Joelle Rosenberg
Degrees
- M.A. Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles (2023)
- B.A. Sociology (summa cum laude), University of California, Los Angeles (2020)
Fields of Study
Political Violence and War; Conflict-Related Sexual Violence; Political Sociology; Organizational Sociology; Comparative-Historical Sociology
Research
I am a third-year PhD student interested in political violence & war, organizations, and comparative-historical sociology. I am broadly interested in the causes and consequences of violence, and how states make decisions on how to carry it out. In particular, I study how the use of sexual violence against civilians varies across state organizations under authoritarian rulers.
Awards & Grants
- Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, University of California, Los Angeles, June 2024-September 2024.
- Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, June-September 2024
- Summer Traineeship, University of California, Los Angeles June 2023-September 2023
- Graduate Research Mentorship, University of California, Los Angeles, September 2022-June 2023.
- Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, University of California, Los Angeles, June 2022-September 2022.
- Department of Sociology Honors Program Award for Research Excellence, University of California, Los Angeles, June, 2020.
- Susan Kellogg Endowed Student Award in the Sociology of Gender, University of California, Los Angeles, June, 2020.
- Dean’s Prize for Research Excellence at Undergraduate Research Week, University of California, Los Angeles, May, 2020.
Conference Presentations
- Challenging Autocracy: How State Organization Impacts Sexual Violence in Authoritarian Regimes. Panelist, International Network of Genocide Scholars Annual Meeting, June 2024.
- The Power of the State (and its Agencies): the Organizational Origins of Violent Repertoires. Panelist, Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, November 2023.
- Challenging Autocracy: How State Organization Impacts Sexual Violence in Authoritarian Regimes. Panelist, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2023.
- “‘¡Asesinas, terroristas, putas!’: Genocide, Gender, and Sexual Violence under the Argentinian Military Dictatorship of 1976-1983” Department nominated oral presentation at Undergraduate Research Week, University of California, Los Angeles, May 2020.
- “‘¡Asesinas, terroristas, putas!’: Genocide, Gender, and Sexual Violence under the Argentinian Military Dictatorship of 1976-1983” Poster presentation at Thinking Gender: Center for the Study of Women, University of California, Los Angeles, March 2020.