#  Mark Anthony Geraghty 

 

 



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Mark Anthony Geraghty received his doctoral degree in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2016. His current, PhD-based, book project ethnographically investigates the Rwandan state’s recent campaign against “genocide ideology” (ingengabitekerezo ya jenoside), which is prohibited in law as “thoughts” of ethnic hatred that threaten the recurrence of genocide. Based on four years of fieldwork, it examines the quotidian effects of this state campaign, in part, through research in military-run “re-education” camps (Ingando), state-organized genocide commemoration events, local-level genocide courts (Gacaca) which allowed laypersons to try and sentence their neighbors with up to life imprisonment, and the vast prison system, interviewing those incarcerated for crimes of genocide ideology. More broadly, his research interests in postcolonial contexts, in Africa and beyond, include: the politics of nation-building and efforts to stabilize new regimes of law in the wake of catastrophically violent political transitions; the (re)inscription of multiple forms of violence and racisms through the very processes claimed to effect their erasure; and constructions of, and responses to, “hate,” injurious, or potentially criminal, speech acts. His research has been supported by a number of institutions, including the United States Institute of Peace, the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Discipline
    
     [Anthropology](/discipline/anthropology)
- ## Fellowship
    
     [Postdoctoral](/fellowship/postdoctoral)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2016 - 2017](/fellowship-year/2016-2017)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellow)