Aili M. Tripp

Aili Mari Tripp (born May 24, 1958) is the Wangari Maathai Professor of Political Science and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has written two award-winning books. Women and Politics in Uganda won the Victoria Schuck award of the American Political Science Association for best book in women and politics. Women and Politics in Postconflict Africa won the 2016 African Politics Conference Group award and was a finalist for the Herskovits Book Prize (for best book in African studies). In 2014, she received the African Studies Association Public Service Award, after serving as president of the African Studies Association in 2011-2012. She was vice-president of the American Political Science Association in 2006. Tripp has received numerous research awards and fellowships from bodies such as the American Academy in Berlin, Fulbright, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Social Science Research Council, American Association of University Women, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Biography

Tripp is a dual Finnish-U.S. citizen. She was born in the United Kingdom and spent fifteen years of her childhood in Tanzania [1] In 1983, she graduated with a B.A. in political science from the University of Chicago. In 1985, she received a M.A. in Middle East studies from the University of Chicago. She received a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University in 1990. Before joining the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Tripp was a research associate with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation from 1989 to 1991.

Books

  • Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1997.
  • Women and Politics in Uganda. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Oxford: James Currey and Kampala: Fountain Publishers. 2000.
  • African Women's Movements: Transforming Political Landscapes. with Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga, and Alice Mungwa. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2009.
  • Museveni's Uganda: Paradoxes of Power in a Hybrid Regime. Boulder: Lynne Rienner. 2010.
  • Women and Power in Postconflict Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2015.

References

  1. ↑ The Alumnae of Northwestern University. Aili Tripp http://www.nualumnae.org/award-recipient/aili-tripp.
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