Fisseha Fantahun Tefera received a postdoc funding from VR

We are delighted to announce that dr Fisseha Fantahun Tefera will be joining the Uppsala Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies from December!
Fisseha is a researcher at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, and holds a PhD in Peace and Development Research. His work focuses on memory studies, transitional justice, and heritage politics, with a particular focus on Ethiopia and Africa.

At the Centre, he will be working on his three-year VR International Postdoc project, “Transitional Justice Afterlives as Memory Regimes: Tracing the Legacy of the Red Terror Trials in Ethiopia's Current Transitional Justice Process.”The project examines how Ethiopia’s earlier transitional justice processes, particularly the Red Terror trials of the 1990s, continue to shape the country’s current transitional justice process.

The research is based at the Uppsala Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies of Uppsala University, with research periods at the Institute of Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia) and the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands).

We are very happy to welcome Fisseha to the Centre and look forward to his contributions and to having him as part of our research community!

Welcome, Fisseha!