Economics

Michael Kevane is Associate Professor of the Economics Department at Santa Clara University.  He is past President of the Sudan Studies Association, and co-director of Friends of African Village Libraries.  Recent research focuses on how libraries promote reading, with articles published in Libri, World Libraries and Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France.  He is co-editor of Kordofan Invaded: Peripheral Incorporation and Social Transformation in Islamic Africa (Brill, 1998) and author of Women and Development in Africa: How Gender Works (Lynne Rienner, 2014, 2nd edition).