Our Faculty
Emily Welty
Associate Professor
Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
Women's and Gender Studies
Location
- @New York City
41 Park Row 1102
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Biography
Dr. Emily Welty is the Director of Peace and Justice Studies. She serves as Vice Moderator of the World Council of Churches and the Main Representative to the United Nations for the International Peace Research Association.
Education
PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, United Kingdom, 2011
Study of Religions
MA, American University, Washington, DC, 2005
International Peace and Conflict Resolution
BA, College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, 2000
Religious Studies
Publications
Welty, E. E. Unity in Diversity: interfaith dialogue in the Middle East. Washington DC, USA: United States Institute of Peace.
Welty, E. E., Bolton, M. & Kiptoo, W. (2019). Local Peacebuilding in East Africa: The Role of Customary Norms and Institutions in Addressing Pastoralist Conflict in Kenya and Uganda. Locally Led Peacebuilding: Global Case Studies. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. , pages 61-72.
Welty, E. E. & Bolton, M. (2017). The Role of Short Term Volunteers in Responding to Humanitarian Crises: Lessons from the 2010 Haiti Earthquake. Michael Holenweger, Michael Karl and Jager Franz Kernic (Eds.), Leadership in Extreme Situations. Zurich: Springer. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-55059-6_7
Welty, E. E. "Anxiety and the Undergraduate Classroom". Reflections on Academic Lives: Identities, Struggles, and Triumphs in Graduate School and Beyond. Palgrave Macmillan.
Welty, E. E. (2016, May). The Theological Landscape of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: the Catholic Church, the World Council of Churches and the bomb. Global Policy.
Welty, E. E. (2014, September). “Faith-based Peacebuilding and Development: an analysis of the Mennonite Central Committee in Uganda and Kenya”. Journal of Peacebuilding and Development. Vol 9 (Issue 2)
RESEARCH INTEREST
Faith-based peacebuilding and development, nonviolence social movements, East Africa.
ARTISTIC AND PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITS
Field Research Team 2015-2016
[Theatre - Interdisciplinary work(s)]
The Civilians,,
New York City
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Anabaptist-Mennonite Scholars Network
African Studies Association
American Association of Religion
American Political Science Association
Peace and Justice Studies Association
World Council of Churches Commission on International Affairs[Board Member]