Dr Roxani Krystalli is a Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching focus on feminist peace and conflict studies, as well as on the politics of nature and place. A key question animating Roxani’s work within and beyond the academy is how people imagine and enact worlds in the wake of loss. Roxani is currently co-leading a research project on the politics of love and care in the wake of violence, ecological loss, and mass grief. This work is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the German Research Foundation, and unfolds in partnership with Dr Philipp Schulz. Roxani’s first book, Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question was published by Oxford University Press in 2024.
Leigh A. Payne is the Professor of Sociology and Latin America at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. She is the author of a number of books, book chapters, and articles on transitional justice. Among her publications in the last five years are: “Confessions to Intimate Violence: FARC Confessions to Sexual Violations in the Colombian Conflict” (2024); The Right against Rights in Latin America (2023); Understanding Collaborators (2022); Disappearances in the Post-Transition Era in Latin America (2021); and Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability from Below: Deploying Archimedes’ Lever (2021). She is also the co-author of Transitional Justice in Balance and the co-editor of Amnesty in the Age of Human Rights Accountability. Based on her research findings, Payne has been involved in numerous academic-practitioner impact projects around the world. For her academic research and policy impact work, she has received grants from foundations including Open Society, Ford, Oak, Newton, and Zennström. She has also received funding from research councils, including the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), British Academy, and National Science Foundation (US). Professor Payne received her PhD in Political Science at Yale University.
Samuel Ritholtz is a Departmental Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Oxford. Their research explores LGBTIQ+ experiences of conflict, crisis, and displacement in the Americas with a particular focus on Colombia. They are co-editor of Queer Conflict Research (2024) and co-author of the monograph Queer Refuge: Justice in the Search for Sanctuary (forthcoming).
