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Stephanie Savell

Brown University

Stephanie Savell is co-director of the Costs of War project and a senior research associate at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. An anthropologist of militarism, security, and civic engagement, she researches and writes about both the United States’ post-9/11 wars and militarized policing in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. As a primary editor of Costs of War papers, Savell has a bird’s-eye view of the project’s research on the many human, social, political, and economic consequences of the U.S. choice to continue waging the post-9/11 wars for so many years.
Savell has published in PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, The Guardian, the Smithsonian magazine, Axios, and The Nation, among others, and is co-author of The Civic Imagination: Making a Difference in American Political Life (Routledge, 2014). She holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Brown University and a B.A. in anthropology/sociology from Middlebury College.
VIDEOS
Who are you and what do you do?
What are the goals of the Costs of War Project?
Why is it important for high school students to understand the costs of U.S. wars?
What is the War on Terror?
What is the Authorization for the Use of Military Force?
What have been the consequences of the War on Terror?
What have been the economic costs of the War on Terror?
What are some myths about U.S. defense spending?
What have been the human costs of the War on Terror?
What have been the social and political costs of the War on Terror?
How has the War on Terror affected global public opinion of the United States?
Has the War on Terror been effective?
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