The Nazi Concentration Camps …Much of my work focuses on daily practices of violence. I have examined the transition from the improvised abuse in the early camps to the structured violence of later years,…
Homicide in North Italy: Bologna, 1600–1700 …to condemn participants in vendetta to death, they found themselves made party to revenge violence. The inability of the court to effectively police interpersonal violence is indicative of a developing…
Creating the Illusion of Impending Death: Armed Robbers in Action This article appeared in Crimes of Violence, the Spring 1997 edition of TheHFG Review, a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation publication that examined topics of violence in depth. Unlike most sorts…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2023-2024 African Fellows …All are doctoral candidates at African universities exploring important problems of violence related to the African continent. Fellows are investigating topics, including inter-ethnic conflict, democratization, and political protests. The fellowship…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Announces Its 2023 Emerging Scholars …advance knowledge on the nature of and responses to violence around the world. The scholars are completing dissertations on a range of vital topics including organized crime in Latin America…
Dominating a Continent: Retribution and Forcible Confinement in North America …how changes in military infrastructure impacted day-to-day violence in areas that recently experienced warfare; and 3. the ways that violence impacted patterns of incarceration in Saskatchewan following the 1885 Resistance….
Victimhood in a Time of Crisis: Muslims and the Riots of 2020 in New Delhi, India This project explores how victimhood is expressed by Muslims during a time of violence. It studies the case of a communal riot between Hindus and Muslims that took place between…
The 1947 Taiwanese Rebellion: Last Battle of the Sino-Japanese War? …seventeenth-century Qing conquest. This subversive violence was embedded in an endemic competitive violence exacerbated by the fact that Taiwan was a frontier society. State-building efforts at the end of the…
Information in Counterrevolution: State Torture and the Armed Left in Southern South America in the 1970s …opponents, met the violence of the security state, these units proliferated across a region roiled by new forms of urban insurgency, torture-based intelligence operations, and strategies to oppose state violence…
Blackfoot Traditional Models of Aggression and Healing …Blackfoot people—from eighteenth-century British fur traders to early-twentieth-century ethnographers—witnessed very little interpersonal violence within Blackfoot communities. In Never in Anger, her study of a Canadian Inuit community nearly fifty years…
