Curriculum Vitae
Timothy Paul Longman
Director, Institute on Culture, Religion & World Affairs (CURA)
Boston University, 10 Lenox St. Brookline, MA 02246
longman@bu.edu
617-353-9751 (w) 845-661-6768 (c)
Primary Employment:
2009- Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Boston University. Director, Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (CURA) (2017-) Director, African Studies Center (2009-2017), Chair, Council of Directors, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies (2014-2016)
1996-2009 Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY. Assistant Professor 1996-2003, Chair, Department of Political Science (2008-2009), Interim Director, Africana Studies Program (2003-2004).
1995-1996 Director, Rwanda Field Office, Human Rights Watch and the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), Butare, Rwanda.
1994-1995 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Drake University, Des Moines, IA.
Education:
Ph.D. Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1995.
M.A. Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991.
B.A. Political Science and Religion, Phillips University, Enid, Oklahoma, 1986. Graduated Summa Cum Laude.
Academic Interests:
Comparative politics of Africa; state-society relations, focusing in particular on religion and politics, human rights, transitional justice, and the politics of race, ethnicity, and gender; Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa.
Publications: Books
2017 Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda, New York: Cambridge University Press.
2010 Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda, New York: Cambridge University Press. Reviewed in Perspectives on Politics, Human Rights Quarterly, Holocaust and
Publications: Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
2013 “Conducting Research in Conflict Zones: Lessons from the African Great Lakes Region,” in Dyan Mazurana, Karen Jacobsen, and Lacey Andrews Gale, eds., Research Methods in Conflict Settings: A View from Below, New York: Cambridge University Press.
2011 “Limitations to Political Reform: The Undemocratic Nature of Transition in Rwanda,” in Lars Waldorf and Scott Straus, eds., Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, pp. 25-47.
2011 With Sarah Freedman, Harvey Weinstein, and Karen Murphy, “Teaching History in Post-Genocide Rwanda,” in Lars Waldorf and Scott Straus, eds., Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, pp. 297-315.
2008 With Sarah Freedman, Harvey Weinstein, and Karen Murphy, “Teaching History after Identity-Based Conflicts: The Rwanda Experience,” Comparative Education Review, November, pp.
2006 “Religion, Memory, and Violence in Rwanda,” in J. Shawn Landers and Oren Stier, eds., Recovering Memory: Exposing Religion, Violence, and the Remembrance of Place, Indiana University Press, pp. 132-149.
2006 With Theoneste Rutagengwa, “Memory and Violence in Post-Genocide Rwanda,” in States of Violence: Politics, Youth, and Memory in Contemporary Africa, Edna G. Bay and Donald L. Donham, eds., University of Virginia Press, pp. 236-259.
2006 “Gacaca Trials in Rwanda: Justice at the Grassroots,” in Naomi Roht-Arriaza and Javier Mariezcurrena, eds., Beyond Truth Versus Justice: Transitional Justice in the New Millenium, Cambridge University Press, pp. 206-228.
2005 Timothy Longman, “Rwanda: Achieving Equality or Serving an Authoritarian State?” in Gretchen Bauer and Hannah Britton, eds., Women in African Parliaments, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, pp. 133-150.
2005 “Churches and Social Upheaval in Rwanda and Burundi: Explaining the Failure of Churches to Resist Ethnic Violence,” in Niels Kastfelt, ed., The Role of Religion in African Civil Wars, London: C. Hurst & Co., pp. 82-101.
2004 Timothy Longman, Phuong Pham, Harvey Weinstein, and Alice Karekezi, “Connecting Justice to Human Experience: Attitudes Toward Accountability and Reconciliation in Rwanda” in Harvey Weinstein and Eric Stover, eds., My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Social Reconstruction in Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 206-225.
2004 Timothy Longman and Théoneste Rutagengwa, “Memory, Identity, and Community in Rwanda,” in Harvey Weinstein and Eric Stover, eds., My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Social Reconstruction in Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 162-182.
2004 Alison Des Forges and Timothy Longman, “Legal Responses to Genocide in Rwanda,” in Harvey Weinstein and Eric Stover, eds., My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Social Reconstruction in Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 49-68.
