Timothy Paul Longman

Timothy Longman has taught at Boston University since 2009, where he has served as director of the African Studies Center and CURA (the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs). He has previously held teaching and research positions at Vassar College, the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, the University of the Witwatersrand, and the National University of Rwanda. He has also served as a consultant on human rights and democracy for Human Rights Watch, the International Center for Transitional Justice, and USAID in Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Uganda. His research has been funded by the MacArthur Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the United States Institute for Peace, and the Sandler Family Foundation. Professor Longman has been conducting research in Rwanda since 1992-1993, when he conducted a year of dissertation research in the period just prior to the genocide. From 1995-1996, he directed the Human Rights Watch office in Rwanda, contributing to the research and writing of Leave None to Tell the Story, which won the Raphael Lemkin Prize. From 2001-2006, he was director of Rwanda research for the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley, leading a number of inter-related research projects focusing on post-genocide social reconstruction.