Notre Dame Doctoral Candidate Named Fellow

Maryam Rokhideh

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Maryam Rokhideh, a University of Notre Dame doctoral candidate in peace studies and anthropology at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, has been named a 2020 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow in Women’s Studies.

Ten highly selective fellowships are awarded annually to humanities and social science doctoral candidates whose work addresses women’s and gender issues in interdisciplinary and original ways.

Rokhideh has spent 20 months living and researching on the Goma-Gisenyi border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. She has conducted multi-sited ethnographic research, interviews, surveys, geo-spatial analysis and social network analysis to study cross-border movements and exchange between DRC and Rwanda. Each day, thousands of people, the majority of them female traders, cross this border on foot or in vehicles to sell goods, study and access resources and services that are not readily available to them.