2004 Sarah Warshauer Freedman, Déo Kambanda, Beth Lewis Samuelson, Innocent Mugisha, Immaculée Mukashema, Evode Mukama, Jean Mutabaruka, Harvey Weinstein, and Timothy Longman, “Confronting the Past in Rwandan Schools,” in Harvey Weinstein and Eric Stover, eds., My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Social Reconstruction in Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 248-265.
2004 Phuong Pham, Harvey Weinstein, and Timothy Longman, “Trauma and PTSD Symptoms in Rwanda: Implications for Attitudes Toward Justice and Reconciliation,” Journal of the American Medical Association, August 5.
2004 “Placing Genocide in Context: Research Priorities for the Rwandan Genocide,” Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 6, no. 1.
2004 “Obstacles to Peacebuilding in Rwanda,” in Durable Peace: Peacebuilding in Africa, Robert Matthews and Taisier M. Ali, eds., Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 61-85.
2002 “The Complex Reasons for Rwanda’s Engagement in Congo,” in The Continental Stakes in the Congo War, in John F. Clark, ed., New York: Palgrave, pp. 129-144.
2001 “Church Politics and the Genocide in Rwanda,” Journal of Religion in Africa, v. 31:2, pp. 163-186.
2001 “Documentation and Individual Identity in Africa: Identity Cards and Ethnic Self-Perception in Rwanda,” in Jane Caplan and John Torpey, eds., Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World, Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 345-357.
2001 “Christian Churches and Genocide in Rwanda,” in In the Name of God: Religion and Genocide in the Twentieth Century, Omer Bartov and Phyllis Mack, eds., New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 139-160.
1998 “Civil Society and the Rwandan Genocide,” in State, Conflict, and Democracy in Africa, Richard Joseph, ed., Boulder: Lynne Rienner, November, pp. 339-358.
1998 “Empowering the Weak and Protecting the Powerful: The Contradictory Nature of Christian Churches in Rwanda, Burundi, and Congo,” African Studies Review, Spring, pp. 49-72.
1997 “Rwanda: Chaos from Above,” in Critical Juncture: The African State in Transition Leonardo Villalon and Phil Huxtable, eds., Boulder: Lynne Rienner, pp. 75-91.
1996 “Democracy and Disorder: Violence and Political Reform in Rwanda,” Political Reform in Francophone Africa, David Gardinier and John Clark, eds., Boulder: Westview Press, pp. 287-306.
1995 “Christianity and Democratization in Rwanda: Assessing Church Responses to Political Crisis in the 1990s,” in The Christian Churches and Africa’s Democratisation, Paul Gifford, ed., Leiden: E.J. Brill, pp. 188-204.
Publications: Non-Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
2014 “The Uses and Abuses of Media: Rwanda Before and After the Genocide,” in Clara Ramirez-Barat, ed., Transitional Justice, Culture, and Society: Beyond Outreach, New York: Social Science Research Council, pp. 247-278.
2012 “After Genocide, Stifled Dissent,” Op Ed, New York Times, June 29.
2010 “Trying Times for Rwanda: Reevaluating Gacaca Trials in Post-Genocide Reconciliation,” Harvard International Review, Summer.
2010 With Natalie Zähringer, “Explaining State Responses to Human Rights,” in James P. Muldoon Jr., JoAnn F. Aviel, Richard Reitano, and Earl Sullivan, eds., The New Dynamics of Multilateralism: The Practical Dimension of Diplomacy, International Organizations, and Global Governance, Boulder: Westview, pp. 129-149.
2009 “An Assessment of Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts,” Peace Review, fall.
2004 “The Domestic Impact of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda,” in Steven R. Ratner and James L. Bischoff, eds., International War Crimes Trials: Making a Difference?, Austin: University of Texas Law School.
2001 “Congo: A Tale of Two Churches – Ethnic bias creates major problems for the church,” America, April 2, v. 184:11, pp. 12-15.
