Katherine Saunders-Hastings

katherine.saunders-hastings@law.ox.ac.uk

 

Qualifications

MPhil Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge (2009)

B.A. Joint Honours Anthropology and History, McGill University (2008)

 

Biography

Katherine is reading for a DPhil in Socio-Legal Studies. Her research currently focuses on transitional justice, narrative capital, and gendered violence in post-conflict states.

Katherine obtained her B.A. in Anthropology and History from McGill University in Montreal in 2008, and completed a MPhil in Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge (Emmanuel College) in 2009, with a dissertation on violence, urban space, and memory politics in contemporary Colombia and Argentina. She subsequently worked with the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime on research related to youth gangs, public fear, and political and legal responses in Central America. Katherine came to Oxford in the fall of 2010 with the support of the Clarendon Scholarship, the Balliol College Gregory Kulkes Law Scholarship, and a Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is a member of Oxford Transitional Justice Research, and a general editor of the OTJR Working Paper Series.

 

Research Interests

Transitional justice; Legal anthropology; Post-conflict political transition and citizenship; Gendered violence; Crime, law, and policing in Latin America; Social justice; Memory, narrative, and the politics of grief.