Donald S. Rothchild, an internationally recognized expert in African politics and professor of political science at UC Davis, has been singled out for recognition by the campus faculty for outstanding scholarship. A widely respected scholar who studies ethnic conflict and the changing politics of Africa, Rothchild is well established among the leading Africanists of his generation. He has published original and significant work on federalism, ethnic separatism, nation building and political integration. There are few scholars in political science who have made more important contributions to the understanding of ethnic strife, according to his colleagues. Rothchild has spent his academic career deciphering the origins of ethnic conflict and the practical means by which such conflicts might be controlled. He has published extensively in the field of American foreign policy, as it relates to the African continent, as well as in the fields of state and civil society relations, economic conditions and political consequences, post-Cold War Africa, military regimes and the politics of South Africa. Rothchild's recent works include the new book "Ethnic Fears and Global Engagement: The International Spread and Management of Ethnic Conflict" (Princeton University Press). On Oct. 7 he received an annual award from the campus Academic Senate that honors outstanding research.