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…
Of Rebels, Spirits, and Social Engineers: The Problems with Ending Female Genital Cutting My research project, “Of Rebels, Spirits, and Social Engineers: The Problems with Ending Female Genital Cutting,” was motivated by a desire to understand a paradox: whereas the practices of female…
A Political Science Perspective on Teaching about Violence …approaches to violence, political scientists inevitably pay greater attention to some issues than do our colleagues in psychology, history, sociology, and anthropology. What distinguishes political science from these other disciplines,…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2020 Dissertation Fellows …of Wartime Violence in Social Mobilization: Resistance to Dams in Guatemala Lindsay Randall (Anthropology, University of Edinburgh). Contesting the City: Kinship, Islam, and Ethnic Politics of Belonging in Harar, Ethiopia Maria Restrepo-Ruiz (Public…
HFG At The Crossroads Forum …Jr., Joel and Kim Feller Endowed Professor of African-American Studies and Anthropology, University of Maryland Caterina Roman, Professor of Criminal Justice, Temple University Jeffrey Butts, Director of the Research &…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2022 Emerging Scholars …Scholars is, as always, a very select group of doctoral students whose dissertation projects—in anthropology, sociology, public health, history, law, and political science–were judged especially likely to further the foundation’s…
HFG Emerging Scholars …How Decentralization Undermines Justice in U.S. Local Governments Saad Lakhani (Anthropology, Stanford University). Protectors of the Prophet’s Honor: The Politics of Blasphemy and Respect in Pakistan Annah McCurry (Psychology and…
Under Many Fires: Factors Influencing the Adoption of Female Circumcision by Southern Sudanese War-Displaced Women in Khartoum The people of Southern Sudan have been enduring the effects of the longest running civil war in the world. This war, which was prompted by the Sudanese government’s policies of…
