I am an ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ fellow in Genocide Studies. My work is interdisciplinary and my interests include critical human rights, race and empire, Jewish international studies, and postcolonial Europe. My first book manuscript, Politics after Memory: Colonialism, the Shoah, and the Vexed Promise of Reparation, is based on a decade of ethnographic research with reparatory justice movements, legal advocates, and policymakers in Germany, the USA, and Namibia. I examine the abject failure in Germany of collective memory projects, especially those that are state led, in dealing with the legacies of European racial violence. I argue that the integration of the legacy of genocide ongoing and contemporary into the European present require a shift beyond the discourses given to us by memory studies.
An article on Germany and the Palestine Exception is currently under review for the Journal of Genocide Research, andI have published on the question of reparations for settler colonialism and the role of Jewish solidarity movements therein in Humanity (winner of their 2023 best article prize). I have also published in Political and Legal Anthropology Review and E-International Relations, and have written for public-facing platforms like the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights. I am currently building a new research network for scholars working on Jewishness in International Studies and the social sciences more broadly, and am co-authoring an article that argues for the importance of a critical Jewish International Studies.
My teaching philosophy is rooted in inclusive and participatory pedagogies. I have designed and led courses on genocide, civil and political rights, social and political theory, and ethnographic methods at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and at Columbia University. My teaching has been recognized with the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Student Union’s Inclusive Teaching Prize, typically awarded to permanent faculty, and I hold multiple certifications in inclusive pedagogy, gender and sexuality studies, and am completing the PGCertHE.
My work has been supported by over £50,000 in research grants from institutions including the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Free University of Berlin, Sciences Po Paris, and the Max Planck Institute for Legal History. I am committed to building collaborative scholarly communities and have co-organized major international conferences, including “On the Possibility and Impossibility of Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism.” Whether in the classroom, in the field, or through scholarly networks, my work is guided by a commitment to transformative justice, methodological innovation, and politically engaged scholarship.
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students.