Desistance from Right-Wing Extremism The research grant from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation provided the funds to conduct intensive life history interviews with an initial sample of thirty-five former North America–based far-right extremists. Interviews…
“Beyond the Crisis: Reimagining Migrant Protection” …Below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DV6-kI8MUU Nicki Kindersley is a Lecturer in African History at the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University. She was the Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Fellow from…
The Czechoslovak Arms Industry and the Changing Face of Global Warfare, 1859–1989 This book project, Marxism and the Interpretation of Dreams: Visions of Communism in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s, examines the history of the Czechoslovak Communist Party in the period between the…
Murder by Structure: How Street Gangs Built the Great American City …“violent” and “dangerous,” it is tempting to fall back on hackneyed and racist characterizations of “bad people” and “bad places.” But such explanations are myopic, ignoring history and the intentional…
Blood and Soil: Modern Genocide, 1500–2000 …genocidal); the origins of twentieth century totalitarianism (which Hannah Arendt saw in the history of imperialism); the uniqueness of the Holocaust (which Steven T. Katz distinguishes from other historical genocides);…
The Middle Eastern Military as a Factor in Domestic and Regional Conflict and Violence: A Case Study of the Iranian Army The research project consisted of a case study of the political and social role played by the Iranian army in the recent history both of Iran itself and of the…
The South Carolina Murder Project Though the American South is known historically to have experienced high rates of homicide, little systematic, quantitative information on southern homicide history is actually available. Most quantitative research on the…
Australian War Crimes Trials of the 1980s and 1990s: Law Confronts the Shoah This project examines the history of Australian attempts to prosecute alleged Nazi collaborationist war criminals who had found refuge in that country in the aftermath of the Second World War….
Exploring Violent Careers over the Life Course: A Study of Urban African American Males and Females …collaboration with the Illinois Criminal Justice Authority (ILCJA), we collected and coded criminal history information for the cohort from ages seventeen to fifty-two. The extension of criminal history data into…
The Chinese Must Go: The Violent Birth of American Border Control …Chinese exclusion in U.S. history. As The Chinese Must Go makes clear, anti-Chinese law and violence continues to have consequences for today’s immigrants. The present resurgence of xenophobia builds mightily upon past…
