Hi. My name is Megan; I am a doctoral candidate in International Relations (Political Science) at the University of Minnesota. I hold fellowships with the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change and the Law School’s Human Rights Center. I am interested in the politics of thoughts and feelings, especially as they relate to the politics of atrocity. My work thinks with pain, insisting on a practice of taking care for the responsibility for a collective inheritance of U.S. annihilatory violence, settler coloniality, and its global imperial project. In my dissertation, I show how international atrocity trials help the state get away with mass murder in service of global racial capitalism. 

I live in the Miní Sóta Makhóčhe, the homelands of the Dakhóta Oyáte, where the University exploits the legal privileges of the ‘land-grant’ scheme to benefit from ongoing genocide against indigenous peoples of Turtle Island. For more information and guidance in confronting the history of the institution, I encourage reading the Truth Report, which was created in collaboration with the Cansa'yapi, Gaa-waabaabiganikaag, Gaa-zagaskwaajimekaag, Mdewakanton, Misi-zaaga'iganiing, Miskwaagamiiwi-Zaagaiganing, Nah-gah-chi-wa-nong, Pezihutazizi Oyáte, Tinta Wita, Zagaakwaandagowininiwag, Gichi-OnigamingGrand. 

Educational Background & Specialties
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Educational Background

  • B.A., cum laude: Politics and History, Willamette University, 2014
  • M.Sc., distinction: Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice, SOAS, University of London, 2019 -

Specialties

  • responsibility
  • genocide
  • thoughts & feelings