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Dr. Russell is an Associate Professor of International and Comparative Education specializing in education in conflict-affected and post-conflict societies. Through a sociological and mixed methods approach, her research investigates questions related to education and peacebuilding, human rights, transitional justice, and forced migration.
Her current research is focused on the role of education in promoting peace-building and transitional justice in Colombia. In addition, she is conducting research with newly arrived asylum-seeker families in New York and the organizations that provide social services. She has also conducted research on resettled refugees and newcomer youth in the U.S., human rights education in New York high schools, and the right to education for urban refugees in Ecuador, Lebanon, Kenya and other countries in the global south.
In addition, she is the co-founder and former co-chair of the CIES SIG for Education, Conflict, and Emergencies and is also a board member for the Review of Educational Research (RER), International Journal for Human Rights Education, a former board member of the Journal on Education in Emergencies.
Professor Russell’s recent publications have appeared in Comparative Education Review, International Migration Review, American Educational Research Journal, the American Journal of Education, and the Journal on Education in Emergencies. In addition, her book on education and peacebuilding in post-genocide Rwanda, Becoming Rwandan, is published with Rutgers University Press.
She has received funding from the Spencer Foundation, Dubai Cares/E-3, the National Science Foundation (NSF), NSEP Boren, and the U.S. State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (BPRM). Previously, she worked as a policy analyst for UNESCO, as well as a consultant for other non-profit organizations including Save the Children and SRI International. Professor Russell has a Ph.D. from Stanford’s Graduate School of Education, an M.A. in International Development from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.A. in International Relations from Stanford University.
Educational Background
PhD., International and Comparative Education, Stanford University
M.A., Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Selected Publications
Peer Reviewed Articles
Lerch, Julia, S. Garnett Russell and Francisco Ramírez. 2017 “Depictions of the Nation in Post-Conflict Countries: A Cross-National Analysis.” Social Forces 96 (1): 153-180.
Russell, Susan Garnett and Laura Quaynor. 2017. “Constructing Citizenship in Post-Conflict Contexts: The Cases of Rwanda and Liberia.” Globalisation, Societies and Education 15 (2).
Russell, Susan Garnett. 2016.“Constructing Gender in Education: Evidence from Post-Genocide Rwanda.” Comparative Education 52 (4): 495-515.
Russell, Susan Garnett, Sanaya Lim, Paul Kim, and Sophie Morse. 2016. “The Legacy of Gender-Based Violence and HIV/AIDS in the Post-Genocide Era: Stories from Women in Rwanda.” Health Care for Women International 37 (7): 1-23.
Russell, Susan Garnett. 2015. “Global Civil Society and Education Policy in Post-Genocide Rwanda.” International Sociology 30 (6): 599-618.
Russell, Susan Garnett and Dijana Tiplic. 2014. “Rights-Based Education and Conflict: A Cross-National Study of Rights Discourse in Textbooks.” Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 44 (3): 314-334.
Buckner, Elizabeth and Susan Garnett Russell. 2013. “Portraying the Global: Cross-National Trends in Textbooks’ Portrayal of Globalization and Global Citizenship.”International Studies Quarterly, 57 (4): 738-750.
Bromley, Patricia and Susan Garnett Russell. 2010. “The Holocaust as History and Human Rights: Holocaust Education in Social Science Textbooks, 1970-2008.” Prospects: UNESCO’s Quarterly Review of Comparative Education 40(1): 153-173.
Ramírez, Francisco O, Bromley, Patricia, and Susan Garnett Russell. 2009. “The Valorization of Humanity and Diversity.” Multicultural Education Review 1(1): 29-54.
Book Chapters
Russell, Susan Garnett and David Suárez. 2017.“Symbol and Substance: Human Rights Education as an Emergent Global Institution.” In Human Rights Education: Theory, Research, Praxis ed. Monisha Bajaj. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Russell, Susan Garnett and Monisha Bajaj. 2015.“Schools, Citizens, and Nation-States,” pp. 93- 109 in Education and International Development: Practice, Policy and Research, eds. Tristain McCowan and Elaine Unterhalter.
Other Publications
Mendenhall, Mary, Susan Garnett Russell, and Elizabeth Buckner. 2017 Policy Report Urban Refugee Education: Strengthening Policies and Practices for Access, Quality and Inclusion. Teachers College, Columbia, University.
Russell, S. Garnett. 2017. Book Review. Training for Model Citizenship: Ethnography of Civic Education and State-Making in Rwanda. Journal for Education in Emergencies 3(1).
Russell, S. Garnett. 2017. “Gender Equality in Post-Genocide Rwanda,” World Education Bloghttps://gemreportunesco.wordpress.com/2017/01/19/gender-equality-in-post-genocide-rwanda/
Mendenhall, Mary, Susan Garnett Russell, and Elizabeth Buckner. 2017 Programmatic Guidance: Refugee Education: Strengthening Policies and Practices for Access, Quality and Inclusion. Teachers College, Columbia, University.
Mendenhall, Mary, Susan Garnett Russell, and Elizabeth Buckner. 2017 Advocacy Report: Urban Refugee Education: Strengthening Policies and Practices for Access, Quality and Inclusion. Teachers College, Columbia, University.
Current Projects
Education for Transitional Justice, Reconciliation, and Peacebuilding: the Case of Colombia (Funded by Dubai Cares/INEE E-3 Grant)
Understanding Civic Identity, Rights, and Belonging among Resettled Refugee and Recent Immigrant Students in the U.S. (Funded by the Spencer Foundation)