Publications

Most Recent

Willard, Emily, Emma Macdonald, and Jake Lally. Our Voices: A Guide to Citing Personal Experience and Interviews in Research. Seattle, WA: University of Washington PressBooks, May 2023. https://uw.pressbooks.pub/ourvoicescitationsguide/

Willard, Emily. “Beyond Transitional Justice: Learning from Maya Mam Resistance in Guatemala.” International Journal of Transitional Justice. Volume 15, Issue 3, November 2021, pgs. 490-509. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijab021, August 13, 2021. Full Text Available HERE.

Willard, Emily. 2021. “Fieldnotes: Searching for the Guatemalan Military
Archives,” Intervenciones: Latin American and Caribbean Studies Working Papers for Social Change, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, June, No. 3, pp. 1-10. https://jsis.washington.edu/latinam/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/06/Final-Willard-Guatemala-Military-Archives-Article-6-11-2021.pdf

Willard, Emily. “Featured Resource: How to FOIA.” UW Libraries Blog, University of Washington. December 4, 2020. https://sites.uw.edu/libstrat/2020/12/04/featured-resource-how-to-foia/.

Willard, Emily. “Resisting Erasure: The Practice of Learning from Maya Mam Narratives of Survivance in Guatemala.” ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2020. (See full text here.)

Willard, Emily. How to FOIA: A Guide to Filing Freedom of Information Act Requests. Seattle, WA: University of Washington PressBooks, 2019. https://uw.pressbooks.pub/howtofoia/.

Willard, Emily. “New Documents Shed Light: Why Did Peacekeepers Withdraw during Rwanda’s 1994 Genocide?” Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal 12, no. 3 (2018). https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.12.3.1611.

Willard, Emily. “Book Review: ‘The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America.’” Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal 12, no. 3 (2018). https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.12.3.1612

Willard, Emily. “Student Reflection from Inter-American Commission Hearing on Human Rights Defenders of Migrants in the U.S.” University of Washington Center for Human Rights. December 18, 2018.   https://jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/2018/12/18/student-reflection-iachr/

Godoy, Angelina with Emily Willard. “Secret Police: Access to Information about Immigration Enforcement in the United States.” Seattle, WA: University of Washington Center for Human Rights. December 5, 2018.  https://jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/2018/12/05/secret-police/ [PDF of report:   https://jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/2018/12/05/secret-police/secret-police-uwchr-iachr-20181205/]

Peer Review

Willard, Emily. “Beyond Transitional Justice: Learning from Maya Mam Resistance in Guatemala.” International Journal of Transitional Justice. Volume 15, Issue 3, November 2021, pgs. 490-509. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijab021, August 13, 2021. Full Text Available HERE.

Willard, Emily. “New Documents Shed Light: Why Did Peacekeepers Withdraw during Rwanda’s 1994 Genocide?” Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal 12, no. 3 (2018). https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.12.3.1611.

Book Reviews

  • Willard, Emily. “Book Review: ‘The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America.’” Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal 12, no. 3 (2018). https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.12.3.1612.

Online Academic Blogs, Newsletters, and Magazines

Willard, Emily. 2021. “Fieldnotes: Searching for the Guatemalan Military
Archives,” Intervenciones: Latin American and Caribbean Studies Working Papers for Social Change, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, June, No. 3, pp. 1-10. https://jsis.washington.edu/latinam/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/06/Final-Willard-Guatemala-Military-Archives-Article-6-11-2021.pdf

Willard, Emily. “Student Reflection from Inter-American Commission Hearing on Human Rights Defenders of Migrants in the U.S.” University of Washington Center for Human Rights. December 18, 2018.   https://jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/2018/12/18/student-reflection-iachr/

Willard, Emily. “Maya Community Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Their Return to Guatemala.” International Cry Magazine. August 28, 2018, https://intercontinentalcry.org/maya-community-celebrates-20th-anniversary-of-their-return-to-guatemala/

Willard, Emily. “Comunidad Maya Celebra el 20 Aniversario del Retorno a Guatemala Desde Exilio en Mexico.” International Cry Magazine. August 28, 2018, https://intercontinentalcry.org/es/comunidad-maya-celebra-el-20-aniversario-del-retorno-a-guatemala-desde-exilio-en-mexico/. (Translation into Spanish by Emily Willard.)

Willard. Emily, Angie Tamayo, and Clare Morrison. “Student Reflections from the National Assembly of Victims in El Salvador.” University of Washington Center for Human Rights, January 12, 2018, https://jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/2018/01/12/student-reflections-national-assembly-victims-el-salvador/

Willard, Emily. “Student Research Provides Access to Information through New Partnership with UW Libraries.” University of Washington Center for Human Rights, June 22, 2017, https://jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/2017/06/22/uwchr-makes-declassified-documents-public-uw-libraries/.

