Ernesto Verdeja
Associate Professor
Fields of Study: Political Theory, International Relations
Research and Teaching Interests: Large-scale political violence, transitional justice, forgiveness and reconciliation, and trials, truth commissions, apologies, and reparations
316 Hesburgh Center
574-631-8533
Joint Appointment in Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Faculty Fellow at Nanovic Institute for European Studies, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights, all in the Keough School of Global Affairs
Core faculty in the Center for the Study of Social Movements
Ernesto Verdeja holds a joint appointment in the Department of Political Science and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He is the author of Unchopping a Tree: Reconciliation in the Aftermath of Political Violence (Temple University Press, 2009). He has published articles in Constellations, Perspectives on Politics, Contemporary Political Theory, The Review of Politics, The European Journal of Political Theory, International Political Science Review, Res Publica, Metaphilosophy, Genocide Studies and Prevention, and Contemporary Politics, as well as numerous chapters in edited collections. Verdeja is also coeditor of volumes on peacebuilding and social movements, the field of genocide studies, and the international politics of genocide prevention. He is currently working on a book project on comparative genocide.
Verdeja is a faculty fellow at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, all part of the Keough School of Global Affairs, and a core faculty member of the Center for the Study of Social Movements. He is also the Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Genocide, a non-profit organization founded in 1982 to promote research and policy analysis on the causes and prevention of genocide and political violence. Verdeja has served two terms on the Advisory Board of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, a worldwide scholarly association devoted to the study and prevention of genocide, and regularly consults on political violence issues with various government agencies and nongovernmental organizations.
Verdeja is the recipient of the 2018 Sheedy Excellence in Teaching Award.