I am a Summa cum Laude graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University, with a double major in Political Science and English. I continued my academic career at St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford. At Oxford, where I studied for my MSc in African Studies, I was a Clarendon Scholar. After a year of working in foreign policy research in Washington, D.C., I returned to academic study at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, where my doctoral research was funded by the Cambridge International Trust Scholarship and Trinity College Overseas Bursary. While conducting doctoral fieldwork I was affiliated with the University of Botswana’s Department of Political and Administrative Studies, as well as the Okavango Research Institute. Prior to the University of Maine, I was a member of faculty at Florida Atlantic University. My first book project, The Nature of Politics: State Building and the Conservation Estate in Postcolonial Botswana was published by Ohio University Press in early 2024. My research has been published in Politics and Gender, Journal of Southern African Studies, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, among other outlets.
Annette LaRocco 