Aili Mari Tripp

Aili Mari Tripp is Professor of Political Science and Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Tripp has published numerous books and articles on women and politics globally and in Africa. Tripp has a forthcoming book with Cambridge University Press entitled Women and Power in Postconflict Africa. She is author of several award winning books, including a book with Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga and Alice Mungwa entitled African Women’s Movements: Transforming Political Landscapes (2009), and Women and Politics in Uganda (2000). She co-edited Gender, Violence, and Human Security: Critical Feminist Perspectives (2013) and Global Feminism: Transnational Women’s Activism, Organizing, and Human Rights (2009). Born in the UK, Tripp has lived 15 years in Tanzania and has dual citizenship in the US and Finland. Her writing is based on extensive fieldwork in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Liberia, and Angola. Tripp recently served as president of the African Studies Association.