Nation-Empire: Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea 1895–1945 By the turn of the twentieth century, “rural youth” came to symbolize the spirit of hard work, masculinity, and patriotism. The village youth associations, the seinendan, carried that ideal and…
The Mind of the Segregationist The biggest result so far of my project, “The Mind of the Segregationist,” is one-third of my book, A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow…
Hitler’s Prisons: Prisons and Penal Policies in Germany, 1900–1945 My research project explored the different manifestations and causes of aggression and violence in the carceral institutions of a totalitarian state, focusing on Nazi prisons. Widely overlooked by historians, these…
Klan Violence/Local Violence in Reconstruction-Era Union County: A Social Network Analysis I have completed a book manuscript, The Ku-Klux and the Reconstruction of American Culture, which I expect to come out in 2016, a few months before the 150th anniversary of…
Christian Martyrs and the Making of an Islamic Society in the Post-Conquest Period This dissertation examines the role of state-sanctioned violence against Christians during the Umayyad and early ‘Abbasid periods. It explores a neglected group of Christian saints (often called “neomartyrs”) who died…
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Our Work …The Foundation does not accept unsolicited requests for support. OUR HISTORY In 1929, Harry Frank Guggenheim (1890-1971), a business leader, diplomat, and newspaper publisher, created the Foundation for general philanthropic…
HFG Pembroke College Research Fellow …African history at Cardiff University, examined political education and organization in migrant communities, militarized labor markets, and violent political economies in South Sudan and Horn of Africa borderlands. 2011–2013 Joanna…
Race/Ethnicity, Space, and Political Culture: A Comparative Study of Collective Violence in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles The book manuscript proposed in the grant application outlined a comparative study of six race riots in the context of the history, demographic changes, geographic distributions by race and ethnicity,…
The Peaceful Century: War in Twentieth-Century Latin America …in its history, but it has, somehow, skipped the organized exercise of violence that so defines other modern nations. It is the difference in political organization that helps account for…
