Wally and Lutz Hammerschlag Associate Professor of Holocaust Studies

Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill;
M.A., University of Maryland;
B.A., Dartmouth

Dr. Hayse’s main research interests revolve around the ways that Germany has grappled with the legacies of the Third Reich, World War II, and the Holocaust. He has curated exhibitions on the experiences of Holocaust Survivors, and translated memoirs. He is an advocate of experiential learning, global education, and study abroad who urges his students to travel, visit archives for their research, and to acquaint themselves with historical sites. To this end, Dr. Hayse leads study tours to Europe and Israel on the theme of the history of the Third Reich, World War II, and the Holocaust.

Areas of Expertise: 20th century German history, Russian and East European history, Holocaust and genocide studies, and history and memory.

Director, Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (MAHG)
Assistant Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide

Ph.D., Clark University

M.A., Tel Aviv University

B.A., Bar-Ilan University

Dr. Raz Segal is Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide at Stockton University, where he also serves as director of the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (MAHG). He is also founder and co-coordinator of the Refugee Studies Initiative at Stockton. Focusing on central and southeast Europe, Dr. Segal is engaged in his work with the challenges of exploring the Holocaust as an integral part of late modern processes of imperial collapse, the formation and occasional de-formation of nation-states, and their devastating impact on the societies they sought --- and still seek --- to break and remake. Dr. Segal has held a Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Lady Davis Fellowship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His publications include Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914-1945 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016; paperback 2020), and he was guest editor of the special issue on Genocide: Mass Violence and Cultural Erasure of Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly, vol. 138 (June 2018) (Hebrew). Dr. Segal has also published book reviews, op-eds, and larger articles on genocide, state violence, and memory politics in Hebrew and English in Haaretz and +972 Magazine.     

Areas of Expertise: Holocaust and Genocide Studies; modern European history (with a focus on central and southeast Europe); Jewish history

Key publications:

• Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914-1945 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016; paperback 2020)  
• Days of Ruin: The Jews of Munkács during the Holocaust (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem Publications, 2013; Hebrew, 2011) 
• Guest Editor of a special issue on Genocide: Mass Violence and Cultural Erasure of Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly, vol. 138 (June 2018) (Hebrew), including the introductory essay: “Genocide: Mass Violence in the Modern World”
• “Antisemitism as a Question in Holocaust Scholarship,” co-authored with Amos Goldberg (Hebrew), Zion: A Quarterly for Research in Jewish History, special issue on “Antisemitism: Historical Concept, Public Discourse,” vol. 85 (1-4) (2020), 325-344  
• “Making Hungary Great Again: Mass Violence, State Building, and the Ironies of Global Holocaust Memory,” in Agency and the Holocaust: Essays in Honor of Debórah Dwork (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), 181-197 
• “The Modern State, the Question of Genocide, and Holocaust Scholarship,” Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 20 (1) (2018), 108-133 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14623528.2017.1412887

Ph.D., University of Georgia

M.A., Eastern Michigan University

B.S., Eastern Michigan University

Dr. Christina M.Morus is an Associate Professor of Communication & Genocide Studies, and currently the Chair of the Communication Studies program. With an academic background in Rhetoric, with an emphasis on Peace & Conflict and Gender Studies, a critical consideration ofpre- and post-conflict discourses at the intersections of gender, media, politics, popular thought and public memory are at the core of her scholarship and pedagogy. In 2009, Dr.Morus was a Fulbright Scholar in residence at the University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Political Sciences and the Center for Women’s Studies. She continues to work closely with Belgrade’s pacifist, feminist organization Women in Black and their sister organization DAHTheatre on issues of gender and transitional justice in the Balkans, often serving as a grant writer and English language project coordinator for both groups. While much of her field research centers on the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia, she has also worked on the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, the Khmer Rouge Genocide in Cambodia, the Genocide of Guatemala’s Maya, and the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. Her past projects considered the impacts of Serbian historical narratives, embedded within a range of public discourses, on the normalization of violence that accompanied the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia. Her current research considers the impacts of historical narratives on post-war discourses and the extent to which they influence regional sustainable stability and social repair. She is presently working on a book analyzing the ways in which grassroots civil society organizations in Serbia and Bosnia are shaping post-conflict transition through carefully crafted, consciously counter-hegemonic, vernacular rhetorical strategies deployed in public space. Dr. Morus’ publications include:

