Dr Lena Reim

Departmental Lecturer

Lena is a Departmental Lecturer at the Oxford Department of Global and Area Studies and the Oxford Department of Politics and International Relations.

Her current research is centred on the politics of memory and transitional justice in post-conflict and divided societies. In the past, she has worked on research projects on human trafficking, trauma, and forced migration.

Lena holds a DPhil and MPhil from the Oxford Department of International Development, and a BA from the University of Amsterdam and VU Amsterdam.

Research Interests

Research Disciplines:

  • Politics

Research Keywords:

  • The Politics of Violence
  • Memory and Transitional Justice
  • Citizenship and Belonging
  • Ethnicity and Nationalism
  • Civil Society and Grassroots Activism
  • Diasporas and Forced Migration
  • Southern and East Africa

Research Cluster:

  • Methods
  • Social and political activism
Contact Information

Email: lena.reim@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Publications

Articles

Reim, L. (2023). ‘Gukurahundi Continues’: Violence, Memory, and Mthwakazi Activism in Zimbabwe. African Affairs, 122(486), 95–117.

Book Chapters

Reim, L. (2024). History-Making as Othering: Perspectives on Zimbabwe’s Patriotic History from Matabeleland. In L. Puygrenier, J. Bouyat, & A. Le Bellec (Eds), States in the Making of Others: Perspectives on Social State Institutions and Othering in Southern Africa and Western Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan (The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy).