Amy Rothschild
2014-2015 Dissertation Fellow
Amy Rothschild was an IGCC Dissertation Fellow from 2014-2015. She is an associate professor of politics at Ithaca College. Her research and teaching are highly interdisciplinary, spanning the fields of international human rights and humanitarian law, anthropology, sociology, history, political science, genocide studies, and global studies. Her dissertation examines the effects of truth commissions and the human rights discourses they promote on the politics of memory and peace in post-conflict countries.
Expertise & Interests
- Human Rights/Transitional Justice
- Genocide
- Law & Society
- Collective Memory
- Timor-Leste
- Nationalism
- Race
- Trauma