Rita Kiki Edozie currently serves as the Associate Dean at the John W McCormack School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. She is also a tenured full Professor of International Relations in the college’s Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance, and Chair of the campus-wide, cross-disciplinary Africa Scholars Forum. Having received her PhD in Politics from New York City’s New School for Social Research in 1999, Professor Edozie has been a teacher-scholar and an academic administrator of graduate education and undergraduate studies for over twenty years. Her most recent last position was Professor of International Relations and African Affairs at the James Madison College of Public Affairs at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing where she also served as the director of African American and African Studies. Before that, she held the position of Deputy Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). Dr. Edozie has authored seven books and several journal articles and book chapters in political economy, comparative democratization, international development, global politics, and race and identity. Some of her most recent books, The African Union’s Africa: New Pan-African Initiatives in Global Governance (2014) and Pan-Africa Rising: The Cultural Political Economy of Nigeria’s Afri-capitalism and South Africa’s Ubuntu Business (2017), and she is currently working on an eighth book, Africa’s New Role in Global Politics (forthcoming).