Erin Jessee

Erin Jessee is a Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow in Armed Conflict and Trauma (Modern History) at the University of Glasgow, and a Research Associate with the Scottish Oral History Centre in Glasgow, UK. She is an oral historian and genocide scholar who works primarily on post-genocide Rwanda. Her research interests include mass atrocities, transitional justice, symbolic violence, mass grave exhumations, and the ethical and methodological challenges surrounding fieldwork amid highly politicized research settings.

Jessee has recently published her first book, Negotiating Genocide in Rwanda: The Politics of History, with Palgrave MacMillan's Studies in Oral History series. In addition, she has published articles with the Oral History Review, History in Africa, Memory Studies, Conflict and Society, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Forum: Qualitative Social Research, and Forensic Science International. She has writes transitional justice-related policy briefs and regularly serves as a country conditions expert on Rwanda for asylum proceedings in the United States, Canada, and the UK.

Jessee holds a doctorate from Concordia University's Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD Program (2010), as well as a Masters in Archaeology and an undergraduate degree in Anthropology and Archaeology (double major) from Simon Fraser University.
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