1999 “Nation, Race, or Class? Defining the Hutu and Tutsi of East Africa,” in The Global Color Line: Racial and Ethnic Inequality and Struggle from a Global Perspective, Joseph Feagin and Pinar Batur-Vanderlippe, eds., JAI Press, pp. 103-130.
1996 “Ruandas Kirchen und der Völkermord: Verhängnisvolle Nähe zur Macht,” der überblich, March, pp. 18-21.
1995 “Genocide and Socio-Political Change: Massacres in Two Rwandan Villages,” Issue: A Journal of Opinion, Summer, pp. 18-21.
1995 “Democratization and Civil Society: The Case of Rwanda,” in Richard Joseph, ed., Democracy in Africa, Atlanta: The Carter Center.
1991 “Change and Continuity: The Process of Democratization in Zaire,” in Democratization and Structural Adjustment in Africa in the 1990s, Lual Deng, Markus Kostner, and Crawford Young, eds., African Studies Program, the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Published Reports
2012 “Rwanda,” Freedom in the World, New York: Freedom House, January.
2011 “Rwanda,” Countries at the Crossroads 2011, New York: Freedom House.
2011 “Rwanda,” Freedom in the World, New York: Freedom House, January.
2010 “Rwanda,” Freedom in the World, New York: Freedom House, January.
2000 “Eastern Congo Ravaged,” New York: Human Rights Watch, May (published in English and French).
1999 Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda, New York: Human Rights Watch; Paris: Fédération International des Ligues des Droits de l’Homme, Researcher and contributing author, Alison Des Forges primary author, April 1999. The book has been recognized as the “definitive account of the genocide” (The Guardian UK) and was awarded the Raphael Lemkin Prize in 2000 for the best scholarly book on human rights, genocide, or mass violence.
1998 Proxy Targets: War Against the Civilian Population of Burundi New York: Human Rights Watch, April 1998 (published in English and French).
1997 “Burundi,” chapter for World Report 1998, New York: Human Rights Watch, December, pp. 25-30.
1997 Contributing author to “Zaire: Transition, War and Human Rights,” New York: Human Rights Watch/Africa, April. Suliman Baldo, primary author.
1997 With Alison Des Forges, “Attacked by All Sides: Civilians and the War in Eastern Zaire,” New York: Human Rights Watch; Paris: FIDH, March.
1996 “Zaire,” chapter for World Report 1997, New York: Human Rights Watch, December, pp. 60-66.
1996 “Forced to Flee: Violence Against Tutsi in Zaire,” New York: Human Rights Watch; Paris: FIDH, July (published in English and French).
Unpublished Reports
2016 With Gina Lambright, Suzie Nansozi, and Irene Ikomu, “Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance Assessment of Uganda, Washington: Tetratec for USAID.
2012 With Pierre Englebert, Agathe Tshimpanga, Anselme Meya Ngemba, Jeremy Meadows, and Kirby Reiling, “Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance Assessment of the Democracy Republic of the Congo,” Washington: Tetratec for USAID.
2008 With Robert Groelsema, Mark Billera, Nils Mueller, Zeric Smith, and Emmanuel Mabaya, “Democratic Republic of Congo Democracy and Governance Assessment,” Washington: Democracy International for USAID.
2007 With Roger Yochelson, Julie Werbel, and Christophe Sebudandi, “Burundi Democracy and Governance Assessment,” Washington: Democracy International for USAID.
2005 “Evaluation of Internews Newsreel Project,” International Center for Transitional Justice, New York, April.
2002 Zeric Kay Smith, Timothy Longman, and Jean-Paul Kimonyo, “Rwanda Democracy and Governance Assessment,” Washington: MSI for USAID, November 2002.
Reference Works
2014 “Rwanda,” in Worldmark Encylopedia of Religious Practices, 2nd Edition, Thomas Riggs, ed., Gale Cenage.
2010 “Rwanda” in Encyclopedia of Global Religion, Mark Juergensmeyer and Wade Clark Roof, eds., New York: MacMillan.
2009 “Rwanda” in World Book Encyclopedia, New York: World Book Inc.