Willard, Emily. “How do we Decolonize Research?” Sectors: Newsletter of the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Development Section 3, no. 2, Autumn 2016, p. 20. https://sociologyofdevelopment.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/fall-2016-socdev-newsletter.pdf

Willard, Emily. “Voices of Screbrenica.” Failure to Prevent Initiative, Simon-Skjodt Center for Genocide Prevention, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. June 2015. https://www.ushmm.org/confront-genocide/speakers-and-events/all-speakers-and-events/srebrenica-conference/voices-on-srebrenica

Willard, Emily. “What is Democracy?” RotaryPeaceChula, Rotary Peace Center Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, July 16, 2014. https://rotarypeacechula.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/what-is-democracy/

Willard, Emily. “The Perfect Storm: Impunity and Violence against Women in Guatemala.” Peace & Conflict Monitor. Costa Rica: U.N. University for Peace, April 1, 2012. http://www.monitor.upeace.org/innerpg.cfm?id_article=893.

Electronic Briefing Books

I edited and co-edited 10 Electronic Briefing Books with the National Security Archive, providing analysis of declassified United States government documents regarding United States foreign policy in Latin America and human rights issues, as well as international decision making in response to the genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia.

Willard, Emily. “Rwanda: The Failure of the Arusha Peace Accords.” Electronic Briefing Book, #469. Washington, D.C.: National Security Archive, May 21, 2014. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB469/.

Willard, Emily. “The Rwanda Sitreps: Daily Pleas to New York Detail How International Failure Left Peacekeepers Ill-Equipped to Respond to Rising Violence in January 1994.” Electronic Briefing Book, #455, February 3, 2014. http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB455/.

Willard, Emily. “Key Diplomat’s Personal Notebook Sheds Light on Inner Workings of US Government Response to Genocide Unfolding in Rwanda in 1994.” Electronic Briefing Book, #500. Washington, D.C.: National Security Archive, January 30, 2015. http://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB500/.

Willard, Emily. “Forced Disappearance in the Dominican Republic.” Electronic Briefing Book, #429. Washington, D.C.: National Security Archive, May 23, 2013. http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB429/.

Co-Edited Briefing Books

Blanton, Tom, and Emily Willard. “Road to Dayton Paved with Genocide.” Electronic Briefing Book, #535. Washington, D.C.: National Security Archive, November 23, 2015. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB535-Srebrenica-genocide-on-road-to-Dayton-accords/

Blanton, Tom, and Emily Willard. “Srebrenica Conference Documents Detail Path to Genocide from 1993 to 1995.” Electronic Briefing Book, #519. Washington, D.C.: National Security Archive, July 1, 2015. http://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB535-Srebrenica-genocide-on-road-to-Dayton-accords/.

Willard, Emily, and Tom Blanton. “1994 Rwanda Pullout Driven by Clinton White House, U.N. Equivocation.” Electronic Briefing Book, #511. Washington, D.C.: National Security Archive, April 16, 2015. http://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB511/.

Willard, Emily, and Jake Freyer. “Sitreps Detail Rwanda’s Descent into Genocide 1994.” Electronic Briefing Book, #466. Washington, D.C.: National Security Archive, April 7, 2014. http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB466/.

Willard, Emily, and Kate Doyle. ““Learn from History”, 31st Anniversary of the Assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero.” Electronic Briefing Book, #339. Washington, D.C.: National Security Archive, March 23, 2011. http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB339/.

Willard, Emily, and Kate Doyle. “27 Years Later, Justice for Fernando García.” Electronic Briefing Book, #337. Washington, D.C.: National Security Archive, February 18, 2011. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB337/.

 National Security Archive’s blog “Unredacted”

I wrote nearly 40 articles for the National Security Archive’s blog “Unredacted” available here. A selection includes:

Declassified Document Databases (contributor)

  • National Security Archive, Chadwick-Healy (issuing body), “Mexico-United States Counternarcotics Policy, 1969-2013,” Digital National Security Archive Database,
    Chadwyck-Healey, Ann Arbor: ProQuest Information and Learning Co. & Washington, D.C.: National Security Archive, 2013. https://search.proquest.com/dnsa_md (contributor).
  • National Security Archive, Chadwyck-Healey (issuing body), “Colombia and the United States: Political Violence, Narcotics, and Human Rights, 1948-2010,” Digital National Security Archive Database, Ann Arbor: ProQuest Information and Learning Co. & Washington, D.C.: National Security Archive, 2013. https://search.proquest.com/dnsa_cd (contributor).

Reports

Godoy, Angelina with Emily Willard. “Secret Police: Access to Information about Immigration Enforcement in the United States.” Seattle, WA: University of Washington Center for Human Rights. December 5, 2018.  https://jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/2018/12/05/secret-police/ [PDF of report: https://jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/2018/12/05/secret-police/secret-police-uwchr-iachr-20181205/]

Willard, Emily, Nate Jones, and Courtney French. “Sunshine and Shadows: The Clear Obama Message for Freedom of Information Meets Mixed Results.” National Security Archive FOIA Audit. Washington, D.C.: National Security Archive, March 15, 2010.   https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB308/2010FOIAAudit.pdf.

Newsletters & Magazines