Edmond Keller

Who is Edmond Keller?

Edmond Joseph Keller, Jr. is an American Africanist.

A graduate of Louisiana State University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Keller is a professor in the political science department at UCLA. He is the former Director of the Globalization Research Center-Africa and the James S. Coleman African Studies Center at UCLA. He has taught at Indiana University, Dartmouth College, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Xavier University, and the University of California-Santa Barbara.

Keller is the author of two monographs: Education, Manpower and Development: The Impact of Educational Policy in Kenya and Revolutionary Ethiopia: From Empire to People's Republic. Professor Keller has also written more than 50 articles on African and African-American politics, and has co-edited seven books: Afro-Marxist Regimes: Ideology and Public Policy; South Africa in Southern Africa: Domestic Change and International Conflict, Africa in the New International Order: Rethinking State Sovereignty and Regional Security and Africa-US Relations: Strategic Encounters.