Deborah Brautigam Recognized for Outstanding teaching
 Professor Deborah Brautigam has received the Outstanding Teaching in a Fulltime Appointment Award from American University. The award, which is granted by a vote of her fellow faculty members, includes cash prize and is based upon excellence in teaching as documented by student evaluations and feedback, success of former students, and integration of innovative approaches to learning. Each recipient’s record of achievement reflects sustained contributions to the university over many years.
In a separate action, Professor Brautigam also received a University Research Award through which she will conduct archival research in London for a book on small states and globalization. Mauritius will be the central case study in the book.
Professor Brautigam teaches in the International Development Program, where she is an advisor for the concentrations in development policy, and in governance and democracy. She has also held faculty appointments at Columbia University in New York (1987-94), and Silpakorn University in Thailand (1978-79), and has also been a visiting fellow at the University of Liberia in Monrovia, the University of Mauritius, Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone, and the Christian Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. She has served as a consultant for the United Nations, the World Bank, and the U.S. Agency for International Development in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Egypt and various Sub-Saharan African countries.
Professor Brautigam has been a recipient of a Fulbright Senior Regional Research Award for Africa, and a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Grant, and has also been awarded fellowships from the Council on Foreign Relations and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is the author of Chinese Aid and African Development: Exporting Green Revolution (1997) and Aid Dependence and Governance (2000), and some two dozen articles and book chapters on foreign aid, the political economy of development, and the politics of economic policy. Her research has been published in Comparative Politics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Journal of Developing Areas, Studies in Comparative International Development, Current History, Public Administration and Development, Africa Contemporary Record, The Journal of Modern African Studies, and African Affairs. She has recently finished co-editing a volume called Capacity and Consent: Taxation and State-Building in Developing Countries (2007, forthcoming).
Students wishing to take advantage of Professor Brautigam’s superior teaching methods this coming Fall should enroll in SIS- 637 (International Development) or SIS-651 (Managing Economic Policy Reform).
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