Global Justice Members
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Directors of Unit
Members
Members, Gender of Justice Working Group
Elma Demir, Researcher (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Jasenka Ferizovic, Researcher (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Jasmina Husanovic, Research Associate (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Admir Jugo, Researcher and Visiting Scholar (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Gorana Mlinarevic, Researcher (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Marina Veličković, Visiting Scholar, Unit for Global Justice (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
We welcome enquiries from prospective visiting scholars and post-doctoral students who may wish to become part of the Unit.
Directors
Dr Kirsten Campbell
Kirsten’s research interests are in feminist social theory, focussing on international criminal law and conflict-related sexual violence. She has an ongoing interest in feminist and socio-legal methodology.
Dr Kiran Grewal
Kiran is the convenor of the MA in Human Rights Culture and Social Justice at Goldsmiths. Originally trained as a lawyer, Kiran’s research has focused on the interactions between formal law and politics and the social justice struggles of marginalized and/or subaltern groups.
Sociology members
Professor Vikki Bell
Educated at the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, Vikki Bell is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, where she has taught for over 25 years. A feminist sociologist widely published in peer-reviewed journals across the social sciences and theoretical humanities, her work has long addressed questions of ethics, aesthetics, subjectivity, justice and politics.
Dr Jennifer Fleetwood
Jennifer is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology. Her book Drug Mules: Women in the International Cocaine trade (2014) won the British Society of Criminology book prize. Along with Lois Presser and Sveinung Sandberg, she edited the Emerald Handbook of Narrative Criminology (2019). She sits on the editorial board of the British Journal of Criminology, and Crime, Media Culture.
Professor Kate Nash
Kate Nash is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she is Co-Director for the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy, and Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University.
Dr Yesim Yaprak Yildiz
Yesim's research lies at the intersection of human rights, political violence, and social theory. Her most recent research focused on forms of truth-production and truth-telling on state-led violence with a focus on Turkey.
Affiliate Goldsmiths Researchers
Dr Rachel Ibreck, Department of Politics
Rachel Ibreck is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Goldsmiths. Her research focuses on human rights activism and the politics of memory and justice during and after conflict and genocide in Africa, especially in Rwanda and South Sudan.
Visiting Fellows
Dr Eva Ambos
Eva Ambos is a cultural anthropologist. She has earned her PhD that analyzes the heritagization of ritual healing traditions in Sri Lanka from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 2015.
Kaushalya Ariyaratne
Kaushalya Ariyarathne is an attorney and a researcher by profession. She obtained her Law degree from the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Masters in Human Rights and Justice from Keele University, United Kingdom. Currently, she is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo.
Dr Sreenanti Banerjee
Dr Sreenanti Banerjee will be joining the Unit of Global Justice as an ESRC SeNSS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She holds a PhD in Politics from Birkbeck College, University of London. Her PhD thesis is entitled ‘The Governmentality of Population Debates in Postcolonial India’.
Professor Jasmina Husanović
Dr Jasmina Husanović is a Professor of Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She earned her PhD in 2003 at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK.
Alexandra Lily Kather
Alexandra Lily Kather is a legal consultant in international criminal justice, transitional justice and human rights with expertise in investigation, capacity-building, policy-oriented research and advocacy.
Dr Dominique Mystris
Dr Dominique Mystris is a Senior Researcher at the SA SDG Hub, based at the Albert Luthuli Leadership Institute, Department of Business Management, University of Pretoria. She completed her doctoral studies at Queen Mary University of London where her thesis considered the need for a regional criminal court through analysis of the proposed African criminal court.
Dr Magdalena Zolkos
Magdalena Zolkos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at Jyväskylä University. Her areas of expertise include historical justice, trauma theory, memory politics, and cultural and political theory of psychoanalysis.