Degree Programs Offered: Master of Arts
Director of Graduate Programs: Lynn Kuzma
Website:
https://www.gsn.newark.rutgers.edu/peace-and-conflict-program
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
Christopher Duncan, Ph.D., Anthropology, Yale
Anthropology of religion, anthropology of violence, indigenous rights, Indonesia.
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
Lynn Kuzma, Ph.D., International Relations and Affairs, Ohio State
International Relations
Jaime Lew, Ph.D., Sociology and Comparative Education,
Columbia
Comparative and
international education; urban; immigration; race; ethnicity; international
migration and globalization
Sean T. 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 
