The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2024 Distinguished Scholars

February 6, 2024

(NEW YORK) – The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation is pleased to announce selection of its 2024 Distinguished Scholars. These 14 researchers, chosen through a rigorous peer-review competition, are exploring the causes, manifestations, and control of violence around the world.

In selecting the awardees, highest priority was given to research that addresses urgent, contemporary problems of violence.

“Solving serious problems of violence calls for careful analysis of their causes,” said HFG Director of Research Joel Wallman. “This understanding was Harry Guggenheim’s motivation in creating a foundation to support scholarly research on violence. As our grantees always do, the 2024 Distinguished Scholars are investigating violence in its varied forms—crime, terrorism, domestic violence, political ideology that promotes violence, and violence-producing flaws in criminal-justice systems. We are pleased to make this important work possible.”

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.

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2024 Scholars and Research Topics

Javier Auyero (The University of Texas at Austin). Police Collusion and Drug Violence: What is the Relationship?

Julie Chernov Hwang (Goucher College). How Terror Cells are Constructed: The Role of Social Networks. 

Melchesidek Chétima (University of Québec in Montréal) and Scott MacEachern (Duke Kunshan University). Slave-Raiders and Boko Haram on the Border.

Rebecca Clift (University of Essex). Behind Closed Doors: Trajectories to Violence in Intimate Interaction. 

Mikkel Dack (Rowan University). Fighting Fascism: Eliminating and Preventing Violent Extremism Since WWII. 

Graham Denyer Willis (University of Cambridge) and Pedro Mendes Loureiro (University of Cambridge). More and Better Prisons, More and Worse Criminal Governance?: Exponential Prison Construction and Violence in Brazil.

Alex Hinton (Rutgers University). “Never Again!” and the Problem of Prevention.

Sami Miaari (Tel Aviv University) and Maha Sabbah-Karkabi (Ben Gurion University). Economic Opportunities, Criminal Activity, and Deterrence: Evidence from the Palestinian-Arab minority in Israel. 

Melanie-Angela Neuilly (Washington State University). At the Root of Lethal Violence: The French Death Investigation System and the Accuracy of Mortality Statistics in Violence Prevention.

Jessica Stern (Boston University) and Megan McBride (Center for Naval Analyses Institute for Public Research). Assessing Mental Distress, Relative Loneness, Ideology, and Leakage in a Violent Extremism Intervention Dataset.