Amy Patterson, Associate professor of Political Science at Calvin College, received a Ph.D. in Political Science and African Studies from Indiana University (1996). She joined the political science department faculty at Calvin College in 2001 after teaching at Anderson University and Elmhurst College. Professor Patterson’s recent publication is a book titled The Politics of AIDS in Africa and also edited the 2004 volume of The African State and the AIDS Crisis. After spending time conducting research in Zambia in 2007 with McGregor Summer Research Fellow Kyla Vander Hart, she has shifted her focus to Ghana where she is studying the role of the African church in politics, particularly on issues like AIDS, development and poverty. In the fall of 2008 she directed Calvin's semester program in Ghana.
