I am a PhD candidate at American University in Washington, DC. I am interested in state formation and governance in low income countries. My dissertation examines the influence of foreign aid on incumbent advantage in African presidential elections.
A map of instances of malaria in the United States in 1870. In some places, it apparently accounted for 1 in 7 deaths. America was also hit by some brutal yellow fever outbreaks, but somehow managed to do pretty well over the ensuing hundred years. Let’s say it together everyone, geography is not destiny.
via Boing Boing, originally on iayork.com
