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Monica
Mukerjee

Researching gender, nationalism, and the impact of international conflict

Oxford, United Kingdom

Monica Mukerjee will graduate from Michigan State University in 2008 in international relations and psychology. Her research focuses on the gendered impact of sexual violence during war. Selected as a Truman Scholar for her commitment to public service, Monica has worked as a sexual assault and crisis counselor, medical advocate, and director of children’s theatre workshops. She is a guest editor for a special-edition volume of MSU Women in Development Working Papers, which will be on rape in violent conflict. She will read for a degree in Forced Migration at Oxford University to work towards improving lives within conflict zones.


Monica Mukerjee's Schools

Monica Mukerjee's Presentations

  • Rape During Refuge: Deconstructing Sexual Violence in African Refugee Camps, Michigan Undergraduate Research Forum, Lansing, Michigan
    March, 2006
  • Selling Sex for a Biscuit: Preventing Sexual Exploitation in African Refugee Camps, CIC-SROP Conference, University Of Illinois At Urbana-champaign, Illinois
    March, 2008
  • Making Sense of Sexual Brutality in War: Understanding Variation and Genocidal Strategy of Mass Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Violence & Terror: Domestic and Global Spaces Graduate Conferece, Pennslyvania State University, Pennsylvania
    March, 2008