Center Staff
Robert S. Glew
Director
Associate Professor
Coordinator, Humphrey Fellowship Program
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1997
M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989
B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986
Robert Glew, Director of the Center for Advanced Study of International Development and Associate Professor at Michigan State University. He has 20 years of experience working on issues of international development in Africa in the areas of coping and livelihood strategies, health, education, religious change, social change and identity politics. He has studied, taught and conducted research in Africa drawing upon his language skills in Hausa, Fulfulde and French.
Dr. Glew is currently co-PI of a National Science Foundation award for research in East Africa titled, Dynamic Interactions Among People, Livestock and Savanna Ecosystems Under Climate Change. In addition to his ongoing research agenda, he currently co-directs three U.S. Department of State-funded Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs grants for Nigeria, Mali and China. He has served as a supervisor for the Minority International Research Training program in the Republic of Niger and two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger.
