Associate Professor
Sam Balaton-ChrimesProfile page
Associate Professor
Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
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- Associate ProfessorFaculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
- +61 3 924 43972 (Work)
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
BIO
Sam is an interdisciplinary scholar of citizenship, identity and belonging in postcolonial contexts, especially East Africa. She uses qualitative methods to examine how difference and hierarchies are produced and transformed by ‘banal’ practices like bureaucracy; global processes and agendas; and forms of knowledge itself. Her current book project examines how the Kenyan state classifies its population by ethnicity, including through administrative and electoral boundary drawing, the census, population and citizenship registration, and affirmative action legal categories for minorities. Her next projects will explore census identity categories, and ways of quantifying and knowing statelessness in global, comparative perspective.
DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT
- Associate ProfessorDeakin University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
DEGREES
- PhDMonash University, Melbourne, Australia10 Oct 2012
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
- Graduate Certificate in Higher EducationDeakin University, Geelong, Australia31 Dec 2015
LANGUAGES
- Spanish - Latin AmericanCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- SwahiliCan read, write, speak and understand
FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)
- Political science
- Development studies
- Comparative government and politics
AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION
- Masters by Research and PhD supervision
AREA/FACULTY
- Faculty of Arts and Education
DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE
- School of Humanities and Social Sciences
STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE
- Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation