Timothy Longman

Boston University College of Arts & Sciences

Timothy Longman is professor of political science and international relations at Boston University, where he is the director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at the Pardee School. He previously served for eight years as director of BU’s African Studies Center. His research focuses on Africa, particularly ethnic and racial politics, human rights, gender, and religion and politics. He has published two books on the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda and its aftermath and is completing a manuscript on church and state throughout Africa. He has previously held research and teaching positions at Vassar College, the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, the University of the Witwatersrand, and the National University of Rwanda. He has served as a consultant for USAID, the Departments of Justice and State, the International Center for Transitional Justice, and Human Rights Watch, whose office he directed in Rwanda immediately after the genocide.

Areas of Expertise

• Policy
• Political Science
• Race and Ethnicity
• Human Rights

Methodology

• Archival Methods
• Ethnographic Methods
• Focus Groups
• Interviews
• Mixed Methods
• Qualitative Methods
• Survey Methods and Questionnaires