Ernesto Verdeja
Ernesto Verdeja is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies, and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Political Science and Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He earned his Ph.D. (2005) and M.A. (1998) in political science (political theory) from the New School for Social Research in New York City. His research has focused on large-scale political violence (genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity), transitional justice, forgiveness and reconciliation, and trials, truth commissions, and reparations. Other interests include contemporary political theory, particularly democratic and critical theory, the Frankfurt School, and feminism.
His work has been published in Constellations, Res Publica, Metaphilosophy, Contemporary Political Theory, The European Journal of Political Theory, and Contemporary Politics. He also has published a book chapter on trials and truth commissions in Genocide War Crimes and the West (Adam Jones, ed.) and has co-edited two short books: one on transitional justice and the other on civil society in Cuba. His book Unchopping a Tree: Reconciliation in the Aftermath of Political Violence will be published by Temple University Press, and he is currently working on a book project on comparative genocide and moral bystanders.
Verdeja’s dissertation won the Hannah Arendt Award in Politics from the New School for best dissertation in political science and was nominated for the American Political Science Association’s Leo Strauss Award in Political Theory.
Prior to arriving at Notre Dame, Verdeja taught at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, where he received the Carol A. Baker '81 Memorial Prize for excellence in research and teaching in the social sciences, and the Caleb T. Winchester Scholar-Teacher Award from Psi Upsilon (Wesleyan chapter).
He also has worked on human rights at the International Center for Transitional Justice and the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, and is a board member of the Institute for the Study of Genocide.
Verdeja also is a board member of the Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change at Notre Dame.
Contact Information
Email: everdeja@nd.edu
Mailing Address:
217 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Nore Dame, IN 46556
Physical Office:
306 Hesburgh Center
Notre Dame, IN 46556 P
Phone: (574) 631-8533
Fax: (574) 631-6973
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