My areas of research interest are broad. They include studying victims' access to legal remedies, globalisation, social stratification, international law, class, race/ethnicity/gender and religion, money, political economy, and modernity. I am a qualitative researcher and enjoy exploring critical theory.

The question of reparation has long been recognised as an essential human rights issue. Drawing from the existing literature and interviews conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina, my research shows that war victims seeking remedies for gross human rights violations find it exceptionally challenging to claim the right to reparation as a remedy personally. My study demonstrates a need to rethink alternatives to criminal and restorative justice as typical responses to unlawful conduct.  

 If reparations are universally accepted as a victims’ right to remedy, included in numerous international law instruments, why is it then that victims are unable to access it? By taking a socio-legal approach to the problem of post-war monetary reparation, the study examines the nexus between money, justice and recognition. 

The study uses qualitative, ethnographic data to investigate the importance of collective memory, historic record and victims' rights, including the access to sites of historical injustice and mass murder.

The study explores the problem of historical Injustice, the right to claim remedies, access to justice and procedural fairness before civil courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina nationally, using an ethnographic observation methodology.

Using a socio-historical method to examine the linkages between past and present, law and political economy, and individuals and structure, this study makes a case for how new types of economic re-ordering are linked to state transformation in a post-conflict society. Doing so, the project may address the blind spots in transitional justice scholarship and better unravel the nature of citizenship, rights, and victims’ positions in transforming society. 

2016:  Law and Society Association (competitive) Graduate Student Workshop Grant

2016: University of Melbourne John Barry Traveling Scholarship     

2015: University of Chicago, Women in Public Leadership, Executive Program 

2013: University of Melbourne Abroad Travelling Scholarship for doctoral studies 

2013: University of Melbourne Graduate Research in Arts Travel Grant 

2012-2016: University of Melbourne, Melbourne International Research Grant 

2012- 2016: University of Melbourne, Melbourne International Fee Remissions 

2000: The University of Chicago, Human Rights Grant