Transitional Justice & Recovery
How societies pursue accountability and repair after mass violence — and why some attempts heal while others quietly reopen the wound.
research —
What I study
My work lives where genocide & mass-atrocity prevention, international law, and transitional justice meet. The throughline: violence isn’t a single event — it’s a process that starts long before history records it, and keeps going long after. Prevention means reading that whole arc.
Areas of interest
Six threads I keep pulling — far more tangled in real life than this tidy grid lets on.
Civil Society & Grassroots Peacebuilding
The role of local actors and ordinary communities in building peace from the ground up — often long before, and after, international attention arrives.
Socio-Anthropological Perspectives
Reading atrocity through culture, identity & lived experience — because the numbers alone never explain how neighbors become enemies.
Memory & Historical Narrative
How what we remember — and how we choose to tell it — shapes whether violence is prevented or quietly rehearsed for next time.
Complicity & Moral Responsibility
The uncomfortable questions of bystanders, enablers & shared accountability — the parts of the story most of us would rather not sit with.
Technology & Early Warning
Using data and emerging tools to read the early-warning signs and anticipate atrocity before it escalates.
Publications & projects
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Case study · 2025
How Genocide Adapts: Settler Colonialism in America
A comparative case study reading atrocity as an adaptive process, not a single moment — applied to settler colonialism in the U.S.
StoryMap · ArcGIS
Comparative genocide analysis
An interactive, map-driven comparative study that lets a non-specialist follow academic rigor as a scrollable narrative.
Research paper · 2022
Legal Parameters of the Crime of Genocide & the Genocide Convention
My Hood College Tischer Scholar thesis on the legal architecture of genocide and the efficacy of the Convention.
Blog · 2024
Building Bridges, Not Battlefields
Celebrating non-violence and interfaith peacebuilding with the International Center for Religion & Diplomacy.
Feature · 2023
Storytelling & Resistance: Nina Jacobson
An interview with producer Nina Jacobson on The Hunger Games as a story of resistance, for Freedom House.
Feature · 2023
Not Even Prison Can Silence Cuba’s Artists
On artistic freedom and political imprisonment in Cuba — written and placed at Freedom House.
Presentations & talks
Presenting the work — and learning, every time, how to make heavy research land for a room of real people. Tap to watch.
Symposium · 2026
The Chains We Forge: Complicity as a Tool of Oppression
Presented at the College of William & Mary Graduate Research Symposium.
Conference · 2025
The Chains We Forge: Complicity as a Tool of Oppression
Presented at the Binghamton University Philosophy Graduate Conference (SPEL series).
Keynote · 2020
Pain, Passion, Purpose
An invited reflection at the frank Conference, University of Florida.
Conference · 2022
Demographic Trends Through Cultural Anthropology
Presented at the Maryland Collegiate Honors Conference.
Panel · 2019
Transitional Justice Around the World
Panelist at the Maryland Collegiate Honors Conference.
Academic background
M.S., Genocide & Mass Atrocity Prevention
Binghamton University · 2025–27Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide & Mass Atrocities Fellow.
B.A., Global Studies — Honors & Highest Distinction
Hood College · 2020–22Concentration in Conflict Resolution; minors in Nonprofit & Civic Engagement.
Associate of Social Sciences — Honors
Montgomery College · 2017–20Honors-program scholar; recognition in political science & international studies.
- Shirley Conner Hardinge Award — Hood College (2022)
- Janice E. Cole Writing Prize — Hood College (2022)
- Bromer Peace Award — Hood College (2022)
- Award in Nonprofit & Civic Engagement — Hood (2022)
- Portz Award, Four-Year — MCHC (2022)
- Davis Projects for Peace Grantee — $10K (2021)
- Outstanding Renaissance Scholar — Montgomery (2020)
- Excellence in Political Science — Montgomery (2020)
- Portz Award, Two-Year — MCHC (2020)
- Excellence in International Studies — Montgomery (2019)
Honor societies: Pi Sigma Alpha · Sigma Iota Rho · Sigma Delta Pi · Phi Theta Kappa
see it applied —
How the research becomes the work
Essays, campaigns & data stories — the research, translated.