Recent Publications

• LaBranche, Jillian and Joachim J. Savelsberg. 2025. “Stigma Management and Cultural Trauma: A Rwanda-Germany Comparison.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology (Online First).

• LaBranche, Jillian. 2024. “Macro-Micro Interaction in Knowledge Construction: Structural and Communicative Memory in Rwanda and Sierra Leone.” American Journal of Sociology 130(3): 644-685.

• Baer, Alejandro, George Dalbo, and Jillian LaBranche. 2024. “Decolonization and/or
  Reparative Justice: Education in the Reparative Process in Minnesota and Manitoba.” Futures 155.

About Me

I am a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.

My research interests include violence, knowledge, collective memory, education, transitional justice, and comparative methodology. 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.