Timothy Longman

Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations
Director, CURA – the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs
Joint Programmatic – African Studies Center

Education
B.A. Phillips University
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Office
121 Bay State Road, Room 421
Email
longman@bu.edu
Phone
617-353-9751

Professor Longman is an associate professor of political science and international relations and is the director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) in the Pardee School. His research focuses on state-society relations in Africa, looking in particular at human rights, transitional justice, religion and politics, gender and politics, and the politics of race and ethnicity. He has published two books with Cambridge University Press, Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda (2017), and Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda (2010). He is currently working on a book comparing church-state relations throughout Africa. He served for eight years as the director of BU’s African Studies Center.

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