Dyan Mazurana

Dyan Mazurana, PhD, is a Research Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy where she co-directs the Gender Analysis and Women's Leadership Program. She is also a Research Fellow at the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School. She is an Associate Research Professor at the Friedman School of Science Policy and Nutrition. Dyan Mazurana directs the Feinstein International Center’s Research Program on Women, Children, and Armed Conflict and co-directs the Masters of Arts in Humanitarian Assistance (MAHA) Program.

Mazurana's scholarship focuses on gendered dimensions of humanitarian response to conflict and crises, documenting serious crimes committed during conflict, and accountability, remedy, and reparation. She serves as an advisor to several governments, UN agencies, human rights NGOs, and child protection organizations regarding humanitarian assistance and improving efforts to assist youth and women affected by armed conflict. This work includes the protection of women and children during armed conflict, including those people associated with fighting forces, as well as remedy and reparation in the aftermath of violence. She has worked in Afghanistan, the Balkans, Nepal, and southern, west and east Africa.

Mazurana has published more than 100 scholarly and policy books, articles, and international reports and her work has been translated into more than 30 languages.

Mazurana has a Ph.D. and an M.A. in women’s studies from Clark University. She also holds an M.A. and B.F.A. from the University of Wyoming, where she studied painting, art history, and feminist theory.

Research/Areas of Interest:

• Civilian populations' experiences of armed conflict
• Women's human rights
• War-affected children
• Armed conflict
• Human security
• Protection
• Child marriage
• Ex-combatants
• Transitional justice (remedy and reparation)
• Peacekeeping

Education

• PhD, Clark University, Worcester, United States, 1999
• MA, Clark University, Worcester, United States, 1995
• MA, University of Wyoming, Laramie, United States, 1994
• BFA, University of Wyoming, Laramie, United States, 1990

Tufts University Appointments

• Research Professor
  Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Feinstein International Center, Barnum Hall, 1 Jun 2019 - present
• Research Professor
  Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Barnum Hall, 1 Jul 2019 - present
• Research Director
  Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Feinstein International Center, Barnum Hall, 15 Jan 2006 - present
• Research Associate Professor
  Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Barnum Hall, 1 Sep 2010 - 30 Jun 2019
• Research Associate Professor
  Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Feinstein International Center, Barnum Hall, 1 Jul 2016 - 31 May 2019
• Associate Professor
  Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Feinstein International Center, Barnum Hall, 6 Feb 2008 - 31 Aug 2011
• Visiting Scholar
  Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Feinstein International Center, Barnum Hall, 5 May 2003 - 30 Jun 2004

Academic Positions

• Research Professor
  Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, United States 1 Jan 2019 - present
• Associate Research Professor
  Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, United States 1 Jan 2016 - present
• Senior Fellow
  World Peace Foundation, Tufts University, Sommerville, MA, United States 1 Jan 2015 - present
• Research Director of Gender, Youth and Community Program
  Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, United States 1 Jan 2004 - present
• Cathy Cohen Lasry Visiting Associate Professor of Comparative Genocide Studies
  Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, United States 1 Jan 2012 - 1 Jan 2015
• Associate Professor
  Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, United States 1 Jan 2008 - 1 Jan 2010
• Senior Research Fellow
  Tufts University, Feinstein International Center, Medford, United States 1 Jan 2003 - 1 Jan 2004
• Visiting Scholar
  Women and Public Policy Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, United States 1 Jan 2003 - 1 Jan 2004
• Visiting Professor and Research Scholar
  Women’s Studies. University of Montana, United States 1 Jan 2002 - 1 Jan 2003
• Peace and International Security Fellow
  Women and Public Policy Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, United States 1 Jan 2001 - 1 Jan 2002
• Researcher and Scholar
  Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Women Waging Peace, United States 1 Jan 2000 - 1 Jan 2000
• Faculty Research Associate
  University of Wyoming, United States 1 Jan 1997 - 1 Jan 2000
• Adjunct Assistant Professor in Women's Studies and International Studies
  University of Wyoming, United States 1 Jan 1999 - 1 Jan 2000
• Visiting Assistant Professor in Rural Sociology
  Godollo University, Hungary 1 Jan 1997 - 1 Jan 1998
• Visiting Scholar.
  Wageningen University, Gender Studies, Wageningen, Netherlands 1 Jan 1997 - 1 Jan 1997
• Lecturer in Women's Studies and Political Science
  University of Wyoming, United States 1 Jan 1995 - 1 Jan 1996
• Lecturer in Women's Studies and Criminal Justice
  Clark University, United States 1 Jan 1995 - 1 Jan 1995