• Morus, Christina M, (2011), “War Rape and the Global Condition of Womanhood: Learning from the Bosnian War,” in Roth & C. Rittner (eds.), Rape: Weapon of War and Genocide (Paragon House)
• Morus, Christina M. (2011), “Half the Sky: Considering the Audience-Conscious Rhetorical Strategies of Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn,” Expositions – An Interdisciplinary Journal of Ethics
• Morus, Christina M. (2010), “Bosnia: Violence Born of History, History Born of Violence,” in L. Barria & S. Roper (eds.), The Development of Institutions of Human Rights: A Comparative Study (Palgrave MacMillan)
• Morus, Christina M. (2007), “The SANU Memorandum: Intellectual Authority and the Constitution of an Exclusive Serbian ‘People’,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Journal, vol. 4 (2)
• Morus, Christina M. (2007), “Slobo the Redeemer: The Rhetoric of Slobodan Milosevic and the Construction of the Serbian ‘people’,” Southern Communication Journal, vol. 72 (1). Lead Article

 

Ph.D., University of Delaware

M.A., University of Delaware

B.A., Randolph-Macon Woman’s College

Lauren M. Balasco is an Associate Professor of Political Science. She has taught at Stockton since the fall of 2017. Balasco earned her B.A. in Political Science and International Studies from Randolph Macon Woman’s College in 2006 and her Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Delaware in 2014. Lauren’s work on transitional justice, human rights, and international law has been published in a wide range of journals, including Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, Representation, International Journal of Transitional Justice, Conflict, Security and Development, International Journal of Human Rights, and the Journal of Human Rights. Her forthcoming book, Engaging Citizenship with Claire Abernathy (Stockton University) and Jennifer Forestal (Loyola University Chicago), introduces students to the field of Political Science through the lens of citizenship and civic engagement (Oxford University Press). In 2022, Dr. Balasco was the recipient of the Faculty of the Year Award at Stockton University.  Her most recent publications include:

• L.M. Balasco, Bea Ciordia, Eliza Garnsey, Sarine Karajerjian, Arnaud Kurze, Christopher K. Lamont, Nomzamo Ntombela, and Mariam Salehi. 2022. “Introducing Justicecraft: Political Change Across Space and Time.” Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS) (3) 51-108.
• L.M. Balasco and Kelly Bauer. 2020. “Political contestation within the human security paradigm: the state and indigenous rights in Peru and Chile.”  Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement. DOI: 10.1080/02255189.2020.1784107
• L.M. Balasco and Julio F. Carrión. 2019. “Required Consultation or Provoking Confrontation? The Use of the Referendum in Peace Agreements.” Representation, 55(2): 141-157. DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2019.1636852
• L.M. Balasco. 2018. “Locating Transformative Justice: Prism or Schism in Transitional Justice?”International Journal of Transitional Justice, Vol. 12(2): 368–378.

Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis

Dr. Mary Johnson is Adjunct Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University.  Dr. Johnson earned a PhD in History with a focus on Women's History from Washington University in St. Louis in 1972 upon completion of her dissertation "Poissardes, Patriotes, and Sans Jupons: A Study of the Women of the People during the French Revolution, 1789-1793." Dr. Johnson served as Senior Historian at Facing History and Ourselves (1983-2020), a nonprofit international educational and professional development organization that uses lessons from pivotal moments in world history to teach educators and students how to explore complex themes such as identity, discrimination and belonging to make connections between the past and the present. In addition to her teaching, Dr. Johnson works as a consultant for Classrooms Without Borders, an organization that provides experiential, extended-term professional development for teachers and educational leaders. In 2018 and 2019 Dr. Johnson helped to create genocide and human rights curricular materials and docent tour guidelines for the newly expanded Holocaust Museum Houston in Houston, Texas.  Today, Dr. Johnson is developing curricula focused on Slovakia during the Holocaust and a Moot Court on the Nazi scientist, Ernst Rudin.

