Dr. Robert A. Blewett, Professor of Economics, received his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in 1980.  His first year employed by St. Lawrence, 1983-84, was actually spent lecturing at the University of Maiduguri in Nigeria under the auspices of a Fulbright grant.  A member of the African Studies Advisory Board since 1993, Dr. Blewett has also made faculty development and research trips to Kenya, Tanzania, and Ghana. His current scholarly work examines the role of minority middleman networks in less developed countries.  In addition to regularly teaching Development Economics (Economics 336) and African Economies (African Studies/Economics 236), Dr. Blewett supervises student honors projects and mentors university fellows examining economic development issues in sub-Saharan Africa.