Caroline Bennett
is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK. Her research considers violence and politics, with specific attention to mass graves and human remains after mass violence and genocide, and the politics of death and the dead in projects of nation and state building.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3381-601X
Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier
is a visual culture theorist who focuses on political violence, images, and activism in Southeast Asia. She is currently research associate at the University of Nottingham. She has conducted research as fellow at the Center for Khmer Studies (2023), the ERC project Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth Century Asia (2019–2021), and at the Forum Transregionale Studien and ICI Institute for Culture Inquiry in Berlin (2018–2019). She has contributed to essays collection, exhibition catalogues, and journals such as South East Asia Research, International Criminal Law Review, Journal of Asian Studies, and Media, Culture & Society.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8299-9836
Julia M. Brennan
has worked in the field of textile conservation since 1985 and is dedicated to the protection of cultural heritage. Since 2000, she has led collections care workshops and set up conservation labs in Bhutan, Madagascar, Algeria, Indonesia, Laos and Thailand, including the preservation of victims’ clothing in Cambodia and Rwanda. Providing stakeholders with sustainable skills is represented in her 2019 project and publication “Our Ancestors Knew Best” devoted to gathering traditional textile preservation methods and materials in Asia. She has a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University, and an MA in art crime from The Association for Research in Crimes Against Art.
ORCID: 0000-0002-0793-4645
Magali An Berthon
is a textile historian focusing on the contemporary history of Southeast Asian dress and textiles with a specific interest in Cambodian silk weaving production, immigrant and refugee textile practices, and material cultures of conflict and colonialism. She holds a PhD in Design History from the Royal College of Art, London, UK with the thesis “Silk and Post-Conflict Cambodia: Embodied
ORCID: 0000-0003-1117-3903
Daniel Bultmann
As a sociologist, currently based at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany, Daniel Bultmann has been working on theories of inequality and violence, on a postcolonial critique in peace and conflict studies, on a political sociology of power elites, on digital ethnographies, and on ontologies of the body and knowledge in torture practices. Amongst others, he has written books on the history of the Khmer Rouge and theories of civil war (in German) as well as on the social structure of Cambodian armed groups and their reintegration after the war’s end.
ORCID: 0000-0001-5465-2010
Julie Fleischman
is Forensic Anthropologist at Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, in Houston, Texas. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology, an MA in Anthropology, an MS in Forensic Science, and a BA in Anthropology. Her primary research interests involve skeletal trauma, the application of skeletal analysis to human rights, and the improvement of forensic anthropological methods. Her research in Cambodia was conducted for her doctoral dissertation. She is certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology. As a Forensic Anthropologist, she analyses human skeletal remains to assess age-at-death, sex, ancestry, stature, and traumatic injuries in a medico-legal context. She has published numerous articles in peer reviewed journals and edited volumes.
ORCID:0000-0003-4941-0521
Judy Ledgerwood
is a cultural anthropologist whose research interests include cultural change in the aftermath of violence, new patterns of gender and social relations after the Cambodian revolution and war, and the politics of memory; she conducts research in Cambodia and with Khmer communities in the U.S. She currently serves as the director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. She has conducted research in Cambodia and in the United States with Khmer Americans. She has taught at the Royal University of Fine Arts, Faculty of Archaeology in Phnom Penh; and has had senior research fellowships from the Center for Khmer Studies. She has served on the board of the National Cambodian Heritage Museum and Killing Fields Memorial in Chicago.
is currently the director of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in the field of Prehistory and Archaeology at the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh in 2009. Hang has been working at the museum since 2010, first as a tour-guide and in the administration. In 2015, he was appointed head of Exhibition section in charge of the organization of the temporary exhibitions, and later on head of the Project and Planning section.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4362-6957
Rachel Hughes
is a Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is a leading expert on public sites of memory of the Khmer Rouge regime and has published extensively in this field. Her current writing projects are focussed on the politics of judicial reparations in contemporary Cambodia, and on Cambodia-focussed transnational solidarity campaigns from the period 1979-1989.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4003-0656
Helen Jarvis
has worked on issues relating to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum since the mid-1990s, especially with Yale University’s Cambodian Genocide Program, the ECCC and UNESCO’s Memory of the World programme. Relevant publications include Getting away with genocide? Elusive justice and the Khmer Rouge Trials (co-author with Tom Fawthrop), Modern Genocides Cambodia database; and “Powerful remains: the continuing presence of victims of the Khmer Rouge regime in today’s Cambodia”, in Human Remains and Violence. She holds a PhD from the University of Sydney, has both Australian and Cambodian nationality and lives in Phnom Penh.
