“Sex Work: Does Legitimization Mitigate Violence?” …seek to illuminate the causes, manifestations, and responses to violence in areas such as war, crime, terrorism, intimate relationships, climate instability, and political extremism. Watch Panel I: “Weapons of War:…
“Reckoning with Intimate-Partner Violence after the Pandemic” …violence in areas such as war, crime, terrorism, intimate relationships, climate instability, and political extremism. Watch Panel I: “Weapons of War: Examining Gender-Based Violence in Conflict Zones” Watch Panel III:…
“Illiberal Ideas Are Having a Negative Effect on Our Political Culture”: A Conversation with Thomas Main Professor Thomas J. Main In a 2022 speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, President Joe Biden issued a dramatic warning: democracy in the United States is “under assault,” he announced….
‘A Truly Pluralistic Society Has Both Inclusion and Dissent’: A Conversation with Ben Klutsey …journal Discourse. Greg Berman, the distinguished fellow of practice at the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, spoke with Klutsey about what he’s learned from these conversations, the reaction to the war…
‘Democracy Is Something We Have to Fight For’: A Conversation with Suzette Brooks Masters …your dad, who was a World War II vet. You said that if he were alive, he would be dismayed at the state of America. I realize you aren’t the…
‘There Are Very Few Democracies That Are as Polarized as We Are Today’: A Conversation with Jennifer McCoy …half, back to 1900, we saw that countries tended to depolarize after major systemic interruptions. Things like civil war or international war. Or they were in an authoritarian system and…
In the Balkans, Barriers Made Neighbors Bad …research, “Collective Crimes in Times of War: Explaining Local Violence Against Civilians in Croatia,” informed her book, Amoral Communities: Collective Crimes in Time of War (Cornell University Press, 2019). This…
‘When People Spend Time Together, They are Less Inclined to See Each Other as the Enemy’: A Conversation with Matt Grossmann …Center. With his co-author David A. Hopkins, Grossmann recently published Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics, a book that documents a remarkable…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Welcomes Its 2025-2026 African Fellows …knowledge on the nature, consequences, and reduction of violence in its many forms, including war, crime, and human aggression. 2025–2026 Fellows and Research Topics Aroob Alfaki (University of Khartoum, Social…
Sophia Goodfriend Named 2025 Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Fellow at Pembroke College Cambridge …finish my first academic manuscript, an ethnographic account of how algorithmic surveillance and weapons systems are upending what it means to wage and live with war in Israel and Palestine….
