Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“Why Not to Blow up a Pipeline: Intersectional Reflections on Environmental (Non)violence.” Peace & Change Volume 50, Issue 2 (2025): 95-113.
“Unsettling Peace: The Settler-Colonial Challenge to the Local Turn.” Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding Volume 18, Issue 4 (2024): 401-418.
“COVID-19, Democracy, and (De)Colonialities.” Democratic Theory Volume 7, Issue 2 (2020). With Marcos Scauso, Navnita Behera, Chengzin Pan, Chih-yu Shih, Kosuke Shimizu, and Arlene Tickner.
Book Chapters
“The Difference that Difference Makes: Intersectional Praxis, Pedagogy, and Program Design in Peace and Justice Studies,” with Dr. Emily Welty in Critical Feminist Peace and Conflict Studies: Bridging, Critique, Vision and Praxis (Edinburgh University Press, 2025): 160-176.
“Hideous Aspects: Levinas, Decolonial Barbarity, and the Limits of Ethical Encounter in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” for Creolizing Frankenstein, ed. Michael Paradiso-Michau (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2024): 237-261.
“Populism, Post-Politics, and the Prospects for Democracy after Trump.” In Explaining Trumpism Post-2020, ed. Laura Finley and Matthew Johnson (Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2021): 191-216.
Other Publications
“Pluriversal Peacebuilding.” Postcolonial Hierarchies: Rewriting Peace and Conflict, 2024.
“Book Review: Realizing Nonviolent Resilience: Neoliberalism, Societal Trauma, and Marginalized Voice, Jeremy Rinker and Jerry Lawler, eds. New York: Peter Lang, 2020.” Peace & Change (Fall, 2022): 1-4.
“Pluriversal Peacebuilding: Peace Beyond Epistemic and Ontological Violence.” E-International Relations, 2021.
“Moving Beyond Inclusivity.” With Justin de Leon. International History and Politics Newsletter, “Race, Indigeneity, and the Global South in IHAP: Missed Opportunities and Possible Futures.” Volume 6, Issue 2 (Fall, 2020): 19-22.
“Introduction to Decoloniality and the Study of Religion.” Contending Modernities blog, University of Notre Dame. February 24, 2020.
“CRS: Lessons in Contemporary Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding.” Contending Modernities blog, University of Notre Dame. October 25, 2016.
“The Truth Commissions of Guatemala: Plurality and Particularity in the Human Rights Paradigm,” in The Graduate Journal of Harvard Divinity School, Volume 5, Spring 2010.
“A New Space for Justice: Reflections on Honduras,” in Witness: The Culture of Violence. Episcopal Peace Fellowship, Spring 2010
Articles In Progress
“Intersectional Environmental Violence: Articulating EV as a Saturated Site of Power Relations”
“Our Way that was from Before Words Traveled: Democracy as Liberal Discipline and Pluriversal Connector”
“‘In the West but not of the West: Wittgenstein, Pluriversal Dialogue, and Decolonial Forms of Relationality”
Academic Research Presentations
Articulating Environmental Violence: Intersectional Reflections on an Emerging Framework. International Studies Association (April, 2024).
‘Our way that was from before words travelled’: Democracy as Liberal Discipline and Pluriversal Connector. International Studies Association (April, 2024)
Articulating Environmental Violence: Intersectional Reflections on an Emerging Framework. Peace & Justice Studies Association (September, 2023).
Why Not to Blow Up a Pipeline: Reflections on Environmental (Non)Violence. Peace & Justice Studies Association (September, 2022)
Toward an Ethic of Pluriversal Peacebuilding, European International Studies Association (June, 2021)
In the West but not of the West: Wittgenstein, Pluriversal Dialogue, and Decolonial Forms of Relationality, International Studies Association (April, 2021)
Re-Grounding Peace: Decolonization, Hybridity, and the Local Turn’s Settler-Colonial Problem, International Studies Association (April, 2021)
This Modern Expulsion from Humanity: Arendt, Coloniality, and the Origins of Totalitarianism. American Political Science Association (August, 2020)
Chains of White Grievance: Mouffe, Hegemony, and Ethno-Nationalist Strategy, American Political Science Association (August, 2019)
A Powerful Spring of Action: The Restorative Justice of Mary Wollstonecraft, Wollapalooza II: Daughters, Dissenters, Democracies, Discontents, American Political Science Association (September, 2018)
Hideous Aspects: Levinas, Decolonial Barbarity, and the Limits of Ethical Encounter in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Why Frankenstein Matters at 200: Rethinking the Human Through the Arts and Sciences (July, 2018)
Constructive Conflict in Decentered Democracies: Prospects for Agonistic Peacebuilding, Midwest Political Science Association (April, 2018)
Wrath and Reasoning on (In)Justice: The Prophetic Politics of Mary Wollstonecraft and Cornel West, Wollapalooza: Making the Wollstonecraftian Mind, American Political Science Association (August, 2017)
The “Radical Disjunction” Examined: Blackstone and the Limits of Revolution in the Federalist/Anti-Federalist Debate, Midwest Political Science Association (April, 2017)
Conceptualizing “Success” in Transitional and Post-Violence Justice: New Evidence and Enduring Questions, International Studies Association (February, 2017)
Corpses and Coercion: The Regulation of Pity and Grief as “Lawless” Desires in Plato’s Republic, Northeastern Political Science Association (November, 2016)
Nuclear Famine: Gamed Systems, Global Consequences, Professors for Peace Conference, (February, 2013)
Nuclear Famine: Environmental Costs and Consequences of Nuclear (In)Security, Peace and Justice Studies Association Conference (September, 2012)
PECS in the Real World: PECS Alumni Post-Guilford, Fleming Lecture Series, Guilford College (April 2011)
Military, Church, & Citizen Mobilization in Honduras, Harvard Divinity School (April, 2010)
Human Rights in Honduras After the Coup, Union Theological Seminary (March, 2010)
Human Rights in Honduras After the Coup, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University (February 2010)
Race, Structural Violence, and the War on Drugs, Phi Sigma Tau, Philosophical Society of the University of Louisville (October, 2007)
The American Nightmare: Consumer Culture and Identity, Peace and Justice Studies Association Conference (September, 2007)
Privilege, Power, and Oppression in Peace Work, Metta Center for Nonviolence Education (August, 2007)
Research Experience
Research Associate for Contending Modernities, University of Notre Dame, 2016-2022
- Worked as a research associate with Prof. Atalia Omer to write, edit, and solicit articles for the Contending Modernities research and education initiative on the dynamics of religious and secular forces in late modernity.
Research Delegate to San Pedro Sula, Honduras on behalf of Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies and David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, January 2010
- Conducted interviews on the role of religion in the opposition work of women’s, workers’, and other human rights organizations in the wake of the 2009 coup d’état.
Garrett R FitzGerald, PhD 