Susan M. Thomson

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies
Affiliation	Colgate University
Email	sthomson@colgate.edu
Mailing Address	13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY, 13346
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 315-228-6068 or 413-345-1572 (cell)
Websites	http://www.susanmthomson.com/
Countries of Specialization	Rwanda
Education	PhD in Political Science (Dalhousie University). LLB in human rights law (University College of London)
Research Interests	State-society relations in post-conflict societies, in particular power relations between the state and individual citizens; individuals? strategies of resistance to government policies in Africa, with emphasis on Rwanda ; state transitions from war to peace ; democratisation, international democracy promotion and post-conflict reconstruction ; interpretative, ethnographic and life history research methods.
Teaching Interests	war in lived experience, gender in peace and conflict, international human rights law and advocacy, feminist security studies,
Publications	"Whispering Truth to Power: Everyday Resistance to Reconciliation in Postgenocide Rwanda" (Wisconsin UP, 2013) http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5148.htm Numerous journal articles and book chapters, including the "Rwanda" chapter for the African Yearbook, http://www.brill.com/africa-yearbook-volume-9 Numerous opinion and policy pieces, most recently "Rwanda'Twittergate: The Disinformation Campaign of Africa's Digital President": http://africanarguments.org/2014/03/17/rwandas-twitter-gate-the-disinformation-campaign-of-africas-digital-president-by-susan-thomson/ (March 2014) and "Rwanda: Don't Let the Good Trump the Bad" http://journal.georgetown.edu/2013/12/16/rwanda-dont-let-the-good-trump-the-bad-by-susan-thomson/ (December 2013)
Keywords	Rwanda ; peasantry ; conflict ; reconstruction ; reconciliation; ethnographic ; power relations