Professor Morris MacLean's research and teaching interests are comparative political economy and public policy, with a particular focus on processes of state formation and concepts of citizenship in Africa and the U.S.
She is currently involved in three projects. The first examines how state cuts in the provision of social services have affected local political economies and indigenous notions of citizenship in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire. This study was supported by the National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Fulbright-Hays DDRA, Institute for the Study of World Politics, and the University of California at Berkeley's African Studies Center.
The second project investigates the contentious relationships between state and American Indian tribal governments in the U.S., investigating when and why tribal nations participate in the development of state health policies that affect their communities. This project was supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Scholars in Health Policy post-doctoral program at the University of Michigan.
Finally, Morris MacLean is developing a new project comparing the politics of implementing new anti-retroviral therapy programs to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa. All of Professor Morris MacLean's projects to date have integrated qualitative and quantitative methodologies and involved extensive primary data collection in the field.
Her work has been published thus far in Comparative Studies in Society and History, International Journal of Public Administration, Journal of Modern African Studies, and Studies in Comparative International Development. She will be teaching courses on African Politics, Political Economy of Development, and Comparative Politics.
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