at the University of California, San Diego and graduated with honors in Political Science and minors in Economics and French Literature.
She received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Political Science.
[2] She has been a visiting researcher at the Centre Des Etudes Supérieures en Gestion, Dakar, Senegal and a visiting professor and researcher in the Centro de Investigacion y Docencias Economicas (CIDE) in a Division of International Studies, Mexico City.
In 2002 and 2003, she was a visiting Fulbright professor in Beijing Foreign Studies University, People’s Republic of China.
She was an Assistant, Associate, and then Professor of Government in University of Texas at Austin.