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EDUCATION
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
New York, NY 2016 |
Ph.D. in Performance Studies
Dissertation: Affective Echoes: Affect, Resonant Violence, and the Processing of Collective Trauma in Post-Genocidal Societies, passed with distinction |
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
New York, NY 2010 |
M.A. in Performance Studies
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
New York, NY 2005 |
B.F.A. in Drama with Honors
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PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
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COLUMBIA UNIVERISTY
2017-2018 RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
2016-2017 AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND RECONCILIATION
2016-Present STOCKTON UNIVERSITY
2016-Present HEMISPHERIC INSTITUTE
2014-2016 |
Postdoctoral Researcher
Alliance for Historical Dialogue, Institute for the Study of Human Rights Visiting Scholar
Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights Academic Programs Officer, Online Education
Consortium Faculty Member, Graduate Certificate Program in Genocide Prevention
Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies Managing Editor, emisférica, trilingual peer-reviewed journal published by the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York University
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PUBLICATIONS
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GENOCIDE STUDIES AND PREVENTION
JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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“Remembering to Prevent: The Preventive Capacity of Public Memory” in Genocide Studies and Prevention, Forthcoming.
“Acting Across Violence: H.I.J.O.S., Practices of Trans-action, and Biopoetics in Post-Dictatorship Argentina” in Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 25(2) (April 2016): 179-198.
“Performing Prevention: Civil Society, Performance Studies, and the Role of Public Activism in Genocide Prevention” in Reconstructing Atrocity Prevention, eds. Tiberiu Galis, Sheri Rosenberg, and Alex Zucker, 321-351. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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TOURIST STUDIES
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“Performing a Future (in) Performing a Past: Identity, Cultural Performance, and the Utopian Impulse” in Tourist Studies 14(2) (August 2014): 203-224.
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MUSEUM AND SOCIETY
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“Filling the Absence: The Re-Embodiment of Sites of Mass Atrocity and the Practices They Generate” in Museum and Society 12(2) (July 2014): 88-103.
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MATERIAL CULTURE
CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLISHING
EDITORIAL UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBÁÑEZ
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“The Price of Freedom, the Cost of War: A Walking Tour” in Material Culture 46(2) (Fall 2014): 43-66.
"Constructing Prevention: An Exploration in Building Memorials that Prevent Atrocity" in Societies Emerging from Conflict: The Aftermath of Atrocity, ed. Dennis Klein. New York: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Forthcoming.
“Cerrando la caja de Pandora: La responsibilidad social de las empresas, los derechos de los pueblos indígenas y la prevención de atrocidades masivas” in Cine y casos de negocios: Una mirada multidisciplinaria, eds. Moira Nakousi and Daniel Soto. Santiago, Chile: Editorial Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, 2017.
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WOMEN AND PERFORMANCE
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"Review: Queering Acts of Mourning in the Aftermath of Argentina's Dictatorship: The Performances of Blood" in Women and Performance 25(3) (Fall 2015). Forthcoming.
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TRANSLATIONS
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EMISFÉRICA
AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND RECONCILIATION
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Nicolás Alessio. "Egalitarian Marriage: Contribution from Christian Theology." emisférica 12(2) (Fall 2016). Translated from Spanish.
Andrea Gualde. “Reparations for Crimes Against Humanity as Public Policy: Argentina’s Relationship with the Past from the Individual to the Collective as a Tool for Prevention.” Policy Papers in Prevention Series. AIPR, 2015. Translated from Spanish.
