Skip to Main Content
Brown University
Brown University

Costs of War

Search Menu

Site Navigation

  • Home
  • About
    • People
    • Contributors
    • Funders
  • Costs
    • Human
    • Economic
    • Social & Political
    • Environmental
  • Papers
  • Findings
  • In the News
    • More from our Contributors
  • Teaching
  • Donate
Search
Costs of War

People

  • Steven Aftergood

    Steven Aftergood

    Senior Research Analyst at the Federation of American Scientists
    saftergood@fas.org
  • Nadje Al-Ali

    Nadje Al-Ali

    Robert Family Professor of International Studies and Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies at Brown University, Director of Middle East Studies undergraduate concentration at Brown University
    nadje_al-ali@brown.edu
    Research Interests Women, gender, Iraq
  • Ẹniọlá Ànúolúwapọ́ Ṣóyẹmí

    Ẹniọlá Ànúolúwapọ́ Ṣóyẹmí

    Senior Research Fellow in Political Philosophy and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government
    eniola.soyemi@bsg.ox.ac.uk
    Research Interests African and Contemporary political, moral, and legal philosophy, democracy
  • Image

    Andrew Bacevich

    President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Professor Emeritus of History and International Relations, Boston University
    bacevich@bu.edu
    Research Interests Military industrial complex, social and political costs of war
  • Image

    Hira Bashir

    Director of Data Analytics, Pakistan Body Count
  • Karen Bell

    Karen Bell

    Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Urban Development
    karen.bell.2@glasgow.ac.uk
    Research Interests Environmental Justice, Sustainability, Urban Development, Environmental Policy, Peace
  • Image

    Chantal Berman

    Assistant Professor at the Department of Government at Georgetown University
    chantal.berman@gmail.com
  • Catherine Besteman

    Catherine Besteman

    Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology, Colby College
    catherine.besteman@colby.edu
    Research Interests Inequality and racism, security, insecurity, violence, and militarism, Somalia, migration and mobility
  • Linda Bilmes

    Linda Bilmes

    Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
    linda_bilmes@hks.harvard.edu
    Research Interests Veterans’ health care, costs of war
  • Melani Cammett

    Melani Cammett

    Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University
    mcammett@g.harvard.edu
    Research Interests Comparative politics, Middle Eastern and North African politics
  • Rosella Cappella Zielinski

    Rosella Cappella Zielinski

    Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boston University
    cappella@bu.edu
    Research Interests War Finance, Military Spending
  • Image

    Noah Coburn

    Political Anthropologist, Bennington College
    ncoburn@bennington.edu
    Research Interests Violence, Local Governance, Afghanistan, South Asia
  • Neta C. Crawford

    Neta Crawford

    Montague Burton Professor, University of Oxford , Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, Costs of War
    netaccrawford@gmail.com
  • Erik J. Dahl

    Erik Dahl

    Associate Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
    ejdahl@nps.edu
    Research Interests Intelligence , homeland security, terrorism
  • Anita Dancs

    Anita Dancs

    Professor of Economics, Director of Cultures Program, and Chair of the Department of Arts and Humanities at Western New England University
    adancs@wne.edu
    Research Interests International aid, homeland security
  • Image

    Anila Daulatzai

    Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley
    daulatzai@berkeley.edu
  • Jason Davidson

    Jason Davidson

    Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, University of Mary Washington
    jdavidso@umw.edu
    Research Interests United States allies and war
  • Antonio De Lauri

    Antonio De Lauri

    Research Professor at the Chr. Michelsen Institute
    antonio.delauri@cmi.no
  • Omar Dewachi

    Omar Dewachi

    Associate Professor, SAS, Medical Anthropology, Rutgers University
    omar.dewachi@rutgers.edu
    Research Interests Iraq, refugees, public health, displacement
  • Image

    Ryan Edwards

    Senior Data Scientist, UCSF, Research Associate, Berkeley Population Center; UC Berkeley
    ryanedw@berkeley.edu
    Research Interests Macroeconomic costs of war, Military Spending
  • Cynthia Enloe

    Cynthia Enloe

    Research Professor of Political Science in the Department of Sustainability and Social Justice, with affiliations in Women’s and Gender Studies and Political Science, Clark University
    cenloe@clarku.edu
    Research Interests Militarization, Women, gender, political activism
  • Elisa Epstein

    Elisa Epstein

    Law Student, Advocacy Officer
    elisacepstein@gmail.com
    Research Interests National Security, Foreign Policy, Torture, Human Rights
  • Matthew Evangelista

    Matthew Evangelista

    President White Professor of History and Political Science in the Department of Government at Cornell University
    mae10@cornell.edu
    Research Interests Alternatives to military action, gender and conflict
  • Suzanne Fiederlein

    Suzanne Fiederlein

    Interim Director, Center for International Stabilization and Recovery, James Madison University
    fiedersl@jmu.edu
    Research Interests Clearance of explosive remnants of war, post-conflict stabilization and recovery
  • Image

