Kristina Hook is dual doctoral student in anthropology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Anthropology and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.  She is also a Kellogg Institute for International Studies PhD Fellow.

Kristina is a Fellow with the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP). She has published on topics including genocide, mass violence, post-conflict reconstruction, humanitarian lessons learned and methods of merging theory and practice in sustainable development programming.

For her dissertation, Kristina is conducting fieldwork in Ukraine on the violence dynamics of the Soviet-era Holodomor mass atrocities and how this legacy continues to ripple across modern Ukrainian society.  Her dissertation fieldwork is fully funded through a USAID/Notre Dame Global Development Fellowship.  Since coming to Notre Dame, Kristina has presented her research in locations including Germany, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the Czech Republic.

Kristina previously earned an M.A. degree in international development and a graduate certificate in humanitarian assistance from the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies, as well as a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Florida. Prior to her doctoral studies, she served as a Policy Officer in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations and as a Political Officer in a U.S. Embassy abroad. In 2013, she was awarded a United States Presidential Management Fellowship.  In 2015, she was awarded the State Department’s Meritorious Honor Award.