Publications
The More Things Change: Historical Legacies of Race and Segregation in South Africa’s Land Reform. Forthcoming at World Politics.
Negotiating the Boundaries of Farmerhood: Class, Race and Identity in the new rural South Africa. With Carolyn Holmes. Forthcoming at Politics, Groups and Identities.
Sweetening the Deal: Markets, Institutional Strength and Land Redistribution in South Africa's Sugar Sector. Comparative Politics. (2024).
Electoral Violence, Youth Party Activists and Police in Liberia. Journal of Peace Research. 2024.
With Sabrina Karim, Lindsey Pruett and Dao Freeman
Field Experiments in the Global South: Assessing Risks, Localizing Benefits, and Addressing Positionality. PS: Political Science and Politics. 2022.
(With Biz Herman, Amma Panin, Elizabeth Wellman, Graeme Blair, Lindsey Pruett, Ken Opalo, Hannah Alarian, Allison Grossman, Yvonne Tan and Nicholas Owsley.)
Patronage or Policy? The Politics of Land Formalization in Kenya. World Development. 2021.
What are the determinants of policy-based land titling programs in Kenya? When do governments look to create political dependency through clientelism or to undertake policy-based, development goals? I try to answer these questions using original data from Kenya’s Ministry of Lands and National Titling Centre on land formalisation and redistribution programs from the colonial era to the present day.
The Rift Valley: The Struggle for Supremacy. In Cheeseman, N., Lynch, G. and Karuti, K. Eds. The Oxford Handbook on Kenyan Politics. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 2020.
Land Law Reform in Kenya: Devolution, Veto Players and the Limit of an Institutional Fix. African Affairs. 2019.
With Catherine Boone, Ambreena Manji, Catherine Gateri, Seth Ouma, James Owino, Achiba Gargule and Jacqueline Klopp.