Lako Tongun
Associate Professor of Critical Global Studies 和 Political Studies
On Sabbatical Fall 2023
With Pitzer Since: 1988
Field Group: Critical Global Studies 和 Political Studies
Campus Address: Scott Hall 223
Phone: 909.607.3772
Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: See Faculty Directory
Educational Background
MA, PhD, University of California, Davis
BA, St. Mary’s College of California
Research Interests
African 和 third-world politics; political economy, developmental economics (Third World).
Recent Courses
Introduction to International 和 Intercultural Studies (IIS10)
History 和 Political Economy of Natural Resources (IIS17)
Power 和 Social Change (IIS50)
State 和 Development in the Third World (IIS122)
Contemporary Political 和 Social Movements in the Third World (IIS122)
Third World Socialism (IIS123)
African Politics (IIS125)
Environment 和 Development in the Third World (IIS127)
Agricultural Economic Development in the Third World (IIS141)
International Relations in the Middle East (IIS146)
Special Topics in Mid- East International Relations: Turkey, Islam, 和 the Middle East (IIS 147)
Senior Thesis (IIS199)
Selected Publications
“Pan-Africanism 和 Apartheid: African-American Influence on US Foreign Policy,” in Sidney J. Lemell 和 Robin D.G. Kelley, eds., Imagining Home: Class, Culture 和 Nationalism in the African Diaspora. London 和 New York: Verso, 1994.
Reviewed Surviving Drought 和 Development: Ariaal Pastoralists of Northern Kenya, by Elliot Fratkin, American Ethnologist 卷.21, no.4 (1994).
The Political Economy of National Planning in the Sudan: Determinants of Choices 和 Priorities. Davis: University of California, Davis, 1983.
Recent Conferences 和 Invited Talks
“South Sudan: Professor Lako Tongun on Independence,” interview with Africa Today, KPFA 94.1, September 5, 2011. Audio available at: http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/73058.
“Darfur 和 the Sudan,” invited speaker, Canada Crescenta Democractic Club, March 2010.
