Jaimie Bleck

Associate Professor
Political Science

Research Interests

Africa, elections, field research

Biography

Jaimie Bleck is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in African politics with a focus on democratization, education, participation, and citizenship.

Her first book, Education and Empowered Citizenship in Mali, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2015. She and Nicolas van de Walle published Continuity in Change: Electoral Politics in Africa 1990-2015, with Cambridge University Press in 2018.

Her work appears in the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Modern African Studies, Comparative Political Studies, African Affairs, and Democratization. Her research has been funded by grants from the Spencer Foundation, National Science Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship, and USAID-DRG.