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Lee Ann Fujii

Lee Ann Fujii

Lee Ann Fujii is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She is spending 2016–2017 at the Institute for Advanced Study. She is author of Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda (2009) and Interviewing in Social Science Research: A Relational Approach (forthcoming). Fujii is currently finishing her next book, “Show Time: The Logic and Power of Violent Display.” icon

Protest in Cumming, Ga.

The Prehistory of the Muslim Ban

By Lee Ann Fujii

Banning all Muslims was a popular campaign slogan for then-candidate Donald Trump. People cheered at the simple logic: all Muslims pose a ...

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