ORCID: 0000-0002-5762-8654
Caroline D. Laurent
completed her PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University in November of 2016. Her forthcoming monograph, entitled The Words of Others: Remembering and Writing Genocide as an Indirect Witness, examines literary representations, produced by indirect witnesses, of the Holocaust, the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and the Khmers Rouge’s violence and genocide in Cambodia. After having taught African and comparative literature at King’s College London in England and postcolonial theory at Sciences Po in France, Caroline D. Laurent is now an assistant professor of Francophone studies at the American University of Paris.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6057-0895
Cambodia’s leading filmmaker Rithy Panh was born in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) in 1964. Many members of his family died under the Khmer Rouge regime (1975–1979). In 1979 he could escape in a refugee camp in Thailand. From there he went to France where he later studied cinema. He has created several documentaries dealing with the traumatic legacy of the Khmer Rouge regime. Panh is not only a film director. He is also active in collecting cinematographic archives and making this heritage accessible to the public through the Bophana Audiovisual Resources Center he co-founded in 2006, and where a new generation of cinema makers is trained. He has also published several books, amongst them The Elimination (in 2012, in collaboration with Christophe Bataille).
Rafal Pankowski
is a Professor at the Institute of Sociology of Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, Poland. He has published widely on racist, xenophobic and totalitarian movements including the books Neo-Fascism in Western Europe: A Study in Ideology (Polish Academy of Sciences, 1998), Racism and Popular Culture (Trio, 2006), and The Populist Radical Right in Poland: The Patriots (Routledge, 2010). He is a co-founder of the Never Again Association. Pankowski was a visiting professor at the Centre for European Studies of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, and the International Buddhist Studies College of Mahachulalongkonrajavidyalaya University, Ayutthaya, Thailand.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6594-2643
Anne-Laure Porée
is anthropologist (EHESS, Paris). For her PhD, she conducted research on the everyday life in the Khmer Rouge prison S-21. Since January 2018 she works with a Cambodian research group at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum and has assisted them for two of their publications. She has also worked as a journalist in Cambodia since 2005. She is the author of a blog dedicated to the trial of former S-21 chief Duch (www.proceskhmersrouges.net). She made the documentary film The Last Refuge, which was awarded best Southeast-Asian documentary in human rights film festivals in Myanmar and Malaysia (2013).
ORCID: 0000-0002-2080-6920
Bridie Shepherd
is a PhD candidate in Human Geography at The University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology, politics, and culture. She is particularly interested in the ways emerging technologies are modulating affective and sensory life.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7986-5159
a German museum practitioner, has worked as an advisor for Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum from 2017 to 2023. Previously, she studied cultural pedagogy, engaged in civic education, and worked in different roles within the memorial sites Buchenwald and Dachau, two major former Nazi concentration camps in Germany. A believer of memorial site Buchenwald’s motto memory needs knowledge, her work focuses on supporting documentation and preservation of the site. She engages in developing the archive, fact-based research, exhibitions, and publications to qualify the educational programs. She is a board member of ICMEMO (ICOM).
ORCID: 0000-0003-4733-0595
Christina Ullrich
is a historian and has been working as a research associate at the faculty of Modern History at Marburg University until recently. Her current postdoctoral research project dealt with the question of historical narratives and victim recognition after genocidal mass crimes separately in the cases of Cambodia and Germany. The project was funded by the German Research Foundation. After she had completed her PhD with a dissertation on the reintegration of former Nazi-perpetrators into post war German society at Marburg University, she initially worked as a project manager with Diakonie-Emergency-Aid. Her research focus is on genocide and mass atrocities, transitional justice with a focus on victims and victimhood, perpetrators, war crime trials, National Socialism and Federal German society.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7545-9981
Helen Worsnop
Former Senior Assistant Prosecutor at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (2015–2022). Previously, she was an Associate Legal Officer in Trial Chamber II at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, where she assisted the Judges in drafting the Taylor judgment. She has taught classes in international criminal law, the law of armed conflict and international commercial litigation (private international law) for the Cambridge University LL.M programme and has lectured in human rights law at the Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia. She holds an LL.M (first class) in international law from Cambridge University.