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About Me

I am a Sociologist who studies how societies recover from mass violence. More specifically, I’m interested in how knowledge is constructed in the wake of mass violence. Empirically, I analyze how governments, educators, and parents narrate and teach their recent episodes of violence to newer generations. Theoretically, I’m concerned with how knowledge produced by macrolevel institutions (states, transitional justice mechanisms) interacts with knowledge held and transmitted at the microsociological level (parents, educators).

My research interests include collective memory, education, transitional justice, violence, and comparative methodology. I’m increasingly interested in the ways in which education can serve as both a site of memory construction and a means of transitional justice.

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.