Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod Wins Harry Frank Guggenheim Award
Professors Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod (School of International Service, 51勛圖) and Christopher Davey (ClarkUniversity) have received the 2023 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Distinguished Scholar award for their projectErasing Refugees: How Camps became Killing Fields in the First Congo War. The project seeks to bring to light the experience ofRwandan refugees in the First Congo War (1996-97). Kuradusenge-McLeod and Davey aim to tell this story through the voices ofthose who experienced the violence, framing their experience within ongoing efforts toward peace and justice in the AfricanGreat Lakes region.
ProfessorClaudine Kuradusenge-McLeod has been conducting innovative research since her arrival at theSchool of International Service in 2021. Her work is focused on genocide studies and the intersection of diaspora consciousnessand social mobilization, and she is the author ofNarratives of Victimhood and Perpetration: The Struggle of Bosnian andRwandan Diaspora Communities in the United States. In 2022, she received the SIS Outstanding Scholarship Award for termfaculty.