Sara Dybris McQuaid, Associate Professor at Aarhus University. She is a contemporary historian and political scientist who works mostly across the interdisciplinary fields of peace and conflict studies and memory studies. Her research pivots around how collectives remember, forget and archive their past, particularly as part of conflict and peacebuilding processes and in the context of the ‘post-conflict’ period in Northern Ireland.

She recently received a “Carlsberg Monograph Fellowship” for writing a book entitled “Administrations of Memory and the Politics of the “post-“: Northern Ireland 1994-2024”. She teaches on the BA in Humanities and Conflict and the MA in Intercultural Studies at Aarhus University. She is a founding member of the Centre for Resolution of International Conflicts at the University of Copenhagen and was a co-director of the working group “Transformations of Conflict” in the COST action Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change from 2021-2024.