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dr. Maartje Weerdesteijn, MSc

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Criminology

Assistant Professor, A-LAB

Assistant Professor, Research Programmes - Law, Empirical and Normative Studies

Personal information

Maartje Weerdesteijn is Assistant Professor at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, researcher at the Center for International Criminal Justice and board member of the Peace and Conflict Studies Center. In addition, Maartje is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Genocide Studies and Prevention.

Maartje obtained a PhD from Tilburg University, Department of Criminal Law, a Master in International Crimes and Criminology from VU Amsterdam (Cum Laude), and a Bachelor in European Studies (Cum Laude). She used to work as a lecturer at the History of International Relations Department of Utrecht University and was a visiting scholar with Griffith University Australia at the Griffith Asia Institute in 2014.

Research

Maartje is an interdisciplinary scholar with a focus on the role of the individual in mass atrocities. She has, for instance, done extensive research on the decision-making process of dictators in situations of mass atrocities. In addition, she investigates the role emotions play for scholars, teachers and practitioners working in the field of mass atrocities which culminated in the Open Access edited volume Emotions, Ethics and Mass Atrocities (funded a.o. with a Comenius Teaching Fellows grant).

Teaching

Maartje teaches the elective course Atrocity Actors, the extra-curricular course Professional Opportunities and Personal Wellbeing, and supervises Master's theses. In addition, she teaches the course Political Violence and the Human Condition in the Peace and Conflict Studies Minor.

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