Jun-Prof. Dr. Rosario Figari Layus

Consultation hours

Consultation hours during the lecture period are held every Wednesday between 2:00 PM and 3:30 PM, or by prior arrangement.

Registration via email (rfigari@uni-bonn.de) is required.

Rosario Figari Layus

Research interests

Reconciliation processes, peace and conflict studies
Transitional Justice & politics of the past
Dynamics and challenges in the context of authoritarian regimes, political violence, and shrinking spaces
Human rights and human rights policy at local and global levels
Activism for peace and human rights

Personal Information

Academic and professional career

Since October 2024: Junior Professor for Reconciliation Research, Friedrich Wilhelm University Bonn
10/2018–09/2024: Research Associate (Post-Doc) at the Chair of Peace Research at Justus Liebig University Giessen
6/2016–12/2018: Consultant for the funding evaluation of human rights projects at Bread for the World, Berlin
7/2015–6/2016: Research Associate at the Institute of Sociology, Philipps University Marburg. Research project "Gender and Transitional Justice"
12/2012–6/2015: Research Associate at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld. Research project "Violence Research and Development in the Global South"
10/2013–03/2014: Lecturer at the University of Wuppertal in the Department of Political Sociology
10/2011–09/2013: Research associate at the University of Konstanz. Research project: "Narratives of Terror & Disappeareance" (European Research Council Starting Grant)
10/2010–09/2011: Research associate at the Ruprecht-Karls University.
08/2008–12/2009: Research assistant at the Otto Suhr Institute, Free University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center: "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood."

Scientific training

2016: Doctorate from the Department of Political Science at Philipps University Marburg.
2010: Master of Arts in Social Sciences from Humboldt University Berlin.
2004: Studied Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Awards and Fellowships

01/2022–08/2022: Mellon Foundation & Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Fellowship 2021/22.
972021–12/2021: Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies Fellowship (CALAS).
2018: Awarded the Dissertation Prize of the German Association for Latin American Studies (ADLAF).
2017: Awarded the Doctoral Prize of Philipps University Marburg.

Research stay

2/2024–4/2024: Visiting Scholar am Center for Applied Human Rights, University of York, England.
10/2021–12/2021: Visiting Scholar am Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexiko.
2/2020–3/2020: Visiting Scholar am Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexiko.
3/2019–4/2019: Visiting lecturer at the Institute of Social Sciences, Master's program in "Peacebuilding" (in Spanish: "Construcción de Paz"), Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.
1/2012–6/2012: Visiting Scholar am Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University, New York, USA.