Michael Kevane, Associate Professor

Education

Profile

Professor Kevane teaches courses on African Economic Development, the Economics of Emerging Markets, International Economics, and has taught the Environmental Studies Capstone course. He has published articles on the performance of Sudanese rural institutions and markets in journals such as Review of Development Economics, World Development, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and Africa. He is also co-editor (with Endre Stiansen) of a book, Kordofan Invaded: Peripheral Incorporation and Sectoral Transformation in Islamic Africa, published by E.J. Brill. He currently works on gender issues, including a research project in southwestern Burkina Faso investigating how social norms determine home and market production, and the allocation of time more generally, for women in rural areas, and another research project using Indonesian data to explore the effects of social and parental preference for boys rather than girls. In addition to English, Professor Kevane speaks fluent Spanish and French, and is competent in Sudanese colloquial Arabic.