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Korbel ranked 20th in the world for the best undergraduate degree in international studies.
Associate Professor
Director, Sié Center
Director, Inclusive Global Leadership Initiative
Dr. Marie Berry is the Director of the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy and an Associate Professor at the Josef Korbel School at the University of Denver. In this role, she co-leads the University of Denver's Cultural Diplomacy program in partnership with the Newman Center for the Performing Arts. She is also the co-founder and convener of the Inclusive Global Leadership Initiative (IGLI), an effort to elevate and amplify the work that women activists are doing at the grassroots to advance peace, justice, and human rights across the world.
Her award-winning book, War, Women, and Power: From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina (Cambridge University Press 2018), examined the impact of mass violence on women's political mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia. Together with Dr. Milli Lake (LSE), she runs the Women's Rights After War Project. Dr. Berry's work has been published in places like the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Gender & Society, Democratization, Signs, New Political Economy, Mobilization, Politics & Gender, Foreign Policy, Boston Review, The Monkey Cage, and Political Violence @ A Glance. She is a 2021 recipient of a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
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Sié Center
International Studies, International Human Rights
War, Women, and Power: From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina. (2018). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Women's Rights After War and Genocide: Contradictions and Challenges." (2023). Journal of Genocide Research, online first (with Milli Lake).
Radicalizing Resilience: Mothering, Solidarity, and Interdependence Among Women Survivors of War." (2022). Journal of International Relations and Development. 25(4): 946-966.
No Safety in Numbers: Political Representation and Political Violence Targeting Women in Kenya." (2022). International Feminist Journal of Politics, 25(3): 506-528 (with Hilary Matfess and Roudabeh Kishi).
Women's Rights After War: On Gender Interventions and Enduring Hierarchies." (2021). Annual Review of Law and Social Science. 17(1): 859-881 (with Milli Lake).
Implementing Inclusion: Gender Quotas, Inequality, and Backlash in Kenya." (2021). Politics & Gender. 17(4): 640-664 (with Yolande Bouka, and Muthoni Kamuru).
Podcast: What the World Will Become. (2023). Host. First season features 8 episodes with women activists.
Digital Archive: Women's Rights After War Project. (2023). With Milli Lake, Sinduja Raja, & Soraya Zarook.
Josef Korbel School, Outstanding Teaching Award 2024
APSA, Gender & Politics Section, Best Article Award 2022
ASA, Sociology of Human Rights, Best Article Award 2022
ASA, Peace, War, & Social Conflict, Best Book Award 2019
ASA, Sociology of Development, Best Book Award (honorable mention) 2019
Eastern Sociological Society's Mirra Komorovsky Best Book Award (honorable mention) 2019
ASA, Peace, War, and Social Conflict, Best Article Award 2018
Comparative Genocide
Gender, Security, and Human Rights
Global Justice
Research Methods
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2015
M.A., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2010
B.A., International Studies & Political Science, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, 2007
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