Amanda Grzyb

Amanda Grzyb is Professor of Information and Media Studies and the Rogers Chair of Studies in Journalism in New Information Technology at Western University. Her primary teaching and research interests include collaborative and survivor-led documentation of state violence; GPS, LiDAR, and massacre mapping; comparative genocide studies; media and social movement; and memory studies. She currently serves as the project director/PI for Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador (www.elsalvadormemory.org), a SSHRC, CFI, and ORF-funded community-based research partnership committed to documenting the history of the Salvadoran Civil War and preventing future violence. She is also a member of the research team for the SSHRC-funded partnership project, Commemorating the Experiences of Liberian Women Survivors of Conflict Related Sexual Violence for Collective Healing, led by Dr. Erica Lawson. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Duke University.