    Brendan Fischer

    Director, Federal Reform, Campaign Legal Center
    Research Interests Domestic and international civil liberties
  • Peter Gill

    Peter Gill

    Journalist
    gillpeterm@gmail.com
    Research Interests Human Rights, Nepal, Politics, War
  • Image

    Lyle Goldstein

    Visiting Professor of International and Public Affairs
    lyle_goldstein@brown.edu
    Research Interests Russia, China, U.S. foreign policy, defense policy, militarism
  • Roberto González

    Roberto González

    Professor of Cultural Anthropology at San José State University
    roberto.gonzalez@sjsu.edu
    Research Interests technology, anthropology, culture, environment, Militarization, ethics, power, ethnography
  • Lisa Graves

    Lisa Graves

    President of the Board of the Center for Media and Democracy and President of True North Research
    lisa@prwatch.org
    Research Interests Domestic and international civil liberties
  • Jennifer Greenburg

    Jennifer Greenburg

    Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Sheffield
    j.greenburg@sheffield.ac.uk
    Research Interests War, gender, U.S. hegemony, race, humanitarianism, Haiti
  • Bridget Guarasci

    Bridget Guarasci

    Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Franklin & Marshall College
    bguarasc@fandm.edu
    Research Interests War, migration, waterworlds, ecology, nature, materiality
  • Hugh Gusterson

    Hugh Gusterson

    Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia
    hugh.gusterson@ubc.ca
    Research Interests Nuclear weapons, counterinsurgency, ethics, neoliberalism
  • William Hartung

    William D. Hartung

    Senior Research Fellow, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
    hartung@quincyinst.org
    Research Interests Pentagon Spending, Military Contracting, Arms Sales, Iraq
  • Image

    Sarah Hautzinger

    Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Colorado College
    shautzinger@coloradocollege.edu
  • Mimi Healy

    Associate
    mimi_healy@brown.edu
  • Jennifer Heath

    Jennifer Heath

    Independent Scholar, writer, editor, and curator
    heathcollom@comcast.net
    Research Interests Women, gender, children, Afghanistan
  • Image

    James Heintz

    Andrew Glyn Professor of Economics and Associate Director, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    jheintz@econs.umass.edu
    Research Interests Economic policy and employment, global labor standards, Human Rights
  • Image

    Alison Howell

    Associate Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University, Newark
    alison.howell@rutgers.edu
    Research Interests Veterans, families
  • Dahr Jamail

    Dahr Jamail

    Author
    dahrjamail@gmail.com
  • Jessica Katzenstein

    Jessica Katzenstein

    jessica_katzenstein@alumni.brown.edu
    Research Interests Militarization, U.S. policing, racism, surveillance, privacy
  • Deepa Kumar

    Deepa Kumar

    Professor of Media Studies at Rutgers University
    dekumar@rutgers.edu
    Research Interests Media, Journalism, terrorism, Islamophobia
  • Catherine Lutz

    Catherine Lutz

    Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor Emerita of Anthropology and International Studies, Thomas J. Watson Jr. School of International and Public Affairs, Brown University, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, Costs of War
    catherine_lutz@brown.edu
  • Image

    Ken MacLeish

    Assistant Professor, Center for Medicine, Health and Society, Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University
    k.macleish@vanderbilt.edu
    Research Interests Suicide, armed forces, demographics
  • Nassim Majidi

    Nassim Majidi

    Co-Founder and Executive Director, Samuel Hall
    nassim.majidi@samuelhall.org
    Research Interests migration, refugees, displacement, Law, Human Rights
  • Andrea Mazzarino

    Andrea Mazzarino

    andreamazzarino@gmail.com
  • Image

    Megan McBride

    Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, Research Analyst
    megan_mcbride@alumni.brown.edu
    Research Interests Terrorist threats, Iraq war
  • Robert Miller

    Robert Miller

    Associate Professor of Pulmonary Medicine, Vanderbilt University
    robert.miller@vanderbilt.edu
    Research Interests Respiratory disease, Iraq war, Veterans
  • Tanner Mirrlees

    Tanner Mirrlees

    Associate Professor of Communication and Digital Media Studies, Ontario Tech University
    tanner.mirrlees@ontariotechu.ca.
  • Norah Niland

    Norah Niland

    United Against Inhumanity Executive Committee Member
    norah.niland@gmail.com
    Research Interests Afghanistan, government, Women, social change
  • Heidi Peltier

    Heidi Peltier

    Senior Researcher, Thomas J. Watson Jr. School of International and Public Affairs, Brown University, Director of Programs, Costs of War
    heidi_peltier@brown.edu
  • Miriam Pemberton

    Miriam Pemberton

    Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies
    miriam@ips-dc.org
    Research Interests Climate security, military, economy, environment
  • Image

    Nicola Pratt

    Associate Professor of International Politics of the Middle East, University of Warwick, UK
    n.c.pratt@warwick.ac.uk
    Research Interests Women, gender, Iraq, Middle East
  • Kali Rubaii

    Kali Rubaii

    Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University
    kali.rubaii@gmail.com
    Research Interests displacement, ecologies of war, spatial politics, forensic ethnography, health justice, Middle East
  • Zainab Saleh

