Kristin Doughty : Faculty & Staff : Department of Anthropology : University of Rochester

Kristin Doughty earned her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2011. She joins the University of Rochester’s Department of Anthropology as well as the Frederick Douglas Institute for African and African-American Studies. Her research is driven by an interest in understanding how people rebuild their social lives in the wake of political violence against a backdrop of national and international reconstruction efforts, with a focus in Africa. Specifically she is interested in how the emerging global preoccupation with law and human rights as universalizing frameworks for post-conflict reconciliation shapes people’s own efforts to rebuild their lives. Her current work examines the intersection of law, rights, and collective belonging in post-genocide Rwanda. She spent a year working with grassroots genocide courts in Rwanda, called gacaca courts, in which suspects from the 1994 genocide were tried among their neighbors before locally-elected judges. Her research has also led her to work with Rwandan mediation committees, a legal aid clinic, and at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania. Her dissertation work was funded by the Fulbright Foundation, National Science Foundation, and Wenner-Gren Foundation. Having worked with peace-building and humanitarian workers prior to graduate studies, she brings a focus on applied as well as theoretical concerns to her research questions.

Curriculum Vitae

Fellowships and Awards

List of Current Courses

ANT 204: Ethnographic Themes
ANT 231: (Il)Legal Anthropology

List of Past Courses

ANT 104: Contemporary Issues and Anthropology
ANT 230: Post-Conflict Justice

Publications

Research