The Bitter Aloe Project: Building a Prosopographic Understanding of Apartheid-Era Violence Through Advanced Machine Learning …goal is to open new avenues for research into political violence in South Africa during the apartheid era by bringing new forms of legibility to this massive archive through the…
“We’re Losing a Sense of Accountability”: A Conversation with Richard Aborn …I think the expression that we have a “problem” with violence is really an understatement. I think we are now getting close to a crisis of violence. It is obviously…
HFG Welcomes its 2025 Emerging Scholars …CORANTIN, HALEY ALLEN DEMARCO, JIMMY GRAHAM; SECOND ROW: REBEKAH JONES, SAAD LAKHANI, ANNAH MCCURRY, KARMVIR PADDA, JESSIE WALDMAN, DANIEL WAQAR “Relationship aggression, police violence against civilians, political violence from above…
Killing Campaigns: The Origins and Dynamics of Mass Violence in Africa …level was not correlated to electoral violence; that incumbents committed the majority of electoral violence; and that the dynamics of prevote violence differed from postvote violence. Those findings were published…
Operation Fly Trap: Police Suppression and Gang Violence …series of ongoing life struggles. Non-gang violence during this period rose in equal measure to the decline in gang violence, leaving the overall number of violent crimes in the targeted…
Unearthing Sexual Violence in the Congo Free State and its Contemporary Significance …violence. While sexual violence was used as punishment or as extortion, it mainly functioned as a display of colonial power. I, therefore, argue sexual violence is not a direct result…
“We Have a Lot of Damage to Undo”: A Conversation with Jeremy Travis …the contrary, we couldn’t see any end to the increase in violence, both in New York and nationally. The rise in violence, and homicides, in particular, had been very steep….
The Chinese Must Go: The Violent Birth of American Border Control …more recognized forms of political power. This racial violence terrorized local populations, shaped local politics, and at times, advanced a national agenda. In the mid-nineteenth century, this political violence, and…