Principal Investigator

Jens Meierhenrich is Assistant Professor of Government and of Social Studies at Harvard University. A Rhodes Scholar, Professor Meierhenrich is the author of The Legacies of Law: Long-Run Consequences of Legal Development in South Africa, 1652-2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2008), which won the American Political Science Association’s 2009 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the “best book published in the United States during the previous year in politics, government, or international affairs,” and is currently preparing a genocide trilogy, comprising The Rationality of Genocide; The Structure of Genocide; and The Culture of Genocide (all forthcoming from Princeton University Press). He has just completed, for Oxford University Press, Genocide: A Reader as well as Genocide: A Very Short Introduction, and a book on judicial responses to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, entitled Lawfare: The Formation and Deformation of Gacaca Jurisdictions in Rwanda, 1994-2009.

Research Associate

Martha Lagace is a senior editor at Harvard Business School and an independent scholar. She earned her Master of Liberal Arts degree at Harvard University in 2008 with a concentration in Anthropology and Archaeology. In addition to memorialization, her scholarly research concerns the role of female perpetrators in the Rwandan genocide.

Research Assistant

Yuna Han is a fourth-year undergraduate student at Harvard University, where she concentrates in Government. Her ongoing research focuses on the institutional history of IBUKA, Rwanda’s umbrella organization of genocide survivors.