Degree Programs Offered: Master of Arts
Director of Graduate Programs:
R. Brian Ferguson
Website:
https://sasn.rutgers.edu/academics-admissions/academic-departments/sociology-anthropology/peace-and-conflict-studies-ma
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Zahra Ali, Ph.D., Sociology, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris)
Women, gender, and feminism in relation to (post) coloniality; race, ethnicity, religion, class in conflict and war; youth, civil society, social, and political movements in the Middle East; contemporary Islam(s), Islamisms, and Muslim communities
Ira Cohen, Ph.D., Sociology, Wisconsin
Social theories of order and conflict
R. Brian Ferguson, Ph.D., Anthropology, Columbia
War; political violence;, state-tribe interaction; policing;
organized crime; human nature
Alex Hinton, Ph.D., Anthropology, Emory
Genocide; political violence; transnational justice; human conflict resolution; human rights
Nicole Kraus, Ph.D., Sociology, Wisconsin (Madison)
Social stratification/inequality; nationalism and xenophobia; migration and globalization; the Russian Federation and Former Soviet Union
Jaime Lew, Ph.D., Sociology and Comparative Education,
Columbia
Comparative and
international education; urban; immigration; race; ethnicity; international
migration and globalization
Sean Mitchell, Ph.D., Anthropology, Chicago
War; violence and peace; politics of inequality;
nationalism; Brazil; Latin America
Isaias Rojas-Perez, Ph.D., Anthropology, Johns-Hopkins
Violence; the state; forensic anthropology; human rights;
postconflict recovery
Kurt Schock, Ph.D., Sociology, Ohio State
Civil resistance; social movements; conflict transformation
Genese Marie Sodikoff, Ph.D., Anthropology, Michigan
Conservation and conflict; environmental justice; Africa and
the Indian Ocean
Programs, Faculty, and Courses 
