Research

Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Power

Research in this domain seeks to situate the U.S. experience in a global comparative context, and vice versa. Our work includes the study of ethnicity and incarceration in the United States; conflict, peacekeeping, and policing in minority or ethnically-divided communities in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, the Middle East, and the United States; and gender and educational and health outcomes in the United States.

Publications

Jennifer Greenburg. 2017. “New Military Femininities: Humanitarian Violence and the Gendered Work of War Among US Servicewomen.” Gender, Place, and Culture. doi: 10.1080/0966369X.2017.1347560.

"The Impact of International Interventions to Empower Women in Post-Conflict Countries: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence from the Liberian National Police", International Studies Quarterly, Peer Reviewed, Under Review

On the Ground: Local Legacies of Gender Reforms in the UN Mission in Liberia, Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping, Kyle Beardsley, Robert A. Blair, Michael J. Gilligan and Sabrina M. Karim, Sabrina M. Karim and Kyle Beardsley, Oxford University Press, In Press

Events & Workshops

March 20

Jennifer Chudy – Racial Sympathy in American Politics
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

March 16

Nicholas Sambanis – Violence Exposure and Ethnic Identification: Evidence from Kashmir
2 p.m. – 4 p.m.

March 15

Christina Ewig – Gender, Race and Substantive Representation in Latin America: Different Paths to Political Influence in Peru
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

News & Research

Politically energized women running for office in record numbers (comments by Wendy Schiller)

July 9, 2018 The Providence Journal

The Evils of Polygyny

June 13, 2018

One Galilee pub shows that 'economic peace' is not enough (comments by Ashutosh Varshney)

June 4, 2018 972 Magazine

Backing Up Women With Facts and Figures (Rose McDermott mentioned)

July 17, 2018 Pass Blue

Featured Project

Masculinity and Money in Nigeria
In this project, Faculty Fellow Daniel Jordan Smith examines the growing importance of money in men’s lives in Nigeria, as it plays out across the life course and in just about every social sphere.
Learn more