Alison Crosby, associate professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies, and Heather Evans, doctoral scholar in the graduate program in Gender, Feminist & Women’s Studies, have co-edited a new book entitled, Memorializing Violence: Transnational Feminist Reflections. The book is a collection of feminist and queer reflections on the ways societies memorialize loss in the wake of different forms of violence, including imperial, military and state violence. The book’s contributors look at memorials, archives, art installations, performances and other ways that communities memorialize, and looks at how grief can serve as a catalyst for activism and societal change.
Crosby holds a PhD from York University. She has focused much of her research on the memorialization of harm from political violence in Guatemala, where she has worked for over 30 years. Her other research interests include gender issues, Latin American and Caribbean studies, transitional justice, and feminist participatory action research.
Learn more about the book or order it on Rutgers University Press.