Associate Professor of Political Science
Office: DeVos Center 216J
(616) 526-7028
apatters@calvin.edu
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 recently published a book entitled The Politics of AIDS in Africa; she also edited the 2004 volume, 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 is currently in Ghana studying the role of the African church in politics, particularly on issues like AIDS, development and poverty. Part of her time in Ghana will be spent conducting Calvin's fall Ghana semester program.