JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz

Courses Taught

• International Relations
• International Law and Diplomacy
• Gender and Genocide
• Theories of War
• Maritime Foreign Policy
• Ethnic Conflicts and Civil War
• Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements
• Democracy and Democratization
• Middle East Politics
• U.S. Foreign Policy
• Global Terrorism

Publications

• “Women and Genocide in Guatemala: Justice and the Politics of Memorialization.” Forthcoming 2026 (in production), Bloomsbury Academic Publishers, with Martha C. Galvan Mandujano.
• “Memorial Museums in Guatemala: Agents of Transitional Justice?” in Narratives of Transitional Justice, Paul Ugor and Bonny Ibhawoh, eds. Forthcoming 2025, McGill University Press. With Martha C. Galvan Mandujano 
• “Memorial Museums in Guatemala: Social Media and the Notion of Never Again,” in Reading Justice Claims in Social Media, Phillip Santos and Cleophus Muneri, eds. 2024, Palgrave
• Mcmillan Press. With Martha C. Galvan Mandujano, 67-90.
• “Memory-Words and Memorial Museums: The Efficacy of “Never Again in Guatemala.” 2023. Annals of the “Ovidius” of University of Constanja, Political Science Series. Volume 12: 7-29.
• “The Images Speak: Gendered Remembrance and Forgiveness in Cambodia and Guatemala”, Remembrance and Forgiveness: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence, 2020. Ajlina Karamechi-Muratovic and Laura Kromjak, eds. Routledge Press, with Martha C. Galvan Mandujano.
• “A Framework for Perpetrator Behavior: Role Theory and Foreign Policy and the Case of the Khmer Rouge.” 2018. Annals of the “Ovidius” of University of Constanja, Political Science Series. Volume 7: 23-35

Presentations

• “Small Scale Fishers in Guatemala: Indigenous Activism for Global Governance.” Paper presented at the annual Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), June 24, 2025, virtual presentation with Martha C. Galvan Mandujano.
• “Genocide Museums and Genocide Prevention: Guatemala and Cambodia.”  Paper presented at the 9th International Network of Genocide Scholars (INOGS) conference, June 23-26, 2024, USC California, with Martha C. Galvan Mandujano.
• “Memory Museums and the Efficacy of Never Again: A Comparative Look at Cambodia and Guatemala.” Paper presentated at the International Committee of Memorial Museums in Remembrance of the Victims of Public Crimes and the International Council of Museums. October 4th, 2023, virtual presentation with Martha C. Galvan Mandujano.
• “The Recovery of Historical Memory in Guatemala: Genocide Memorialization and the Importance of Place.” Paper presented at the 2023 conference of the Guatemala Scholars Network, July 6 through 8 at the Museo Nacional de Arte Guatemalteco in La Antigua, Guatemala, with Martha C. Galvan Mandujano.
• “The Recovery of Historical Memory in Guatemala: Genocide Memorialization and the Importance of Place.” Paper presented at The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place International Conference 17-18 June 2023 St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, virtual presentation with Martha C. Galvan Mandujano.
• “Memorial Museums and Genocide Prevention in Guatemala.” Paper presented at the 8th Global Conference of the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INOGS), Mexico City, June 26-28, 2022. Presented virtually with Martha C. Galvan Mandujano

Grants and Fellowships

March - July 2022: Recipient of the J. William Fulbright Core Scholarship, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

January - August, 2008: Recipient of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship, Amman, Jordan.

December 2010 - January 2011: Recipient of the J. William Fulbright Specialist Grant, Dewey International University, Cambodia.

January 4-11, 2009: Fellowship in the Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar on the Holocaust and Other Genocides, granted by the United States Holocaust Museum and Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Professional Appointments

January 2016 - Present: Book Review Editor in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal.