Julia Davies holds a BA in Political Science and History from The Ohio State University and is pursuing an MA in Peace, Development, and Security Studies from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Science. Her 2022 undergraduate thesis explored memorialization as a tool for reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda, based on fieldwork conducted there. In 2023, she interned with Peace Catalyst International (PCI), an international peacebuilding non-profit, facilitating conflict transformation dialogue workshops in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. This was followed by a 2024 internship at the International Republican Institute’s (IRI) Center for Global Impact in Washington, D.C. As a 2024–25 Fulbright Research grantee in Serbia, she wrote her master’s thesis on local distrust and disengagement with Serbian civil society utilizing interviews and poststructural discourse analysis. For the 2025–26 academic year, Julia will serve as a Princeton in Asia (PiA) Fellow at UWED, lecturing on Conflictology, Conflict Resolution, Negotiation Technologies, and the European Union. Her research focuses on the interaction between local and Western transitional justice and democratization efforts, along with national identity construction in post-conflict societies, specializing regionally on Europe and the Western Balkans.