l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies

Colgate University

sthomson@colgate.edu

13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY, 13346

phone: 315-228-6068 or 413-345-1572 (cell)

http://www.susanmthomson.com/

Rwanda

PhD in Political Science (Dalhousie University). LLB in human rights law (University College of London)

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.

war in lived experience, gender in peace and conflict, international human rights law and advocacy, feminist security studies,

"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)

Rwanda ; peasantry ; conflict ; reconstruction ; reconciliation; ethnographic ; power relations