The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholars …Sinaloa Jean-Baptiste Gallopin (Sociology, Yale University). Fear, Violence, and Restraint: Dynamics of Historical Change in the Tunisian Revolution Zoltan Gluck (Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center). Security and Social Transformation: An Anthropology…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholars …Newton-Fisher (Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge). Male-Female Aggression in Chimpanzees Gananath Obeyesekere (Anthropology, Princeton University). Terrorism and the Prospects for Peace in Sri Lanka Nicholas Sambanis (Political Science, Yale University)….
“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 Welcomes Its 2025-2026 African Fellows …Anthropology) Reproduction of Inequalities or Construction of New Commonalities? Socio-Spatial and Cultural Reconfigurations of the Urban and the Rural in Sudan Between Revolution and War Tamia Botes (University of the…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellows (Formerly Harry Frank Guggenheim Young African Scholars) 2025–2026 Aroob Alfaki (University of Khartoum, Social Anthropology). Reproduction of Inequalities or Construction of New Commonalities? Socio-Spatial and Cultural Reconfigurations of the Urban…
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…