2006 “Congo” in Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, Robert Wuttnow, ed., CQ Press.
2006 “Rwanda” in Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, Robert Wuttnow, ed., CQ Press.
2005 “Rwanda,” in Dinah L. Shelton, et al., eds., Encyclopedia on Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, Macmillan Reference.
2005 “Racism,” in Dinah L. Shelton, et al., eds., Encyclopedia on Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, Macmillan Reference, 2005.
2003 “Rwanda,” in Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement, Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, eds., Macmillan, 2003.
2002 “Kigali,” in Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures, Grollier Educational Publications, 2002, pp. 480-484.
2001 “Rwanda,” in Countries and Their Cultures, Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, eds., Macmillan, 2001, pp. 1872-1883.
1999 “Democratic Republic of the Congo,” in World Encyclopedia of Political Parties and Systems, Deborah Kapple, ed., February 1999.
1998 “Burundi Civil Wars,” in The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions, Jack Goldstone, ed., Washington: Congressional Quarterly Books, September 1998
1997 “Burundi: Pierre Buyoya,” Current Leaders of Nations, David C. Kurkowski, ed., North Wales, PA: Current Leaders Publishing Company, 1997
1995 “Burundi: Sylvestre Ntibantunganya,” Current Leaders of Nations, David C. Kurkowski, ed., North Wales, PA: Current Leaders Publishing Company, 1995.
1994 “Rwanda: Faustin Bizimungu,” Current Leaders of Nations, David C. Kurkowski, ed., North Wales, PA: Current Leaders Publishing Company, 1994.
Book Reviews
2016 Book review of J.J. Carney, Rwanda Before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, in African Studies Review, spring.
2016 Roundtable contribution on Severine Autesserre, Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention, Cambridge University Press, 2015, in H-Diplo/International Security Studies Forum, September.
2007 Book review of Neal G. Jesse and Kristen P. Williams, Identity and Institutions: Conflict Reduction in Divided Societies, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005, and James L. Gibson, Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation? New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004, in Political Psychology, fall.
2007 Scott Straus and Robert Lyons, Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide, New York: Zone Books, 2006, and Louise Mushikiwabo and Jack Kramer, Rwanda Means the Universe: A Native’s Memoir of Blood and Bloodlines, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2006, in African Studies Review, spring.
2003 Book review of Bill Berkeley, The Graves are not yet Full: Race, Tribe, and Power in the Heart of Africa in Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, winter.
2002 Book review of Filip Reyntjens, La Guerre des Grands Lacs; Guy Castonguay, Les casques bleus au Rwanda, and Georges Poulain, La chasse a l’homme au Burundi in The International Journal of African Historical Studies, pp. 492-4.
2001 Book review of Peter Uvin, Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda, in Human Rights Review, April-June, v. 2:3.
2001 Book review of Howard Adelman and Astri Suhrke, eds., The Path of Genocide: the Rwanda Crisis from Uganda to Zaire in Journal of Politics, May, v. 63:2.
2001 Book review of Gerard Prunier, The Rwanda Crisis, in The Journal of Asian and African Studies.
1996 Book review of Learthen Dorsey, Historical Dictionary of Rwanda in Journal of African History, v. 37, no. 3, October.
Conference Paper Presentations:
2016 ““You Create What You Are Afraid Of”: Assessing Transitional Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda,” African Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington, December 2.
2016 “Explaining Differences in Church-State Relations in East Africa,” Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Conference, Atlanta, October 28.
2016 “Memory and Impunity in Rwanda and Burundi,” African Studies Association of the United Kingdom Biannual Meeting, Cambridge, UK, September 8.
2015 “Lessons and Limitations from Comparing Genocides,” Comparative Genocide Symposium, Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University, October 23.
2014 “Religion and Violence: Between the Local and the Global in Zanzibar and the Democratic Republic of Congo,” African Studies Association Annual Conference, Indianapolis, November 22.
2014 “Explaining Church Social Engagement in East Africa,” Conference on Religion and Social Engagement in Africa, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, August 4-8.
