Of Rebels, Spirits, and Social Engineers: The Problems with Ending Female Genital Cutting …argue that their opposition is grounded in locally meaningful ethical relations that structure how Ghanaians live with one another and relate to the state. The problem is that such checks…
Some Things Psychologists Think They Know About Aggression and Violence …that leaders such as Mao, Stalin, Hitler, or Pol Pot were psychopaths. Indeed, it is unlikely that a psychopath, with typically impoverished social relations, could develop the relationships and loyalties…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2020 Dissertation Fellows …Topics Maayan Armelin (History, Clark University). Leadership Styles and Social Relations in the SS-Einsatzgruppen Philip Johnson (Political Science, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York). Narcommunication: The Public Messages, Murders, and Media…
“The Long History of Anti-Asian Violence in the US”: Dr. Beth Lew-Williams …the Making of the Alien in America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018), maps the tangled relationships between local racial violence, federal immigration policy, and US imperial ambitions in Asia….
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes New Board Members …Princeton University, his alma mater, for nearly two decades following terms as the university’s regional admissions director and director of development relations, among other roles. Mr. Wilhelm, HFG’s president, said,…
Religion, Conscience, and Abusive Behaviour: Understanding the Role of Faith and Spirituality in the Deterrence of Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Ethiopia …theology, clergy discourses, and personal faith intertwined with sociocultural norms, gender ideals, and psychological states and dynamics to maintain harmful situations affecting the conjugal relationship. These findings simultaneously demonstrated the…
Sophia Goodfriend Named 2025 Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Fellow at Pembroke College Cambridge …technology, medicine, and industry with similar improvements in human relations. Following Guggenheim’s death, a bequest established the Foundation’s current program of research grants to support distinguished and emerging scholars investigating…
When Militaries Turn Against Authoritarians: Lessons from Tunisia and the Arab Spring …“A lot of research on this topic is done by political scientists working in the field of civil-military relations,” Gallopin says. Their typically retrospective approach, he explains, has tended to…
“Twas Always Known as the Bloody Frontier”: Rumors, Memories, and Bosnian Identity in the Migrant Crisis …them, smuggled them across the European border, and more. These entanglements made for constant surprises in resident/migrant relations. Vehement xenophobes and racists often proved to be deeply socially entangled with…
Fear, Violence, and Restraint: Dynamics of Historical Change in the Tunisian Revolution …the variation in outcomes of mass uprisings requires shifting the explanatory focus toward endogenous, locally proximate causes. The argument has implications for the study of revolutions, authoritarian breakdown, civil-military relations,…
