The Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholars …Fighting and Bargaining Across Two Centuries of International Conflict Laine Munir (Anthropology, African Leadership University). Valuable Resources: Women, Conflict, and Modern Mining Practices in Rwanda Robert Simiyu (Geography, Kisii University)….
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholars (Formerly the HFG Dissertation Fellowships) 2025 Christopher Baidoo (School of Social Work, Boston College). Do Legal Interventions Save Lives? Evaluating Their Impact on Fatal Police Encounters and Racial Disparities Jonathan…
“Intimate Partner Violence and Armed Conflict in Colombia”: Dr. Maria Restrepo-Ruiz …women during times of high political violence. When armed conflict-related violence decreases or during post-conflict times, however, high intimate partner violence levels persist. The Colombian armed conflict intensified adherence to…
‘Political Polarization Has Become Almost a Form of Entertainment’: A Conversation with Clionadh Raleigh …depressing conclusion: global rates of conflict are rising dramatically. Raleigh tracks global conflict with the help of researchers at Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED), an organization she helped…
‘Stories about the Way the Nation Is Organized Are Dividing Us’: A Conversation with Richard Slotkin …years of unremitting racial oppression—that you also won’t generate a sense of positive American identity? You can certainly tell the story as 400 years of unremitting racial oppression. And, yes,…
How Emerging Diseases Can Spread Conflict and Violence …to 2019 across continental Africa—including information about conflict patterns, zoonotic disease outbreaks, economic development, and climate indicators. “Zoonotic diseases can exert a profound influence on conflict dynamics.” The findings, drawn…
The Chinese Must Go: The Violent Birth of American Border Control …Across decades of felling trees and laying tracks in the American West, Chinese workers faced escalating racial conflict and unrest. In response, Congress passed the Chinese Restriction Act of 1882…
Ethnic Conflict and Socioeconomic Development in the Niger-Delta Region of Nigeria …Most of these ethnic conflicts take place in Africa, the former Soviet Union, and Latin America, with Africa accounting for roughly 50 percent of these varied conflicts. In Nigeria, the…
“It’s Probably as Bad as It Can Get”: A Conversation with Lilliana Mason …are the most vilifying and dehumanizing of their opponents are Republicans who are high in racial resentment and Democrats who are low in racial resentment. These Republicans say that Democrats…
Troubled Peace: Explaining Political Violence in Post-Conflict Settings …these findings to contemporary settings, by developing a topology of post-conflict violence, by mapping cases of post-conflict violence across the world since 1945, and by testing my theoretical findings in…
