Dr. Veney’s prime areas of research and expertise are in Comparative Politics, International Relations, Refugee Studies and Human Rights. Her recent publications include "The Ties That Bind: The Historic African Diaspora and Africa" and "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Internally Displaced Women in Liberia and Uganda." Dr. Veney is the co-author of two books, Leisure in Urban Africa and Women in African Studies: Scholarly Publishing. She has just completed a book entitled Forced Migration in Eastern Africa: Structural Adjustment, Democratization, and Refugees which will be published by Palgrave Macmillan Press. She holds a Master's degree in African Studies from Howard and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Missouri—Columbia.