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My Research

My research bridges psychology and the humanities, and reflects my training in each field. I am concerned with the way in which we are unconsciously shaped by social forces, and how this impacts memory and responsibility in the aftermath of genocide and racial violence. My scholarship revolves around a series of questions: How do perpetrators and their descendants remember the crimes that were committed? Can the silence and silencing at work in perpetrator societies be broken? How do we learn to listen for voices that remain unheard and work toward progressive political change? 

Drawing on the tradition of social psychoanalysis, I suggest that the well-being of the individual and the well-being of society are inherently related. I emphasize the centrality of social forces in human experience and elaborate the place of culture and society in contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice.

Curriculum Vitae