Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod

Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod is a Rwandan scholar specializing in genocide studies and the intersection of Diaspora consciousness and social mobilization. Her first book, Narratives of Victimhood and Perpetration: The Struggle of Bosnian and Rwandan Diaspora Communities in the United States, is a comparative analysis of the stories of survival and identity politics within the Bosnian and Rwandan diaspora. She is also a 2023 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Distinguished Scholar for "Erasing Refugees: How Camps Became Killing Fields in the First Congo War." Finally, she is the Chair of the Department of Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations at the School of International Service at American University.