Faculty Profile

BIO

Justine Maisha Davis is an assistant professor jointly appointed in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, was an LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan, a UC presidential postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego, and holds a master’s degree from the American University of Paris and la Sorbonne-Paris I. Her research interests include electoral violence, civil society, and the challenges to democratization efforts in post-conflict settings and weakly institutionalized democracies. Her research has won many awards, including the Western Political Science Association Best Dissertation Award, the Ralph Bunche Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the African Politics Conference Group, and the Best Article Award from the African Politics Conference Group. Her research has been published in African Affairs, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, Party Politics, Political Behavior, and PS: Political Science & Politics. For more information, please visit her website.