Catherine Boone wins the Distinguished Africanist Award

Catherine Boone is a Professor of Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics andPolitical Science.  She is a political scientist interested in patterns regionalism and political-economic development issues in Africa in a comparative perspective. Her work is or has been funded by the UK Research Council ESRC,LSE International Inequalities Institute, LSE STICERD, the SSRC, Fulbright, the World Bank, Harvard Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (ACLS). She is an elected Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the British Academy.  

Professor Boone is the author of four books, including of Property and Political Order: Land Rights and the Structure of Politics in Africa (Cambridge, 2014), which won APSA's 2016 Luebbert BookAward for best book in Comparative Politics, and of a path-breaking new book on the politics of spatial inequality in African countries, Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa:Regionalism by Design (Cambridge University Press, 2024).  

In 2020 and 2021, she was elected to the British Academy and the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences. She serves on the editorial board of several journals and book series, including the Cambridge Studies inComparative Politics series, the CUP Elements series, and Comparative Politics. She is member or past member of the editorial boards of the AmericanPolitical Science Review, Journal of Modern African Studies, AfricanAffairs, Comparative Political Studies, World Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, and the African Studies Review. She is past Secretary of the African PoliticsConference Group, and past Treasurer and President of the West African Research Association, which oversees the West African ResearchCenter in Dakar, Senegal.  She has served as member of the Board ofDirectors of the African StudiesAssociation (ASA),2009-2012, chair of the ASA Publications Committee, (2011-2012), member of theExecutive Council of the American PoliticalScience Association-, member APSA's Comparative PoliticsSection executive council, and Chair of the Political Economy Organized Section of APSA (2014-2016).

Ramola Ramtohul, University of Mauritius

Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, University of Oxford

Adigun Agbaje, University of Ibadan

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