{"id":10063,"date":"2017-06-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/?p=10063"},"modified":"2025-02-11T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T23:22:00","slug":"center-for-advanced-genocide-research-awards-2017-usc-undergraduate-student-research-fellowship-to-noha-ayoub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/2017\/06\/30\/center-for-advanced-genocide-research-awards-2017-usc-undergraduate-student-research-fellowship-to-noha-ayoub\/","title":{"rendered":"Center for Advanced Genocide Research Awards  2017 USC Undergraduate Student Research Fellowship to Noha Ayoub"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2 class=\"date\">Center for Advanced Genocide Research Awards 2017 USC Undergraduate Student Research Fellowship to Noha Ayoub<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/fellowships\/summer-undergrad-fellowship\/ayoub_hero\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3543\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3543 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2023\/07\/ayoub_hero.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2023\/07\/ayoub_hero.jpg 706w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2023\/07\/ayoub_hero-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In one testimony in the Visual History Archive, a Rwandan Tutsi Genocide survivor recounts a disturbing story from his childhood: At his school, he and the other Tutsi students were put on lockdown in their dorms while the school administrators met with the Hutu students to tell them that their Tutsi classmates were plotting to kill them.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a story that caught the eye of USC Shoah Foundation DEFY Undergraduate Research Fellow Noha Ayoub as she conducted research in the Visual History Archive this month. Ayoub is studying nationalism in Rwanda and the ways in which fictionalized narratives against Tutsis perpetrated by the state led to genocide over 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Ayoub is a junior at USC majoring in Law, History and Culture and minoring in Middle East Studies. She first became interested in the topic of nationalism and its potential for violence during her freshman year while taking a class on Middle East sovereignty, and started examining modern-day issues, like Turkey\u2019s marginalization of the Kurds, and past events such as the Armenian Genocide.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s DEFY fellow, Nisha Kale, encouraged Ayoub to focus on the Rwandan Tutsi Genocide and helped her craft a proposal for the DEFY fellowship, which is awarded to two undergraduate USC students each summer to conduct research in the Visual History Archive under the guidance of Institute staff.<\/p>\n<p>During her month-long fellowship, Ayoub has watched dozens of testimonies and supplemented her viewing with texts about nationalism in order to contextualize the stories the survivors tell in their testimonies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question is, how do you compel a people to kill their friends, neighbors, their family often times?\u201d Ayoub said. \u201cIt\u2019s about understanding the greater politics at play and seeing how the genocide wasn\u2019t what we usually consider as a traditional ethnic conflict, it was an organized killing and we need to understand it as such.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She has watched many testimonies of survivors who were children or teens during the genocide, who talk about first learning the differences between \u201cTutsis\u201d and \u201cHutus\u201d at school. School provided a fertile breeding ground for the kinds of fictionalized narratives about Tutsis that the government and other official institutions propagated in order to encourage Hutus to cast Tutsi people out of society and, ultimately, to kill them.<\/p>\n<p>Watching testimonies of survivors in the Visual History Archive helps Ayoub get to know the real people who were affected by anti-Tutsi rhetoric. The archive is a \u201ccollective memory,\u201d she said, where survivors can corroborate their stories and offer anecdotal evidence that these crimes occurred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTestimony for me is a way of understanding that when we talk about theory, when we talk about history, we are talking about people who\u2019ve experienced some of the worst cases of violence in human history,\u201d Ayoub said. \u201cUntil you can look at that violence in the face it\u2019s not helpful for us to try to talk about it, until we try to engage with it as people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Understanding the effect of politics and rhetoric on humanity is Ayoub\u2019s main goal. From her research, she hopes to gain insight into how everything is connected, from the words we use to the leaders we elect. What we believe informs our actions, as individuals and as a society, and so we must scrutinize what we say, why we say it, and how this affects marginalized communities in particular.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we\u2019re not constantly being introspective then we don\u2019t get anywhere,\u201d she said. \u201cIf we\u2019re not constantly reevaluating ourselves we have no hope for progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"signup\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fellows","category-fellowships","category-news","category-profiles"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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