Associate Professor Doris Buss is announced as a co-recipient of a Canada African Research Exchange Grant to conduct research on women and post-conflict state-building in Sierra Leone and Kenya.
The grant was awarded jointly to Professors Buss, Blair Rutherford (Sociology & Anthropology), Aisha Ibrahim (University of Sierra Leone), and Sarah Kinyanjui (University of Nairobi). As part of the project, Professor Buss will be visiting the University of Nairobi and Professor Rutherford the University of Sierra Leone, where they will both conduct research on post-conflict economies and gender insecurity. In 2015, Professors Ibrahim and Kinyanjui will be visiting Carleton as part of the research exchange.
In the coming February and March months, Professor Buss will also be travelling to Canterbury, UK, where she has been invited as a visiting scholar to the Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality, University of Kent Law School.