{"id":1321,"date":"2016-09-16T17:11:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T22:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chgs-blog.org\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2017-03-07T14:32:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T14:32:37","slug":"student-spotlight-j-siguru-wahutu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/student-spotlight-j-siguru-wahutu\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight: J. Siguru Wahutu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1325 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/files\/2016\/09\/img_9446.jpg\" alt=\"img_9446\" width=\"200\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/files\/2016\/09\/img_9446.jpg 2113w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/files\/2016\/09\/img_9446-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/files\/2016\/09\/img_9446-768x1042.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/files\/2016\/09\/img_9446-755x1024.jpg 755w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>J. Siguru Wahutu was born and raised in Kenya and moved to Minneapolis to pursue his undergraduate education. He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a BA in Sociology and Global Studies and a minor in Cultural Studies. He stayed in Minnesota to obtain his PhD in Sociology with a thematic focus on genocide, media and collective memory and a regional focus on Africa. Wahutu is broadly interested in how news organizations and journalists in Africa produce knowledge about genocide and mass atrocity in neighboring African countries. He was the 2013-2014 and the 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/cla.umn.edu\/chgs\/research-student-opportunities\/badzin-fellowship\">Badzin Fellow<\/a> in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He also writes for the CHGS blog on current events in <a href=\"https:\/\/chgs-blog.org\/category\/eye-on-africa\/\">Africa. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wahutu\u2019s current research focuses on how Africa&#8217;s media represented the violence in Darfur between 2003 and 2008 and compares this to how media from the global north\u00a0portrayed events in Darfur during the same period. This research project aims to examine the process through which African news organizations frame atrocities and actors in atrocities for their national audiences. While much has been written about how the global north represents the global south during instances of mass violence, little is known about how Africa represents Africa. This is the gap in scholarship that Wahutu\u2019s work fills. During the 2016-2017 academic year, Wahutu will be editing his dissertation and submitting research papers to academic journals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J. Siguru Wahutu was born and raised in Kenya and moved to Minneapolis to pursue his undergraduate education. He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a BA in Sociology and Global Studies and a minor in Cultural Studies. He stayed in Minnesota to obtain his PhD in Sociology with a thematic focus on genocide, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48285,49206],"tags":[3840,53203,19062,87040],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eye-on-africa","category-student-spotlight","tag-africa","tag-badzin-fellow","tag-darfur","tag-wahutu-siguru"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}