The final Human Progress and Flourishing Workshop of the semester is scheduled for Friday, Dec. 2, at 10 a.m. in Beckwith Recital Hall. NDSU faculty member Elizabeth Carlson is set to present “Addressing African Politics and Poverty, From the Inside.”

All members of the NDSU community and the public are invited to attend the free event. After the presentation, food and refreshments will be served in the Challey School of Music Atrium.

Carlson is an assistant professor in the NDSU Department of Political Science and Public Policy and a scholar at the Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth. She specializes in political behavior, public opinion and survey methods, lab and field experimentation and the political economy of development in Africa.

In her presentation, Carlson will examine the impact of democracy on reducing poverty in Africa. She also plans to address ways citizens of African countries can gain control of their governments and how outsiders can help.

Carlson is the founding organizer of Data-Driven Development in Africa and occasional host of Behavioral Models of Politics. She earned her doctorate in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. 

The Human Progress and Flourishing Workshop, which is hosted by the Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth, invites internationally-renowned scholars from universities across the country to present their research and engage with the NDSU community.

The series will resume in spring 2023.

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