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About Me

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. I received my PhD in Sociology from the University of Minnesota in August 2025.

My research interests include collective memory, education, transitional justice, violence, and comparative methodology. Broadly, my research agenda investigates how societies recover from mass violence. More specifically, it examines how knowledge is constructed in the wake of mass violence.

My current book project analyzes how Rwandan and Sierra Leonean educators narrate and teach their recent episodes of violence to newer generations. It positions education not only as a site of memory construction but also as a means of transitional justice. It investigates how knowledge produced by macro-level institutions (states, transitional justice mechanisms) interacts with knowledge held and transmitted at the microsociological level (parents, educators).

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. It has received awards from the Society for the Study of Social Problems, the American Sociological Association, and the University of Minnesota.

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.