Elliott Green originally joined DESTIN in March 2001 as a PhD student and became a member of staff in January 2005. His PhD, which he completed in September 2005, examined state reconstruction and ethnic politics in central Uganda. He conducted field work in 2001 and 2002 and returned again in 2005 to conduct research for a joint USAID/UNICEF project on former abductees of the Lord's Resistance Army in Northern Uganda. In addition to his teaching duties he is also Book Reviews Editor for the journal Nations and Nationalism
Before joining DESTIN Elliott completed degrees at Princeton University (BA) and the European Institute at the LSE (MSc) and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Vienna..
Ethnicity and Nationhood in Pre-Colonial Africa: The Case of Buganda; Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 16, 1 (January, 2010): forthcoming.
Debate on David Laitin's Nations, States and Violence (with Michael Banton, Montserrat Guibernau and David Laitin); Nations and Nationalism 15, 4 (October, 2009): forthcoming.
Decentralization and Conflict in Uganda; Conflict, Security and Development 8, 4 (December, 2008): 427-450. Special Issue on Decentralization and Conflict, edited by Graham K. Brown and Frances Stewart.
Review of Paul Richards (ed.). No Peace, No War: An Anthropology of Contemporary Armed Conflict (James Currey, 2005); Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 13,3 (2007)
2007: Review of Daniel Posner, Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa (CUP, 2005); Nations and Nationalism 13, 1.
2006: Joint Review of G McCann and S McCloskey, From the Local to the Global: Key Issues in Development Studies (Pluto, 2003) and A Kohli, C Moon and G Sorensen, States, Markets and Just Growth: Development in the Twentieth Century (UNUP, 2003); Millennium: Journal of International Studies34,2.
2005: Review of Tatah Mentan, Dilemmas of Weak States: Africa and transnational terrorism in the twenty-first century (Ashgate, 2004); Political Studies Review 3, 3.
2005: Review of African Development Bank, African Development Report: Africa in the Global Trading System (OUP, 2004); Political Studies Review 3, 3.
2005: Review of United Nations Development Program, Human Development Report 2004: Cultural Liberty in Todays Diverse World (UNDP, 2004); Journal of Development Studies 41, 5.
2005: Review of Amy Chua, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (Arrow, 2003); Nations and Nationalism 11, 1.