Tinenenji Banda
is a faculty member in the Private Law Department of the University of Zambia and a Research Fellow at the Southern African Institute of Policy and Research. A dual-qualified attorney (New York and Zambia), she completed her doctoral studies at Cornell University in 2012 and holds LLM and LLB degrees from Cornell University and the University of Cape Town respectively. Her broad research interests lie in the mechanics, structures and processes of dispute settlement systems.
Nicole Beardsworth
is a South African political analyst and postdoctoral researcher at the University of York. Her PhD research focused on opposition parties and electoral coordination in Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Her broader research is on the history and politics of sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on political parties, governance, democratization and elections in Southern and Eastern Africa.
John Bwalya
is Senior Lecturer and Acting Director of the Dag Hammarskjöld Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at the Copperbelt University. He has taught Environmental Science, Urban and Political Studies at the Universities of Botswana, Fort Hare and Namibia. He has researched and published on race, neighbourhoods and electoral politics.
Privilege Haang’andu
Did his PhD at the Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan. Priva holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from Marquette University in Wisconsin and a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Political Philosophy from the University of Zimbabwe. His doctoral research focuses on the effects of transnational disability discourses in shaping domestic disability policies in Southern Africa.
Erin Hern
is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Economy at the College of Idaho. She holds a BA from the University of Southern California, and an MA and PhD from Cornell University. Her work focuses on political participation in Africa’s electoral regimes, with an emphasis on how public service delivery and other institutions shape people’s perceptions of the government.
Marja Hinfelaar
is Director of Research and Programs at Southern African Institute for Policy and Research (SAIPAR), Lusaka, Zambia and Honorary Research Fellow at the Global Development Institute of the University of Manchester. She received her PhD in History (Utrecht, 2001). Her work focuses on post-colonial political history and state-church relations. She has been resident in Zambia since 1997.
Dae Un Hong
is a South Korean attorney and is conducting doctoral research on North Korean perspectives on international law at Cornell Law School. He holds a BA in International Relations (Seoul National), a Juris Doctor (Hanyang), and two LLMs (Cornell / Northwestern).
O’Brien Kaaba
LLB Hons (University of London), LLM (University of Zambia), LLD (University of South Africa) is a teacher of law in the School of Law at the University of Zambia and a senior research fellow at SAIPAR. He has formerly served as Elections Manager for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) in Zambia, Political Specialist for the US Department of State at the American Embassy in Lusaka (Zambia) and as a Human Rights and Rule of Law Advisor for the Germany Development Cooperation (GIZ) in Zambia.
Robby Kapesa
is a PhD candidate at the Dag Hammarskjöld Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at the Copperbelt University. He has published on collective grievances and social conflicts. His current research explores horizontal inequalities, collective grievances and ethnic mobilization and conflict.
Chanda Noward Mfula
worked in mainstream broadcast media before he joined the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) as programme officer for media and governance. He is currently a doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Chanda’s research interests are mainly around media and democracy with his thesis project focusing on the use of social media in journalism practice as an alternative to mainstream media in the performance of the democratic functions of journalism in Zambia.
Jotham C Momba
is an Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Political and Administrative Studies at the University of Zambia and has also taught at the
Biggie Joe Ndambwa
is a Lecturer in Political Science in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at the University of Zambia. He holds a BA in Political science and an MA in Political Science both from the University of Zambia. His areas of specialization are in political theory and comparative politics.
Muna Ndulo
is Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, Elizabeth and Arthur Reich Director of the Leo and Arvilla Berger International Legal Studies Program and Director of the Institute for African Development. He is a graduate of the University of Zambia (LLB); Harvard University (LLM); and Trinity College, Oxford University (DPhil). He is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of constitution-making, governance, human rights and foreign direct investment.
Jeremy Seekings
is Professor of Political Studies and Sociology and Director of the Centre for Social Science Research at the University of Cape Town, and Visiting Professor in Political Science at Yale University. In 2017–18, he served as Interim Director of UCT’s Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa. His current research focuses on the politics of welfare reforms historically and in contemporary Africa, as well as on party politics and voting behaviour in Southern Africa.
Hangala Siachiwena
is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town. His current research focuses on the politics of social protection in Zambia and Malawi, with specific focus on how and why policy reforms happen after changes of government. He was previously a Visiting Assistant in Research in the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, and is an alumnus of Brown University’s International Advanced Research Institute.
Sishuwa Sishuwa
is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cape Town’s Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa. He is also a Lecturer in
Owen Sichone
is Inaugural Dean for School of Humanities and Social Sciences of The Copperbelt University and member of the Commission of Inquiry into Electoral Violence and Voting Patterns. He is a political sociologist specializing in migration issues. His previous research was on xenophobia in South Africa. His current work is on Ethnic Power Relations in Zambia. He has taught at universities in India, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
Aaron Wiza Siwale
is a Lecturer of Political Science in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at the University of Zambia. He holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Zambia and a Master of Science in Political Science from the University of Gothenburg. His research areas are in the field of Comparative Politics, Environmental Politics and Politics of International Peace and Security.
Michael Wahman
(PhD, Lund University) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University, United States. He specializes in democratization and elections in new democracies, particularly on the African continent. He has written extensively on subnational variations in political competition in Malawi and Zambia. His research has been published in the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Electoral Studies, Journal of Peace Research, Party Politics and several other journals.