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ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2016 Fellow-in-Residence, Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation
2016 Peace Ambassador, Center for Peacebuilding, Sanski Most, Bosnia-Herzegovina
2014 Franco Coli Dissertation Award
2010-2014 NYU Corrigan Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
2013 Fellow, Global Research Institute, NYU Berlin
2013 NYU GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship
2011 NYU GSAS Dean’s Student Travel Grant
2009 Second Prize, American Folklore Society LGBTQA Student Essay
2016 Peace Ambassador, Center for Peacebuilding, Sanski Most, Bosnia-Herzegovina
2014 Franco Coli Dissertation Award
2010-2014 NYU Corrigan Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
2013 Fellow, Global Research Institute, NYU Berlin
2013 NYU GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship
2011 NYU GSAS Dean’s Student Travel Grant
2009 Second Prize, American Folklore Society LGBTQA Student Essay
INVITED TALKS AND LECTURES
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KEAN UNIVERSITY
Union, NJ 15 November 2016 AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE
Oświeçim, Poland 11 November 2016 STOCKTON UNIVERSITY
Galloway, NJ 13 October 2016 SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY
Sonoma, CA 19 March 2016 AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE
Oświeçim, Poland 19 February 2016 KEENE STATE COLLEGE
Keene, NH 3 September 2014 |
Guest Lecturer, MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
“Rethinking Atrocity Prevention” Instructor, Raphael Lemkin Seminar for Genocide Prevention
"The Role of Memory and Memorialization in Transitional Justice" Guest Lecturer, Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies
“Generations of Memory: Violence, Activism, Memory, and Transitional Justice in Argentina” Guest Lecturer, 2016 Holocaust and Genocide Lecture Series
“Generations of Memory: Violence, Activism, Memory, and Transitional Justice in Argentina” Instructor, Raphael Lemkin Seminar for Genocide Prevention
“The Role of Memory and Memorialization in Transitional Justice” La Red Latinoamericana para la Prevención de Genocidio y Atrocidades Masivas Guest Lecturer, Undergraduate/Graduate Symposium
“Genocide Studies and Memory” |
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
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AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Washington, DC 2017 UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
Brisbane, Australia 2017 CLARK UNIVERSITY
Worcester, MA 2017 AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Denver, CO 2016 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
New York, NY 2016 BENNINGTON COLLEGE
Bennington, VT 2016 COUNCIL OF EUROPE
Mechelen, Belgium 2016 UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Santiago, Chile 2016 KEAN UNIVERSITY
Union, NJ 2016 RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
New Brunswick, NJ 2016 MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY
Lancaster, PA 2015 UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB
Zagreb, Croatia 2015 |
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting -- Anthropology Matters!
Presenter, "Re-Tracing the Trail: The Ambivalent Embodiment of Genocidal Memory on the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail" International Association of Genocide Scholars Conference
Presenter, "Re-Tracing the Trail: The Ambivalent Embodiment of Genocidal Memory on the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail" Emerging Expertise: Holding Accountability Accountable
Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Presenter, "Acting Across Violence: Argentinean Civil Society, State Accountability, and the Activism of H.I.J.O.S." American Studies Association Annual Meeting--Home/Not Home: Centering American Studies Where We Are
Panel Co-Convener: Embodied Relations to Land, Memory, and Migration Presenter: "Re-tracing the Trail: The Ambivalent Embodiment of Genocidal Memory on the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail" Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation--International Workshop on Historical Dialogue and Atrocity Prevention
"Moving Sites: Re-Mapping Space and Generating Memory in Post-Atrocity Societies" Peacebuilding-in-Action Think Tank
Center for the Advancement of Political Action Invited Roundtable Panelist International Conference: Council of Europe Directorate of Democratic Citizenship and Participation--Education Department
Connecting Law and Memory "Educating Policymakers about Memory and Atrocity Prevention" Hemispheric Institute Encuentro 2016: Excéntrico
Mobilizing Memory Working Group Societies Emerging from Conflict: The Aftermath of Atrocity
"Building Memory: Practices of Memorialization in Post-Holocaust Berlin Susman Graduate Conference: Confronting the Violence(s) of History
"Acting across Violence: H.I.J.O.S., Practices of Trans-Action, and Biopoetics in Post-Dictatorship Argentina" Affect Theory Conference: Worldings, Tensions, Futures
“Occupying Space, Amplifying Affect: The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island” International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) World Congress 2015
“Building Memory: Practices of Memorialization in Post-Holocaust Berlin” |
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, CHICAGO
Chicago, IL 2015 |
Cities East and West: New Maps for Research Conference
“Building Memory: Practices of Memorialization in Post-Holocaust Berlin” |
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LOYOLA UNIVERSITY
Chicago, IL 2014 |
Jan Karski 2014 Conference: Memory and Responsibility
“Building Memory: Practices of Memorialization in Post-Holocaust Berlin” |
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CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
Montreal, Canada 2014 |
Hemispheric Institute Encuentro 2014: Manifest!
