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…
Grassroots Peace: Postconflict Reconstruction in Rural Colombia …levels of violence wielded against civilians. Since the conflict subsided in this region, villages have also revealed variation in their community reconstruction patterns. In some villages, residents worked together to…
Of Rebels, Spirits, and Social Engineers: The Problems with Ending Female Genital Cutting …role of Africans in transforming and ending cutting was both unacknowledged and unexamined. My book The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs (2017) argues that the political…
“Evidence Doesn’t Seem to Play a Key Role”: A Conversation with David Weisburd …go, “Well there’s mixed evidence about large-scale use of stop-question-and-frisk [SQF] across cities but there’s strong evidence that pedestrian stops work in hot spots, in areas with high violence.” There…
The Effect of Publicized Life Sentences, Death Sentences, and Executions on Homicide …sentences in efforts to control lethal violence. Publicized Executions: Abolitionist States. A second contribution was to test two alternative theoretical explanations for dips in homicide after a publicized execution. Publicized…
A Military History of East Africa in the Nineteenth Century …of traditional organized violence in East Africa, as well as the analysis and organization of that data in anticipation of writing the manuscript itself. The goal has been to explore…
Sherman was Right: The Experience of AEF Soldiers in the Great War …that the violence of the Western Front broke the soldier. I was wrong. While some did psychologically succumb to the horrors of combat, the majority endured, and were proud of…
When We Torture: Moral and Pragmatic Arguments For and Against Torture, and Their Effect on Public Support For Redressing Past and Preventing Future Injustice Violence can take many forms, and it can vary in scale and intensity. This research project focuses on one specific type of violence that is usually perpetrated against a relatively…
On Traumatic Modernities: Forced Migration and Nakh Cultural Memory Along Caucasus Borderlands …Asia. My conversations with local scholars in Georgia and throughout the Caucasus enable me to probe the ongoing legacies of the violence that constitutes forced migration. These findings emerge from…
Our new look …the talented team at Design for Progress, support new programming, including our expanded HFG Speaker Series, new multi-media projects, such as our Violence, Politics & Democracy initiative, and new ways…
