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Aili Tripp is associate dean of international studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, director of the Women's Studies Research Center, and professor of political science and women's studies. Tripp received her BA and MA from the University of Chicago and her PhD from Northwestern University in 1990. She worked as a program officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation before joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1992.

Her publications include Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania (1997) and Women and Politics in Uganda (2000). The latter was co-winner of APSA's 2001 Victoria Schuck Award and a 2001 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles Award. Tripp edited Sub-Saharan Africa: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide (2003), and co-edited The Women's Movement in Uganda: History, Challenges and Prospects (2002) and What Went Right in Tanzania? People's Responses to Directed Development (1996). She has published articles and book chapters on women and politics in Africa; societal responses to economic reform in Africa; and the political impact of transformations of associational life in Africa.

Tripp has won grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, Social Science Research Council, American Council of Learned Societies, MacArthur Foundation, American Association of University Women, United Nations World Institute for Development Economics Research, and the United States Information Agency.

She has served on the boards of the National Council for Research on Women, the African Studies Association, the Tanzanian Studies Association, and APSA's Gabriel A. Almond Award Committee.

Tripp is co-editor of the University of Wisconsin Press series, Women in Africa and the Diaspora, and is a member of several editorial boards, including the University of Wisconsin Press, Politics & Gender Journal, African Studies Quarterly, and Africa Contemporary Record.

Having lived in Tanzania between 1960 and 1974, she has carried out extensive fieldwork in Tanzania and Uganda on a regular basis since 1987. Her research has involved close and varied collaborations with African scholars. Tripp is committed to efforts to further internationalize APSA and strengthen mutually-beneficial collaboration and dialogue between U.S.-based and political scientists abroad. She is especially interested in bringing global women's experiences more into the field of vision of U.S. political scientists. She supports efforts that would enable scholars to contribute more to public and policy discussions of key contemporary issues. She is an advocate of methodological pluralism and diversity in APSA. Her homepage is http://www.polisci.wisc.edu/~tripp.