The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict prevention funds a wide range of proposals for research and teaching on genocide and mass violence, their causes and consequences, conflict prevention and resolution, dialogue, peace, and the roots of hatred and discrimination. 香港最快开奖现场直播 faculty, staff and students (both undergraduate and graduate) from all disciplines are eligible to apply for Schaeffer Fellowships to support research, curricular development, pedagogy, research travel, as well as for developing innovative strategies for disseminating findings and communicating with the public.听
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Applicants are asked to submit a personal narrative regarding their project, between 1 鈥 3 single spaced pages. This should include the following:听
the fit of the proposal with the Center鈥檚 mission.听
the value of the proposed activity to the Center, in terms of its academic visibility and credibility.听
the academic merit of the proposed activity.听
the personal connection and dedication to the research topic.听
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How the results will be communication听
If the project involves human subjects it needs to be approved by the Ethics Committee or other appropriate means.听
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The Center is particularly interested in proposals that:听
further the Center鈥檚 mission.听
include the intensive use of the Visual History Archive or the Fortunoff Archive听 听
make an impact on the public鈥檚 understanding of the causes and consequences of genocide and other forms of mass violence.听
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Alongside the personal narrative, the application should contain a budget, breaking down the expected expenses.听听
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For students, a letter of support from a faculty member is also necessary.听 Furthermore, for applications involving research projects, students need to schedule a meeting with an 香港最快开奖现场直播 librarian and hand in a confirmation letter or email from the librarians that this meeting took place.
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We are especially interested in creative faculty-student collaborative research projects and curricular proposals that address the causes and consequences of genocide and mass violence.听
Fellowships have been awarded for internships, conferences, new research, internships and more. For additional information on the types of projects we fund, please scroll down to see examples of previous awards and look at the with further information about the documents required to apply.听听
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To apply for a student or faculty fellowship, to upload a project narrative, a letter of support, a confirmation note听from a librarian, and a budget proposal. Only complete applications will be considered for funding.听
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Stephanie Bergon
Title: Toolkit and Standards in Transnational Justice Conference
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Armen Abelyan
Title: Sustainable Armenia: Ecological and Cultural Sustainability in the 21st Century
Major: MSIM Program
Johan Sebastian Febres Cordero Moscoso
Title: Asylum Court Internship
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Eliza Schwartz
Title: Post-Mabo Australia: The Impacts of Native Title Rights on the Cultural Heritage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
Major: History, Law and Society
Kerstin Carlson
Title: Toolkit and Standards in Transnational Justice Conference
Professor of History and Politics
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Sharon Weill
Title: Indigenous Customary Law, State Justice and Politics: The Case of New Caledonia
Professor of History and Politics
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Hannah Taieb
Title: Dialogue and Collaboration in Prison Education
Professor of History and Politics
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Kerstin Carlson
Title: New Legal Categories in Colombia鈥檚 Transitional Justice Institution, the JEP
Professor of History and Politics
Susan Perry
Title: UN OHCHR
Professor of History and Politics
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Sharon Weill
Title: Terrorist Trials
Professor of History and Politics
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Waddick Doyle
Title: Understanding Afghanistan
Professor of Global Communications
Chantz Norris
Major: International and Comparative Politics
Title: Conference "The Photography of Persecution: Pictures of the Holocaust"
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Morgan Phillips
Major: Psychology
Title: Schaeffer Ukraine Forum
Fatimata Atty Germaine Djibrine
Major: International and Comparative Politics
Title: NGO Practicum in Senegal
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Mitchell Rutledge
Major: History, Law and Society
Title: "Reform and the Role of Women in Contemporary Islam"
Susan Perry, Professor of History and Politics, Program Director MAs in International Affairs
Title: 香港最快开奖现场直播 Module. Title of Module: Cambodia-War and Resilience
