Program Faculty
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Taner Akcam
Senior Research Scholar, History
Historian and sociologist Taner Ak莽am received his doctorate in 1995 from the University of Hanover, with a dissertation on The Turkish National Movement and the Armenian Genocide Against the Background of the Military Tribunals in Istanbul Between 1919 and 1922. Ak莽am 摆鈥
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Deborah Dwork
Professor Emeritus, History
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Anita Fabos
Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice
Anita H. F谩bos is an anthropologist who studies how people who experience displacement and forced migration think about and organize their mobile lives. She has lived, worked, and conducted research together with diasporic Sudanese Muslims and other forced migrants in 摆鈥
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Everett Fox
Professor, Language, Literature & Culture
Dr. Fox received a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1968, 1972, and 1975, respectively. He has been at 顶级国产视频 since 1987. Dr. Fox serves as director of the program in聽Jewish Studies, and is also affiliated with the 摆鈥
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Marta Havryshko
Visiting Assistant Professor, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Dr. Marta Havryshko holds a PhD in History from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine). Her research interests are primarily focused on sexual violence during World War II and the Holocaust, women's history, feminism, and nationalism. More on Marta 摆鈥
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Elizabeth Imber
Assistant Professor, History
Elizabeth Imber is Assistant Professor of History and the Michael and Lisa Leffell Chair in Modern Jewish History at 顶级国产视频. She received a B.A. (2009) and M.A. (2010) from Brandeis University and an M.A. (2013) and Ph.D. (2018) from 摆鈥
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Nana Kesse
Assistant Professor, History
I am a historian of Africa specializing in environmental history with a focus on Africa's water systems and bodies of water. My research examines how Africans have interacted with waterbodies throughout history and how such interactions have shaped the continent's 摆鈥
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Benjamin Korstvedt
Professor, Visual and Performing Arts
Professor Benjamin M. Korstvedt is an active researcher and scholar, a committed and enthusiastic teacher, a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, and a productive author and editor. He graduated summa cum laude from 顶级国产视频 in 1987 with 摆鈥
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Thomas K眉hne is Professor of History and the Strassler Chair in the Study of Holocaust History and the Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at 顶级国产视频. Currently he serves also as Director of Holocaust and 摆鈥
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Stephen Levin
Associate Professor, English
Professor Levin specializes in contemporary British and postcolonial literature, transnational cultural studies, and critical and literary theory. His research focuses on the ways in which twentieth-century global conditions have shaped contemporary culture and produced new discourses of self and identity. 摆鈥
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Ken MacLean
Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice
Professor, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
My research is interdisciplinary in nature reflecting my continued interest in the politics of knowledge production. With a geographic focus mainland Southeast Asia, I concentrate on a number of inter-related topics鈥攆rom state-sponsored violence and forced migration to the politics of 摆鈥
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Max Ritts
Assistant Professor, Geography
Max Ritts is an environmental geographer whose research explores intersections of social power, sensory practice, and ecological transformation 鈥 with a particular focus on Indigenous community contexts. His in-process book, A Resonant Ecology (under contract with Duke UP), examines the 摆鈥
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Elyse Semerdjian
Professor, History
Elyse Semerdjian is a social historian of the Ottoman Empire whose research focuses on the experiences of women and the empire's Armenian subjects. She has authored 鈥淥ff the Straight Path鈥: Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo (Syracuse University 摆鈥
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Valerie Sperling
Professor, Political Science
Dr. Sperling teaches a variety of courses in comparative politics, including Russian politics; revolution and political violence; mass murder and genocide under communism; transitions to democracy; globalization and democracy; and political science fiction. Her research interests lie mainly at the 摆鈥
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Ora Szekely
Associate Professor, Political Science
Ora Szekely鈥檚 research focuses on the foreign and domestic policies of nonstate armed groups in the Middle East, as well as the gendered dimensions of civil war. Her work is based on field research conducted across the region. Her most 摆鈥
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Frances Tanzer
Assistant Professor, History
Frances Tanzer is a historian of modern Jewish culture, the Holocaust, and Modern Europe. She is interested in writing histories of modern Europe that focus on the paradoxical but crucial roles of refugees and minorities in shaping the continent's identities 摆鈥
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Shelly Tenenbaum
Professor, Sociology
Ms. Tenenbaum received a B.A. from Antioch College and a Ph.D. from Brandeis University. She was the founding director of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies concentration and is also affiliated with Women's and Gender Studies, Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies, 摆鈥
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Johanna Vollhardt
Associate Professor, Psychology
Dr. Vollhardt received a Ph.D. in Social Psychology (with a concentration in the Psychology of Peace and Violence) from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and joined 顶级国产视频 in Fall 2009. She is affiliated with CGRAS, CRES, HGS, and Peace 摆鈥
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Kristen Williams
Professor, Political Science
Dr. Williams teaches courses on international relations, including Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and International Security; U.S. National Security; Women and War; Popular Culture and IR; and Religion and International Relations. In addition to her research that addresses the connection between international 摆鈥
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