Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod Professorial Lecturer and Department Chair, Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations SIS | Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations
- Additional Positions at AU
- Chair - 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
- American 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 American University.
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Teaching
Spring 2025
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SIS-619 Special Studies in Int'l Pol: Genocide & International Law
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SISU-306 Adv Int'l Studies Research: The Power of Storytelling
Fall 2025
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SIS-733 Int'l Peace & Confl Res Sem I
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Selected Publications
- Erasing Refugees: Displaced Memories of Camps as Killing Fields in the First Congo War (2025)
- Lessons from the Field: Experts Weigh in on Years of Conducting Fieldwork in Post-Atrocity Zones (2025)
- Democracy by the “Other”: How Ethiopian Diaspora Communities in Virginia Engage in Political Participation (2024)
- The Role of the 1972 Genocide in Burundi and Its Ramification in the Great Lake Region (2024)
- The Burden of the Rwandan Diasporic Identity: From Social Categorisation to Silencing (2023)
- Narratives of Victimhood and Perpetration: The Struggle of Bosnian and Rwandan Diaspora Communities in the United States (2021)
- Multiple Identities and Scholarship: Black Scholars' Struggles for Acceptance and Recognition in the United States of America (2021)
- Belgian Hutu Diaspora Narratives of Victimhood and Trauma (2018)
- Denied Victimhood and Contested Narratives: The Case of Hutu Diaspora (2016)
Grants and Sponsored Research
2023 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Distinguished Scholar
Research Interests
Genocide and Mass Atrocity
Migration
Social Movement
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, Intelligence Ideas Talkers Podcast, 2024.
- Forever Changed: Diaspora Conflict, War and Genocide, Diaspora in Development Podcast, 2024.
- Thirty Years After the Rwandan Genocide, Big World Podcast, 2024.
- 30th Commemoration of the Genocide Against the Tutsi, SBS Worlds News, 2024.