Amanda Grzyb
Amanda Grzyb is a professor of information and media studies at Western University. Her research and teaching interests focus on genocide studies, state violence, memorialization, social movements, homelessness, and media and social justice. In 2016, her research shifted to El Salvador, and she now serves as the project director for Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador, a research initiative that she co-founded with survivors, scholars, architects, and community leaders in 2017. Through this research initiative, she works closely with Asociación Sumpul [Sumpul Association], Salvadoran civil society organizations, artists, scholars, and other collaborators to document and commemorate the history of the Salvadoran Civil War from the perspective of local communities. She is committed to participatory and decolonial methodologies that produce accessible knowledge mobilization outcomes, including photo exhibitions, community history workshops, interactive maps, survivor testimonies, community-designed memorials, and multi-media civil war memory projects. Grzyb is editor/co-editor of three books: The World and Darfur (MQUP 2009), Conflict in the Nuba Mountains: From Genocide by Attrition to the Contemporary Crisis in Sudan (Routledge 2014), Organizing Equality: Dispatches from a Global Struggle (MQUP 2023), as well as author of numerous articles and book chapters about the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and homelessness. She holds a PhD in English from Duke University.