Individual Trauma, Social Outcomes

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode of the Matrix Podcast, Julia Sizek interviews <a href= "http://www.elizabethdherman.com/">Biz Herman</a>, a PhD candidate in the UC Berkeley Department of Political Science, a Visiting Scholar at The New School for Social Research’s</span> <a href= "https://nssrglobalmentalhealth.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Trauma and Global Mental Health Lab</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and a Predoctoral Research Fellow with the</span> <a href= "https://www.htv-lab.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Human Trafficking Vulnerability Lab</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. Her dissertation,</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Individual Trauma, Collective Security: The Consequences of Conflict and Forced Migration on Social Stability</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, investigates the psychological effects of living through conflict and forced displacement, and how these individual traumas shape social life. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the podcast, we talk about Biz’s research on mental health and social stability at the Za’atri Refugee Camp in Jordan. </span></p> <p><strong>About Biz Herman</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Biz Herman is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at University of California, Berkeley, a Visiting Scholar at The New School for Social Research’s</span> <a href= "https://nssrglobalmentalhealth.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Trauma and Global Mental Health Lab</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and a Predoctoral Research Fellow with the</span> <a href= "https://www.htv-lab.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Human Trafficking Vulnerability Lab</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. Her research examines the ways in which experiencing trauma and violence — both at the individual level (personal traumas) and collective level (national tragedies) — shape sociopolitical outcomes relevant to peace and security.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weigh