Recent Publications

• LaBranche, Jillian and Joachim J. Savelsberg. 2025. “Stigma Management and Cultural Trauma: A Rwanda-Germany Comparison.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology (Online First).

• LaBranche, Jillian. 2024. “Macro-Micro Interaction in Knowledge Construction: Structural and Communicative Memory in Rwanda and Sierra Leone.” American Journal of Sociology 130(3): 644-685.

• Baer, Alejandro, George Dalbo, and Jillian LaBranche. 2024. “Decolonization and/or
  Reparative Justice: Education in the Reparative Process in Minnesota and Manitoba.” Futures 155.

About Me

I am a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and I will be a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies beginning fall 2025.

My research interests include violence, knowledge, collective memory, education, transitional justice, and comparative methodology. My work has been supported by the Fern & Bernard Badzin Graduate Fellowship for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the American Sociological Association, the University of Minnesota Travel Research Thesis Grants, the US Fulbright Program, the National Academy of Education/Spencer, and the University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.

I have worked with the Human Trafficking Center, Physicians for Human Rights, and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. I also hold an MA in International Human Rights from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and an MA in Sociology from Brandeis University.