Dr. Rachel Hatcher holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Saskatchewan. She then received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Institute of Reconciliation and Social Justice at the University of the Free State (South Africa) and a scholarship for excellence for international students from the Quebec Research Fund – Nature and Technologies.

She studies transitional processes in Central America and explores how transitional societies speak, commemorate, remember and forget their violent past.

Her book, The Power of Memory and Violence in Central America, was published in 2018. She published her research in The Public Historian and The Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She has also worked with the Immigrant Workers Center, the Guatemala Human Rights Commission / USA and the National Security Archive.