M. Anne Pitcher

Colgate University
Political Science

Title: Associate Professor of Political Science (1990)

Degrees: AB Duke 1982; MPhil, DPhil Oxford University, England 1985, 1989

Teaching Experience: Graduate tutor, Oxford University 1985-88

Teaching Specialties: Comparative politics in Latin America and Africa, developmental processes in Latin America and Africa, gender and politics in Africa

Research Interests: The political economy of privatization, gender issues, agricultural production in Mozambique; comparative development issues in Africa and Latin America

Publications: Politics in the Portuguese Empire: The State, Industry, and Cotton 1926-1974,/I> (Oxford University Press, 1993); "Disruption without Transformation: Agrarian Relations and Livelihoods in Nampula Province, Mozambique 1975-1995" (Journal of Southern African Studies, 1998); Politics in the Portuguese Empire: The State, Industry, and Cotton, 1926-1974 (Oxford University Press, 1993); "Conflict and Cooperation: Gendered Roles and Responsibilities within Cotton Households in Northern Mozambique" (African Studies Review, 1996), "Recreating Colonialism or Reconstructing the State? Privatisation and Politics in Mozambique" (Journal of Southern African Studies, 1996), "From Coercion to Incentives: Portuguese Colonial Cotton Policy in Angola and Mozambique, 1946-74" in Allen Isaacman and Richard Roberts, eds., Cotton, Colonialism, and Social History in Sub-Saharan Africa (Heinemann, 1995), "Sowing the Seeds of Failure: Early Portuguese Cotton Growing Attempts in Angola and Mozambique, 1820-1926" (Journal of Southern African Studies, 1991), "Lancar as Sementes de fracasso: As primeiras tentativas de cultivo de Algodao em Angola e Mocambique" (Revista Internacional de Estudos Africanos, 1990)

Distinctions: Fulbright Research Award-Mozambique 1998; Howard Foundation Merit Award Recipient 1997-98; Hearst Fellow-Colgate Research Council Major Grant 1995; Picker Fellowship 1994; Colgate Faculty Development Grant to Zimbabwe 1992; Fulbright Award-Portugal 1988-89