about the speaker

William Kwok is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at Yale University, specializing in comparative politics and international relations. His research interests include mass killings and genocides; ethnic, intercommunal, and religious conflict; militaries and armed groups; international security; and Southeast and East Asia. His dissertation “The Banality of Organization: Mass killings as a coordination problem in the shadow of war” combines machine-learning computational analysis, archival work, and interviews to study of the political organization of mass killings in Cambodia, Indonesia, and Myanmar. He has given several invited talks on mass killings and has been working on a book manuscript on the issue. Prior to graduate school, William worked at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations.

About the CCDP Seminars Series

Each semester, CCDP hosts a series of internal seminars to give our faculty, staff and affiliates the opportunity to present their work and receive feedback. The goal of the seminars is to have an informal and frank conversation about the paper presented, and exchange ideas across disciplines and expertise, going beyond academic silos. Speakers at the seminars are both early career and senior scholars.

Augusta Nannerini and Elio Panese are organising the seminars for the academic year 2022-2023. For further information, get in touch at augusta.nannerini@graduateinstitute.ch or elio.panese@graduateinstitute.ch.