Some of her publications include:

• Jing Williams and Mary Johnson, “The Nanjing Safety Sone: The Dilemma of Creating a Protective Wall," in Dien and M. Berson, eds., Mending Walls: Historical, Social Political, Economic, and Geographical Perspectives (Charlotte, N.C.: Information Age Publishing, 2017).
• Mary Johnson and Roseanne Gatens, “Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education: Learning Political Competencies for 21st Century Citizenship,” International Journal for Social Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2011).
• Mary Johnson and Adam Strom, Crimes against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians (Brookline: Facing History and Ourselves, 2004).

 

Ph.D., University of Iowa

M.A., Northern Illinois University

B.A., Washington University, St. Louis

Dr. Bonnan-White specializes in the study of homeland security, emergency management, human security, and community response to conflict and crisis. Dr. Bonnan-White’s latest publications focus on community engagement in higher education, assessing community vulnerability, and humanitarian planning in Palestine. She has recently turned her attention to understanding the nexus between policing agencies and community perceptions of security. Her recent publications include:

• Bonnan-White, J., Lenaras, E. (2019). Leadership Opportunities in Service-Learning: A Pilot Study in a Homeland Security Classroom. Submitted to Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education. 11(3). https://discovery.indstate.edu/jcehe/index.php/joce/article/view/524

• Bonnan-White, J. (2017). Independent-living senior communities in disaster: self-efficacy and trust in responding agencies. Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. 14(2): 1-11. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsem-2016-0064

• Bonnan-White, J, Issa, A. (2016). Documenting the complex relationship between self-efficacy, resiliency, and workplace empowerment: a case study of humanitarian workers in Palestine. Journal of International Humanitarian Action. 1:7. doi: 10.1186/s41018-016-0011-y 

Ph.D., Teachers College of Columbia University 

Jordan Corson is an assistant professor of education and affiliated faculty member of both Migration Studies and the M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University. He recently completed his doctorate at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he defended his dissertation, Undocumented Educations: Everyday Educational Practices of Recently Immigrated Youth Beyond Inclusion/Exclusion. Jordan has published research in the fields of education and philosophy, anthropology and education, and teacher education. His research takes up ethnographic and historical methods to interrogate issues of transnational migration and educational theory through anti-colonial and abolitionist praxis.

M.A., Stockton University

B.S., Temple University

Gail, Director of the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center, meets on a regular basis with interns who assist in the Center. She has also in the past helped with Jewish Student Union/Hillel activities. Gail coordinates Stockton undergraduate overseas study tours to sites related to the Holocaust. Gail is often "on the road" presenting workshops and seminars for educators.

B.A., Stockton University

 

 Doug Cervi earned his bachelor’s degree in History Education from Pennsylvania Military College, which is now Widener University, in 1973 and went on to teach social studies at Oakcrest High School. Over his 40 years of teaching at the high school level, Cervi received numerous honors and recognitions as a History and Holocaust educator including Princeton University Distinguished Teacher Recognition Finalist Award (2010, 2011), Widener University Alumnus of the Year (2008), New Jersey Holocaust Educator of the Year (2001), among many others. Cervi has also co-authored secondary school curriculum guides on topics in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and a memoir with Holocaust Survivor, David Wisnia. In 2002, Cervi earned his Master’s in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Richard Stockton State College (now Stockton University) and for the past seven years, he has served as Adjunct Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University. In June 2020, Cervi was appointed as the Executive Director of the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education. As Executive Director, Cervi is responsible for the administration, programs, and strategic plan of the Commission—which includes revising Holocaust and Genocide Studies curriculums for K-12 schools, offering professional development for middle and high school teachers, and providing teacher training and support, among many other tasks. As Executive Director, Cervi’s goal is to establish a plan to ensure that teachers at all grade levels have the resources needed to meet the curriculum standards and to provide students with age-appropriate instruction on the Holocaust and Genocide. Doug Cervi is also a proud Military veteran, having served as a 1st/2nd Lieutenant and Captain in the New Jersey National Guard and receiving numerous recognitions for his service such as Military Veterans of the Purple Heart Award and Disabled Military Veterans Award (2004).

Michael Dickerman is a scholar of the Holocaust and genocide. He teaches at Stockton University, Galloway, New Jersey, covering a range of courses relating to such topics as the Holocaust in comparative perspective, the Armenian Genocide, and moral and ethical aspects of the Holocaust. He also teaches graduate courses in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Gratz College, Pennsylvania. He was educated at Temple University, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, and the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Galloway.

