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SÉverine Autesserre
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Séverine Autesserre, Assistant Professor of Political Science, joined the faculty of Barnard College in 2007. Prior to coming to Barnard, she was a post-doctoral associate and lecturer at Yale University where she conducted research on civil and international wars, international intervention, and African politics. Her teaching duties at Barnard include such courses as Aid, Violence, and Politics in Africa (Colloquium); Senior Research Seminar in International Relations; and Civil Wars and International Interventions in Africa. She also teaches a seminar on Civil Wars and Peace Settlements at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. She is also affiliated with Barnard's Africana studies program.
Professor Autesserre's work has been supported by a Fulbright fellowship, a fellowship from the United States Institute of Peace, and a Mellon dissertation support fellowship. Her Ph.D. dissertation at New York University was nominated for the award for best dissertation for 2007 in the areas of in international relations, law, and politics. Her paper, "Local Violence, National Peace? Post-war 'Settlement' in the Eastern D.R. Congo," was awarded the Graduate Student Paper Prize Award of the African Studies Association in 2006.
Professor Autesserre has extensive experience working with international humanitarian and development agencies in Afghanistan, Kosovo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nicaragua, India, and the United States. She has worked for "Doctors Without Borders" and held an internship in the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in New York.
Selected Publications
Failing the Congo. International Intervention and Local Violence (to be reviewed by Cambridge University Press as of January 2009)
"Hobbes and the Congo — Frames, Local Violence, and International Intervention (2003-2006)," International Organization (Forthcoming, spring 2009)
"Conceptualiser les Conflits Locaux: Violence Locale et Intervention Internationale au Cours de la Transition Congolaise (2003-2007)," in L'Afrique des Grands Lacs: Annuaire 2007-2008 (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2008)
"The Trouble with Congo — How Local Conflict Fuel Regional Violence," Foreign Affairs, May-June 2008
"D. R. Congo: Explaining Peace Building Failures, 2003-2006," Review of African Political Economy 34 (September 2007)
"Local Violence, National Peace? Post-war 'Settlement' in the Eastern D.R. Congo," African Studies Review 49 (December 2006)
"The United States' 'Humanitarian Diplomacy' in South Sudan," Journal of Humanitarian Affairs (January 2002), www.jha.ac
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EDUCATION:
Ph.D., New York University
M.A., Columbia University
M.A., Sciences-Po, France
B.A., Sorbonne University
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SPECIALIZATIONS:
Peacekeeping and peacebuilding
African politics
International relations
Politics of humanitarian and development aid