Stephanie Wolfe, Ph.D.
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Professor and Director of Political Science, Weber State University
Research Associate in the Department of Ancient and Modern Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria.
President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars
Board of Directors for the Model United Nations of the Far West
Education
Ph.D., International Relations, University of Kent, Brussels School of International Studies
Dissertation: The Politics of Reparations and Apologies: The Differential Application of Restorative Justice Following State Atrocity
M.H.R., Human Relations, University of Oklahoma
B.L.S., College of Liberal Studies, University of Oklahoma
Primary Research Areas
Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes, International politics, international law and organizations, global and transnational justice, human rights, security, reparations, apologies, and memorialization.
Scholarship includes case studies on the Holocaust, the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Japanese American internment, and the Japanese comfort women system, reparations, apologies, and memorialization.
Courses Offered
- International Politics, Organizations, and Society (most semesters)
- International Law and Organizations (e.o.fall)
- Genocide, War, and Human Rights (e.o.fall)
- Gender, Power, and Global Politics (spring)
- Model United Nations (spring) (required for fall class)
- Model United Nations Team (fall -prereq required)
- Study Trips
- United Nations (spring)
- Model United Nations of the Far West (spring)
- National Model United Nations (Washington, D.C. or alternative location)
Select Awards and Honors
Citizen Diplomacy Award given at the Capitol (February 2025)
Ambrose Shaw Endowed Chair Award (April 2024)
Affordable Course Materials Award (March 2022)
President’s Excellence in Teaching Award (Dec. 2018)
Gwen S. Williams Prize for Research and Program Development (2017)
WOW Awards: Woman of Wisdom, Weber State University (2015)
Publications
“Lessons from the Field: Experts Weigh in on Years of Conducting Fieldwork in Post-Atrocity Zones.” Nicole Fox, Christopher P. Davey, Elaine Lan Yin Hsiao, Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod, Samantha J. Lakin, Judith Rafferty, and Stephanie Wolfe ,Journal of Genocide Research. 1-20. (May 13, 2025)
“Survivor Agency in the Post-Genocide Memorialisation Process in Rwanda.” (Journal of Genocide Research, April 14 2025)
"Memorial Museums and Burial Sites: Rwanda’s Unfinished Memory Work." (Memory Studies Journal, August 12, 2024.)
In the Shadow of Genocide: Justice and Memory within Rwanda. (Routledge, December 20, 2022).
“Through The Eyes Of Children: The 1994 Genocide Against The Tutsi In Rwanda.” (Routledge, December 20, 2022).
“Reparations and the Role of Apologies” in Barbora Holá, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, and Maartje Weerdesteijn (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Atrocity Crimes (Oxford University Press, March 24, 2022).
Book chapter: “Memorialization in Rwanda: The Legal, Social, and Digital Constructions of the Memorial Narrative” in Eve Monique Zucker and David J. Simon (eds.) Mass Violence and Memory in the Digital Age: Memorialization Unmoored (Palgrave-MacMillan, July 2020).
Book chapter: “Historical and Symbolic Justice within the Rwandan Context” in S. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser M. Ottanelli (eds). The Performance of Memory as Transitional Justice (Intersentia Publishers, January 1, 2015).
The Politics of Reparations and Apologies (Springer, 2013)
Useful Links
Model United Nations Program at Weber State
International Studies Program at Weber State
Model United Nations of the Far West
National Model United Nations Conferences
International Association of Genocide Scholars
Weber State Department of Political Science and Philosophy
Human Rights Club at Weber State
Contact Information
Dr. Stephanie Wolfe
Email: stephaniewolfe@weber.edu
Office: Lindquist Hall 141
Office Phone: 801-626-6694
Weber State University
Department of Political Science and Philosophy
1299 Edvalson Street; Dept 1204
Ogden, UT 84408-1204