UMass Boston

African affairs and politics, global development, comparative democratization, international relations, international political economy, race and identity

PhD, Politics, The New School for Social Research, NY
MA, Politics, The New School for Social Research, NY
MA, Communication Arts, Brooklyn College, CUNY, NY
BA, English and Dramatic Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife (Nigeria)

• New Frontiers in the Study of the African Diaspora with Glenn Chambers and Tama Hamilton-Wray (MSU Press, 2018)
• “Nigeria’s Non Western Democracy: A Postcolonial Aspiration and Struggle with Opportunity, Conflict and Transformation”, in Carl Le Van and Patrick Ukata eds. The Oxford Handbook in Nigerian Politics, (Oxford University Press, 2018)
• Pan Africa Rising: The Cultural Political Economy of Afri-capitalism and Ubuntu Business (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2017)
• “Pan Africanism is Africa’s Third Way” in Toyin Falola and Samuel Oloruntuba, eds. Handbook on African Politics (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017)
• Malcolm X ‘s Michigan Worldview: An Exemplar of the Contemporary Black Studies Discipline with Curtis Stokes (MSU Press, 2015)
• The African Union’s Africa: New Pan African Initiatives in Global Governance with Keith Gottschalk (MSU Press, 2014)
• "African Solutions for (Malian) Problems: Pan Africanist vs. Pan-Sahelian Global Play” in Contemporary Africa in The Sahel: Focus of Hope, Focus of Fear in Marcel Kissitou and Pauline Ginsberg (Adonis & Abbey, 2014)
• “Rethinking US-Africa Democracy Relations in Obama’s First Term” in Cassandra Rachel Veney, US-Africa Relations: From Clinton to Obama. (Lexington Books: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014)
• Reframing Contemporary Africa: Politics, Culture and Society in a Global Era with Peyi Soyinka-Airewele, (CQ Press, 2010)
• “New Encounters in US-Africa Democracy Relations” in Jack Mangala, ed. Africa in Contemporary International Relations (Palgrave, 2010)
• Reconstructing the Third Wave of Democracy: Comparative African Democratic Politics, (University Press of America:/Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2009)

Rita Kiki Edozie Curriculum Vitae

Receiving her PhD in politics from the New School for Social Research, Professor Edozie has been a teacher-scholar and an academic administrator of graduate education and undergraduate studies for about twenty years. Her most recent position was as Professor of international relations and African affairs at the James Madison College of Public Affairs at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing. She has also served as the director of African American and African Studies at MSU and as deputy director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).

Edozie has authored seven books and several journal articles and book chapters. Her recent scholarship includes the books, The African Union’s Africa: New Pan-African Initiatives in Global Governance (2014) and Pan- Africa Rising: The Cultural Political Economy of Nigeria’s Afri-capitalism and South Africa’s Ubuntu Business (2017), and she is currently working on a forthcoming book, Africa’s New Role in Global Politics forthcoming in 2021.

Professor Edozie earned MSU’s Lilly Teaching Excellence Fellowship (2008-2009), the Academic Leadership Fellowship (2011-12), Detroit’s “Outstanding and Dedicated Service to the Community” award (2015), and she holds an honorary appointment as research associate at the University of South Africa(UNISA), Pretoria.

Select Courses

• International Relations Theory 
• International Political Economy 
• International Conflict Management and Security