Bridget Conley

Bridget Conley is the Research Director of the World Peace Foundation (WPF) and Research Associate Professor at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. She leads the Mass Atrocities program at WPF and specializes in memory following mass atrocities, genocide studies, and museum engagement with human rights. Conley holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Binghamton University (2001).

• Affiliations: World Peace Foundation, The Fletcher School
• Research Focus: Mass atrocities, memorialization, museums, and U.S. incarceration

Education: PhD in Comparative Literature, Binghamton University (2001).

Research Interests: Her work bridges academic research and policy advocacy, focusing on how societies remember mass atrocities (e.g., her book Memory from the Margins on Ethiopia’s Red Terror Memorial Museum) and analyzing how atrocities end. She has curated exhibitions like From Memory to Action at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Grants & Awards: Received grants from Carnegie Corporation and Tufts Collaborates for projects on defense industries and memorialization. No specific awards listed.

Teaching: Teaches courses such as Understanding Mass Atrocities and Contemporary Critical Theory at Fletcher. Supervises capstone projects and independent studies.

Labs/Teams: Leads WPF’s Mass Atrocities program, analyzing case studies from Guatemala, Burundi, and Iraq to inform policy on atrocity prevention.