Lauren MacLean
Dr. Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. Chair of Public Life; Professor and Department Chair, Political Science
Lauren M. MacLean is the Thomas P. O’Neill Chair of Public Life and Department Chair of Political Science at Northeastern University. She teaches POLS 1000, the Senior Capstone class, Politics of Developing Nations, Mixed Methods, and African Politics. She also does research on the politics of electricity access and the everyday practice of citizenship in Africa. She conducts fieldwork in Ghana and Kenya, collecting survey data from individuals, conducting focus group discussions, doing archival work, and carrying out qualitative interviews with politicians, policymakers, practitioners, and ordinary people.
MacLean has published award-winning books and articles including: Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa (Cambridge, 2010), The Politics of Non-State Social Welfare in the Global South (Cornell, 2014), co-edited with Cammett, and Field Research in Political Science (Cambridge, 2015), coauthored with Kapiszewski and Read. Her research has been published in a wide range of journals and supported by grants, including NSF, SSRC, RWJ, Fulbright-Hays, and Carnegie. She was the recipient of the APSA QMMR 2016 David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award.
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Education
Ph.D., 2002, Political Science
University of California at Berkeley
M.A.,1995, Political Science
University of California at Berkeley
B.A., 1991, International Relations
University of Pennsylvania -
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