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Claire Greenstein is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2018), with a focus on comparative politics, transitional justice, and human rights. Her research examines reparations for state-sanctioned abuses and transitional justice mechanisms, drawing on archival work in Germany and elite interviews across five countries. She previously served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Center for European and Transatlantic Studies (2018–2020).
Education:
- PhD, Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Dec 2018)
- MA, Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- BA, Political Science & German, Furman University
Research interests include transitional justice, reparations, human rights abuses, genocide studies, European politics (especially German politics), and social movements. Her book manuscript, derived from her dissertation, analyzes governmental motivations for reparations post-abuses. She teaches courses such as Transitional Justice, Memory Politics, and Comparative European Government Systems.
Her work emphasizes empirical archival and interview-based methodologies, with a focus on historical and contemporary case studies. Recent research explores Romani activism in post-war Germany and the role of sites of memory in victim advocacy.
