Researchers

Nicole L. Immler

(Oral) History | Memory Studies | Transitional Justice

Nicole Immler is the principal investigator of the ‘Dialogics of Justice’ project. She will synthesize the findings of the dissimilar cases of (historical) injustice studied from a dialogical approach, developing a more profound understanding of the role of the social and institutional dimension in recognition and repair questions.

Niké Wentholt

Transitional Justice | Narratives Studies | History

Niké Wentholt works as postdoc researcher in the Dialogics of Justice project. She will synthesize the legal groundings of all cases studied by writing a socio-legal analysis, which will further socio-legal approaches to justice and recognition and be developed into a toolkit.

Obiozo Ukpabi

Economic and Social History | Transitional Justice | Dialogic practices

Obiozo Ukpabi examines claims for justice brought against oil and gas company Shell by (former) residents of the Niger Delta.

Naomi Ormskerk

Criminology | Victimology | Psychology

Naomi Ormskerk studies the case of the Catholic Church. She is particularly interested in how family narratives on justice measures are established following historical (sexual) abuse perpetrated by clergy.

Carla Boulos

Human Rights | Gender

Carla has been a human rights activist for the past 10 years. She has worked in local and international development and human rights fields in complex conflict contexts, including Syria and Lebanon.

Siri Driessen

Anthropology | The Arts

Siri Driessen is a postdoctoral researcher in the project Back with a Mission. Reconsidering Return Trips from a Relational Perspective. My work focuses on war and memory studies, war heritage, and culturally sensitive tourism.

Leah Niederhausen

Restitution | Historical Justice | Archival Epistemology

Leah Niederhausen conducts PhD research into the restitution of colonial archives, focusing on historical memories, narratives, and justice.

Project assistants

Phoebe Hargrave

International Law | Politics | Colonial Injustice

Research and project assistant for the Dialogics of Justice final conference. Her research focuses on how the historic and continuing injustices resulting from colonial practices of enforced disappearance of children are articulated through civil litigation.

Rosa Mul

Cultural Heritage | Humanistic Studies

Research and project assistant for the Dialogics of Justice project. Her research focuses on how emotions play a part in the dynamics of heritage making, and the method ‘emotion networking’.

Former members

Marrit Woudwijk

Conflict Studies | Anthropology

Marrit Woudwijk studied the case of the army. Her research investigated civilian harm in military interventions and justice practices in its aftermath.

Luna Bonvie

International Law | Philosophy of Law

Luna Bonvie worked as a research and project assistant at the Dialogics of Justice project.

Jake Smit

Human Chaplaincy | Rituals | Queer Studies

Trained in humanist chaplaincy and queer studies, researcher in the project ‘Colonialism in the walls of the University of Humanistic Studies’; as maker of the ritual ‘Grandma’s Kitchen’, raising awareness for presence and sharedness of the colonial past.

Limor Reshef

Humanistic Studies

Research and project assistant at the “Trauma & Resilience: Intergenerational Holocaust Research,” a three-generation interview collection with the Dutch Jewish community and the project “Colonialism in the Walls of the University of Humanistic Studies”.