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Kim Yi Dionne
Kim Yi Dionne is an associate professor of political science at UC Riverside. Her research examines health interventions, politics, and public opinion—primarily in African countries. She received her Ph.D. in political science at UCLA, where she was a Foreign Languages and Area Studies (FLAS) fellow in Kiswahili/African Studies. From 2008-2009, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Malawi. Before coming to UC Riverside, she held academic appointments at Smith College and Texas A&M University.
She is a contributing editor to The Monkey Cage, a blog on politics and political science at The Washington Post.
In 2018, Cambridge University Press published her book, Doomed Interventions: The Failure of Global Responses to AIDS in Africa.