G.R.O.U.P. Teams

Teams are collaborative projects that provide undergraduates with the opportunity to conduct interdisciplinary research with more experienced researchers. Teams are comprised of two faculty members from different departments, at least eight undergraduates, and two graduate students.

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2007-2008

Human Rights and the Cultures of War

The 2007-08 G.R.O.U.P. Research Team will investigate one particular human rights topic — the status, rights, welfare, experience, subjectivity, and culture of civilians in countries at war, primarily during the last 100 years — in the first phase of a larger project to develop a campus-wide inter-divisional undergraduate concentration in human rights.

Within the humanities an already large literature is fast turning into an interdisciplinary subfield, often referred to as “the cultures of war.” The team will be devoted to producing a descriptive bibliography, assembling primary works, and investigating both human rights curricular and internship programs on other campuses and the human-rights related scholarship and teaching now undertaken on this campus. The aim is to recruit teachers and design courses for academic year 2008-09.

The students in the team will be intimately involved in planning and coordination of the courses to be taught in 2008-09. Students and faculty will also jointly produce two source books on the cultures of war, and a resource book describing campus researchers, programs, and materials, as well as similar programs on other campuses.

The team will be led by Catherine Gallagher (English), Thomas Laqueur (History), and Alan Tansman (East Asian Languages and Cultures).