DeCorse talks to the Sunday Times about Sierra Leone's Bunce Island
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In Memoriam: John Burdick Remembered for Teaching, Advocacy
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Bhan comments on Ayodhya, Kashmir in Deccan Herald article
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Three members of Maxwell School faculty earn promotion
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Jok discusses working, parenting during the pandemic in Daily Nation
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Jok discusses South Sudan's COVID-19 response in Daily Nation
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Castro named McClure Professor of Teaching Excellence
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Maxwell faculty and students honored with 2020 One University awards
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Jok discusses Africa's health systems, coronavirus in Daily Nation
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Jok discusses Africa's low COVID-19 case numbers in Daily Nation
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Jok weighs in on the AU's Silencing the Guns agenda in Daily Nation
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Jok discusses South Sudan's latest peace deal with Al Jazeera
"This government will be a mere postponement of conflict if it gives a blind eye to the corruption and grand theft that has created a ghastly and deadly form of inequality in South Sudan since 2005," writes Jok Madut Jok, professor of anthropology.
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Jok op-ed on Sudan's former dictator published in Daily Nation
"Many Sudanese people from the areas that were terrorised by his security forces have said that trying him in Sudan would be a slap in the face of all these victims and their communities, for they cannot be confident that there won’t be Sudanese judges who might rig the process in his favour," writes Professor of Anthropology Jok Madut Jok.
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Hromadžić wins Title VIII grant for research in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Azra Hromadžić, an associate professor of anthropology and O’Hanley Faculty Scholar, has been awarded $8,000 through a Title VIII Scholars appointment by the American Councils for International Education. The award will go towards Hromadžić's research into riverine citizenship, political imagination, and the struggle for water in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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African Outlook
Jok Madut Jok, professor of anthropology, "brings regional expertise on a part of the world that is critically important from a security standpoint,” says John McPeak, a professor of public administration and international affairs. “He also adds a new perspective on issues of humanitarian relief, post-conflict reconstruction, immigration and refugee flows, and negotiations."
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Jok discusses the link between violence and corruption in the Citizen
"One thing that has not been clearly delineated about violence in South Sudan is the role of corruption as a most insidious driver of the ghastly inequities that have now come to characterize the young state as one of the most unequal societies in Africa," writes Jok Madut Jok, professor of anthropology.
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Armstrong speaks to the Hill about new Harriet Tubman film
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Bhan weighs in on call for Israel model in Kashmir in Al Jazeera
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Armstrong and collaborators author paper, win grant for excavation
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