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Guest interviews
English
United States
20 episodes
since Jan. 24, 2021
episodic

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Daniel Neep, who just published Syria: A Modern History, joins Ora Szekely, who published Syria Divided: Patterns of Violence in a Complex Civil War, for a conversation focusing on research on a specific conflict: the war in Syria. Reflecting on their own experiences, Daniel and Ora dig into the et…

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After your field research is done, there is always that final, daunting step: publishing. We are joined by Caelyn Cobb, Senior Editor in global history and global politics for Columbia University Press, and Jacqueline Hazelton, Executive Editor of the journal International Security, to gain an edit…
When conducting research and fieldwork on civil war, it is not only challenging to remain impartial or get physically and emotionally close to conflict participants, but it is especially difficult to do both, given that more of one often requires—or leads to—less of the other. How do researchers na…
Even though you might think you know the place that you’re researching, things can still surprise you when you’re new to the field. In this episode, we welcome Ana Paula Pellegrino and Ulaş Erdoğdu. Pellegrino is the Gerhard Casper Postdoctoral Fellow in the Rule of Law at the Center on Democracy, …
The study of civil war and political violence presents researchers with a wide range of ethical questions to navigate. In this episode, we welcome Christine Cheng (Senior Lecturer in War Studies at Kings College London) and Christopher Day (Professor of Political Science and Director of African Stu…
The Stories from the Field Podcast is back for a second season! In this introductory episode of Season 2, Ora and Peter reunite to preview the new season line-up and look back on the origins of the podcast and the co-edited book that it’s based on. Season 2 focuses on research on civil war across t…
Kira Jumet and Merouan Mekouar join the podcast to share their insights on what it means to be a “native scholar” and all the complications and benefits that can bring to the process of field research. We talk about the benefits of knowing local languages, the question of citizenship (and other sta…
In this special final episode, we weave together numerous lessons from throughout the book and podcast, from the value of unstructured time in the field to the surprising parallels between hosting a podcast and doing fieldwork. Using some of our favorite interview clips and book readings, we reflec…
Fotini Christia, Aliyu Zakayo, and Aidan Milliff offer their perspectives as a full professor, a medical doctor and researcher, and an advanced graduate student, respectively, on the ethical and logistical challenges posed by COVID-19 for field research. Each guest draws on their own experiences to…
We trace the process of learning field research by talking to a group of excellent undergraduate students (Leah Hickert, Jack MacDonald, and Renata Martinez) and advanced graduate students (Vierelina Fernandez, Ayse Lokmanoglu) about how they first encountered and began to conduct field research in…
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