Please join us for our first meeting of the 2014-2015 academic year! Robert Woodberry is associate professor of political science at the National University of Singapore and current visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. He will be presenting a paper entitled “Aid that Works: Missionaries, Economic Development and the ‘Reversal of Fortunes.'” Yeonju Lee will serve as discussant. Please come prepared for lively discussion and light refreshments.

The paper is no longer available on this blog. If you would like to regularly receive the workshop papers, please contact the workshop coordinator, Mark Deming, in order to be added to the workshop email list. Mark can be reached at jmdeming@uchicago.edu.

The workshop meets on Wednesdays from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. All workshop meetings are in the seminar room of the Wilder House (5811 South Kenwood Avenue). Please contact Mark Deming (jmdeming@uchicago.edu) if you have any questions or require assistance.