Professor Pruitt Speaks on Rwandan Genocide at Texas Christian University
Professor Lisa R. Pruitt spoke on the Rwandan genocide at Texas Christian University as part of the Center for International Studies Frost Foundation Lectureship on January 21. Speaking with Professor Pruitt were Sara Darehshori, senior counsel for Human Rights Watch, and Ambassador Pierre Prosper, partner for Arent Fox. The topic was "Cultivating Global Citizenship."
Professor Pruitt also attended a TCU screening of The Uncondemned, a documentary that recounts the 1997 trial of Jean-Paul Akayesu, a Rwandan mayor who was convicted of nine counts of genocide and crimes against humanity. (Dareshori and Proper, who spoke at the January 21 event, were the attorneys who tried the Akayesu case.) Pruitt appears in the film, which includes an account of how, as a PhD student and gender consultant to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 1996, she compiled a report on mass sexual violence during the Rwandan genocide that ultimately became the "smoking gun" in the successful prosecution of Akayesu.
Lisa R. Pruitt is a professor at UC Davis School of Law whose recent scholarship explores the legal relevance of rural spatiality, including how it inflects dimensions of gender, race, and ethnicity. Pruitt's work also considers rural-urban difference in transnational and international contexts.