New Research by Women Studying Violence
This one-day interdisciplinary workshop will bring together mid and early-career female scholars at the forefront of research on violence. External experts, Kellogg faculty fellows, visiting fellows, and doctoral affiliates, as well as other Notre Dame graduate students will come together for a series of intensive sessions where participants will present and discuss their research on violence and other topics central to their scholarly advancement.
Participation in this event is by invitation. For more information, please contact Lucia Tiscornia, ltiscorn@nd.edu
This event is possible thanks to the generous support from: the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Gender Studies Program, the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, and the Department of Political Science.
Workshop Agenda
Please note that only the 4:30 session is open to the public. All other sessions are closed.
8:00 - 10:00 - Discussion of Research Papers
Paper: Abby Córdova & Helen Kras (University of Kentucky)
Addressing Violence against Women: The Effect of Women’s Police Stations on Police Legitimacy
Discussants: Angélica Durán Martínez, Lucía Tiscornia
Paper: Lucía Tiscornia (University of Notre Dame)
Police Reform and Criminal Violence in South Africa
Discussants: Angélica Durán-Martínez, Helen Kras
Paper: Sandra Ley (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas)
Participation in High-Risk Activism: Protesting Amid Violence
Discussants: Maria Koinova, Natalia Bueno
Paper: Angélica Durán-Martínez (University of Massachusetts, Lowell)
Negotiations with Criminal Gangs
Discussants: Sandra Ley, Leslie MacColman
10:30 - 12:30 - Discussion of Research Papers
Paper: Maria Koinova (University of Warwick -- Kroc Visiting Fellow)
The Refugee Crisis in the Mediterranean: Politics and Repercussions on Eastern Europe and the Balkans
Discussants: Abby Córdova, Maggie Shum
Paper: Leslie MacColman (University of Notre Dame)
Explaining Feelings of Safety in Honduras: Demographic Vulnerabilities, Perceptions of Local Order, and Organizational Participation
Discussants: Abby Cordova, Sasha Klyachkina
Paper: Sasha Klyachkina (Northwestern University)
Re-evaluating Civilian Participation Amidst and After Conflict in Post-Soviet Chechnya
Discussants: Sandra Ley, Ana Petrova
Paper: Natalia Bueno (University of Notre Dame)
Reconciliation and its subtypes: a contribution to empirical measurement”
Discussants: Maria Koinova, Stefanie Israel
2:00 - 4:00 - Discussion of Research Papers
Paper: Stefanie Israel de Souza (University of Notre Dame)
Interrupted Time: Routine Interruptions of Daily Routines in "Pacified" Favelas”
Discussants: Janice Gallagher, Angie Lederach
Paper: Gema Santamaría (University of Notre Dame)
Lynching and state formation in post-revolutionary Mexico: between civilizing and de-civilizing
Discussants: Janice Gallagher, Angie Lederach
Paper: Janice Gallagher (Rutgers University, Newark)
Contending with the Hollow State: Justice and Violence in Mexico
Discussants: Gema Santamaría, Ana Petrova
4:30 - 6:00 - Open Session - C103 Hesburgh Center
Challenges of Conducting Fieldwork through a Gender Lens
Moderators: Profs. Jaimie Bleck and Catherine Bolten
6:00 - 7:00 - Hesburgh Center Great Hall
Reception
Event sponsored by: Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Gender Studies Program, Department of Political Science.
Lucia Tiscornia
This profile is current as of 2022. Tiscornia is an assistant professor in the School of Politics and International Relations and a Fellow with the Geary Institute for Public Policy at University College Dublin. She is an external research affiliate of the Kellogg Institute's Notre Dame Violence and Transitional Justice Lab (V-TJLab)...
Jaimie Bleck
Jaimie Bleck is an associate professor of political science and the senior research advisor for the Ford Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. She also is a concurrent faculty member in the Keough School of Global Affairs. She has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2011...
Catherine Bolten
Catherine Bolten is associate professor of anthropology and peace studies and director of doctoral studies at the Kroc Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Bolten’s current field research project involves an investigation of wildlife cosmology and bushmeat in rural and urban Sierra Leone...
Sarah Zukerman Daly
Formerly a Kellogg Faculty Fellow and associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, Sarah Zukerman Daly is assistant professor of political science at Columbia University. Her research interests include postwar elections, political violence, civil war and peace, organized crime, ethnic politics, transitional justice, and vaccine hesitancy...
Laura Miller-Graff
Laura Miller-Graff is a professor of psychology and peace studies and a core faculty member of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. She earned a Ph.D. in clinical science from the University of Michigan in 2013. Miller-Graff has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2017. Working within an ecological framework, Miller-Graff’s research seeks to understand how various systems (i.e...
Sandra Ley Gutiérrez
This profile was current as of 2015, when she was part of the on-campus Kellogg community. Sandra Ley Gutiérrez is currently an external research affiliate of the Kellogg Institute's Notre Dame Violence and Transitional Justice Lab (V-TJLab)...
Abby Córdova
Abby Córdova is an associate professor of global affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs whose research integrates topics related to crime, violence, gender and economic inequality, and international migration. Her work uses experimental and non-experimental research designs, as well as advanced statistical methods...
Gema Kloppe-Santamaría
Gema Kloppe-Santamaría is assistant professor of Latin American history at The George Washington University. Her research analyzes the history of Latin American processes of state building across the 20th and 21st centuries, with a particular attention to questions of violence, crime, justice, and the rule of law. She was a 2017-18 Kellogg visiting fellow...
Katherine Corcoran
Katherine Corcoran, the 2017-2018 Hewlett Fellow for Public Policy at the Kellogg Institute, is a freelance journalist and author of In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, A Coverup and the True Cost of Silencing the Press (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022), which she worked on while in residence with the Kellogg Institute...
Angela J. Lederach
From Fall 2019: Angela J. Lederach is a PhD graduate in anthropology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame...
Leslie MacColman
Leslie MacColman (sociology & peace studies) is a PhD candidate and a graduate affiliate of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Her research is concerned with state-building, local governance, institutional change, and violence in Latin America. Leslie's Master's thesis examined the association between civic participation and fear of crime in low-income, gang-affected neighborhoods in Honduras...
Emily Maiden
Emily Maiden is a PhD Candidate in Political Science and Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. In the discipline of political science, her primary field is Comparative Politics, with a focus on African politics, gender and politics, and politics of development. Her second field is International Relations...
Sarah Peters
This profile was current as of 2018, when she was part of the on-campus Kellogg community. I am a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Notre Dame. From 2012 to 2017 I was a Notre Dame Presidential Fellow. I also have a B.A. in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My research interests lie at the intersection of political violence, state building, and human development...