Julia Viebach

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Julia is the Oxford Transitional Justice Post-Doc Fellow in the Ways of Knowing After Atrocity ESRC Knowledge Exchange Project. She is currently close to completing her PhD on Memorialisation and Transitional Justice. In her thesis she explores how societies remember their pasts after massive violence and how they transform this traumatic rupture in continuance. Focused on the case of Rwanda her thesis is both a empirical enquiry into memorialisation and transitional justice in Rwanda as well as the development of a broader theoretical concept of how societies remember an deal with a traumatic past.

Before starting the Fellowship (2009-2013) Julia was Researcher at the Center for Conflict Studies at the Philipps-University of Marburg in Germany as well as Research Assistant at the Department for International Relations and Development Policy at the University of Duisburg-Essen (2007-2009). She holds a BA and MA in Social Sciences, which she completed at  Heinrich-Heine-University D?ldorf.