He has presented papers at professional conferences, including the Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, the Midwest Jewish Studies Association, the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, and the Annual Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide at Millersville University, Pennsylvania. He has contributed articles to The Reconstructionist: A Journal of Contemporary Jewish Thought & Practice, and Mercywords: A E-Journal. Michael worked with Dr. Paul Bartrop as co-editor of the four-volume The Holocaust: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection published in September 2017. Link: https://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=A4908C

Steven Marcus taught history and Holocaust and genocide studies at Egg Harbor Township High School for thirty years. He is currently the Coordinator of the Dual Credit High School Consortium for Holocaust and Genocide Studies as well as an adjunct professor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University.

Tiara N. Yahnian-Murta graduated from the MAHG program in 2020. She is a PhD student in the Cultural Studies Department (specializing in American Studies and Museum Studies) at Claremont Graduate University in California. Additionally, she works as an Archives Project Assistant for The Claremont Colleges Services, preparing a large collection (348 linear feet) for archival appraisal. In September 2022, Tiara was awarded a Center for Engagement with Primary Sources Fellowship by The Claremont Colleges Library (Special Collections). She received a B.A. in Philosophy and a B.S. in Urban Studies from Worcester State University in Worcester, Massachusetts. She also earned an M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Stockton University. Her M.A. thesis, titled “The Securitization of the Holocaust Metanarrative: A Post-Post-Conflict Perspective,” stands at the intersection of history, philosophy, and visual art, engaging critically with genocide studies, memory and museum studies, and security studies. The thesis focuses on the role of audiences in the securitization of the Holocaust metanarrative in Holocaust exhibits through denial of the Palestinian Nakba, showing how what Yahnian-Murta calls the aesthetic structure of mass violence persists “post-conflict.” Tiara continues to build on this work in her doctoral research, delving into the ways nationalism shapes the intertwined processes of aestheticization, historicization, and securitization.

Patty Chappine is an adjunct professor at Stockton University where she teaches courses in the Holocaust and Genocide studies and historical studies programs. She is also an adjunct in the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Graduate program at Gratz College. She earned a B.A. in Sociology and an M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Stockton University. She also earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in History and Culture from Drew University in Madison, NJ. Her research interests include Holocaust and genocide studies, women’s history, New Jersey history, digital humanities, and civic activism. She is a Board Member At-Large of OHMAR (Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region).

Dr. Matthew Hone is currently employed as an adjunct professor at Stockton University, giving online courses focused on Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Race and Racism, and State Violence in Latin America. Dr. Hone has lived in Mexico for the past 11 years and has taught various classes for the Museum of Memory and Tolerance and the Ibero Americana University in Mexico City. His most recent investigation has been related to mass violence in Mexico and the response of the Mexican state and grassroots actors to this ongoing tragedy. He and his colleague, Dr. Yael Siman, are working on a book project examining the dynamics of collective groups, mostly women, searching for victims of enforced disappearances. Dr. Hone has a doctoral degree in Latin American studies from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City where he investigated the humanitarian consequences and U.S. intervention in the civil war in El Salvador. Besides Latin America, Dr. hone has analyzed the break-up of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s as well as the atrocities committed in the Independent State of Croatia during the Holocaust.

Cyanne Loyle is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs in the Department of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University and a Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Dr. Loyle’s current research focuses on transitional justice adopted both during and after armed conflict and the strategic use of justice processes in Rwanda and Uganda. She is an East African specialist and has done field work in Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as Nepal, Northern Ireland and Turkey. Dr. Loyle received her M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Stockton University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Maryland. In 2014, she was a Fulbright scholar at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) and from 2009-2011 she was a visiting researcher at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Loyle is the Co-Director of the Northern Ireland Research Initiative and co-creator of the Post-Conflict Justice (PCJ) and During-Conflict Justice (DCJ) databases. From 2016-2017, Dr. Loyle served as the Leonard and Sophie Davis Fellow for the Prevention of Genocide at the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Loyle’s work on during-conflict justice has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the US Institute of Peace. Her research has been published with the Social Science Research Council, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Journal of Human Rights, Journal of Peace Research, International Journal of Conflict and Violence, International Interactions, Genocide Studies and Prevention and Global Public Health. Additional information can be found on her website: cyanneloyle.com.

