Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod Professorial Lecturer Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations

Additional Positions at AU: Director of Graduate Studies - 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.