Dr. Sandra F. Joireman

Earhart Foundation Research Grant, "Property, Political Authority and Return in Liberia," 2012-2013

Earhart Foundation Research Grant, "Where There Is No Government: Enforcing Property Rights in Common Law Africa," 2009

Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, Kosovo, 2012-2013

“Kenya's Smallholder Settlement Schemes Past and Present: A retrospective and prospective analysis of data and trends,” The British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, June 18, 2018.

“Future Rights for Future Citizens:  Children’s Property Rights in Fragile Environments,” research seminar given at the World Bank, Land and Conflict KSB, January 11, 2018. 

“Women’s Rights to Land and Property: the interaction of law and custom ,”  World Bank, Law, Justice and Development Week 2017,  November 7, 2017, Washington DC.

"Return: Post-conflict Migration & Property Restitution in Africa,” School of International Studies, American University, September 22, 2017.

“Economic Linkages and Natural Resources: Insights from Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Kyrgyzstan,” with Rachel Vanderhill and Roza Tulepbayeva, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Aug 2017.

“Future Rights for Future Citizens: Children’s Property Rights in Complex Emergencies,” World Bank Land and Poverty Conference, Washington, DC, March 23, 2017.

“Intergenerational Land Conflict in Northern Uganda:  children, customary law and return migration,” African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Dec 3, 2016.

“The World Humanitarian Summit,” Bread for the World Hunger Report Consultation, Washington, DC June 17, 2016.

 “Returning Home:  Customary Law and Intergenerational Land Conflict in Northern Uganda,” World Bank Land and Poverty Conference, March 16, 2016.

“Ethnic Cleansing and Its Aftermath,” Wofford College, October 14, 2015.

“Ethnic Violence, Local Security and Return Migration: Enclave communities in Kosovo,” Conflict Research Society Annual Meeting, Kent, UK, September 14-15, 2015.

“A Long Time Gone: Post-conflict Return and Rural Property Restitution under Customary Law,” World Bank Land and Poverty Conference, Washington DC, March 2015.

”Protecting Future Rights for Future Citizens: Children’s Property Rights in Difficult Settings,” International Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Feb 2015.

”Mapping Violence and Return of Displaced People in Kosovo,” International Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Feb 2015.

Moderated the launch of the 2015 Hunger Report, for Bread for the World Institute,  Nov. 24, 2014, National Press Club, Washington D.C.

“Post-conflict Property Restitution under Customary Law,” Paper presented at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, May 29-June 1, 2014, Minneapolis, MN.

“The Protection of Children’s Property Rights,” Presented at the 10th Joint Area Centers Symposium, Children and Globalization: Issues, Policies and Initiatives, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 10-12, 2014.

"Building the Rule of Law in New States: Kosovo and the Shadow of the European Union", The Pruis Rule of Law Lecture at Calvin College, November 4, 2013.

“Law as Performance: Women’s Property Rights in Kosovo,” Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL August 29, 2013.

“Securing Property Rights for Women (and Men) in Kosovo,” World Bank Land and Poverty Conference April 10, 2013. 

“Property Rights Issues in Kosovo,” US Embassy Economic Working Group, Pristina, Kosovo, February 26, 2013. 

“Property Rights; The Gap Between Law and Enforcement in Kosovo,” American University in Kosovo, Democratization and Rule of Law Speaker Series, February 15, 2013, Pristina, Kosovo.

American Political Science Association

International Studies Association

African Studies Association

African Politics Conference Group