Harvey Starr
Dag Hammarskjold Professor in International Affairs Emeritus
Co-Principal, ConflictAnalytiX LLC
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT, 2013-14
Recipient of the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association
Named the International Studies Association Section on Political Demography and Geography 2016-17 Distinguished Scholar with the Myron Weiner Award.
Department of Political Science
University of South Carolina
Gambrell Hall
Columbia, SC 29208
Department Main Office Phone: 803.777.3109
Fax: 803.777.8255
e-mail: starr@mailbox.sc.edu (preferred); or starrharvey318@gmail.com
Jewish Studies Program Emeritus Scholar/Special Projects
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Recent Books
From Stanford University Press (2016) in the
Security Studies Series. For full information go to:
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030789060#aboutBook
Those who wish to order all or any part of it can do so at: https://www.springer.com/book/9783030789060
RECENT ACTIVITY
Roundtable Participant on the Panel, “International Relations Theory I,” Annual meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 2024.
Presentation/Paper, “Linguistics, Geography and Politics: Border and Language Dynamics in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderland,” Association for Borderlands Studies, 3rd ABS World Conference (“Borders, Edges, and Interfaces”), Ben Gurion University, Eilat, Feb. 2023, Stanley Dubinsky, Harvey Starr, and Michael Gavin.
June 2022, “The Language Conflict Project: Perspectives on 21st century Ethnolinguistic Conflict,” Stanley Dubinsky, Michael Gavin, Harvey Starr, et al.; Presentation on the Panel, "Language, Conflict and Identity," at the Online International Conference Communication, Conflict and Peace, organized by the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies, Liverpool Hope University, June 27, 2022.
Stanley Dubinsky and Harvey Starr, ”Weaponizing Language: Linguistic Vectors of Ethnic Oppression,” Global Studies Quarterly 2, 2, 2022, in the Special Issue on “Cruelty and Global Politics.
“Conflicts over language stretch far beyond Russia and Ukraine," The Conversation, May 20, 2022, https://theconversation.com/conflicts-over-language-stretch-far-beyond-russia-and-ukraine-183280 , Stanley Dubinsky, Anyssa Murphy, Harvey Starr, and Michael Gavin
University of South Carolina Office of Research ASPIRE-II Grant (with Stan Dubinsky and Michael Gavin), "Language Difference and Language Policy: Measuring Key Factors of Global Conflict," 2022-23, $93,256.
Virtual Lecture (and Working Paper): “Crossing Boundaries: Political Science and Linguistics,” for the 2022 NY-St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture, Virtual NYI-#4, “Theoretical Linguistics & Cognitive Science,” January 13, 2022.
Member, Conflict & Culture Working Group (supported through the University of South Carolina Humanities Collaborative, 2021-22.
Organizer and Chair of the Panel, “The Politics of Language or the Language of Politics? Political Linguistics and Conflict,” Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association (Virtual), April 2021. [Through the Peace Science Society (International)] See full details at:
Presenter with Stan Dubinsky at the "Herodotos Project 2020: Ethnohistory and Digital Science-- A Virtual Conference," November 7, 2020. Presentation title: "The Language Conflict Project: Modern Conflicts and Their Connections to the Ancient World," The Herodotos Project is located at The Ohio State University, http://www.go.osu.edu/herodotos .
Paper : “The Nature of Contemporary Global Conflict: Language Conflict Analysis in Its Larger Context’” presented in the Workshop on “Global and Ethnolinguistic Conflict: An Internet Encyclopedia Project,” Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 2019, New York.
Presenter at the Event Commemorating the United Nations Year of Indigenous Languages, “Voices in Dangerous Times: Language Endangerment & Political Instability,” The Smithsonian Center for Folklore and Cultural Heritage, March 22, 2019, Washington D.C. Presentation title: "Political Science and Linguistics: Opportunities and Challenges for Studying Conflict"
Invited Participant/Presenter and featured collaborator, Conference on “Language Endangerment and Political Instability” (NSF funded), Linguistics and Politics Program, University of North Texas, October 4-6, 2018.
"Is language key to resolving the Israeli-Arab conflict?” The Conversation, January 16, 2018, https://theconversation.com/is-language-key-to-resolving-the-israeli-arab-conflict- 89215, Stanley Dubinsky and Harvey Starr.
A conference that I co-organized with Stan Dubinsky and Larry Mintz in April 2018: "American (Jewish) Humor in an Era of Ethnic Sensitivity and Cultural Competence," Jewish Studies Program , University of South Carolina https://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/jewish_studies/beyond_the_classroom/humor_conference/index.php