Jessica G. Mecellem

I am a Teaching Assistant Professor of Politics at The University of the South (Sewanee). I also serve as an organizational core member of the Transitional Justice and Memory Politics Summer School, in Cres, Croatia (http://summerschoolcres.org).

 

I completed my Ph.D. in Political Science at Loyola University Chicago in 2016. My dissertation focused on conceptions of justice for enforced disappearances in Algeria and Turkey.  My published work based on fieldwork in both countries has appeared in The International Journal of Transitional Justice and Law & Social Inquiry.

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I teach a variety of courses on the Middle East and North Africa, Comparative Politics, Transitional Justice, and U.S. Foreign Policy. 

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See my recent analysis of ongoing events in Algeria featured in the Washington Post's The Monkey Cage

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Current book project: Vanished: The Origins and Evolution of Enforced Disappearance as a State Practice (under advanced contract with Lynne Rienner Publishers)