Author of The Cohesion of Oppression: Clientship and Ethnicity in Rwanda, Catharine Newbury specializes in research, teaching, and organizations dealing with Central Africa.
Catharine
Newbury is Professor of Government at Smith College , and Five College
Professor of Government and African Studies. She received her B.A. from
Willamette University , and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include ethnicity and the state
in Africa , democratization, the politics of peasants and women, and the
politics of violence in Francophone Central Africa. She is the author
of The Cohesion of Oppression: Clientship and Ethnicity in Rwanda
, and many articles on multiple aspects of Central African political
processes. Newbury teaches courses on African politics, women and politics
in Africa, the Rwanda genocide in comparative perspective, and the politics
of development. She is currently Director of the Five College African
Scholars Program, a fellowship program which brings African scholars to
the Five Colleges for research and writing .
