Recent Publications
Books
Fitelberg, Aaron, Nicole Fox, and Kai Lin. 2025 Crimes Across Borders, Second Edition. New York: Routledge.
Fox, Nicole. After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, Critical Human Rights Series.
Refereed Articles
Fox, Nicole, Chris Davey, Elaine (Lan Yin) Hsiao, Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod, Samantha J. Lakin, Judith Rafferty, and Stephanie Wolfe. 2025. “Lessons from the Field: Experts Weigh in on Years of Conducting Fieldwork in Post-Atrocity Zones.” Journal of Genocide Research 27(2): 261–280.
Noble, Alison, Nicole Fox, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, and Chris Uggen. 2025. “The Third Shift: The Highs and Lows for Women Gacaca Court Judges in Rwanda.” Journal of Genocide Research 27(2): 238–260.
Fox, Nicole, and Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira. 2024. “Political Invisibility: Rescue Acts by Mothers During the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda.” Social Problems. online.
Simko, Christina, David Cunningham, and Nicole Fox. 2022, “Contesting Commemorative Landscapes: Modes and Mechanisms in Contemporary Debates Over Confederate Monuments.” Social Problems.
Fox, Nicole, and David Cunningham. 2022.“Transitional Justice in Public and Private: Truth Commission Narratives in Greensboro.” International Journal of Transitional Justice 16(2): 235–253.
Fox, Nicole, Jamie D. Wise*, and Hollie Nyseth Brehm. 2022.“‘Following Heavenly Orders: Heroic Deviance and the Denial of Responsibility in Narratives of Rescue.” Deviant Behavior 43(11): 1385–1405.
Sardina, Alexa, and Nicole Fox. 2022. “Remembering Rape: America’s First Memorial to Sexual Violence.” Journal of Interpersonal Violence 37(17–18): 14914–149137.
Book Chapters
Fox, Nicole, and Alexa Sardina. Forthcoming. “Bearing Witness: The Survivors Memorial” Invited submission for The Palgrave Handbook of Violence Against Women and Girls, edited by J. Smith, I. Zempi, and L. Trickett. New York: Springer Publishing.
Fox, Nicole, and Danielle Slakoff. Forthcoming. “Team Swelce and the “Kansas City Swifts”?:
Anger, Sexism, and Clapbacks When Two Fandoms Collide.” Essays on Taylor Swift Fandom, edited by A. Trier-Bieniek. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press.
Fox, Nicole. 2023“Feminist Approaches to Studying Memory and Mass Atrocity.” In Interpreting Contentious Memory: Countermemories and Conflicts over the Past, edited by T. DeGloma and J. Jacobs. London: Bristol University Press.
Wise, Jamie, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, and Nicole Fox. 2022, “Examining Moral Decision-Making During Genocide: Rescue in the Case of 1994 Rwanda” In Handbook of the Sociology of Morality, Volume 2, edited by S. Hitlin, A. Luft, and S. Dromi. New York: Springer Publishing.
Fox, Nicole. 2022, “Memorialization after Atrocity Crimes.” In the Oxford Handbook of Atrocity Crimes, edited by B. Hola., H. Nyseth Nzitatira, and M. Weerdesteijn. New York: Oxford University Press.
Public Scholarship
Davey, Christopher, Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod, Judith Rafferty, Nicole Fox, Samantha Lakin, and Stephanie Wolfe. 2025. “How to conduct post-atrocity research – key insights from practitioners in the field.” The Conversation.
Strother, Angelaya,* Nicole Fox, Joseph Fox,* Guillaume Katembo, Jules Kafitiye, and Angélique Rwiyereka. 2025. “The Impact of Mass Violence on Children’s Access to Healthcare: The Case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).” International Association for Genocide Scholars Policy Brief Initiative.
Fox, Nicole, and Judith Rafferty. 2023. “Sexual Violence After Genocide.” International Association of Genocide Scholars Policy Brief Initiative.
Podcast Interview titled, "After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda." Conducted by New Books Network, Politics and Society Section. December 28, 2021.
Fox, Nicole. Moderator, Organizer and Speaker for webinar: “In remembrance there is life”: A conversation on memorialization amid a global pandemic.” May 22, 2020. Chaplaincy Innovations Lab.
Fox, Nicole. May 1, 2020. “Memorializing COVID-19.” Mobilizing Ideas.
Fox, Nicole. April 8, 2019. “Rwanda, genocide, and gender-based violence.” Contexts.
Radio Interview titled “What Rescuers During the Rwandan Genocide Tell Us About Becoming a Hero.” Conducted on November 21, 2019 with Top of Mind with Julie Rose Boston: BYUradio.
Fox, Nicole and Hollie Nyseth Brehm (equal authorship). April 17, 2019. “Lessons on the 25th Anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide.” Mobilizing Ideas.