2014 “Church-State Conflict and Cooperation in East Africa,” Conference on Religion and National Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa, Vanderbilt University, April 11-12.
2013 “Explaining Church-State Conflict and Cooperation in East Africa,” American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 28.
2012 “Using Fiction in Teaching African Politics,” African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Thursday, November 29.
2012 “Human Rights, Activism, and Academics: Complementary or Contradictory,” for 50 Forward: 50 Years of African Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 21.
2011 “Post-Conflict Politics in Central Africa: Comparing the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi,” presented at African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Friday, November 18.
2010 “Promoting Peace and Promoting War: Christian Churches and Conflict in Africa,” keynote address for conference on Religion and Conflict in West Africa, WARA/WARC Peace Initiative, Freetown, Sierra Leone, December 14.
2010 “Did Democratization Cause the Rwandan Genocide?” presented at African Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 18.
2010 “Christianity and Conflict in the Great Lakes Region,” presented at conference Religion and Politics in Africa, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC, April 2.
2009 “Human Rights in Africa: Scholarship and Activism,” invited speaker for ASA Board of Directors-Sponsored Roundtable in honor of Alison Des Forges, African Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November 20.
2009 “Limitations to Political Reform: The Undemocratic Nature of Transition in Rwanda,” presented at the conference Reconstructing Rwanda: History, Power, and Human Rights, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 19.
2009 “Constructing Post-Genocide Identity in Rwanda,” presented at the conference Healing the Wounds: Speech, Identity, and Reconciliation in Rwanda, Program in Human Rights and Holocaust Studies, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, March 30.
2008 “Gacaca and Collective Guilt: The Political Uses of Transitional Justice in Rwanda,” to be presented at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Saturday, November 15.
2007 “Public Responses to Rwanda and Darfur,” presented at conference on Continuing Crisis in Darfur, University of Ottawa, November 9-11.
2007 “Christian Churches and Political Power in the Great Lakes Region: Explaining a Mixed Picture,” paper presented at the conference on Knowledge, Practice, and Political Agency: The Religious Dimension in Conflict Knowledge, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, April 20-21.
2006 “Memory, Justice, and Power in Post-Genocide Rwanda,” paper presented at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, September 2.
2005 “Transition and Democracy in Burundi and Rwanda,” paper presented at Development Policy Review Network Conference on Central Africa, University of Antwerp, December 1.
2005 “Civil Society and State Power in Post-Genocide Rwanda,” paper presented at African Studies Association, Washington, DC, November 17.
2005 “Rwandan Attitudes toward Post-Genocide Judicial Initiatives,” paper presented at conference on Global Justice, Local Legitimacy, University of Amsterdam Law School, January 27-29.
2004 “Organizing Chaos: Government Responsibility for Ethnic Violence in Burundi, Rwanda, and Congo,” Bellarmine Forum, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, November 10.
2004 “Gacaca as a Transitional Justice Mechanism,” presented at conference on Multifaceted Transitions: The Next Phase, Notre Dame, April 30-May 1.
2004 “Rwandan Conceptions of Justice and Reconciliation,” presented at conference Reflection and Reconsideration: 10 Years After the Rwandan Genocide, Northwestern University Law and Journalism Schools, April 5.
2003 “Attitudes Toward the Criminal Tribunal in Rwanda,” presented at Conference on International War Crimes Trials: Making a Difference? University of Texas Law School, November 6-7.
2003 Timothy Longman and Théoneste Rutagengwa, “Memory, Identity, and the State in Rwanda,” paper presented at conference Africa and Violence: Identities, Histories, and Representations,” Emory University, September 10-14.
2002 Phuong Pham, Harvey Weinstein, Timothy Longman, and Alice Karekezi, “Rwandan Attitudes Toward the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda,” paper presented at the American Public Health Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, November.
2002 “State, Society, and Violence,” presented at conference on Responding to Violence, Barnard College, Columbia University, October 25.
2002 Respondent to presentation by Alison Des Forges, conference on “Justice in the Balance: Military Commissions and International Criminal Tribunals in a Violent Age,” University of California, Berkeley, March 16.