“Transecting Violence: H.I.J.O.S., Practices of Transection, and Biopoetics in Post-Dictatorship Argentina”; Moderator, Teach-in: Art, Community and Human Rights |
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
New York, NY 2014 |
American Comparative Literature Association Conference: Capitals
“Resonant Violence: Affect and the Residual Effects of Genocidal Violence in Post-Dictatorship Argentina” |
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UCLA/USC
Los Angeles, CA 2013 |
Hemi-GSI Convergence 2013: Experimental Collectivities
Co-Convener, Bodies-in-Transit Working Group |
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YORK UNIVERSITY
Toronto, Canada 2013 |
Performance in/and the Street
“Intersecting Violence: H.I.J.O.S., Practices of Intersection, and Biopoetics in Post-‘Dirty War’ Argentina” |
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CARDOZO UNIVERSITY
New York, NY 2013 |
Deconstructing Prevention: The Theory, Policy, and Practice of Mass Atrocity Prevention
“Performing Prevention: Performance Studies and Genocide Prevention” |
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DUKE UNIVERSITY
Durham, NC 2012 |
Hemi-GSI Convergence 2012: The Geo/Body Politics of Emancipation
Urban GeoPolitics Working Group |
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LEEDS UNIVERSITY
Leeds, United Kingdom 2012 |
Performance Studies International: Performance, Culture, Industry
“Performing a Future (in) Performing a Past: The Industry of Cultural Tourism and the Utopian Impulse” |
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UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TRES DE FEBRERO
Buenos Aires, Argentina 2011 |
International Association of Genocide Scholars: Truth, Memory, Justice, and Recovery
“Filling the Absence: Sites of Mass Atrocity, the Memorialization of Trauma, and the Tourist Experience” |
DEPARTMENTAL TALKS
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GUEST LECTURER
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 2012 |
“Dark Sites”
Graduate Performance Studies Professor Diana Taylor |
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
STOCKTON UNIVERSITY Spring 2017 ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Spring 2017 ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
KEAN UNIVERSITY Fall 2016 ADJUNCT PROFESSOR STOCKTON UNIVERSITY Summer 2016 ADJUNCT PROFESSOR NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Spring 2016 ADJUNCT PROFESSOR NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Spring 2015 TEACHING ASSISTANT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Spring 2015 TEACHING ASSISTANT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Spring 2015 CO-ORGANIZER HEMI-GSI CONVERGENCE 2014 |
"Aftermath: Transitional Justice and Collective Memory in the Wake of Genocide”
Graduate Genocide Studies/Genocide Prevention “Performance Studies: An Introduction by Richard Schechner”
Undergraduate Performance Studies "Post-Colonial Africa: Genocide and Conflict on the African Continent"
Graduate History "Aftermath: Transitional Justice and Collective Memory in the Wake of Genocide” Graduate Genocide Studies/Genocide Prevention “Performance Studies: An Introduction by Richard Schechner” Undergraduate Performance Studies “Theater, Performance, and Conflict from the Early-Twentieth Century to Today” Undergraduate Drama, Theater Studies “Performance Studies: Final Projects” Graduate Performance Studies “Performance Studies: An Introduction by Richard Schechner” Undergraduate Performance Studies Co-Organizer, Third Annual Hemispheric Institute-Graduate Student Initiative Convergence 2014, New York University – “Bodies-in-Transit: Articulating the Americas (and Beyond)” |
RESIDENCIES AND OTHER TEACHING
2013-2015 Undergraduate Mentor, Fordham University
2012 Guest Professor, NYU, Strasberg Institute
2006-11 Undergraduate Mentor, NYU
2008 Guest Professor, University of New Mexico
2005-2006 Guest Professor, Syracuse University
2012 Guest Professor, NYU, Strasberg Institute
2006-11 Undergraduate Mentor, NYU
2008 Guest Professor, University of New Mexico
2005-2006 Guest Professor, Syracuse University
LANGUAGES
SPANISH
ITALIAN
ROMANIAN
ITALIAN
ROMANIAN
