Rate My Professor Rachel Hughes

Hughes's career at the University of Melbourne has progressed from lecturer to senior lecturer, senior research fellow, and now associate professor. She has made significant contributions through key publications, including the co-edited volume Emotion and the Contemporary Museum: Development of a Geographically-Informed Approach to Visitor Evaluation (Springer), journal articles such as Dutiful tourism: Encountering the Cambodian genocide (Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 2008), Ordinary theatre and extraordinary law at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2015), Scales of justice: “international standards” and “local ownership” at a hybrid tribunal (Antipode, 2022), and The Bangsokol Requiem, affective intensification, and memory activation (Memory Studies, 2024). Additional notable works include Left justified: The early campaign for an international law response to Khmer Rouge crimes (Political Geography, 2020) and The Projectification of Reparation (Journal of Human Rights Practice, 2021). Hughes holds editorial positions as Associate Editor of Environment & Planning C: Politics & Space, editorial board member of Cultural Geographies, and former Associate Editor of Postcolonial Studies. Her scholarship has advanced understandings of legal geography, geopolitics of memory, and victim participation in international tribunals.