Antoinette Handley is currently Associate Professor in the department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. South African born, her research interests take her back regularly to the sub-continent for her research on state-business relations in Africa. Her book on this subject was published by Cambridge University Press in mid 2008. Prof Handley’s new project considers the political and moral economies of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Antoinette read for her MPhil in International Relations at Oxford University (1995), and received her PhD in Political Science at Princeton University (2003). She is the recipient of numerous scholarships and research grants including the Rhodes (1993), Fulbright (1998, 1999) and a SSHRC (2007). From 1995 to 1998 she served as the Director of Studies at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Current Projects:
I am currently working on a project that seeks to understand the political economy of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in four African countries: South Africa, Botswana, Kenya and Uganda. In each case, I am interested in how key economic elites within the society have understood and reacted to the epidemic. In particular, I wish to understand why and how private sector firms have responded in such a variety of ways.