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Leigh Payne
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Title: Professor
Office Hours: On Leave, 2009-2010
E-Mail: lpayne@polisci.wisc.edu
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Website:Transitional Justice Database Project
Her main teaching and research interests are in Latin American politics. She is particularly interested in the study of democratization, and the challenges posed to democracy from groups currently or previously associated with political violence. Her research directly concerns the role that the legacy of authoritarian rule plays in institutional and extra-institutional processes in new democracies. For that research she has received support from Fulbright, Social Science Research Council, and the MacArthur Foundation among other granting institutions.
Among many publications, she is the author of Uncivil Movements: The Armed Right-Wing and Democracy in Latin America (2000, Johns Hopkins) as well as numerous articles and chapters devoted to truth telling, the confessions of torturers and collaborators, and memory politics in new democracies. Her book, Unsettling Accounts: The Politics and Performance of Confessions by Perpetrators of Authoritarian State Violence (2007, Duke) examines how democratic institutions and societies deal with past authoritarian state violence. Unlike many transitional justice scholars, her research poses a more skeptical view of the relationship of these processes to “settling accounts with the past,” hence the title of her book "Unsettling Accounts."
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Recent Publications
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Leigh Payne. “Confessional Performances,” in Hugo van der Merwe, Victoria Baxter, Audrey R. Chapman, eds., Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice: Challenges for Empirical Research. 2009.
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