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Lauren Honig researches and teaches聽on comparative politics and the political economy of development in African countries, with a focus on property rights, citizen-state linkages, customary聽authority, and informal institutions.聽

Her聽book,聽Land Politics: 聽(Cambridge聽University Press), examines the struggle to control land in Africa through the聽lens of land titling. Based on extensive fieldwork, it shows how customary institutions impact the contemporary expansion of state property rights, in an聽era of increasing land scarcity and booming global land markets. Her research聽has been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation, the Social聽Sciences Research Council, and Fulbright, among others.聽It has been published in journals including African Affairs, the American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics, Democratization, the Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, and World Development.

She is a聽Research Associate at the Governance Local Development Institute at the University of Gothenburg. In addition, she聽has been a聽visiting Researcher at the Institute聽for Advanced Study in Toulouse and the Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame.聽She completed her B.A.聽at Northwestern University and her Ph.D. in Government at Cornell University.