Associate Professor

Office: 1724A HW
Phone: 212-772-5669
Email:csomervi@hunter.cuny.edu

Areas of Specialization:

• International Relations
• Comparative Politics
• Impact of Non-Governmental Organizations on Democracy in Africa

Courses:

• PolSc 115: Introduction to International Politics
• PolSc 117: Introduction to Comparative Politics
• PolSc 260: African Politics through African Films
• PolSc 267: Politics of Southern Africa
• PolSc 273.05: Global Issues
• PolSc 278: International Organizations
• PolSc 352: State and Society in Africa
• PolSc 374: International Human Rights

Education:
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1982.

Publications:

• Curtis Keim and Carolyn Somerville, Mistaking Arica: Curisosities and Inventions of the American Mind,  4th ed. (New York: Routledge, 2017)
  
• Forthcoming. Women's Realities, Women's Choices, 4th Ed. NY: Oxford U. Press. (2013)
• "Politics of Southern Africa." In Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Ed. Rick Valelly. NY: Oxford U Press. (2013)
• "What Political Science Is Missing by Not Studying AIDS" (with Kenneth S. Sherrill and Robert W. Bailey), PS:  Political Science and Politics 25 (4) (December 1992):  688-93.
• "The Impact of the Reforms on the Urban Population of Senegal:  How the Dakarois View the Crisis," in Chris Delgado and Sidi Jammeh, eds., The Political Economy of Structural Adjustment in Senegal (New York:  Praeger, 1991).
• Drought and Aid in the Sahel:  A Decade of Development Cooperation (Boulder, CO:  Westview Press, 1986).