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Dr. Sandra Joireman

Richmond, Va.
Weinstein Chair of International Studies and professor of political science, University of Richmond.

Dr. Sandra Joireman is a political scientist specializing in property rights, customary law, and return migration after violent conflict. At the University of Richmond, she is the Weinstein Chair of International Studies, Professor of Political Science, and Interim Chair of the Department of Computer Science. Her research agenda draws on extensive fieldwork in Africa and the Western Balkans, supplemented by quantitative and special analysis. 

She has been a Research Fellow at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, a Fulbright scholar at the American University of Kosovo and the University of Addis Ababa, and a visiting researcher at Makerere University in Uganda with the Makerere Institute for Social Research and with Queen Elizabeth House International Development Centre at Oxford University. Joireman is a long-time Bread for the World supporter, and previously served as Chair of the Board. 

She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Washington University in St. Louis and Master of Arts and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California in Los Angeles. She is Mennonite. Richmond, Virginia.