Erin Metz McDonnell
Kellogg Assistant Professor of Sociology
(PhD, Northwestern University)
744 Flanner Hall
(574) 631-2578
email: erin.mcdonnell@nd.edu
blog: blogs.nd.edu/erin-mcdonnell/
Geographic focus: Africa, especially Ghana
Thematic interests: Governance, state administration, international comparative sociology, development, elite migration, and classical social theory
Current research: Her book manuscript, "Subcultural Bureaucracy," examines niches of effective governance within conventionally weak states, arguing that the conditions that support emergent cultures of Weberian-style bureaucracy—in places like Ghana—are different from those associated with the hegemonic bureaucratic administration familiar in the West.
