{"id":37,"date":"2026-01-21T10:43:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:46:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:46:54","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull has-custom-content-position is-position-bottom-left double-bottom-margin\" style=\"min-height:70vh;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1340\" height=\"550\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-605\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/Strassler_banner_skulls.avif\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/Strassler_banner_skulls.avif 1340w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/Strassler_banner_skulls-300x123.avif 300w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/Strassler_banner_skulls-1024x420.avif 1024w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/Strassler_banner_skulls-768x315.avif 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1340px) 100vw, 1340px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim wp-block-cover__gradient-background has-background-gradient has-gradient-2-gradient-background\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group double-bottom-margin is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left has-large-font-size\" id=\"h-educating-about-genocide-and-mass-atrocities\">Educating about genocide and mass atrocities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left intro sectionx has-large-font-size\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:2rem\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-gray-200-background-color has-background is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center intro section has-large-font-size\">Our faculty and expertise<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left intro section has-large-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n<section class=\"splide cu_carousel\" id=\"cu_carousel_0\" aria-label=\"Basic Structure Example\">\n    <div class=\"splide__track\">\n        <div class=\"splide__list\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"wp-block-clarku-slide splide__slide\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-parallax has-custom-content-position is-position-bottom-left\" style=\"min-height:40rem;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><div role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Thomas Kugne with students in class\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-563 size-large has-parallax\" style=\"background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/phd-programs-genocide-holocaust-studies-1024x420.avif)\"><\/div><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-60 has-background-dim wp-block-cover__gradient-background has-background-gradient has-gradient-2-gradient-background\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left has-drop-shadow has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-cd74de0be7a19a22deb875ad91e60f11\" id=\"h-thomas-kuhne-ph-d\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/tkuehne\/\">Thomas K\u00fchne, Ph.D.<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-shadow\"><em>Director, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies; Strassler Colin Flug Chair in the Study of Holocaust History;&nbsp; Professor, Department of History<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Highlights<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-626c7b58be84ec386463263943501a49\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Belonging-Genocide-Hitlers-Community-1918-1945\/dp\/0300198280\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=belonging+and+genocide&amp;qid=1595543261&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Belonging and Genocide: Hitler\u2019s Community, 1918-1945<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rise-Fall-Comradeship-Soldiers-Twentieth\/dp\/1107658284\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Rise and Fall of Comradeship: Hitler\u2019s Soldiers, Male Bonding and Mass Violence in the Twentieth Century<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em> Listen to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newbooksnetwork.com\/thomas-kuhne-the-rise-and-fall-of-comradeship-hitlers-soldiers-male-bonding-and-mass-violence-in-the-twentieth-century-cambridge-up-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/central-european-history\/issue\/masculinity-and-the-third-reich\/3B6B114B7306D0FCE22F6C465045BF26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cMasculinity and the Third Reich\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-element-caption\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-clarku-slide splide__slide\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-parallax has-custom-content-position is-position-bottom-left\" style=\"min-height:40rem;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><div class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-987 size-full has-parallax\" style=\"background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/Elyse_Semerdjian_26_MAR_2026-63.avif)\"><\/div><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim wp-block-cover__gradient-background has-background-gradient has-gradient-2-gradient-background\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left has-drop-shadow has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-d28f6735fbddce4fbb96915d50905b47\" id=\"h-elyse-semerdjian-ph-d\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/elyse-semerdjian\/\" class=\"\">Elyse Semerdjian, Ph.D.<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-shadow\"><em>Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marian Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies; Professor, Department of History<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Highlights<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7c59b827f1443dfaf6e2bb535a5f6171\">\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Remnants-Embodied-Archives-Armenian-Genocide\/dp\/1503636127\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2YIDISF944DW0&amp;keywords=remnants+elyse&amp;qid=1693588431&amp;sprefix=remnants+elyse%2Caps%2C99&amp;sr=8-1\">Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/armenianstudies.podbean.com\/e\/sas-podcast-no-62-%E2%80%93-elyse-semerdjian\/\">Society for Armenian Studies Podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-element-caption\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-clarku-slide splide__slide\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-parallax has-custom-content-position is-position-bottom-left\" style=\"min-height:40rem;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><div class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-610 size-large has-parallax\" style=\"background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/2020-Seeing-Like-a-Humanitarian-Agency-9-revised-1024x683.avif)\"><\/div><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-30 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-drop-shadow has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-b8997345216cebbaa23bb4bf61c9c7c8\" id=\"h-ken-maclean-ph-d\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/ken-maclean\/\">Ken MacLean, Ph.D.