Dr. Lucy Creevey is Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of Connecticut. She also served as Acting Dean of International Affairs (1996-1997) and Director of Women¹s Studies (1987-1993). Before coming to UConn, she was Professor of City and Regional Planning and founder and Director of the Program in International Development and Appropriate Technology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include Impacts of Microenterprise and Microfinance Programs and other Planning Strategies, Religion and Political Development, the Changing Status of Women in Developing Countries, and Traditional Institutions and their Transformation due to Modernization and Economic Change. Dr. Creevey has served as a short-term consultant for USAID, the World Bank, and UNIFEM since the early 1990s primarily assessing the impacts of microenterprise, microfinance, and Business Development Services projects. Her research has included projects in Guinea, Senegal, Niger, Ghana, Tanzania, Egypt, Palestine, Pakistan, India, Thailand, El Salvador, Peru, and Guatemala. Her books include Changing Women¹s Lives and Work; An Analysis of Eight Microenterprise Projects (IT Publications, 1996), Working with Women Farmers in Africa ( Syracuse University Press, 1986), Muslim Brotherhoods and Politics in Senegal (Harvard 1970, re-issued iUniverse, June 1, 1999), and (with Barbara Callaway) The Heritage of Islam; Women, Religion and Politics in West Africa (Lynne Rienner, 1994). She has written numerous articles and monographs on the impacts of micro enterprise and micro finance programs, their participants, and the changing role and status of women in developing countries. Her current research is on Islam and democracy in Senegal and feminism and fundamentalism in Africa.