The South Carolina Murder Project …caste-like ethnic relationships, poverty, illiteracy, and lack of infrastructure. This project addresses these biases by developing a victim-based violence data series for South Carolina, extending from the end of Reconstruction…
Annual HFG Symposium on Crime in America Examines Criminal Justice Reform in the Biden Era …two-day symposium, organized by the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at John Jay College, convened journalists, scholars, and policymakers from around the country to discuss emerging crime and violence…
HFG African Fellows at the African Studies Association of the UK …from timely issues of electoral and separatist violence to long-standing challenges, including intimate partner violence and transitional justice in post-conflict settings. Ahead of the ASAUK conference, HFG Program Officer and…
Sophia Goodfriend Named 2025 Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Fellow at Pembroke College Cambridge …Fellowship was established at Pembroke College in 2011. It is a three-year award supporting post-doctoral research that increases the understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence in the…
When Comrades Go to War: Post-Liberation Movements, Elite Politics and the Internal Dynamics of Africa’s Great War …of Julius Nyerere, the godfather of Africa’s liberation movements: they put the gun before the unglamorous but essential task of building the domestic and regional political institutions and organizational structures…
In Search of Popular Sovereignty: British Rule and the Great Revolt (1936–39) in Palestine …landowning, trade, and government office, British rule and the growth of Jewish colonization under its wings brought about profound social, political, and economic changes. The “youth trend” became the largest,…
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…
By Right of War: The Discipline and Practice of International Law in Imperial Russia, 1868–1917 …these normative principles shaped actual policy. It takes the form of military and political history, examining the Russian army in three cases of military occupation: Bulgaria and Anatolia in 1877–78;…
The Farm Killings …landed and their tenants was being renegotiated by a combination of cunning, wits, and violence, and that the murder was an extreme and tragic moment in this process of renegotiation….
King George’s Generals: How the British Army Lost America, 1774-1781 …British commanders I study lay in their inability to translate operational success into political outcomes by dismantling the revolutionary government they fought. Survival meant success for the fledgling United States….