Sharon Weil, Associate Professor of History and Politics
Title: Indigenous Customary Law, State Justice and Politics: The case of New Caledonia
Mary Bickel
Major: MA International Affairs
Title: Shipping as a means and a solution for the growing Conflict in the Arctic
Genevieve Bougher
Major: International and Comparative Politics
Title: Against the Norm: When Women Participated in the Rwandan Genocide
Adaeze Nwokolobia
Major: International and Comparative Politics and Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Title: Bridges and Borderlands
Julian Culp,听 Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Title: Lectures on Historical Justice
Marie Regan, filmmaker and Associate Professor of Communication Media and Culture
Title: Listen: Speak
Sharon Weil, Associate Professor of History and Politics
Title: Fighting for Peace: The Actors and Obstacles in Colombia鈥檚 Transitional Justice Process
Sanae Alouazen
Major: International and Comparative Politics
Title: Gender, violence and the colonial project: The case of Algeria
Alexandra Avena
Major: Msc International听Management
Title: Geneva International Model UN 2019 Annual Conference
Kelly Demjanick
Major: International Affairs
Title: Justice and Peace: An Examination of Ad Hoc Tribunals in their ability to Facilitate Conflict Prevention
Andee Gershenberg
Major: MA International Affairs
Title: The Experiences of Migrant Women Accessing Higher Education in the Ile-de-France
Gabriel Green
Major: International and Comparative Politics & International Law
Title: Island of Despair: A case study of Lesvos and how EU policies have impacted asylum seekers on the 'doorstep of Europe'
Courtney Kelly
Major: MA Diplomacy and International Law
Title: UN Global Youth Summit
Amy Oloo
Major: MA International Affairs
Title: Internship with the World Federalist Movement & Institute for Global Policy
Kerstin Carlson, Associate Professor of International and Comparative Politics,听鈥淭he Justice Laboratory: Hybrid Court for South Sudan鈥.
Professor Carlson was awarded travel funding to conduct interviews in Addis Ababa and Djibouti in relation to a book chapter on South Sudan and the hybrid court to try atrocity crimes called for in the peace accords.
Julian Culp, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 鈥淩egional Distribution as a Distinct Criterion in ICC Prosecution鈥.
Professor Culp invited Professor Jiewuh Song of Seoul National University to give a talk to the 香港最快开奖现场直播 community. In his lecture, Professor explored the present legitimation crisis of the International Criminal Court.听 His presentation contributed to听 a better, critical understanding of the institutional mechanisms that are currently in place for legally sanctioning crimes of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Michelle Kuo, Assistant Professor of History, Law and Society, 鈥淢igrants, Detention and the Right to Seek Asylum in South Texas."
Jula Wildberger, Professor of Comparative Literature and English. Lecture by Dagmar Kiesel on "Patterns of Invalidation in Augustine's approach to therapeutic and pastoral care."
Dagmar Kiesel teaches and researches at the University of Erlangen, Germany. Her research focuses on questions of ethics, personal identity, and gender, especially in the work of Augustine and Nietzsche. demonstrates very clearly how ancient discourse may shape even now the way in which we look at and treat the victims of atrocities.
Miranda Spieler, Assistant Professor of History. Visit from film director Khary Jones听to 香港最快开奖现场直播.
Film maker Khary Jones has been invited to speak at 香港最快开奖现场直播 and host a viewing of his film Where the Pavement Ends. This film tackles the subject of police brutality, racial discrimination and the senseless killing of unarmed black people in the U.S.
Albert Wu, Assistant Professor of History, 鈥淭aiwan's White Terror in History and Memory.鈥
Maxine Basch
MA, International Affairs
Title: Anti-Semitism in 21st Century France
Jessica Brainos
MA, Diplomacy and International Law
Title: Jewish Russian Women Survivors of the Holocaust who Migrated to Poland before WWII
Andee Gershenberg
Major: Psychology
Title: Consistency and Change in the Holocaust Testimonies over Time
Brittany Paquay
Major: History, Law and Society
Title: Humility in Action: Christianity and Civilian Rescue During the Holocaust
Isabelle Siege
Major: History Law and Society
Title: Award to study the Yiddish language
Marie Regan, Associate Professor of Film, Translating Atrocity: A Feature Documentary
In this project, I will be talking to translators who work in international criminal court tribunals, translating the testimony of survivors and perpetrators. The goal of the film, in of making the language, and the attempt to process the language central, is to use it as a prism to for exploring witness and the challenge listening in our times.
Lissa Lincoln, Associate Professor, Program Coordinator for Gender, Sexuality & Society, Order of Violence
The conference Orders of Violence was dedicated to investigating political violence, exclusion and memory within marginalized communities, with particular emphasis on caste violence and genocide.
