HFG African Fellows …violence and aggression in the modern world. The proposed project must relate directly to the African continent. The Foundation is interested in violence related to many subjects, including, but not…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellows …for Power: Intersections of Spiritualism, Violence, and Dominance in Commercial Sex Work Khanyile Mlotshwa (Media and Cultural Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal), Interrogating Anti-Black Violence and Xenophobia in Discursive Construction of…
Klan Violence/Local Violence in Reconstruction-Era Union County: A Social Network Analysis …into and relabeled existing local patterns of violence and conflict. The level and amount of violence increased dramatically with the Klan, but the perpetrators and victims of violence largely remained…
Collective Crimes in Times of War: Explaining Local Violence Against Civilians in Croatia …violence against civilians. Thus, even before mass violence begins, certain communities are transformed into amoral communities, where the definition of crime becomes altered and violence is justified as a form…
“You Have to Crack Down on Gun Offenders”: A Conversation with Peter Moskos …Reduction Project, in which you invite a variety of people to explain how they would reduce violence. Are there good ideas out there that you’ve been unearthing beyond Cure Violence…
In the Name of Christ: Religious Violence and Its Legitimacy in Mexico (1920–2020) …legitimacy or illegitimacy of violence. I analyze the complex and contentious relationship between religion and violence during the foundational decades between 1920 and 1960. My historical and sociological exploration of…
HFG Emerging Scholars …of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. Highest priority is given to research that addresses urgent, present-day problems of violence—what produces it, how it operates, and what…
Social Violence and Religious Conflict in Late Medieval Valencia My HFG-supported project explores violence within the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish communities of the kingdom of Valencia (Spain) as well as violence between these communities in order to shed new…
Violent Profits: The Political Economy of Electoral Violence …election violence or to be threatened with violence. Using a multimethod strategy combining in-depth interviews and large-scale surveys, this project shows how business actors adapt to the use of violence…
Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa The HFG research and subsequent book, Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa, is an attempt to think about the implications of pervasive spiritual insecurity for the postapartheid democratic state…
