The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholars …the Tunisian Revolution Zoltan Gluck (Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center). Security and Social Transformation: An Anthropology of Kenya’s War on Terror 1998-2018 (Declined) Sana Jaffrey (Political Science, University of Chicago). Leveraging…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholars …Anthropology, Lund University). The Involution of Violence: Social Disintegration, Cosmological Crisis and Child-Witchcraft in the Congo Region Lauren Leve (Anthropology, New School University). Social Justice and “Failed Development”: Violent Ironies…
“Why Do People of Color Have to Go to Extremes to Save their Kids?” A Conversation with Joseph Richardson …storytelling project coproduced by Joseph Richardson, a professor of African-American Studies and Anthropology at the University of Maryland. A multimedia experiment, Life After the Gunshot gives voice to those who…
“Soldiers in Exile”: Dr. Godfrey Maringira Dr. Godfrey Maringira Dr. Godfrey Maringira is the author of Soldiers and the State in Zimbabwe and an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Sol Plaatje University, South Africa. Exploring the…
“Protectors or Predators: Understanding Urban Gang Violence Around the World” Panel …Graduate Center and affiliated with Ph.D. programs in Urban Education, Sociology and Criminal Justice. Adeem Suhail is an assistant professor in social anthropology at Franklin and Marshall College. Rosette Sifa…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellows …Northern Uganda Stephen David (English Studies, Stellenbosch University). Biafra as Third Space: Reading the Politics of Belonging in Nigeria-Biafra Civil War Literature Florence Ncube (Anthropology, University of the Western Cape)….
The Kayapo Conjuncture: An Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance with International Civil Society Against Violence and Rights Abuse by the State and National Security The 1990s brought an intensification of efforts to extract the natural resources of the Amazon (mining, especially of gold; logging of tropical hardwoods; the clearing and burning of large tracts…
Violence and Dysphoria: The Villagization of Kinshasa and the Role of Healers The 1993-96 Guggenheim Research Grant has allowed me to further my long-term anthropological research in postcolonial Western Congo (formerly Zaire) and the capital city of Kinshasa (of some six million…
The Militarization of Nuer and Dinka Community Life: A Comparative Field Study of the Transformative Impact of Sudan’s Unresolved War Our original research focused on the militarization of Nuer and Dinka community life, with special attention devoted to the role of ethnic conflict triggered off by the 1991 splitting of…
On Traumatic Modernities: Forced Migration and Nakh Cultural Memory Along Caucasus Borderlands My research for “On Traumatic Modernities,” carried out mostly in the Caucasus, yielded several new insights as well as concrete outputs. My findings include the following: 1. Migration narratives from…
