Room 5.27, Robert Leslie Social 

• Biography

  • Itumeleng (Tumi) Makgetla is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Studies, where she teaches international relations theory, global governance and research methods. Prior to this, she taught in the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University and in Yale’s Ethics, Politics and Economics programme. She holds a PhD in political science from Yale, an Mphil Politics: Comparative Government from Oxford and an undergraduate degree from Harvard. Her professional experience includes working at the Mail & Guardian, an academic research programme at Princeton University, and in the government of South Africa.

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• Research, Knowledge Exchange and Impact

  Research Interests

  Tumi’s academic interests include political party competition and accountability, the political economy of development, international political economy, and youth unemployment policy.

   

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• Teaching

  Undergraduate teaching

  Global Governance (POL3045F)

  Postgraduate teaching

  Theories of IR (POL5008F)

   

   

• Postgrad Supervision

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