STRASSLER CENTER FOR
HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES

Taner Akçam, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of History; Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marion Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies
Turkey, nationalism and the Armenian Genocide
Tel: 1-508-421-3863
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Paul Burke, Ph.D.
Professor of Classics, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures; Adjunct Professor, Department of History
Director of Ancient Civilization Program
Tel: 1-508-793-7365
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Debórah Dwork, Ph.D.
Rose Professor of Holocaust History, Department of History
Director of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Tel: 1-508-793-7450
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Jody Emel, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, School of Geography
Resource/environmental geography, animal geographies, and feminist/social theory
Tel: 508-793-7317
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Anita Häusermann Fábos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, International Developement, Community, and Environment Department
Associate Professor of International Development and Social Change Coordinator of the Graduate Program in International Development and Social Change Ethnicity and race, gender, urban refugees, Sudanese immigrants and refugees, Middle Eastern immigration and naturalisation policies, transnationalism and citizenship, transnational Islam, narratives of exile, Hungarian refugees
Tel: 1-508-421-3826
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Everett Fox, Ph.D.
Allen M. Glick Chair in Judaic and Biblical Studies, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures; Director, Jewish Studies Program
Director of Jewish Studies Concentration
Tel: 1-508-793-7355
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Thomas Kuehne, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of History; Strassler Family Chair in the Study of Holocaust History
Modern German and European History, including Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, Racism, Gender and War
Tel: 1-508-793-7523
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Olga Litvak, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of History; Michael and Lisa Leffell Chair in Modern Jewish History
Specializes in Eastern European and modern Jewish history.
Tel: 1-508-793-7254
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Ken MacLean, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of International Development, Community, and Environment
Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change Violence, displacement, extractive industries, the state and transnational organizations, governance and governmentality, (late and post-) socialism, legal regimes, anthropology and history, science and technology studies, cartography
Tel: 1-508-793-7691
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Srinivasan Sitaraman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Government and International Relations
United Nations and international law, international political economy, and international relations
Tel: 1-508-793-7684
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Valerie Sperling, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Government and International Relations
Post-Soviet and East European politics, comparative politics, social movement and collective action, women’s studies
Tel: 1-508-793-7679
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Shelly Tenenbaum, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Sociology Adjunct Professor, Jewish Studies
Coordinator of Undergraduate Activities, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies ; Jewish studies, race/ethnicity, social stratification, gender, comparative genocide
Tel: 1-508-793-7241
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Robert D. Tobin, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Foreign Languages; Henry J. Leir Chair in Foreign Languages and Cultures
Professor of German Henry J. Leir Chair in Foreign Languages and Cultures
Tel: 1-508-793-7353
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Jaan Valsiner, Ph.D.
Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
Cultural psychology, history of ideas
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Johanna Ray Vollhardt, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
Intergroup relations (in particular between minority groups); the social psychology of ethnopolitical conflict and cooperation; group-based victim consciousness; altruism and prosocial behavior; attributions in intergroup contexts; conceptual and methodological relations between social psychology and peace psychology
Tel: 1-508-793-7278
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Kristen Williams, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Government and International Relations; Chair of the Faculty
Co-Chair of Women's Studies; International relations theory, arms control and international security, nationalism and ethnic politics, U.S. foreign policy
Tel: 1-508-793-7446
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Cecile Banke, Ph.D.
Research Professor and Distinguished Scientist

Jens Meierhenrich, Ph.D.
Research Professor and Distinguished Scientist