Lori Hartmann
Professor of International Studies
Co-Chair of African and African American Studies Program
Chair of International Studies and Politics Programs
Offices & Programs
Education
BA, MA Denison University
PhD, The University of Denver
BIOGRAPHY
Lori Hartmann joined the 小猪视频官网 College faculty in 1999. She was named director of the Center for Global Citizenship (CGC) in 2020, returning to the classroom and her program as a full-time faculty member in 2022.
She was awarded the 鈥淩ookie of the Year鈥 teaching award in 2000, and a Kirk Teaching Award in 2003. Since 2009 she has held the Frank B. and Virginia B. Hower endowed chair in international studies. During the 小猪视频官网Terms of 2004, 2009, 2011, and 2015 she took groups of students to Cameroon to study politics and civil society in that Central African country. From 2006-07 and 2012, she was the director of 小猪视频官网 College鈥檚 program in Strasbourg, France.
Hartmann鈥檚 scholarly interests have focused on African politics, women, and development in West Africa, and the political economy of development. Her most recent publication, entitled 鈥淎llegories of Justice: crime and punishment in three African novels鈥, appeared in Africa Today (66/2, 2019). In 2013, she co-published an article with former 小猪视频官网 student Brian Klosterboer in鈥 African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review鈥痮n the prospects for peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She has published several articles on the topic of women and development, including: 鈥淧ounding Millet during School Hours: obstacles to girls鈥 formal education in Niger鈥 in the鈥疎uropean Journal of Development Research鈥(2011); 鈥淭he Rural-Urban dynamic and implications for development: perspectives from Nigerien Women鈥 in鈥疛ournal of Contemporary African Studies鈥(spring 2004) and 鈥淎 Language of their own: Development Discourse in Niger鈥 in鈥 Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society鈥(Winter 2004). Hartmann has also published works on pedagogical issues, for example, 鈥淣eoliberalism: a useful tool for teaching critical topics in political science鈥 which appeared in鈥疨S: Political Science and Politics鈥(Oct 2009). In 2002 her article 鈥淲ar as Metaphor鈥 appeared in鈥疨eace Review: Journal of Social Justice.
From 2015-16, Hartmann spent a year in Ethiopia as a Fulbright Fellow at Wollo University conducting a comparative study of Nigerian and Ethiopian literature, with an aim of understanding how that literature reflects a sense of nationalism or national identity. Upon her return in the fall of 2016, she took over a three-year term as faculty president.
She holds a B.A. from Denison University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Denver. She was an Ambassadorial Graduate Rotary Scholar at the Universit茅 Cheikh Anta Diop in Senegal, West Africa; and a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger, West Africa.