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Dr. Ahmed I. Samatar is James Wallace Professor and Dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship at Macalester College. Professor
Samatar has lectured at many universities and colleges, including Cornell, Harvard, Iowa, London School of Economics and
Political Science, Somali National University, Toronto, University of Amsterdam, York, University of Otago, and Wellesley College.
Samatar, whose expertise is in the areas of global political economy, political and social thought, and African development, is the
author/editor of five books and over thirty articles, including The African State: Reconsiderations (Heinemann, 2002) and Somalia:
State Collapse, Multilateral Intervention, and Strategies for Political Reconstruction (Brookings Institution, 1995). Professor
Samatar is the founding editor-in-chief of Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies. He is also the editor of Macalester
International, a journal of undergraduate education and internationalism. His current research is on two tracks: leadership and
the state in Somalia, and globalization and the rise of Islamic consciousness.
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