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Amanda H. Blair

I am Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, where I specialize in comparative politics and gender studies. In my dissertation, "Going beyond accountability and untangling the politics of conflict-related rape,"  I interrogate our understandings of what counts as conflicted-related rape and examine why rape is efficacious in particular contexts. And in my current project, "Coercive Consumption," I examine how armed conflict contributes to the development of sex economies and sex trafficking networks across Central and East Africa. Generally, my teaching and research interests include peace and conflict studies, gender studies, Sub-Saharan African politics, and research methods.

RESEARCH

From Bosnia and Rwanda in the 1990s, to South Sudan and Syria, today, armed conflicts have become inseparable from reports of sexual and gender-based violence. My research is fundamentally concerned with these intersections between violence, armed conflict, and gender, and aims to bring deep contextual knowledge to bear on the use of sexual and gender-based violence during war, particularly in the context of East Africa.

2017-18

COURSE OFFERINGS

Power, Violence, and the Global North/South Divide
PLSC/CRES 21605
DETAILS
Gender and Sexuality in World Civilizations
GNSE 15002 and GNSE 15003
Sex, Gender, and War
PLSC/GNSE 21505
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