User:Erinjessee

My name is Erin Jessee and I am a Canadian oral historian and genocide scholar. I completed an interdisciplinary Humanities PhD at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada in 2010, where I worked across genocide studies, history, anthropology, and the forensic sciences. At present, I am a Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow (specialising in armed conflict and trauma) in History at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. My primary research relies on the use oral historical and ethnographic methods to engage with civilians’ experiences of genocide and related mass atrocities, particularly in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina. I also study Rwandan history, more broadly, using oral traditions, life histories, and archival materials to better understand changes in Rwanda's political climate and social fabric over the 20th and 21st centuries. I am the author of Negotiating Genocide in Rwanda: The Politics of History and have published peer-reviewed articles with the Journal of Eastern African Studies, Memory Studies, Conflict and Society, Oral History Review, History in Africa, Forum: Qualitative Social Research, and Forensic Science International, among other publications