Happy Marriages: Civilizing Domestic Life in Costa Rica, 1850–1950 …allow us to know with certainty how many couples were unhappy and to what extent they opted for separation. However, the evidence found in the 273 spousal-conflict complaints and in…
Controlling Violence in Wartime? Power Centralization and Economization of Republican Violence in the Spanish Civil War …of the second principal phase of the war in the Republican-held territories, once the first six months had passed. My previous research on the first months of the conflict had…
Political Economy of Memory: The Making, Unmaking and Remaking of the Nigeria-Biafra War …because it foreshadowed the array of devastating conflicts that would eventually threaten the survival of most postcolonial African states. The war was the first major conflict in postcolonial Africa, and…
“Sex Work: Does Legitimization Mitigate Violence?” …their profession in conflict-affected regions. It also delved into the implications of reducing violence against sex workers should the practice become legalized. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQnewsn9Pfg For the third installment of The Harry…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Welcomes Its 2025-2026 African Fellows …conflict, and counterterrorism. The fellowship provides each recipient with a research grant and support on research design, writing, and publishing. Additionally, leading scholars serve as mentors to the recipients throughout…
When Militaries Turn Against Authoritarians: Lessons from Tunisia and the Arab Spring …security force deployed to protect the Interior Ministry was far more influential than long-standing resentments and conflicting interests within the ranks. Building upon the earlier work of scholars like Ivan…
Fear, Violence, and Restraint: Dynamics of Historical Change in the Tunisian Revolution …hypotheses illuminate negotiators’ motivations, but fail to theorize how actors form a convergent view of their respective strengths, which is necessary to avoid conflict. In postbreakdown moments, public events—particularly mobilization…
Blackfoot Traditional Models of Aggression and Healing …source of frustration and conflict)? Could self-awareness of changes in child-rearing promote action by the Blackfoot community to address violence through the revival or adaptation of traditional socialization strategies? Participants…
The Peaceful Century: War in Twentieth-Century Latin America …continent. Because the state developed so late (generally only in the late-nineteenth century and then only intermittently), social, political, racial, regional, and economic conflicts were rarely controlled from above. The…
Hitler’s Prisons: Prisons and Penal Policies in Germany, 1900–1945 …conflict, fueled by the social and racial prejudices of individual inmates. Often, this resulted in collaboration with the prison authorities, for example by denouncing fellow prisoners. However, I found relatively…
