The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2022 Emerging Scholars …mission of clarifying the causes of violence,” said Joel Wallman, Director of Research. “Ethnic violence, vigilante behavior, violence against women, and armed non-state groups motivated by a political vision, illicit…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2023 Distinguished Scholars …continents, are embarking on research to clarify the causes and dynamics of grave violence. In some cases, the violence happens one victim at a time; in others an entire ethnic…
‘We’re Ignoring Our Common Values and Interests’: A Conversation with Monica Harris …called diversity trainings. We were brought into rooms, and we were instructed, “All right, this is how you deal with someone who may come from a different ethnic background, from…
The Czechoslovak Arms Industry and the Changing Face of Global Warfare, 1859–1989 …ethnic and national diversity, anti-imperialism, and antifascism. In their search for revolution, leftist intellectuals of the age travelled widely, visiting Russia, Italy, the United States, Germany, and France, and translated…
HFG Welcomes its 2025 Emerging Scholars …Ethnic Disparities in Firearm Homicides Matthew Coetzee (University of Notre Dame) Rupture and Repair: Community Responses to State Failure and Racial Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa Keïsha Corantin (Université Paris…
“This Isn’t Just a Normal Political Fight”: A Conversation with Lilliana Mason …the moral argument is the same on both sides. The current project of the Right is to undo our pluralistic, multi-ethnic democracy. And so this isn’t just a normal political…
The 1947 Taiwanese Rebellion: Last Battle of the Sino-Japanese War? …nineteenth century led to new forms of protest. Armed struggle against Japanese colonization after 1895 built on this experience of resistance against state penetration, with the additional element of ethnic…
The Mind of the Segregationist …segregationists are statements of an increasingly heated anticlericalism. The southern white churches ended up conflicted, passive, and relatively silent on race questions. As frustrating as that silence was to Martin…
The Violent Life of Bruna Veríssimo: An Experimental Ethnographic Biography of a Homeless Brazilian Youth …the context of Brazilian street life of surviving conflict, if not of avoiding it. Following a chance encounter with her on a return visit to Recife in 1999, by which…
A Military History of East Africa in the Nineteenth Century …modification of the prevailing notion of a “pacified” African past, as well as to suggest historical continuity between precolonial conflict and contemporary “ragged warfare.” The findings so far certainly support…