University of Bath, UK
Dr Christina Horvath
(University of Bath lead & overall project co-ordinator)
Reader in French Politics, Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
Dr Christina Horvath (PhD Sorbonne Nouvelle 2003) joined the University of Bath in 2015. She has initiated and lead several international projects exploring colonial legacies, disputed memories, and urban marginality including Banlieue Network (2012-14), Co-Creation (coordinator of the Bath team 2017-2022), New Challenges on the Periphery (2022-23), Botanical Encounters (2021-23) and DisTerrMem (2022-24). Her latest book, Breaking the Dead Silence Engaging with the Legacies of Empire and Slave-Ownership in Bath and Bristol’s Memoryscapes (2024), co-edited with Dr Richard White, focuses on communities’ participation in shaping narratives about both cities’ links with transatlantic slavery after the toppling of Colston’s statue. For the Botanical encounters project, she brought together international scholars and Bath-based artists and activists to explore colonial legacies through participatory walks, art workshops, a talk series and an art exhibition focusing on plants. She is co-editor with Dr Tomasz Rawski of the book “Pathways for Agonism” (forthcoming with Brill), the book-length publication emerging from the DisTerrMem project.
Dr Wali Aslam
Associate Professor in International Relations, Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
Dr Wali Aslam’s research interests lie in the fields of identity politics, AfPak security and international relations theory. He worked at Forman Christian College (Lahore, Pakistan), University of Glasgow and Brunel University before joining the University of Bath.
Dr Mattia Cacciatori
Lecturer in International Relations and International Security, Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
Dr Mattia Cacciatori has a wide range of research interests and is currently involved in a number of projects examining the role of international law in conflict resolution, the complications of prosecuting sitting heads of state, as well as humanitarian intervention.
He regularly contributes to well-known blogs in international relations such as Justice in Conflict, E-International Relations, Justice Hub, The Conversation, and LSE political blogs.
Professor Anna Cento Bull
Professor of Italian History and Politics, Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
Anna Cento Bull’s research has examined the legacy of 1960s-1970s Italian terrorism, exploring issues related to reconciliation, memory, truth and justice and comparing the views of victims and perpetrators. More recently, she has worked on difficult heritage and has been a principal investigator the Horizon 2020-funded project Unsettling Remembering and Social Cohesion in Transnational Europe. Publications include Ending Terrorism in Italy, Abingdon and New York 2013 (with P. Cooke), ‘On Agonistic Memory’ (with H L. Hansen, Memory Studies, 2016, 9: 4, 390-404), and ‘War Museums as Agonistic Spaces: Possibilities, Opportunities and Constraints’ (with H.L. Hansen, W. Kansteiner and N. Parish, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 25:6, 611-25).
Professor David Clarke
Professor in German Studies, School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University & Visiting Professor, Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies, University of Bath
David Clarke’s research focuses on the politics and culture of memory in Germany and Europe. He is author of Constructions of Victimhood: Remembering the Victims of State Socialism in Germany (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and was a researcher on the Horizon 2020-funded project Unsettling Remembering and Social Cohesion in Transnational Europe.
Dr Sandra Daroczi
Lecturer in French Studies, Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
Dr Sandra Daroczi’s research focuses on contemporary women’s writing, feminisms, and the intersection of socio-political change, literature and the visual arts. She has contributed articles and chapters on the work of Marie Darrieussecq, Julia Kristeva, Tatiana de Rosnay and the women’s liberation movement in France. She is currently working on a monograph examining the reading dialogues put forward by Monique Wittig’s fiction. She is also interested in using her research to bridge the gap between academia and the public. Her most recent contribution was co-organising a creative workshop for the Shameless! Festival of Activism against Sexual Violence (November 2021).
Professor Nina Parish
Professor in French and Francophone Studies, Department of Literature and Languages, University of Stirling
Nina is a visiting research fellow at the University of Bath. She works on representations of difficult history, the migrant experience and multilingualism in the museum space. Between 2016 and March 2019 she was part of the EU-funded Horizon 2020 UNREST team working on innovative memory practices in sites of trauma including war museums and mass graves (www.unrest.eu). She is also an expert on the interaction between text and image in the field of modern and contemporary French Studies. She has published widely on this subject, in particular, on the poet and visual artist, Henri Michaux.
Dr Doreen Pastor
Lecturer in German, Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
Dr Doreen Pastor’s research focuses on the memorialisation of the Nazi and GDR past in museums in Germany, and in particular, how visitors engage with violence in exhibitions. She recently published her first monograph, titled Tourism and Memory – Visitor Experiences of the Nazi and GDR Past (Routledge, 2021).
Dr Galadriel Ravelli
Lecturer in Italian Studies, Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
Galadriel teaches Italian Studies and European History and Politics. In 2018 she was awarded a PhD by the University of Bath for her thesis on the transnational trajectories of Italian neo-fascism during the Cold War. She is currently (November 2021- March 2022) a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory (Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London), where she is working on a research project on the memory of colonial deportation from Libya to Italy.
Dr Milena Romano
Lecturer in European Politics, Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
Milena’s research interests are in European integration and foreign policy, feminism, protest movements and education. She holds a PhD in Politics, Languages and International Studies from the University of Bath, with a thesis on the projection of the EU as an international actor in Georgia (2008) and Ukraine (2014). In the past year, Milena has provided workshops for Year 11 and 12 students to discuss current topics and has co-organised a creative workshop for the Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence in London.
Polly Winfield
PhD Researcher, Department of Social and Policy Sciences
Polly Winfield is an ESRC-funded doctoral researcher. Her PhD looks at the interplays between memorialisation, transitional justice and identity formation in South Africa, employing participatory research methods to deconstruct the tensions between institutional and vernacular productions of memory.
She has previously completed her MRes Conflict, Security and Human Rights at the University of Bath and MA Conflict Resolution at King’s College London. Alongside her PhD, Polly is the Founder of Coalition Peace, and has previous experience in research at the European Parliament, ISS Africa and Planting Promise.
Dr Sophie Whiting
Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
Dr Sophie Whiting’s research centres on political parties and power sharing institutions following violent conflict and the influence of ‘spoiler’ groups within peace processes. She is also interested in the role of gender in issues relating to reconciliation, memory and commemoration, as well as the promotion of gender equality in societies following violent conflict.
Dr Whiting’s publication record includes award-winning research with Oxford University Press and Manchester University Press and articles with Terrorism and Political Violence and The British Journal of Politics and International Relations (BJPIR).
