September 2025 - August 2026
Study Mode
Full-time
Application start 4 November 2024
Application end 15 January 2025
Transitional Justice / Mass Violence / Trauma / Memory / Archives
Dr Julia Viebach is a Senior Lecturer in the School for Social Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. She researches violence, memory and transitional justice with a focus on post-genocide Rwanda and more recently South Africa.
Previously, Julia spent more than eight years (2013-2021) at the University of Oxford both at the Faculty of Law and the African Studies Centre where she taught on the MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice and the MSc in African Studies.
She is the curator of the award-winning photographic exhibition Kwibuka Rwanda and case display Traces of the Past at Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum. She has published widely on transitional justice, memorialisation and human rights archives including two edited books.
Julia has worked as a consultant on transitional justice and memory for various development aid organizations and German government bodies.
She holds a PhD in peace and conflict studies from the Centre for Conflict Studies, University of Marburg.
Anthony Tong Lee
Master in transitional justice - CourseThere has been a rush to commemorate human rights abuses globally, often referred to as memorialization. This course aims to critically examine these initiatives undertaken by international, state and civil society actors.
Julia Viebach, Dagmar Hovestädt, Ulrike Lühe
Beyond Evidence – The Use of Archives in Transitional’, International Journal of Human Rights 25(3): 403-439.
Julia Viebach
Critical African Studies 12(2): 237-269
Julia Viebach
International Review of Victimology 25(3): 1-25
Julia Viebach
International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 6(1): 51-72