<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-shadow has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fee8b39daf26fe53a0105e539d83a9c1\"><em>Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice; Professor, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Director: Genocide and Human Rights Concentration<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f7e8170d2af95547655ccca77b480952\">Research Highlights<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9cee8bc70f2804717cf1ff2b5e1b85ed\">\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Crimes-Archival-Form-Production-Myanmar\/dp\/0520385403\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3I2D6PFEW6B1S&amp;keywords=crimes+in+archival+form&amp;qid=1686751626&amp;sprefix=crimes+in+archival+form%2Caps%2C101&amp;sr=8-1\">Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14623528.2018.1506628\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cThe Rohingya Crisis and the Practices of Erasure\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/progressivevoicemyanmar.org\/2018\/10\/18\/famine-crimes-military-operations-forced-migration-and-chronic-hunger-in-eastern-burma-myanmar-2006-2008\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cFamine Crimes: Military Operations, Forced Migration, and Chronic Hunger in Eastern Burma\/Myanmar (2006-2008)\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-element-caption\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-clarku-slide splide__slide\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-parallax has-custom-content-position is-position-bottom-left\" style=\"min-height:40rem;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><div class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-611 size-large has-parallax\" style=\"background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/2020-Special-Topics-24-1200x800-1-1024x683.avif)\"><\/div><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim wp-block-cover__gradient-background has-background-gradient has-gradient-2-gradient-background\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left has-drop-shadow has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-be2fb8ebe8396e83e341901ba3c42559\" id=\"h-frances-tanzer-ph-d\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/elyse-semerdjian\/\" class=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/frances-tanzer\/\">Frances Tanzer, Ph.D.<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-shadow\"><em><em>Rose Professor of Holocaust Studies and Modern Jewish History and Culture; Associate Professor, Department of History<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Highlights<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7c1abb0534efc347d33d19764b9d646f\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vanishing-Vienna-Modernism-Philosemitism-Contexts\/dp\/1512825344\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1UVVE49GMZEV9&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.EEN_QT7wvuJmWlbWPJZGuvTtDWLzbQG2kQebX_whzRE.WvlLGBlkU3x-qPVIbky8QMEWomHDz1fu0kkj8rWTCEk&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=frances+tanzer&amp;qid=1712074998&amp;sprefix=frances+tanzer%2Caps%2C100&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/newbooksnetwork.com\/vanishing-vienna?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR20DdGcMp4rWbyuI5vmUlJbbkyCfJTBWM5W6m8405OkTza_IWuYOdX9Saw_aem_FbPFZucCXjhQebdmjUAcDg\">Vanishing Vienna<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/central-european-history\/article\/film-in-illiberal-times-polands-public-memory-and-the-european-union\/8FBA88E494845D212181C68B7079E6E9\" id=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/central-european-history\/article\/film-in-illiberal-times-polands-public-memory-and-the-european-union\/8FBA88E494845D212181C68B7079E6E9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Film in Illiberal Times: Poland&#8217;s Public Memory and the European Union<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/contemporary-european-history\/article\/european-fantasies-modernism-and-jewish-absence-at-the-venice-biennale-of-art-19481956\/7E4355039B6CC74E9F3DAFA986441BEB#article\" id=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/contemporary-european-history\/article\/european-fantasies-modernism-and-jewish-absence-at-the-venice-biennale-of-art-19481956\/7E4355039B6CC74E9F3DAFA986441BEB#article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">European Fantasies: Modernism and Jewish Absence at the Venice Biennale of Art, 1948\u20131956<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<script>\n    let cu_carousel_0 = new Splide( '#cu_carousel_0',{\n        type   : 'loop',\n        perPage: 1,\n        perMove: 1,\n        focus  : 'center',\n        pagination:false,\n        updateOnMove: true,\n        gap:'2.5rem',\n        breakpoints: {\n            768: {\n                perPage: 1,\n                arrows: false,\n                pagination: true            },\n            1279: {\n                perPage: Math.min(2, 1) ,\n                arrows: false,\n                pagination: true            },\n  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class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-land-acknowledgement\">Land acknowledgement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/Strassler-Center-Land-Acknowledgement2.pdf\">Read acknowledgement<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"589\" height=\"537\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/land-acknowledgement.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-612 size-full\" 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