Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod Wins Harry Frank Guggenheim Award
Professors Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod (School of International Service, American University) and Christopher Davey (Clark University) have received the 2023 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Distinguished Scholar award for their project “Erasing Refugees: How Camps became Killing Fields in the First Congo War.” The project seeks to bring to light the experience of Rwandan refugees in the First Congo War (1996-97). Kuradusenge-McLeod and Davey aim to tell this story through the voices of those who experienced the violence, framing their experience within ongoing efforts toward peace and justice in the African Great Lakes region.
Professor Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod has been conducting innovative research since her arrival at the School of International Service in 2021. Her work is focused on genocide studies and the intersection of diaspora consciousness and social mobilization, and she is the author of Narratives of Victimhood and Perpetration: The Struggle of Bosnian and Rwandan Diaspora Communities in the United States. In 2022, she received the SIS Outstanding Scholarship Award for term faculty.