Bridget Conley

Bridget Conley is the Research Director of the World Peace Foundation and Associate Research Professor at The Fletcher School. At WPF, she is the lead researcher on WPF’s program, “Protecting Vulnerable Groups,” and program manager for the Global Arms and Corruption projects. She works closely with the Executive Director on project development, fundraising and strategic vision for WPF.

Currently, her research focuses on “Tracking COVID-19 in Detention”. She is lead editor on the Accountability for Starvation volume, due out in 2022 from Oxford University Press. Her previous research examined memory following mass atrocities, which culminated in her book, Memory from the Margins: Ethiopia’s Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum (Palgrave 2019), and comparative studies of how mass atrocities end. She is the editor of How Mass Atrocities End: Studies from Guatemala, Burundi, Indonesia, the Sudans, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Iraq (Cambridge University Press 2016). She has also published on issues related to starvation crimes, the 1992 – 1995 war in Bosnia, mass atrocities and genocide, and how museums can engage on human rights issues.

At Tufts, she won two university supported grants supporting interdisciplinary research projects and in 2020-2021, was a Faculty Fellow at the Jonathon M. Tisch College of Civic Life. Her project is, “Connecting people to resources: A Proposal to Support the Tufts Educational Re-entry Network,” developed in conversation with the Tufts University Prison Initiative at Tisch College.

She previously worked as Research Director for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Committee on Conscience, where she led the Museum’s research and projects on contemporary threats of genocide, acting as a producer of multimedia public outreach materials, formulating the Museum’s positions on contemporary threats of genocide, and curating an exhibition, From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide Today. She received a PhD in Comparative Literature from Binghamton University in 2001.

At the Fletcher School, Prof. Bridget Conley taught a course Understanding Mass Atrocities; which was offered as an undergraduate course in Fall 2019 to incarcerated students at MCI-Concord through the Tufts University Prison Initiative at Tisch College. She also co-taught an undergraduate course on ethics and activism.Starting in Spring 2021, she has taught a graduate course on critical theory and International Relations at The Fletcher School.

Research/Areas of Interest:

• Mass atrocities
• Genocide
• Museums
• Memorialization
• Incarceration in the US

Education

PhD, Comparative Literature, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, United States, 2001

Tufts University Appointments

• Research Director
  Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 6 Sep 2011 - present
• Research Associate Professor
  Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1 Jul 2019 - present
• Research Assistant Professor
  Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1 Jan 2016 - 30 Jun 2019