2002 With Alice Karekezi, “Justice Responses to the Rwandan Genocide,” presented at conference on Post-war, Societies, Identity and Belief at the University of Virginia, February 29-March 2.
2001 “The International Criminal Tribunal and Reconciliation in Rwanda,” presented at Institute for Contemporary History conference, University of Ohio, Athens, February.
2000 “Religion and Genocide in Rwanda,” presented at the congress of the International Association for the History of Religion, Durban, South Africa, August 5-8.
2000 “Misunderstanding Rwanda: Seeking to Explain the Inexplicable,” presented at Conference on Intellectual Pluralism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 14-15.
1999 “Churches and Social Upheaval in Rwanda and Burundi,” presented at Conference on Religion and Social Upheaval in Africa, University of Copenhagen, December 2-4.
1999 “Churches and Genocide at the Grassroots in Rwanda,” presented at Conference on Churches and the Conflict in Africa’s Great Lakes Region, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, September 21.
1998 “Official Documentation and Individual Identity in Africa: The Case of Rwanda,” presented at conference on Documenting Individual Identity, University of California-Irvine, Humanities Research Institute, December 10-12.
1998 “Racketeering Militaries and the Promise of Stability: Justifying Dictatorship in Rwanda and Burundi,” presented at conference on “State, Democracy, and Society,” at Emory University, November 12-14.
1997 “The Political Impact of Sanctions in Burundi,” presented at conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Sanctions, sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility, Madison, Wisconsin, November 14.
1997 “The Organization of Chaos: Authoritarianism and Violence in Rwanda, Burundi, and Zaire,” Third World Studies Association, Hartford, October.
1997 “Protecting the Powerful and Empowering the Weak: The Contradictory Role of Christian Churches in Rwanda, Burundi, and Zaire.” Paper for Colloquium Series, Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, September 25.
1997 “The Christian Churches and Rwanda’s Genocide,” presented at conference on Religion and Genocide in the Twentieth Century, the United States Holocaust Museum, May 10-13, sponsored by Rutgers University Center for Historical Analysis and the Research Institute of the Holocaust Museum.
1997 “Strong Society, Stronger State: Civil Society and the Genocide in Rwanda,” presented at conference on African Renewal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, March 6-9.
1996 “Church and State in Rwanda Before and After the Genocide,” paper presented at African Studies Association annual meeting in San Francisco, November 24.
1996 “Christianity and the Construction of Ethnicity in Rwanda,” paper presented at conference on Christianity in East Africa, held at University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 23.
1995 “Christianity and AIDS in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa: Religion and the Construction of Sexuality,” paper presented at the African Studies Association annual meeting in Orlando, November.
1995 “Chaos from Above: Understanding the Genocide in Rwanda,” paper presented at conference Critical Juncture: The African State in Transition held at the University of Kansas, September.
1995 “The Political Uses of Ethnicity and Resistance to Democratic Reform: the Rwanda Crisis,” presented in panel on The Fate of the African State: Disintegration or Reconfiguration? at International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, February.
1994 “Christian Churches and the Rwanda Crisis,” presented in Roundtable on the Rwanda Crisis at African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, November.
1994 “Federalism as a Means of Ethnic Accommodation: A Cross-Country Analysis,” for Conference on Ethnic Diversity and Public Policy, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, New York, August.
1994 “Democratization and Civil Society: The Case of Rwanda,” for conference on Democracy in Africa, the Carter Center of Emory University, Atlanta, April.
1993 “The Christian Churches and Class Development in Rwanda,” presented at African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Boston, December.
1993 “Socio-Political Change and the Christian Churches in Rwanda: Christianity and Democratization in Context,” presented at conference on The Christian Churches and Africa’s Democratisation, sponsored by the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, and the University of Leeds held at Leeds, September.
1991 “Democratization, Development, and the Poor in Zaire,” presented at conference on Democratization and Structural Adjustment in Africa in the 1990s, sponsored by the World Bank and the Africa Studies Program, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in Madison, Wisconsin, May.
