IGC Leadership

Committee

Ahmed I. Samatar

Dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship and the James Wallace Professor of International Studies

B.A., University of Wisconsin (La Crosse), 1978; M.A., University of Denver, 1981; Ph.D., University of Denver, 1984

Ahmed I. Samatar, with an undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin (La Crosse) and a doctorate from the University of Denver, is the James Wallace Professor and Dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship at Macalester College. Professor Samatar has lectured at many universities and colleges, including the University of Amsterdam, Cornell, Harvard, Iowa, London School of Economics and Political Science, Oslo, University of Pennsylvania, Somali National University, Toronto, York, and Wellesley College. Samatar, whose expertise is in the areas of global political economy, political and social theory, and African development, is the author/editor of five books and more than thirty articles, including The State in Africa: Reconsiderations. He is the founding editor-in-chief of Bildhaan, the first international journal of Somali studies, as well as editor of nineteen volumes of Macalester International, a publication of undergraduate education and internationalism. A Fulbright Fellow, he has been awarded grants by the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the United States Institute for Peace, the Heinrich Boll Foundation, and the St. Paul Foundation. His current research is a collaborative two-volume work on leadership and the Somali experience.