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Amandine Lauro works as a Research Associate of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where she also teaches courses in African history, colonial history and gender studies in BA and MA programs. She holds a PhD in History from the ULB and has worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Cambridge and Paris VII. Lauro specializes in entangled histories of gender, race and social regulations in colonial Belgian Africa. She has published a book and several contributions on topics related to these issues (e.g. on interracial sexuality, gender politics and colonial law, policing and racial segregation, urban order, colonial (sexual) violence and the origins of the HIV epidemic in the Congo basin). She is currently the director of the research centre Atelier Genre(s) et Sexualité(s) (the leading research centre in gender studies of the ULB) and the co-editor in chief of the journal Sextant.

As one of the two academic coordinators of DIGICOLJUST-2 and of the fundamental research project REBEL SOLDIERS (“Rebel Soldiers on Trial: Military Agency and its Repression in Colonial Congo 1885-1960”, funded by a WEAVE partnership between FNRS and FWO), Lauro co-supervises together with Prof. Dr. Benoît Henriet doctoral student Brecht Kreynen. She also supervizes the two DIGICOLJUST-2 postdoctoral researchers working respectively on military justice in the two World Wars (Reinout Vander Hulst), and on courts-martial trials of gender-based violence (Aurélie Bouvart). Within the project, she brings her expertise on judicial archives, colonial politics of order and the nexus of race/gender to explore the exercise of military justice and the racialized definitions of impunity and (il)legitimate violence produced by the courts.