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CV - Chelsea L. Wilkinson, PhD

Chelsea L. Wilkinson, PhD

Chelsea Wilkinson received her PhD in the Peace Studies program at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Her academic background consists of religious studies, psychology, conflict transformation, and the expressive arts. Her research goals are to explore the role of the arts in nonviolent resistance, civil disobedience, and transnational solidarity movements as a response to systemic issues such as xenophobia, racism, extremism, and sectarianism in societies around the world today. Her doctoral research explored the intersections of conflict transformation and expressive arts theory regarding the use of graffiti as a nonviolent method for marginalized communities to raise awareness, reclaim identity and assert narratives, and create tangible and sustainable social change. Chelsea has taught courses on how graffiti has impacted various social spheres, such as memorialization and provocation in post-conflict societies, political resistance against authoritarian and sectarian regimes, raising awareness and education in active conflict zones, and building solidarity movements with current global social action movements. Other research interests include how the arts are used as both a tool for peacebuilding as well as propaganda in the contexts of ethno-sectarian and political conflict; ethno-sectarian separation and border walls; mobile arts and geopolitics; iconography and far-right extremism; and the rise of Christian nationalism and militant Christianity in the United States. Chelsea currently teaches research methods courses at the European Graduate School, Saas Fee, Switzerland.

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