Research is formalized curiosity.

— Zora Neale Hurston

The Oppression & Resistance Research Lab @ Emory

 

We are building new partnerships with the Carnegie Foundation, an educational equity non-profit, Step Ahead Scholars (co-founder and CEO Debra Nealy), and researchers at Georgia State (Dr. Janice Fournillier and Dr. Charity Gordon) and Stanford ( Dr. Diyi Yang) to reimagine the relationship between teaching and research, with the goal of bringing more diverse voices into security studies. Please apply (by 15 May 2023!) for our Emerging Security Studies Fellowship Program (2023/2025) after reading the description here.

At the Oppression/Resistance Lab, we conduct public-facing, grant-funded basic research focused on the interplay of systems of oppression and resistance. We focus on projects relevant to the current political moment, ranging from state choices to enact internment policies against their own citizens to state use of WMEs on rebel behavior. Read about our pedagogical approach here! Check out our projects here!

We use a range of qualitative and quantitative research methods in our work, including text-as-data/natural language processing, network approaches, process tracing, and archival research. We frequently collaborate with scholars from other disciplines and specifically recruit and work to support scholars from backgrounds historically excluded from the academy. We emphasize a team-based approach to research.