October 24, 2006
Noted scholar to contrast Ethiopian, Cambodian genocides
Worcester, Mass. - Historian and scholar Edward Kissi will present a public lecture and speak about his new book, "Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia: Some Lessons for Comparative Theoretical Study of Genocide," at Clark University, beginning at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8, in the Rose Library of the Cohen-Lasry House, 11 Hawthorne St.
Kissi is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at the University of South Florida. His book examines how social revolutions descend into targeted killing of ethnic and racial groups and the degree to which that depends on how agents of revolution acquire power and the nature of the domestic opposition they encounter.
This free, public lecture is part of the Fall 2006 Lecture Series of the Higgins School of Humanities at Clark University. For further information, please contact 508-793-8897.
Professor Kissi has an extensive reputation as a researcher. He has been awarded multiple fellowships—most notably, a yearlong post doctoral fellowship in the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University. He received his undergraduate degree at the University of Ghana; his M.A. in history at Wilfred Lauer University, Montreal; and his Ph.D. at Concordia University, Montreal. He was a visiting professor at Clark's Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.