Brian K. Barber
Jacobs Foundation Fellow, 2016
Brian K. Barber, Ph.D. was a fellow in 国产视频's International Security program. He was also a 2016 Jacobs Foundation Fellow with the 国产视频 Fellows Program.
He is working on a book narrating the lives of six men and their families from the Gaza Strip who he has interviewed regularly for the past 20 years since they emerged as youth from the first Palestinian intifada in 1993. During his upcoming trip, Barber will resume his blog 鈥淕limpses of Gaza.鈥
Barber is professor of child and family studies and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Youth and Political Conflict at the University of Tennessee.
He is editor of the 2009 Oxford University Press volume Adolescents and War: How Youth Deal with Political Conflict, and the author of dozens of scholarly articles.
Since joining 国产视频, Barber鈥檚 work has appeared in academic journals, including: The Lancet, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Social Science & Medicine, and Human Development.
His writings on Gaza have been published on Medium and in the 国产视频 Weekly. He has also published articles for Muftah.org, Informed Comment, Alternet.org, newDemocracy.org, and the Knoxville News Sentinel.
Barber鈥檚 work has been supported by the Jacobs Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Foundation for Middle East Peace, and 国产视频. Barber was a Jacobs Foundation Fellow at 国产视频 in 2014-15, and a 国产视频 Fellow in 2015-16.
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