How Emerging Diseases Can Spread Conflict and Violence …fueled public mistrust of health authorities, further destabilizing the region. Ore Koren, associate professor of political science at Indiana University Bloomington, has explored the connection between emerging zoonotic diseases and…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2020 Dissertation Fellows …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…
Words of War: Does Negotiation End or Extend Conflict? …International Relations at New York University, where he was valedictorian of the College of Arts and Science. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at Stanford University and was also…
‘There’s Nothing Inevitable or Permanent about Democracy’: A Conversation with Robert Talisse …way of some pretty robust empirical data, that when democracy is all we ever do together, when our entire social worlds are structured around our political alliances and our political…
Welcome to Our 2025 HFG Distinguished Scholars …Roudabeh Kishi (Political Science, University of Denver), Improving Early Warning Models Outside of Conflict Zones: A Case Study of the US Roni Porat (Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Yuval…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellows …Cape Town). Militarization of University Spaces in Zimbabwe: Institutionalised Political Violence Yahya Sseremba (Political Science, Makerere University). A Historical and Political Inquiry Into the Political Violence in the Rwenzori Area…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Welcomes Its 2025-2026 African Fellows …Gender-Based Violence: A Case Study of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Frezer Abera Hadebo (Universiteit Stellenbosch, Political Science) Gendered Dimensions of Political Extremism and Nationalism in Northern Ethiopia: A Feminist Analysis of…
“Local or Global? The Future of Peacebuilding in Africa” On May 2, the academic and practitioner worlds converged in a sit-down conversation between Séverine Autesserre, professor and chair of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University and João Honwana,…
“Violence Is Contagious”: A Conversation with Andrew Papachristos …supported by The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation in the past, has been devoted to network science. I wonder if you might start by explaining what you mean when you use…
HFG Emerging Scholars …1865-1915 Moritz Emanuel Bondeli (Political Science, Yale University). Disturbing the Peace: Mass Politics and Political Violence in Weimar Germany Madison Dalton (Political Science, Stanford University). The Politics of Justice: Sexual…
