Faculty Profile

Anne Pitcher is the Joel Samoff Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She is also a Research Professor in the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research. Her published work relies on survey research, fieldwork, and spatial approaches to examine electoral and party politics, political economy, the distribution of public goods, and political violence in Africa. Most of her research over the past 30 years has been conducted in Mozambique, Angola, Zambia, South Africa, and more recently, Kenya.