Lauren M. MacLean

Lauren Mathews Morris MacLean is an American political scientist who researches the promotion of renewable energy in Africa. She is the Arthur Bentley chair at Indiana University Bloomington.

Life MacLean earned a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, cum laude, in international relations with honors. Her honors thesis advisor was Thomas M. Callaghy. She earned a M.A. (1995) and Ph.D. (2002) in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. David K. Leonard was her doctoral advisor.

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