Nergis Canefe (Ph.D York, 1998, SJD candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School) is Associate Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Law at York University, and associate director of Centre for Refugee Studies. Her areas of interest are transitional justice, memory and trauma, minority and human rights, critical citizenship studies, and crimes against humanity. She has more than fi fty scholarly articles in books and in journals, including Citizenship Studies, Nations and Nationalism, Balkanologie, Turkish Studies and Rethinking History. She co-edited the volume Turkey and the European Integration (Routledge 2004) and a volume in Turkish Anavatandan Yavruvatana: Milliyetçilik, Bellek, ve Aidiyet (English title: Citizenship, Identity and Belonging: The Limits of Turkish Nationalism) (Bilgi University, 2006). She is currently working on a manuscript on crimes against humanity in the context of international law.