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Adrienne LeBas is a Professor in the Department of Government at American University's School of Public Affairs. She joined AU in the fall of 2009 after serving as a Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and Assistant Professor of Political Science and African Studies at Michigan State University.
Her educational background includes a PhD from Columbia University and a BA from the University of Florida. LeBas has established herself as a leading scholar in African politics, democratization, and political violence.
LeBas's research focuses on democratic institutions, political violence, and the rule of law, with particular expertise in African politics. She is the author of the award-winning book From Protest to Parties: Party-Building and Democratization in Africa (Oxford University Press, 2011) and has published articles in top political science journals including the American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and the Journal of Democracy. She is currently working on two major book projects: one investigating persistent election violence in democratizing countries, and another (with Jessica Gottlieb of the University of Houston) examining taxation and contradictory logics of state-building in Lagos, Nigeria.
Her research has been supported by prestigious grants from the EGAP Metaketa program, the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and the Department for International Development (UK). During the 2015-2016 academic year, she was a residential fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. In spring 2024, she served as a visiting professor at Sciences Po's Centre de recherches internationales in Paris.
- 2011 Best Book Award from the African Politics Conference Group for From Protest to Parties: Party-Building and Democratization in Africa
- Recognized as a "New Voice" in the social sciences by the Social Science Research Council
- Recognized as a "New Voice" by Edmond Keller, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at UCLA
LeBas teaches courses including Comparative Politics (GOVT-130), Political Violence & Civil War (GOVT-435), and Doctoral Continuing Enrollment (GOVT-898). She has previously worked as a consultant for Human Rights Watch in Zimbabwe, where she lived from 2002 to 2003.
