Dr Mo Hume
Dr Mo Hume
- Senior Lecturer (Politics)
telephone: 01413304683
email: Mo.Hume@glasgow.ac.uk
Biography
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Mo joined the Department of Politics in September 2005. Her research focuses on how multiple and overlapping forms of violence are perceived by those who live in post-conflict contexts. She has applied the insights from feminist theory and practice for understanding violent processes and women’s responses to these. This involves detailed research on violence against women, as well as a situated exploration of the wider gendered politics of violence. She has carried out extensive fieldwork in Central America, particularly El Salvador where she also spent several years as a development worker in a local women’s organisation. Since 2007, she has been carrying out research into women’s perceptions of violence with an Oxfam America sponsored campaign to prevent gender violence, Entre Vos y Yo: una vida diferente. She has published about these topics in journals such as Latin American Perspectives; Womens Studies International Forum and Democratization. Her monograph, The Politics of Violence: Gender, Conflict and Community in El Salvador, was published by Wiley Blackwell in 2009.
Research interests
- Gender and violence in transitional societies
- Post-war conflict and violence
- Gender based violence
Supervision
Mo welcomes applications from prospective students in the following areas:
- Latin American politics (especially Central America).
- Gender violence
- Politics of crime and/or violence
Her former PhD students include:
Allan Gillies (Kelvin scholar) Exploring the Transit Chains: drug policy in the Andean Region (co supervisor with Alex Marshall and Jacqueline Atkinson)
Lubaba Sadaf (Government of Pakistan funding) Family violence in migrant Pakistani families in Scotland (co supervisor with Nicole Bourque and Susan Batchelor).
Kari Pries (University of Glasgow funding) Order and Good Government in Violent Democracies: Law, Society and Human Securitisation Policies in El Salvador and Guatemala (first supervisor with David Karp)
Karen Siegel (Adam Smith Research Foundation) Environmental Cooperation in the Southern Cone of Latin America (co supervisor with Kelly Kollman)
Shadi Whitburn (Adam Smith Research Foundation and Scottish Overseas Research Scholarship (SORSAS): Causes and effects of the transformation of deteriorating urban areas into drug war zone; the case study of Ciudad Juarez (second supervisor with Simon Mackenzie)
Poppy Kohner (ESRC) Performing Violent Identities; challenging the scripts of victims and perpetrators of violence (co supervisor with Lucy Pickering and Rebecca Kay)
Her current PHd students include
Evelyn Uribe
Ellen Van Damme (external supervisor, KU Leuven with Prf. Stephan Parmentier)
Teaching
Undergraduate Teaching
- Latin American Politics
- Politics of Gender and Development
Postgraduate Teaching
- Critical Perspectives on Human Rights
Additional information
Other Roles
- PGR Convener, Politics
- PGR Convener, School of Social and Political Sciences
- Steering Committee member Glasgow Human Rights Network
- Co-convener Glasgow Latin American Research Network
