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Julia G. Barnes

Ph.D.

​PhD University of Virginia 2022: Sociocultural Anthropology

MA University of Virginia 2018: Sociocultural Anthropology

BA Dickinson College 2014: French & Italian Languages & Literatures

Specialties

As a cultural anthropologist and she has done five years of ethnographic and archaeological work with the Slovene reconciliatory movement to exhume mass graves from two concurrent wars—the Second World War and the Slovenian Civil War--in modern-day Slovenia, Italy, and Croatia. Through the conceptual framing of transitional justice, her dissertation project couples anthropological inquiry on the social life of a peace project with a re-examination of what “justice” looks like at different scales and subjectivities.