Waddick Doyle, Co-existence: media hate speech and inter-communal realities in Paris
This project involves studying the origins of ethnic and religious conflict in media discourses particularly those promoted by social media. It then examines and documents the reality of co-existence on the ground in particular institutions, school canteens, hospitals, perhaps prisons, associations and religious organizations.听
Kerstin Carlson, Assistant Professor of International and Comparative Politics, The Habr茅 Trial and Beyond: New Models of Prosecuting International Crime?
This book project, conducted in concert with human rights researchers from the University of California, Berkeley (Kim Thuy Seelinger) and Sciences Po (Sharon Weill), examines the impact of the Habr茅 trial on justice organs and actors. Hiss猫ne Habr茅 is the ex-president of Chad who oversaw what a 1992 Chadian Truth Commission termed a genocide against targeted ethnic groups in Chad while he was in power from 1982-1990. On May 30, 2016, the Chambres Africaines Extraordinaires Hiss猫ne Habr茅 guilty of crimes against humanity, war crimes and torture, and sentenced him to life in prison.
Ziad Majed, Associate Professor of History, Syrie, la r茅volution orpheline
This book, published in 2014 in Arabic in Beirut and in French in Paris, has received a grant to be translated into English and updated to include a chapter on the rise of ISIS.听
Five fellows of the Center have worked for the online project "It Happened Here". An immersive audio series, "It Happened Here" allows people to experience History in the city by exploring, through archives, a neighborhood, a street, a building and giving a voice to the people who lived there. During two summers, trained by historian and sociologist Sarah Gensburger and by the Center's postdoctoral fellow Constance P芒ris de Bollardi猫re, these 香港最快开奖现场直播 students have methodologically searched the Visual Archive Archive to find relevant audio material to document parts of the soundwalk on the Holocaust in Paris.
Shiri Salehin
MA in Public Policy and International Law听
Memorialization of the Shoah in France
Stephanie Alexander
MA in International Affairs
Title: Roots of Discrimination and the Reconstruction Era 1865 鈥 1877
Neni Asheeke & Elin Rosedalen
香港最快开奖现场直播 fellows of the Gens de Paris project
No茅mi Bodn脿rov谩
Major: Psychology
Title: Identity Stories
Laurel Hiedewohl
Double Major: Psychology, International Business Administration
Title: Consistency and Changes in Holocaust Testimony Over Time
Andee Gershenberg
Major: Psychology
Title: Consistency and Changes in Holocaust Testimony Over Time
Stephanie Alexander
MA in International Affairs
Title: The Variance of African American Freedom between 1866-1896, Rights Language and the Historic Black Press
Vanessa Cardenas
MA in Diplomacy and International Law
Title: A Comparative Analysis of Survivor Testimony and Rape Prosecutions Under International Law
Stella Kim
MA in International Affairs and BA in International and Comparative Politics
Title: Japanese Imperial Genocide Sex Slavery (joint with Soyoung Park)
Soyoung Park
MA in International Affairs and BA in International and Comparative Politics
Title: Japanese Imperial Genocide Sex Slavery (joint with Stella Kim)
Yana Kotina
Major: Art History
Title: Anslem Kiefer and Paul Celan, or the Contemporary Perception of Art and Poetry after the Holocaust
Raven Gaddy听
MA in International Affairs
Title: Trauma: The Hidden Cost of Humanitarian Law
Sheena Dass
MA in International Affairs
Title: Contextualization of Persecution and Genocide within an International Legal Framework
Rachel Fallon
MA in International Affairs
Title: War and Peace, Art and Empathy
Kendra Mills
Major: History, Law and Society听
Title: Rwandan Women and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Stefanie Kundakjian
MA International Affairs, Conflict Resolution, and Civil Society Development
Title 1: Living Assets, Transferred Wealth: The Value of Armenian Women at the End of the Ottoman Empire and Early Republican Era
Title 2: Living Assets: Inherited Values from the Armenian Genocide Reflected in Tradition and Status Quo
Marie Robin
Major: History
Title: An Investigation of the Meaning of Genocidal Rape: How Tutsi Women Construct the Story of their Rape.
Hannah V. Johnson, Hannah M. Gressler and David L. Mueller
Student fellowships awarded to attend the Library of Congress with Prof. Roy Rosenstein. Their research investigated the denazification of occupied Germany after the war. The grant helped fund these students trip to visit the Holocaust Museum and the National Archives in Washington DC.