Kroc Institute Postdoctoral Scholar 2007-08

E-mail: everdeja@gmail.com


Ernesto Verdeja teaches political theory in the department of government at Wesleyan University. His research interests are in justice, international human rights law, reconciliation, and comparative genocide, as well as critical theory and contemporary democratic theory. He has published on theories of forgiveness, truth commissions and tribunals, reparations, comparative genocide, and the rights of non-citizens after 9/11. He also has edited works on civil society in Cuba and transitional justice.  He has worked at the International Center for Transitional Justice and the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.  

As a postdoctoral scholar at Notre Dame's Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Verdeja is completing a book manuscript on political reconciliation and beginning a project on comparative genocide (Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, and Rwanda). He received his Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research in 2005.

 

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