From Ukraine, images of violence, resistance, and hope
Strassler Center hosts ‘The War in Ukraine Through a Camera Lens’
The history of genocide, mass atrocities, crimes against humanity and their continuing consequences stand at the core of the Strassler Center at Clark University. Home to a uniquely rich undergraduate program and a landmark doctoral program, the Strassler Center is the first and only institute of its kind. Since 1998, it has gained international standing as the foremost PhD program training students in Holocaust History, the Armenian Genocide, and other genocides perpetrated around the globe. Center faculty and students foster important scholarship and germinate significant ideas as conveners of a robust series of international symposia, workshops, and conferences that broaden the boundaries of genocide studies by introducing less known cases and novel approaches. The causes, conduct, and consequences of genocide are complex and require multifaceted approaches. The Strassler Center is committed to pushing boundaries in order to foster greater knowledge as well as to train professionals who hope to find solutions, offer healing and aid, education, and opportunities for memorialization.
Director, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies; Strassler Colin Flug Chair in the Study of Holocaust History; Professor, Department of History
Senior Research Scholar
Associate Professor, Department of International Development, Community, and Environment; Director of Asian Studies
Rose Professor of Holocaust Studies and Modern Jewish History and Culture; Assistant Professor, Department of History
Armenian Genocide Scholar Elyse Semerdjian to hold the Stephen and Marian Mugar and Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian’52 Chair
We acknowledge the long history of Nipmuc peoples and their bonds of kinship on the land where the Strassler Center community teaches, learns, and researches about genocide and mass violence.
A comprehensive report on the activities of the Strassler Center.
The Strassler Center is featured prominently in an article in the Boston Globe Magazine that describes how Holocaust and Genocide Studies programs have responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Strassler Center hosts ‘The War in Ukraine Through a Camera Lens’
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Commemoration includes lectures, notes expansion of academic footprint
Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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