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2002 - 2003 Fellows

Jacqueline Berman is a visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies at Tulane University. She received her PhD in International Relations from Arizona State University in 1998, and, from 1998 to 2000, Berman held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship for International Peace and Security from the Social Science Research Council and the MacArthur Foundation. In 2001, she was a visiting Fellow at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt University, Berlin, and the Institute of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw. Her honors include a Fulbright Dissertation Research Fellowship, a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Women’s Studies Dissertation Fellowship, and an Institute for the Study of World Politics Dissertation Fellowship. Berman’s publications include: “The Body Politic or an Embodied Politics: Toward a (En)Gendered Analysis of Security Studies” in Toward Supradisciplinarity in the Study of Security, J. Marshall Beier and Samantha Arnold, eds., University of Minnesota Press, 2002.

While a 2002-2003 Rockefeller Humanities Fellow, Berman will continue to work on her project of interrogating the relationships among changing perspectives on security, globalization, immigration, and gender. While building on her background in international relations and political economy, this project, entitled “The Illicit Border Transgressed: Sex-Trafficking Discourses,” also engages with theories of embodiment, sexuality, and mobility, and has been enriched by her experience working with the La Strada Foundation against Trafficking in Women in Warsaw, Poland.

Indai Sajor is an activist and educator in the field of women’s human rights. While working at the Asian Centre for Women’s Human Rights (ASCENT), where she served as Executive Director from 1996 to 2001, Sajor documented the experiences of Filipino comfort women, eventually filing a case against the Japanese government for its abuses. From 1998 to 2001, Sajor served as co-convener of the Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery, a landmark initiative to redress the Japanese military’s sexual enslavement of women from nine Asian countries and recognize sexual violence against women as a crime against humanity. In 2001, Sajor organized a conference on Justice and Accountability: Obstacles and Strategies toward International Justice, Peace and Security after September 11. Much of her career has been devoted to articulating and training others to defend women’s human rights throughout Africa and South Asia, and to documenting women’s human rights violations in conflict situations. Sajor’s publications include The Impact of Chemical Warfare into the Reproductive Rights of the Women and Men in Vietman (2000, co-edited with Le Thi Nham Tuyet) and Common Grounds: Violence Against Women in War and Armed Conflicts (1998).

While a Rockefeller Humanities Fellow, Sajor will address “Documenting Women’s Human Rights Violations in Situations of War and Armed Conflict as a Human Security Issue.” She plans to look at the role of NGOs in documenting and exposing sexual violations during times of armed conflict, and how documentation may be analyzed and deployed to ensure future peace, international justice, and an expanded definition of human security.