Selected Invited Lectures:
2016 “Transitional Justice in Africa: Promises and Limitations,” Bradford Morse Annual Lecture, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, March 31.
2015 “Religion and Violence in Africa,” lecture for Liechtenstein Institute on Self Determination, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, January 9.
2014 “Post-Genocide Rwanda: Miracle or Mirage?” panel presentation, University of Vermont, November 6.
2014 “Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda,” lecture for Seewanee University, October 23.
2014 “Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda,” MENSA annual conference, Boston, July 5.
2014 “The Rwandan Genocide 20 Years On,” Northeastern University Law School, Boston, MA, April 22.
2014 “Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda: 20 Years Later,” lecture for Eastern Nazarene University, Quincy, MA, April 1.
2012 “Rwanda: Lessons and Legacies,” Keynote Address for New England Colloquy for Genocide Scholars and Civic Leaders, Keene State University, Keene, NH, July 25.
2012 “Human Rights in Africa,” Keynote lecture for Bridgewater State University Africa Week, Bridgewater, MA, March 20.
2010 “Challenges for Strengthening Democracy in Rwanda,” talk presented at Achebe Colloquium on Africa, Brown University, December 3.
2010 “How to Talk About Violence (Without Being Depressing),” keynote lecture for Teaching About Forum on Pedagogy and Africa, African Studies Program, Northwestern University, May 14.
2010 “Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda,” lecture presented at Bates College, April 14.
2010 “Post-Election Violence in Kenya and the Responsibility to Protect,” lecture for WorldBoston Great Decisions series, Boston Public Library, Boston, April 13.
2010 “Democratic Transitions in Africa,” lecture for secondary school administrators, Primary Source, Watertown, MA, February 9.
2010 “Transitional Justice in Africa,” lecture for secondary school teachers, Primary Source, Watertown, MA, January 27.
2009 “Beneath the Democratic Veneer: Unmasking Authoritarian Rule in Post-Genocide Rwanda,” lecture given for Committee for African Studies at Harvard University, November 10.
2009 “Rwanda, Congo, and the Great Lakes Region: A Tribute to Alison Des Forges,” public lecture at the Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, April 20.
2008 “Rwandan Conceptions of Justice and Reconciliation,” lecture for Political Studies Forum series, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, August 7.
2008 “Evaluating the Gacaca Courts in Rwanda,” lecture for the Department of Political Science and the Payson Center for International Development, Tulane University, March 12.
2008 “Lessons from Rwanda for Darfur,” lecture for African Studies Institute and Northwestern University Darfur Action Coalition, Northwestern University, February 28.
2005 “Violence by Other Means: the Exercise of Power in Rwanda Today,” lecture given at the United States Institute for Peace, Washington, DC, November 18.
2005 “Lessons from Rwanda for Darfur,” lecture as part of Darfur Action Week lecture series, Bard College, November 15.
2007 “Fighting for Human Rights in the Aftermath of Genocide,” Distinguished Lecture in African Studies, Middle Tennessee State University, March 29.
2005 “Life After Death in Rwanda: Seeking Justice and Reconciliation after Genocide,” Lecture given at the Payson Center for International Development, Tulane University, New Orleans, April 21.
2004 “Conflicts Over Memory in post-Genocide Rwanda,” lecture for African Studies Program, Columbia University, March 4.
2002 “Theories of Genocide and the Experience of Rwanda,” presented for Sawyer Seminar, Emory University, Atlanta, March 7.
2001 “Human Rights after the Rwandan Genocide,” presented in the Stanford-Berkeley African Studies Lecture Series, October 16.
1998 “Genocide in Rwanda: Was ‘Never Again’ an Empty Promise?” lecture given at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, April 16.
1998 “Rwanda Since the Genocide,” lecture for African Studies Program, Yale University, April 8.
Consultancies, Visiting, and Research Appointments:
2016 Research Consultant and Team Leader, Democracy, Human Rights and Governance Assessment of Uganda, organized by Tetratech ARD for the United States Agency for International Development.
2012-2013 Research Consultant and Team Leader, Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance Assessment of the Democratic Republic of Congo, organized by Tetratech ARD for the United States Agency for International Development.
