Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod Professorial Lecturer Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations
- Additional Positions at 51²è¹Ý
- Director of Graduate Studies - Department of Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations
- Degrees
- Ph.D., Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
M.S., Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University - Languages Spoken
- French
Kinyarwanda - Favorite Spot on Campus
- Outside
- Book Currently Reading
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Bio
- Dr. Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod is a scholar-activist specializing in genocide studies and the intersection of Diaspora consciousness and social mobilization. She is the author of Narratives of Victimhood and Perpetration: The Struggle of Bosnian and Rwandan Diaspora Communities in the United States as well as book chapters and articles published in Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, the International Journal of Transitional Justice, and the International Studies Review, among others. She is also a 2023 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Distinguished Scholar for "Erasing Refugees: How Camps Became Killing Fields in the First Congo War." Finally, she is the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations at the School of International Service, at 51²è¹Ý.
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Teaching
Spring 2024
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SIS-619 Special Studies in Int'l Pol: Diaspora & Transnat'l Networks
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SISU-306 Adv Int'l Studies Research: The Power of Storytelling
Summer 2024
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SIS-619 Special Studies in Int'l Pol: Glbl South Human Needs/Rights
Fall 2024
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SIS-733 Int'l Peace & Confl Res Sem I
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Selected Publications
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Grants and Sponsored Research
2023ÌýHarry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Distinguished Scholar
Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
Darrell Randall Award for Outstanding Service to the University Community, 2023.
SIS Outstanding Scholarship, Research, Creative Activity, & Other Prof. Contribution, 2021.
Media Appearances
- Diaspora and U.S. Politics,ÌýIntelligence Ideas Talkers Podcast, 2024.Ìý
- Forever Changed: Diaspora Conflict, War and Genocide,ÌýDiaspora in Development Podcast, 2024.Ìý
- Thirty Years After the Rwandan Genocide,ÌýBig World Podcast, 2024.Ìý
- 30th Commemoration of the Genocide Against the Tutsi,ÌýSBS Worlds News, 2024.Ìý