education: Politics and Pragmatism in Cameroon.” Presented at the 46th Annual African Studies Association Conference, 30 Oct - 2 Nov 2003, Boston, MA.

Research Data

Language Policies in African Education (PDF)PDF