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Since 1998, the Strassler Center at Clark University has gained international standing as the foremost Ph.D. program training students in Holocaust History, the Armenian Genocide, and other genocides perpetrated around the globe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 lesser-known cases and novel approaches. The causes, conduct, and consequences of genocide are complex and require multifaceted approaches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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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.  Professors K\u00fchne<\/a>, MacLean<\/a>, Semerdjian<\/a> and Tanzer <\/a>serve as dissertation directors and are happy to respond to queries on the Ph.D. programs.<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Ph.D. in Genocide Studies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Students address large-scale human rights abuses and events of mass violence in the past as well as in the present. They learn to apply their knowledge and skills in problem-oriented work and real-life contexts.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ph.D. in History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Students familiarize themselves with historiographical methods and learn to locate the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, and other events of genocide and mass violence in their specific societal, political, and cultural contexts.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Graduate research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Our Ph.D. students conduct innovative research in archives around the world, with survivors of genocides, and at sites of mass violence. They secure prestigious fellowships, like those offered by the United States Holocaust Memorial, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which is supported by the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future and by the German Federal Ministry of Finance, the Fulbright Foundation, and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, and travel the globe to present their research at conferences and academic institutions. They publish in peer-reviewed journals and contribute chapters to edited volumes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Faculty research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The expertise of our world-class faculty members, who have published extensively and are leaders in their fields, is a hallmark of the program. They are recipients of numerous awards and fellowships \u2014 among them a Guggenheim \u2014 for their groundbreaking research. Several hold endowed professorships that recognize their contributions to the university and the field. Faculty connections at various institutes and organizations worldwide provide pathways for our graduate students\u2019 independent inquiries, and their mentoring has led to co-authorships on articles and books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Strassler Center\u2019s Rose Library, opened in 1998 with the donation of the Diana Bartley Collection, helped establish it as a leading research institute.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Colin Flug Graduate Study Wing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Colin Flug Graduate Study Wing includes additional library space, the Tobak graduate student offices, a study commons, and the Shoah Visual History Archive.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Alumni careers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Graduates of the Ph.D. program pursue careers as leaders, curators, education directors, and historians at renowned institutions including the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Wiener Holocaust Library, Chapman University, Stockton University, and the United States Military Academy at West Point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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