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Brenna Marea Powell is a 7th year PhD candidate in the department of Government at Harvard University, and a doctoral fellow at the Multidisciplinary Program on Inequality and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. She received her AB from Stanford in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Her research interests include inequality, civil conflict and political violence in divided societies. Her three-article dissertation research explores the role of political institutions in redefining ethno-racial boundaries and social hierarchy. This includes work on post-conflict policing in Northern Ireland, racial policy in Brazil, and the politics of ethno-racial classification in the United States.
(Profile last updated in September 2011.)
Events & Presentations
- Normalizing Security after Conflict: Jobs for the Boys and Justice for the Hoods in the New Northern Ireland
May 5, 2011 Research Seminar
Brenna M. Powell, Aila Matanock 
Survival Migration: Old Institutions, New Challenges
January 13, 2011 Research Seminar
Alexander Betts, Brenna M. Powell- Normalizing Security after Conflict: Jobs for the Boys and Justice for the Hoods in the New Northern Ireland
April 29, 2010 Research Seminar
Brenna M. Powell, Eric Morris
