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Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod Professorial Lecturer and Department Chair, Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations

Additional Positions at AU
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
Â鶹´«Ã½ 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 Â鶹´«Ã½.
For the Media
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Teaching

Summer 2024

  • SIS-619 Special Studies in Int'l Pol: Glbl South Human Needs/Rights

Fall 2024

  • SIS-733 Int'l Peace & Confl Res Sem I

Spring 2025

  • SIS-619 Special Studies in Int'l Pol: Social Protest and Change

  • SISU-306 Adv Int'l Studies Research: The Power of Storytelling

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