International Institute for Genocide
and Human Rights Studies
A Division of the Zoryan Institute
Faculty Over the Years
Rouben Adalian
Director, Armenian National Institute, Washington, DC
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Taner Akçam
Professor of History, Clark University, Worcester, MA
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Alexander Alvarez
Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
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Joyce Apsel
Clinical Professor, Liberal Studies, New York University, NY
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Stephan Astourian
Associate Adjunct Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
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Yair Auron
Professor of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, Open University of Israel
Elazar Barkan
Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York, NY
Brent Beardsley
Former Personal Staff Officer to UN Force Commander Romeo Dallaire, United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda
Doris Bergen
Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Gerald Caplan
Journalist and Independent Scholar, Canada
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Maja Catic
Assistant Professor of Defense Studies, Canadian Forces College, Toronto, ON
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Frank Chalk
Professor of History Concordia University, Montreal, QC
Israel Charny
Executive Director Institute on Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Jerusalem, Israel
Stephanie Corazza
PhD, University of Toronto
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Allison Crosby
Associate Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University
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Vahakn N. Dadrian †
Director of Genocide Research Zoryan Institute, New York State, USA
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Kathleen Dill
Sociocultural Anthropologist
Craig Etcheson
Visiting Scholar, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Lauren Grant
Director of Field Research at Earth Refuge
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Stephen C. Feinstein †
Director, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Wendy Hamblet
Professor of Liberal Studies, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC
Hoori Hamboyan
Legal Policy Advisor, Federal Government of Canada
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Maureen Hiebert
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
Alex Hinton
Professor of Anthropology and Global Affairs, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
Herbert Hirsch †
Professor Political Science,
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
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Richard Hovannisian
Professor Emeritus of Armenian and Near Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Elisa von Joedan-Forgey
Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State College, NH
Elisabeth King
Associate Professor of International Education, New York University, New York, NY
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Claudia Koonz
Professor and Peabody Family Chair of History, Duke University, Durham, NC
Jacques Kornberg
Professor Emeritus of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
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Professor in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Tricia Logan
Education and Outreach Coordinator at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
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M Brinton Lykes
Professor of Community-Cultural Psychology and Co-Director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College
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Suren Manukyan
UNESCO Chair on Prevention of Genocide and Other Atrocity Crimes at Yerevan State University, Armenia
Eric Markusen †
Professor of Sociology and Social Work, Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall, MN
Daria Mattingly
Ph.D Candidate in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages at the Slavonic Studies University of Cambridge
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Robert Melson
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Louis Najarian
Clinical Professor, Hofstra North Shore - LIJ School of Medicine, Manhasset NY
Simon Payaslian
Charles K. and Elisabeth M. Kenosian Professor of Modern Armenian History and Literature, Boston University, Boston, MA
Chris Powell
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON
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Victoria Sanford
Professor of Anthropology, Lehman College, City University of New York, New York, NY
William Schabas
Professor of International Law, Middlesex University, London, UK
Lorne Shirinian
Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, ON
Roger W. Smith
Professor Emeritus of Government, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
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Amy Sodaro
Associate Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York
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Sorpong Peou
Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON
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Gregory Stanton
Research Professor of Genocide Studies and Prevention, George Mason University, Fairfax County, VA
Ervin Staub
Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Pamela Steiner
Fellow, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University, Boston, MA
Scott Straus
Professor of Political Science and International Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
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Khachig Tölölyan
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, College of Letters, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Samuel Totten
Former Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education and Health, University of Arkansas, Fayettville, AR
Shake Toukmanian
Professor of Emerita of Psychology, York University, Toronto, ON
Hannibal Travis
Professor of Law, Florida International University, Miami, FL
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UÄŸur Ümit Üngör
Associate Professor of History,
Utrecht University, Netherlands
James Waller
Cohen Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State College, Keene, NH
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Andrew Woolford
Professor of Sociology,
University of Manitoba, MB
Ernesto Verdeja
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
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Johanna Ray Vollhardt
Associate Professor of Psychology
Clark University, Worcester, MA
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Cheng Xu
PhD Candidate in Political Science at the University of Toronto and the Cadieux-Léger Fellow at Global Affairs Canada
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Ruslan Yusupov
Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong