Location: 1203 Van Munching Hall
Description: The Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Program will sponsor a series of global philanthropy lectures at 12:15pm on Feb 3, 4, 12, and 13. (You needn’t attend more than one; each is its own individual lecture).
Here is the information for Wednesday's lecture:
Jennifer N. Brass is an Assistant Professor at Indiana University's School of Public & Environmental Affairs, where she teaches courses on NGO Management, international development, international policy and statebuilding. Brass’s research examines service provision, governance and state development in sub-Saharan Africa. Professor Brass is currently revising a book manuscript, provisionally titled, Allies or Adversaries? NGOs and the State in Development,which examines the role that nongovernmental organizations play in service provision, state-society relations, and state development in Kenya. The dissertation on which the book is based won the inaugural APCG-Lynne Reinner award for the best dissertation on African politics in 2010 as well as the 2012 Award of Merit from the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR). Her articles appear in Governance, World Development, Development and Change,the Journal of Modern African Studies, the Annual Review of Environment & Resources and the Journal of Public Affairs Education. She has conducted extensive field research in Senegal, Djibouti, Kenya and Uganda. Professor Brass holds a PhD and MA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
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