Séverine Autesserre
Assistant Professor
 

Address
419 Lehman Hall, Barnard College, Columbia University
3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027-6598
Tel: 212-854-4877; Fax: 212-854-3024; E-mail: sa435@columbia.edu

Web:   www.columbia.edu/~sa435/

Research Interests
International Politics
Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding
Civil Wars
African Politics
Politics of Humanitarian and Development Aid

Courses

POLS V 3604	Civil Wars and International Interventions in Africa
POLS BC 3761x-3762y	Senior Research Seminar in International Relations
POLS BC 3810	Colloquium on Aid, Politics and Violence in Africa, Spring'08
INAF U8869	Civil Wars & Peace Settlements (graduate-level seminar at SIPA)

Education
• Ph.D., New York University, 2006
  Dissertation: Local Violence, International Indifference? Post-conflict 'settlement' in the Eastern D.R. Congo (2003-2005)
• M.I.A., Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, 2000
• M.A., Sciences-Po, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, 1999
• B.A., Sorbonne University, 1997

Publications
 

• Book manuscript in progress
  Local Violence, International Indifference? Post-conflict 'settlement' in the Eastern D.R. Congo (2003-2006)
   
  
• Articles in refereed journals
  "D. R. Congo: Explaining Peace Building Failures, 2003-2006," Review of African Political Economy, Vol.34 No.113 (September 2007), pp.423-442
   
  "Local violence, National Peace? Post-war 'settlement' in the Eastern D.R. Congo," African Studies Review, Vol.49 No.3 (December 2006), pp.1-29
   
  "The United States 'humanitarian diplomacy' in South Sudan," Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, January 2002
   
  
• Other articles
  "Local Violence, International Indifference? The Politics of the Peace Process in the Eastern D.R. Congo," Inter-University Consortium on Humanitarian Aid, December 2004
   
  "Kongo'da siddet ve ölüm kültürü" (Violence and the Culture of Death in the Congo), Birikim [Turkish semi-academic journal], Volume 174, October 2003, 88 - 96, translated by K. Caliskan

Selected Fellowships and Awards
• Graduate Student Paper Prize Award, African Studies Association, 2006
• Mellon Dissertation-Writing Fellow in Security and Humanitarian Action, 2006
• Peace Fellow, United States Institute of Peace, 2004-2005
• Mellon Research Fellow in Security and Humanitarian Action, 2004
• McCracken Fellow, New York University, 2001-2004 / 2005-2006
• Fulbright Fellow, Columbia University, 1999-2000
• Summa Cum Laude and top 5% (Mention Lauréat), M.A., Sciences-Po, 1999
• Valedictorian (Major de la Promotion), Summa Cum Laude (Mention Bien), B.A., Sorbonne University, 1997