Employment

2002 - Present
Associate Professor, Government and Politics Department;
Associate Professor African-American Studies;
Faculty Associate, School of Business and
School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, College Park

1995 - 2002
Director, Center for International Development and Conflict Management; Associate Professor, Government and Politics Department; Associate Professor African-American Studies; Faculty Associate, School of Business and
School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, College Park

1994-95
Deputy Director, Global Information Infrastructure Commission
Washington, D.C.

1994
Director, Policy and Planning Unit, Office of the Director
U.S. Information Agency

1993-94
Director, International Programs and Resources, National Security Council
White House

1992-93
Visiting Senior Fellow for Africa, Council on Foreign Relations, New York

1992-93
Associate Professor, Department of Government and Politics; Faculty Associate, School of Public Affairs, School of Business and
African-American Studies Program, University of Maryland

1987-1992
Director, Center for Research on Economic Development
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Associate Research Scientist, Institute for Public Policy Studies
1986
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

1980-1981
Assistant Professor (on leave), Department of Political Science
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1977-1980
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, and Energy Management and Policy Program, School of Public and Urban Policy
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1977-1978
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1977
Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Afro-American Studies,
University of California, Berkeley, "Afro-American Political Strategies"

1976-1977
Editorial Assistant, The Black Scholar Magazine

1972-1977
University of California, Berkeley

1974-1975
Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, "The Politics of Economic Development and National Autonomy in the States of Sub-Saharan Africa"

1972-1973
Field Research Worker, Survey Research Center, University of California, Berkeley; Conducted and assisted in the evaluation of social science survey in the Bay Area

1972
Legislative Assistant to Hon. Charles C. Diggs, Chairman
House Subcommittee on Africa

1971-1972
National News Desk, The New York Times, Washington Bureau

1970-1971
Teacher, L'Ecole Secondaire Lapsley, Kasai Oriental, Zaire.
Taught Social Studies in French