Lily Hindy
Biography
Lily Hindy is a PhD candidate in History at UCLA whose dissertation research focuses on how the Kurdish nationalist movement in Iraq and in the diaspora utilized the growing bureaucracy of human rights to publicize their plight internationally and gain support for autonomy between the 1970s and 2003. Before coming to UCLA, Lily was senior foreign policy associate at The Century Foundation, and she previously worked as an editorial assistant on the international desk of Associated Press in New York. She also spent five years in the nonprofit sector where she held the position of Deputy Director at RISC (Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues), which provides emergency medical training to independent journalists working in conflict zones and remote areas.
Publications
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“Using Human Rights to Gain International Standing: A Comparison of the Iraqi Ba’thist and Kurdish Nationalist Movement Archives,” in A Decade of Research Using Archives of Ba’thist Iraq: What We Now Know, edited by Lisa Blaydes and Samuel Helfont, Stanford University Press (under review)
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Review of “Disturbing Spirits: Mental Illness, Trauma, and Treatment in Modern Syria and Lebanon,” by Beverly A. Tsacoyianis, H-Net, December 2022
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“Germany’s Syrian Refugee Experiment,” (revised & updated from 2018 publication), Syrian Studies Association Bulletin, Vol. 25, No. 1 (2021)
- “Skewed Recovery: Minority Assistance Programs to Iraq in Historical Perspective,” with Philip Hoffman and Monica Widmann, Luskin Center for History and Policy, June 2021
- “Germany’s Syrian Refugee Integration Experiment,” The Century Foundation, September 6, 2018
- “A ‘Nation in Pieces’: Views from Syrians in Exile,” with Sima Ghaddar, The Century Foundation, November 30, 2017
Awards & Grants
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, England and Sweden (2024)
- American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) Summer Fellowship for Intensive Advanced Turkish Language, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul (2023)
- Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Fellowship, Sorani Kurdish, UCLA Center for Near East Studies (2019, 2023)
- Silas Palmer Fellowship, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University (2022)
- Mosafer Centennial Fund for Near Eastern Scholars Award, UCLA Center for Near East Studies, Fieldwork in Iraqi Kurdistan (2022)
- Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, UCLA (2021)
- Graduate Student Research Fellow, Luskin Center for History and Policy, UCLA (2019-21)
- FLAS Summer Fellowship, UCLA Center for Near East Studies, Advanced Turkish (2020)
Conference Presentations
- “Claiming Human Rights Violations in Iraq: Kurdish and Iraqi Ba’thist Attempts to Gain International Recognition in the 1990s,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, virtual, November 11-16, 2024 (forthcoming)
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“Using Human Rights to Gain International Standing: A Comparison of the Iraqi Ba’thist and Kurdish Nationalist Movement Archives,” LSE Kurdish Studies Conference, University of Sheffield, May 22-23, 2024
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“Using Human Rights to Gain International Standing: A Comparison of the Iraqi Ba’thist and Kurdish Nationalist Movement Archives,” UCLA Near East Languages & Cultures “After Antiquity” Graduate Colloquium, January 18, 2024
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“ ‘Selling’ the Kurdish Plight to the U.S. of the 1980s and 1990s: The messaging of the Kurdish National Congress of North America,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, Montréal, Québec, Canada, November 2-5, 2023
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“Comparing Iraqi Ba‘thist and Kurdish Nationalist Usage of Human Rights Language in the 1980s and 1990s,” Hoover Institution Library & Archives Iraqi History Conference “A Decade of Research Using Archives of Ba‘thist Iraq: What We Now Know,” Stanford University, August 17-18, 2023
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“ ‘Selling’ the Kurdish Plight to the U.S. of the 1980s and 1990s: The messaging of the Kurdish National Congress of North America,” Kurdish Studies Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, April 24-25, 2023
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“State Repression, Everyday Resistance and Complex Alliances: Kurds of Iraq, 1968 – 2003,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, Denver, CO, December 1, 2022
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Workshop on Authoritarianism and Democratic Breakdown, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, July 5 – 15, 2022
- “Skewed Recovery: Minority Assistance Programs to Iraq in Historical Perspective,” Upcoming Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) of North America in Montréal, Québec, Canada, October 28 – 31, 2021
- “Reconsidering Home: Syrian Refugees, Émigrés and Exiles Confront a New National Identity,” Presented at the Graduate Student Conference at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Center for World History, April 12, 2019
