Hello, and welcome!

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My name is Claire Greenstein, and I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with my PhD in Political Science in December 2018, and from 2018-2020 I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for European and Transatlantic Studies at the Georgia Institute for Technology's Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. I conduct research on reparations for human rights abuses, as well as research on transitional justice more generally, and I am currently revising a book manuscript on what motivates governments to pay reparations to their own citizens in the wake of widespread, state-sanctioned human rights abuses. The data for the book, which contains three case studies, comes from archival research that I conducted in Germany, as well as from elite interviews that I held with over sixty people in five different countries between 2015 and 2017.

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My teaching experience includes serving as the sole instructor for Introduction to Comparative Politics, International Political Economy, Transitional Justice, Memory Politics, Human Rights, Introduction to European Politics, Central and Eastern European Politics, Government and Politics of Western Europe, and German Government and Politics.