The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2020 Dissertation Fellows

Meet the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation 2020 Dissertation Fellows. These emerging scholars, rigorously chosen through a global peer-review competition, are studying topics addressing violence between intimate partners, neighbors, and governments and citizens.

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2020 Fellows and Research 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 of Organized Crime

Chulani Kodikara (Political Science, University of Edinburgh). Grief and Hope, Inscription and Erasure: A Struggle for Truth and Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka

Molly Minden (Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison). Legacies of Wartime Violence in Social Mobilization: Resistance to Dams in Guatemala

Lindsay Randall (Anthropology, University of Edinburgh). Contesting the City: Kinship, Islam, and Ethnic Politics of Belonging in Harar, Ethiopia

Maria Restrepo-Ruiz (Public Health, University of Connecticut). Intimate Partner Violence in Armed Conflict Contexts: The Case of Colombia

Matthew Simonson (Network Science, Northeastern University). Kill a Stranger, Save a Neighbor: Civilian and Combatant Networks Under Fire

Roya Talibova (Political Science, University of Michigan). Why Fight? The Causes and Consequences of Joining an Autocrat’s Army

William Whitham (History, Princeton University). Statism and Anarchy: Illusion, Insurrection, and the Tragedy of the Left