Justice, made from below
I am a scholar of transitional justice, memory politics, and global governance. My work asks how justice is practiced, contested, and reshaped from below, by youth movements, civil society organizations, and informal actors, in societies living through conflict, political change, and now climate and technological disruption. This is the throughline of justicecraft, the analytical framework I have developed with colleagues, including Lauren Balasco, Eliza Garnsey, and Christopher K. Lamont, over the past decade.
I am Associate Professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University and direct Project AROS Lab, a research-apprenticeship model that brings undergraduates into faculty-led projects. I hold a Non-Resident Senior Fellowship in AI Governance at the Global Governance Institute in Brussels, and give lectures at Columbia University and NYU. I was a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center (2016–2025) and held a Library of Congress Kluge Center fellowship (2023–2026).
I have published widely on transitional justice and human rights, and write reports for governments and international organizations through my consultancy, Justicecraft Solutions.