    Zainab Saleh

    Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Coordinator of Middle East and Islamic Studies, Haverford College
    zsaleh@haverford.edu
    Research Interests Iraq, Empire, displacement, selfhood, nostalgia
  • Stephanie Savell

    Stephanie Savell

    Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, Director, Costs of War
  • Image

    Jean Scandlyn

    Research Associate Professor, Departments of Health and Behavioral Sciences and Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
    jean.scandlyn@ucdenver.edu
    Research Interests Medical anthropology, global health
  • Stephen Semler

    Stephen Semler

    Co-founder of Security Policy Reform Institute
    snsemler@gmail.com
    Research Interests U.S. foreign policy, militarism, U.S. federal budget, humanitarian responses
  • Roberto Sirvent

    Roberto Sirvent

    Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
    roberto_sirvent@hms.harvard.edu
    Research Interests Religion , U.S. Imperialism, Media, Propaganda, Bioethics, Cultural Politics of Sports
  • Mac Skelton

    Mac Skelton

    Executive Director of the Institute of Regional and International Studies at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani
    mac.skelton@auis.edu.krd
    Research Interests Medical anthropology
  • Brian Smith

    Brian Smith

    Assistant Professor of Political Science at Nazarbayev University
    brian.smith@nu.edu.kz
    Research Interests Military ethics , humanitarian intervention, transitional justice
  • Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins

    Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins

    Anthropologist and Film-Maker
    sstamato@bard.edu
    Research Interests Israel/Palestine, Greece, ecologies of war, infrastructure, property ownership, disability, neurodivergence, health
  • Image

    Jessica Stern

    Researcher, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
    jessicastern@me.com
    Research Interests Terrorist threats
  • Image

    Astri Suhrke

    Researcher Emerita
    astri.suhrke@cmi.no
  • Thomas H. "Ben" Suitt, III

    Ben Suitt

    PhD, Graduate Program in Religion, Boston University
    bensuitt@bu.edu
    Research Interests Sociology of religion in the military, moral injury, military ethics
  • Madiha Tahir

    Madiha Tahir

    Assistant Professor of American Studies at Yale University
    t.madiha@gmail.com
  • Image

    Letta Tayler

    Associate Director in the Crisis and Conflict Division of Human Rights Watch
    taylerl@hrw.org
    Research Interests Human Rights, terrorism, Counterterrorism
  • Ali R. Tayyeb PhD, RN

    Ali Tayyeb

    CEO, RN-Mentor Consulting, LLC
    artayyebrn@gmail.com
    Research Interests Transition from military service, Post-Traumatic Stress, Traumatic Brain Injuries, Depression, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Pain, Suicide, Family environment, Disenfranchisement, Policy, culture, Veteran Benefits, Reintegration
  • Matthew Thomas Payne

    Matthew Thomas Payne

    Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame
    matthewpayne@nd.edu
    Research Interests social histories of video games, video essays, mediated warfare, media literacy
  • Nick Turse

    Nick Turse

    Fellow of the Type Media Center
    nickturse@gmail.com
  • Image

    Zeeshan Usmani

    Founder, Pakistan Body Count, Co-founder and CEO Go-Fig Solutions
    Research Interests Violence
  • David Vine

    David Vine

    davidsvine@pm.me
    Research Interests refugees and displacement, military bases, war and peace, Militarization
  • Jennifer Walkup Jayes

    Jennifer Walkup Jayes

    jlynnwalkup@gmail.com
    Research Interests Counterterrorism, human impacts of wa, social change
  • Winslow T. Wheeler

    Winslow Wheeler

    Director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information, Former Research Fellow at the Independent Institute
    winslowwheeler@msn.com
    Research Interests Department of Defense budget
  • Zoë Wool

    Zoë Wool

    Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Mississauga
    zoe.wool@utoronto.ca
    Research Interests Social and economic impact of war on veterans and families
  • Bassam Yousif

    Bassam Yousif

    Associated Dean (CAS) and Professor, Department of Economics, Indiana State University
    bassam.yousif@indstate.edu
    Research Interests Development, political economy of the Middle East
  • Image

    Anna Zogas

    Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Healthcare Organization & Implementation Research, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
    anna.zogas@va.gov
    Research Interests cultural and political dimensions of medical knowledge, American institutions, rehabilitation
Brown University
Providence RI 02912 401-863-1000

Quick Navigation

  • Visit Brown
  • Campus Map
  • A to Z
  • Contact Us

Footer Navigation

  • News
  • Events
  • Campus Safety
  • Accessibility
  • Jobs at Watson
Give To Brown

© Brown University

Brown University
For You
Search Menu

Mobile Site Navigation

    Mobile Site Navigation

    • Home
    • About
      • People
      • Contributors
      • Funders
    • Costs
      • Human
      • Economic
      • Social & Political
      • Environmental
    • Papers
    • Findings
    • In the News
      • More from our Contributors
    • Teaching
    • Donate
People
Close Search

People