HFG Welcomes its 2024 Emerging Scholars 

September 17, 2024

(NEW YORK) — The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation today announced the selection of its 2024 HFG Emerging Scholars. These eleven doctoral candidates, selected through a rigorous process, are investigating the origins of violence and responses to it across historical and contemporary contexts in the US and other countries.

The scholars are completing dissertations on a range of important topics, including political extremism and paramilitaries in the US and abroad, the treatment of gender violence in Chile’s justice system, the use of political rhetoric to undercut democratic movements in autocracies, the strategic use of violent “disappearance” in Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico, and other relevant topics in the field of violence research. 

“While our 2024 Emerging Scholars come from diverse fields and study cases from different locations and historical periods, they are united in studying problems of serious violence,” said HFG’s Director of Research Joel Wallman. “Some are looking at the causes of violence, others are examining how justice systems handle it, and some are studying effective ways to foster peace after conflict. These eleven students and their research projects are excellent investments in HFG’s mission to clarify the roots of violence and what works to prevent or reduce it.”

The awards are given to promising researchers in their final year of writing a doctoral dissertation that examines a salient aspect of violence. In selecting the awardees, HFG prioritizes research that addresses urgent, contemporary problems.

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2024 Scholars and Research Topics

Karime Parodi Ambel (University of California, Los Angeles) “Gendering Justice in the Chilean Legal System: Institutional Developments, Legal Actors’ Practices, and Women’s Access to Justice” 

Kate Birkbeck (Yale University) “The Security of a Free State: Public Arms, Private Armies, and the Birth of the American Century, 1865-1915” 

Moritz Emanuel Bondeli (Yale University) “Disturbing the Peace: Mass Politics and Political Violence in Weimar Germany” 

Madison Dalton (Stanford University) “The Politics of Justice: Sexual Violence Case Prosecution in the United States” 

Ian Glazman-Schillinger (Syracuse University) “White Power Goes Online: The History of Digital Hate Networks and the Federal Government’s Response, 1984-1999” 

Marko Kljajic (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “The Challenge of Collective Victimhood and the Promise of Mutual Acknowledgement After Conflict” 

Zora Piskacova (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) “Torn Men in Torn Towns: Municipal Administrators between the Local and the National in Cieszyn and Český Těšín, 1918-38” 

Andrew Roskos-Ewoldsen (University of California, Davis) “Do Unto Others: Exploring the Role of Reciprocity in International Cooperation and Conflict” 

Madeleine Stevens (University of Chicago) “Weaponizing Uncertainty: The Politics of Disappearance in Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico” 

Sophie Wunderlich (University of Michigan) “American Fascism and its Afterlives: The American Far Right and Paramilitarism in a Global Perspective, 1930-1965” 

Eddy Yeung (Emory University) “Propaganda as Provocation: How Autocrats Use Political Rhetoric to Impede Democratic Uprisings” 

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation is a leader in creating and disseminating knowledge on the nature, consequences, and reduction of violence in its many forms, including war, crime, and human aggression.

For more information contact:

Nyeleti Honwana, Program Officer

info@hfg.org | 646.428.0971