Sandra Joireman

Sandra Fullerton Joireman is the Weinstein Chair of International Studies and a professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond. Her work focuses on property rights, post-conflict return migration, and customary law.

Early life and education

Joireman graduated from Clinton High School in Clinton, Iowa in 1986.[1] She has an A.B. from Washington University in St. Louis (1989), and then received her M.A. (1992) and Ph.D. (1995) from the University of California Los Angeles.[2] Following her Ph.D. she worked in the United Kingdom, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Kosovo. In 2001 she joined Wheaton College (Illinois) where she was promoted to full professor in 2009. In 2013 she moved to the University of Richmond where she is the Weinstein Chair of International Studies.[3][4]

Research

Joireman is known for her work in East Africa where she focuses on land tenure issues. Her 2012 book, Where There is No Government: Enforcing Property Rights in Common Law Africa, focused on how property law was enforced and who did enforce it in Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda.[5] In 2000 she published on property rights in Ethiopia and Eritrea.[6] In 2017, Joireman was awarded the Sanjaya Lall prize[7] for her paper in Oxford Development Studies that examined the ability of displaced adults to reclaim property lost during humanitarian crises as children.[8] Joireman's 2022 book, Peace, Preference and Property: Return Migration After Violent Conflict, examined factors influencing return migration after violent conflict, highlighting the key variables of time, political change, property restitution, and ethnicity. The book discussed the challenges of intergenerational return migration and property restitution in customary land systems and addressed case studies such as Kosovo, Liberia, and Uganda.[9]

References

  1. ^ Report, Herald Staff (15 November 2018). "Inaugural CHS Hall of Honor Class announced". Clinton Herald. Retrieved 2022-11-02.
  2. ^ "Getting to Know Sandra Joireman". Richmond Times-Dispatch. 2018-07-01. pp. E5. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  3. ^ "Joireman CV" (PDF). 2022.
  4. ^ "International Studies - University of Richmond". globalstudies.richmond.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  5. ^ Joireman, Sandra F. (2011-07-25). Where There is No Government: Enforcing Property Rights in Common Law Africa. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-978248-2.
  6. ^ Joireman, Sandra Fullerton (2000-09-21). Property Rights and Political Development in Ethiopia and Eritrea, 1941-1974. Oxford: James Currey. ISBN 978-0-85255-836-2.
  7. ^ "ODS Sanjaya Lall Prizes awarded to Sandra F Joireman and Patrick Reichert | Oxford Department of International Development". www.qeh.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-11-02.
  8. ^ Joireman, Sandra F. (2018-10-02). "Protecting future rights for future citizens: children's property rights in fragile environments". Oxford Development Studies. 46 (4): 470–482. doi:10.1080/13600818.2017.1416073. ISSN 1360-0818. S2CID 158577384.
  9. ^ Joireman, Sandra F. (2022). Peace, Preference, and Property. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-13326-0.