Juliet Rogers

Dr Juliet Rogers is a Professor in Criminology and the Director of the Law and Justice Minor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne where she specialises in trauma studies. She previously taught at the Melbourne Law School where she completed her PhD. She was an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow where she undertook an examination of the ‘Quality of Remorse’ in relation to periods of political and military conflict in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Australia. Juliet has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Bologna Centre for the Study of Trauma, Italy; the European University Institute, Italy; Yale Law School, US; University of Cape Town Law School, South Africa and at Queens University Law School, Belfast. She is a member of the editorial board of Law, Text, Culture.

Prior to her academic career she was a trauma counsellor, a manager and youth worker in the community sector. This work gives her specialized knowledge in empirical research with marginalized communities. She has undertaken further study in psychoanalysis, education and groupwork. She has published extensively in the areas of political, legal and postcolonial theory using psychoanalysis as a tool for interrogating human relations to war, violence and law.