Dr. Jessica Auchter

Biography

Jessica Auchter has been a Full Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies since 2022. Previously, she worked at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga, USA (2012-2022). Her research focuses on visual culture and politics, particularly the visual representation of atrocity and corpses and human rights in international studies. She is the author of several influential works, including 'Global Corpse Politics: The Obscenity Taboo' (Cambridge, 2021) and 'The Politics of Haunting and Memory in International Relations' (Routledge, 2014). Auchter has published dozens of articles and book chapters in prestigious journals, such as Critical Studies on Security and International Affairs. She has received the International Studies Association's Fred Hartmann Prize for her research and serves as an associate editor for 'International Political Sociology'. Außerdem ist she engaged on the editorial board of the Journal of Narrative Politics and participates in various roles within the International Studies Association Northeast. Her insightful contributions to the academic discourse on remembrance and the politics surrounding it continue to enhance the field. She has also shared her expertise in various public forums, discussing critical themes in gender and global violence.

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