Timothy P. Longman
Director of the African Studies Center Associate Professor of Political Science College of Arts & Sciences
Professor Longman is associate professor of political science and international relations and is the director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) in the Pardee School. His research focuses on state-society relations in Africa, looking in particular at human rights, transitional justice, religion and politics, gender and politics, and the politics of race and ethnicity. He has published two books with Cambridge University Press, Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda (2017) and Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda (2010). He is currently working on a book comparing church-state relations throughout Africa. He served for eight years as the director of BU’s African Studies Center.
Professor Longman regularly teaches the following courses:
Introduction to Comparative Politics (PO151/IR251)
International Human Rights (PO378/IR352)
Religion and International Relations (PO589/IR561)
Southern African Politics (PO572)
Religion and Politics in Africa (PO760)
Transitional Justice (PO760)