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Peace, Violence, and Security

Projects

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Access to Information as a Human Right

Human Rights, Latin America, Peace, Violence, and Security
Protest by detained African asylum seekers in Holot detention facility in Israel, 2014.

Negotiating Carceral Regimes in the Global South: Crime and Punishment Across the Islamic World

21st Century, Asian Languages & Literature, Capitalism, Colonialism, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media
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Horizons of Harm and Repair: The Stories of Manzanar, Diverted

Cinema, Japan, Peace, Violence, and Security
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Transnational Feminisms and Categories of Sexual Violence

Cultural Studies, Feminisms, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Law, Peace, Violence, and Security

People

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Daniel Bessner (he/him/his)

Daniel Bessner currently holds the Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization at the University of Washington. He is a member of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and was previously the Anne H.H. and Kenneth B.

Identity and Culture, International Relations, Jewish Studies, Peace, Violence, and Security
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Michael Degerald (he/him/his)

Michael Degerald uses the tools of an historian but regularly draws on elements of political science, geography, and social theory.

20th Century, History, Middle East, Peace, Violence, and Security, Political Science
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Ayda Apa Pomeshikov (she/her/hers)

Ayda's research interests center around forced migration studies, critical humanitarian studies, and anthropology of religion. Ayda has currently finalized her field research in Gaziantep, Turkey.

Colonialism, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Cultural Studies, Current Events, Digital Humanities, Humanitarianisms, Identity and Culture, Immigration, Middle East, Peace, Violence, and Security, Religion, Social Justice
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Gözde Burcu Ege

Burcu is in the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Near and Middle East Studies.

Colonialism, Cultural Studies, Current Events, Globalization, Humanitarianisms, Identity and Culture, Middle East, Neoliberalism, Palestine, Peace, Violence, and Security, Social Justice