The Emerging Scholars Program Presents Race, Politics, & International Relations
SEPTEMBER 15 | 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM | CENTER FOR INNOVATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCE 704 COMMONWEALTH AVE 5TH FLOOR SPEAKERS
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Robbie Shilliam researches the political and intellectual complicities of colonialism and race in the global order. He is co-editor of the Manchester University Press book series, Postcolonial International Studies. He is a longstanding active member of the Global Development section of the International Studies Association, and has served as the association’s Vice President. He works with community and academic intellectuals and elders of the Rastafari movement to examine its impact on global affairs. He is also a member of the grassroots initiative: School of the Sacrament Rastafari University (SOSACRU), which co-curates with community members webinars, summer schools and more.
ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS:
Andrew Rosenberg is an assistant of political science at the University of Florida. His research examines racism in the international order, the politics of migration, and global inequality. His research has been published or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Peace Research, Political Analysis, and Security Dialogue. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Ohio State University and is originally from Des Moines, Iowa.
Bianca Freeman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at UC San Diego. She studies racism in the application and enforcement of international law. Despite conventional assumptions about formal equality between sovereign states, Bianca explores international law as patterns of exclusion from which race is a key organizing principle. Her dissertation and book project examine status agreements and intervention as legal outcomes of racial hierarchy in world politics. Bianca has published or has work forthcoming in the Annual Review of Political Science, Security Studies, and International Politics. Her dissertation has been supported by the UC Office of the President (UCOP), UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (UCIGCC), UC San Diego Black Studies Project (BSP), and the American Political Science Association (APSA).
Kevin Bustamante is a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is currently a Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow at the Notre Dame International Security Center. His research interests center around race and international relations theory and his dissertation considers the rise and fall of colonies and nuclear weapons as great power status symbols.
Kimberly Theidon is the Henry J. Leir Professor in International Humanitarian Studies at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. She received a master’s degree in Public Health and a PhD in Medical Anthropology both from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a medical anthropologist focusing on Latin America and her research interests include political violence, transitional justice, gender studies, critical security studies, and the environmental humanities. She is the author of many articles, commissioned reports,four books and an edited volume. Entre Prójimos: El conflicto armado interno y la política de la reconciliación en el Perú was awarded the Latin American Studies Association 2006 Premio Iberoamericano Book Award Honorable Mention for outstanding book in the social sciences published in Spanish or Portuguese.
Nichola Minott received her PhD from The Fletcher School at Tufts University where she was the recipient of a Boren Fellowship and participated in the Aceh Research Training Institute. She developed an interest in international environmental policy and its impacts on marginalized communities through her experiences living in communities impacted by limited resources and economic precariousness. She has taught courses at Boston College, Tufts University, and Merrimack University and served as a panelist for The Smithsonian Museum’s education programs and at Boston College on the topic of Climate Change and Justice. Her research interests and teaching focuses on the nexus between conflict and natural resources; global climate policy and politics and examining approaches to race/justice and environmental agreements.\
Richard W. Maass is Associate Professor of Political Science at Old Dominion University. He is the author of The Picky Eagle: How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U.S. Territorial Expansion (Cornell University Press, 2020) and editor of The United States and International Law: Paradoxes of Support across Contemporary Issues (University of Michigan Press, 2022). His essay shared for this event is forthcoming in the Fall 2023 issue of International Security.
Risa Kitagawa is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Northeastern University. She studies the politics of transitional justice efforts that address legacies of conflict in East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Central America as well as human rights violations, postconflict processes, public opinion, and experimental research. Her work has appeared in World Politics, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, and Conflict Management & Peace Science.