2007-2008 Research Consultant and Team Leader, Democracy and Governance Assessment of the Democratic Republic of Congo, organized by Democracy International and Tetratech ARD for the United States Agency for International Development.
2007, 2008 Visiting Lecturer, International Human Rights Exchange, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2006-2007 Research Consultant, Democracy and Governance Assessment of Burundi, organized by Democracy International for the United States Agency for International Development.
2001-2006 Director of Rwanda Research, Visiting Research Fellow, Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley. Directing projects “Communities in Crisis: Justice, Accountability, and Social Reconstruction in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia” and “Education for Reconciliation in Rwanda: Creating a History Curriculum after Genocide.”
2006 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
2004-2005 Research Consultant, International Center for Transitional Justice, conducting assessment of Internews Newsreel Project, Rwanda.
2002 Research Consultant, Democracy and Governance Assessment of Rwanda, organized by Management Systems Incorporated for the United States Agency for International Development.
2001 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Political Science, National University of Rwanda
2000 Research Consultant on Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch.
1997 Research Consultant on Burundi, Human Rights Watch.
1992-1993 Visiting Lecturer, Faculté de Théologie Protestante, Butare, Rwanda
Courses Taught:
Boston University: International Human Rights, Transitional Justice in Africa, Religion and Politics in Africa, Political Systems of Southern Africa, Introduction to Comparative Politics, Politics and Government of Africa.
Vassar College: African Politics, Human Rights and Politics, African-American Politics, Seminar on Comparative Identity Politics, Introduction to Comparative Politics, Religion and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora, Introduction to Africana Studies.
University of the Witwatersrand: Sovereignty and Human Rights, Graduate Seminar on the African State.
Columbia University: African Politics.
National University of Rwanda: Theory and Practice of Conflict Resolution
Drake University: Politics in Multicultural Societies, African Politics, Religion and Politics, Introduction to American National Government.
Faculté Protestant de Théologie: Sociology of Religion.
Awards and Honors:
Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad, $160,000 grant from the Department of Education to lead faculty group on 4-week education program in Senegal, summer 2016.
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) and National Resource Center (NRC) for Africa, Title VI program, Department of Education. Principle investigator for $1.28 and $1.06 million 4-year grants.
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) and National Resource Center (NRC) for Africa, Title VI program, Department of Education. Principle investigator for $1.08 million and $1.09 million 4-year grants.
“Education for Reconciliation in Rwanda: Creating a History Curriculum after Genocide,” 2004-2006, United States Institute for Peace, recipient of grant as principle investigator along with Sarah Freedman and Harvey Weinstein of the Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley. Funding also provided by the John D. and Catherine D. MacAruthur Foundation.
Outstanding Young Alumnus 1997, Phillips University.
General Scholarship Fund, Board of Higher Education, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), 1993-1994.
Research Travel Grant, Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991.
Title VI, FLAS, University of Illinois, for study of Lingala, summer 1991.
CIC Traveling Scholar Fellowship, University of Illinois, for study of Lingala, summer 1991.
Ogg and Mills Fellowships, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, spring 1989.
Mills Fellowship, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986-1987.
Representative Phillipian, for the graduating senior who best represents the principles and ideals of Phillips University, 1986.
Political Science Research Award, for the outstanding research project in political science by a graduating senior, Phillips University, 1986.
Newbury Fellowship, for outstanding sophomore religion major, Phillips University, 1984.
Presidential Scholar, full tuition fellowship, Phillips University, 1982-1986.
Professional Affiliations
American Political Science Association
African Studies Association – ASA Executive Board, November 2014-present. Advocacy Committee chair 2016-17, Finance Committee chair 2016-17. Program Committee section chair for 2014 ASA Annual Meeting.
Languages
English native reading, writing, and speaking ability
French fluent reading and speaking, good writing ability
Kiswahili good speaking ability
Lingala fair speaking ability
Kinyarwanda fair speaking ability
Swedish fair speaking and reading ability
Updated May 2017