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Join Associate Professor of Governmet Kira Jumet and Dilafruz Nazarova, Assistant Teaching Professor/Associate Director of MA Program in Political Science - UN and Global Policy Studies at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey as they give a talk discusses the newly released edited volume, Doing Research as a Native: A Guide for Fieldwork in Illiberal and Repressive States, co-edited by Kira Jumet and Merouan Mekouar. The book addresses the challenges and risks faced by scholars native to illiberal and/or repressive states conducting research in their home countries and also contains practicable guidance on how to manage and prepare for these obstacles. It includes narratives from 19 scholars representing 15 countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, the Balkans, and South America. The aim of the project was to ensure that graduate students and early-career researchers native to illiberal/repressive states were better informed before commencing fieldwork in their home countries and for advisors, institutional review boards, and non-native collaborators to be aware of the risks and issues that this particular category of researcher might face.

Please RSVP here for lunch.