Amanda is currently the Director of Education at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. She holds and M.A. in Education from Rutgers University and in Holocaust and Genocide studies from Stockton University. Amanda began her career in education as a middle school math teacher before transitioning to museum education. Her role at OJMCHE is to oversee all student and educator learning opportunities, which include tours, virtual classroom visits, speakers’ bureau presentations, professional developments, and the development of educational materials. She and OJMCHE’s Director crafted the learning concepts of SB664 (Oregon’s Holocaust and Genocide education mandate). Since its unanimous passing, Amanda works to support educators’ learning and teaching on discrimination, mass atrocity, and genocide. 

Laurie Garcia is the Senior Associate Director of Education at Holocaust Museum Houston. In this role, Laurie leads Latino Initiatives at the Museum by highlighting the histories, experiences, stories, and contributions of the Latino community in the museum’s exhibitions, education programs, public programs, and outreach efforts. In addition, Laurie manages the Museum’s E-Books program and Trunks program; develops and facilitates professional development trainings and seminars for teachers; leads student workshops at the museum and in community settings; and assists with the creation of lesson plans, curriculum, and resources in English and Spanish. Laurie has been with the Education Department for 5 years and is passionate about Holocaust, Human Rights, and Social Justice education in K-12 classrooms. She earned her B.A. in History from Texas A&M University and her M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Stockton University. Prior to joining HMH, she worked in the field of early childhood education as an educator and family advocate.

Rachel Herman helps curate content for IWitness and other educational programs.  Rachel received her M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Stockton University, and worked at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh for four years.  Rachel also worked at the Holocaust Council of Greater MetroWest in New Jersey and was an intern at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.

Jessica Hulten is the Assistant Manager of Education at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center located in Skokie, IL. She has been with the Museum for 7 years and plays many roles such as, teaching professional development for teachers, training Museum docents, and growing the Museum’s partnerships within the educator community. She has a B.A in History from University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Stockton University. Jessica has a passion for teaching about the Holocaust and contemporary genocide to students and educators in order to prevent genocide and mass atrocities in the future.  Link: https://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org

Since graduating from the MAHG program in 2008, Trinity Johnson has worked in education, except for a brief period where she was a fashion merchandiser. She began at the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center (HHC) as their Education Coordinator. HHC impacts 100,000 students and community members each year through innovative programs and partnerships which seek to challenge injustice, inhumanity and prejudice, and foster understanding, inclusion and engaged citizenship. Her responsibilities included coordinating the permanent exhibit, Mapping Our Tears, tour programs for student and community groups, and overseeing the Speakers' Bureau and Traveling Exhibits programs. She was also a facilitator for the adult education programs and worked closely with the Director of Education to create other educational programming for students and community organizations, designing education guides and exhibits. Trinity Johnson now serves as Development Manager for the HHC. She also became a Jewish Foundation for the Righteous Alfred Lerner Fellow in 2015. Link: http://www.holocaustandhumanity.org

Michael A. Morris began his career in Washington, DC, in the summer of 2014, working for The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars and later for the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington (JHSGW). At the JHSGW, his main responsibilities were leading walking tours and museum education programs. During this time, he completed another master’s degree at the George Washington University in Experiential Education and Jewish Cultural Arts. He continued his career in New York City, where he worked in the Collections and Exhibitions department at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust from March 2017 to March 2020, first as the Curatorial Assistant and later promoted to the position of Curatorial Associate. In addition to curating the exhibition, Rendering Witness – Holocaust-Era Art as Testimony, some of Michael’s curatorial responsibilities included leading artifact rotations into the museum’s former Core Exhibition, cataloguing and conducting historical research on objects in the museum’s collection, and meeting with individuals in the New York City area who wanted to donate Holocaust-era artifacts, usually from their family’s history, or artifacts pertaining to Jewish history in Europe or the United States either immediately before or after World War II.

Andrea Heymann worked as the Hillel/Young Leadership Director for the Jewish Federation of Atlantic and Cape May Counties and as Program Director for the Hillel Graduate Student Network of the Greater Philadelphia area. She now serves as Assistant Director of young Leadership and Digital Engagement for the Anti-Defamation League based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Link: https://philadelphia.adl.org/