Lisa Mueller, PhD, is associate professor of Political Science at Macalaster College, where she served as Director of African Studies from 2019 to 2020. Her first book, Political Protest in Contemporary Africa (Cambridge University Press 2018), received an honorable mention for Best Book of the Year from the African Politics Conference Group. She is a contributor to the Washington Post, and has just returned from a year of service and study as a Fulbright Scholar.