J Tyler Dickovick Author

J. Tyler Dickovick is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He also holds a Master in Public Affairs and an MA from Princeton, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a 2003 recipient of the Africanist Doctoral Fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. His courses include International Development, African Politics, and International Political Economy. He has conducted research in Senegal and South Africa, among other countries, and his publications on the issues of democratization and decentralization appear in such journals as The Journal of Modern African Studies, Publius: the Journal of Federalism, Latin American Research Review, and Third World Quarterly. In addition to research in Africa, he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Togo from 1995 to 1997.