Prof Stacey Hynd
Principal Investigator, University of Exeter
Stacey Hynd is the Principal Investigator of the ‘Children of War’ project. She is Professor of African and Global History and Dean of Postgraduate Research and the Doctoral College at the University of Exeter. She is also founder and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Research on Africa and the South-West and Wales Africa Network. She holds a DPhil in Modern History from the University of Oxford and lectured in African and World History at the University of Cambridge before joining Exeter. She has published extensively on crime, law, punishment and the death penalty in British colonial Africa, including Imperial Gallows: Murder, Violence and the Death Penalty in British Colonial Africa, c. 1915-60. Her work on histories of children and youth in armed conflict has been published in leading international journals including Humanity, Gender& History, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. She welcomes applications for PhD study on children and youth in armed conflict in Africa or globally from across the humanities and social sciences.
Dr Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps
Co-Investigator, University of Geneva
Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps works at the University of Geneva, where she is a lecturer in Modern History at the History Department and a vice-director of the Maison de l’histoire. She is also a senior researcher at the University of Fribourg on a project focusing on the history of the Red Cross and Communism. She holds a PhD in Modern History from the University of Geneva and the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. Her publications in French and English on the history of humanitarianism and the Red Cross Movement in Africa include L’humanitaire en guerre civile. La crise du Biafra (1967-1970) (PUR, 2018) and De la « mission civilisatrice » à l’aide internationale dans les pays du Sud : acteurs, pratiques et reconfigurations au XXe siècle (coedited special issue, 2020). She was awarded the prize « jeune chercheur » of the Fondation Croix-Rouge française in 2018. She is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Revue d’histoire contemporaine de l’Afrique.
Dr Chessie Baldwin
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Exeter
Chessie Baldwin researches the evolution of humanitarian and human rights actions against the recruitment and use of children and youth in armed conflict. With particular emphasis on the Horn of Africa, she examines the relationship between humanitarian action for child welfare and child rights with the rise of the issues of child soldiering in the humanitarian imaginary. Her doctoral thesis mapped the dynamic roles women have occupied in conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, addressing the pervasive sidelining of women’s voices in collective discourse by centring non-exceptional women’s experiences and memories.
Dr Pamela Nzabampema
Postdoctoral Research, University of Exeter
Pamela Nzabampema is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Exeter. Pamela focuses on the cases of Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Prior to joining the University of Exeter, she worked as postdoctoral research associate at University of Glasgow, where she conducted research on the history of diversity at the University of Glasgow (1850-1950). She also worked at the Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) in Brussels. She holds a PhD degree in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford. Her thesis examined the developments of policing pluralism in the DRC (1960-2013). She also conducted research on the impact of amnesties on the reconciliation process in post-conflict Burundi.
Dr Richard Raber
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Exeter
Richard Levi Raber is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Exeter where he is responsible for the Angolan component of the “Children of War: Evolving Local and Global Understandings of Child Soldiering in Africa, c. 1940-2000” research project. He holds a Ph.D in History from Indiana University. Previously, he held a Social Science Research Council Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship as well as a Fulbright award to South Africa, and multiple Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships. His work has been featured in Cold War History, Africa Today as well as Left History. Richard is Associate Editor of Nokoko, an African Studies journal hosted by Carleton University’s Institute of African Studies.
Dr Phoebe Shambaugh
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Exeter
Phoebe Shambaugh is a Postdoctoral Research Associate working on the Uganda case study. She recently completed a Phd at the University of Manchester and works on issues around education, conflict, displacement, and aid, with a geographic focus on Eastern Africa and its colonial diasporic legacy. On the Ugandan case study, she is particularly interested in the colonial histories and legacies around schooling, childhood norms, socialization and identity which intersect with local cultural, political, conflict and humanitarian histories in different ways, including in recruitment, socialization, DDRR (disarmament, demobilization, rehabilitation and reintegration), and the iconography of childhood innocence and child soldiers as ‘deviant child’. She is on the editorial broad of the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, co-published with the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), Save the Children and Medecins san frontiers.