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Tanisha Fazal is the Arleen C. Carlson Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Her scholarship focuses on sovereignty, international law, armed conflict, and the global politics of climate change.
She is the author of two award-winning books: State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation and Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict, in addition to (most recently) Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War. Her work has also appeared in numerous scholarly journals and she is a frequent commentator on international security issues in the media.
Fazal has held fellowships at Harvard, Stanford, and Carnegie Council on International Ethics. From 2021-2023, she was an Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
Featured Work
NOV 19, 2018 • Transcript
The Living Legacy of the First World War
Five Fellows from "The Living Legacy of the First World War" project present their work. Their talks cover the history of war-induced psychological trauma and ...
APR 17, 2018 • Podcast
The Living Legacy of WWI: The Politics & Medicine of Treating Post-Traumatic Stress, with Tanisha Fazal
Although it has been written about for centuries, post-traumatic stress was not officially recognized as a medical condition until the 1980s. However World War I "...