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Associate Professor

Sam Balaton-Chrimes

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 Professor
    Faculty 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 Professor
    Deakin University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences

DEGREES

  • PhD
    Monash University, Melbourne, Australia10 Oct 2012

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Graduate Certificate in Higher Education
    Deakin University, Geelong, Australia31 Dec 2015

LANGUAGES

  • Spanish - Latin American
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Swahili
    Can 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