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 is also 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 actual 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 holds a Ph.D. in History from Clark University (the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2013). He 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 MA program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 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. Dr. Segal also serves as Executive Secretary on the Executive Board of the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS: https://inogs.com/executive-board/).

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

Dr. Balasco is a political scientist who specializes in Comparative Politics. Her research interests include transitional justice, human security, human rights, international law, and democratization. Her latest book project examines the emergence and practice of transformative justice in the Americas. Her most recent publications include:

• Lauren Marie 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
• Lauren Marie 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
• Lauren Marie 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 

M.A. West Chester University of Pennsylvania

B.A. West Chester University of Pennsylvania 

 

 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 (2002) – Steven 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.

 After the MAHG program Matthew Hone had a six-month internship as a press assistant with the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hauge, The Netherlands. He served in the U.S. Army for 5 years as a Serbian Croatian linguist and an Intelligence Analyst. He earned an MA at Arcadia University in International Peace and Conflicts Studies to include a semester abroad in Castellon, Spain at the University Jaime II. Finally, he completed his Ph.D. at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City in Latin American Studies. The focus of his investigation was an analysis of the U.S. counterinsurgency in El Salvador in the 1980s during the Salvadoran civil war. Furthermore, he did a six-month investigation in El Salvador.

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.

Jessica Hulten started interning at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in September 2013 and was hired a year later as the Education Outreach Coordinator. Jessica handles all outreach efforts to educators, manages data collection, and analytics for the Field Trip Program, Teaching Trunk Program, Group Tours Program, Teacher Professional Development and leadership programs. Her outreach efforts helped the education department reach over 100,000 educators and students with the Museum’s education programs in the 2014-2015 school year. During her time at the Museum, she has facilitated special exhibition trainings for the Museum’s docents, specifically on the exhibitions, Three Years, Eight Months, and Twenty Days: The Cambodian Atrocities and the Search for Justice and Abandoned at Srebrenica: Photographs from the Aftermath. She has aided in the coordination of education events and special commemoration programs, as well as co-facilitated teacher trainings for educators in the Chicagoland community. Link: https://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org

Since graduating from The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey's (now University) MAHG program in 2008, Trinity Johnson has worked in education, except for a brief period where she was a fashion merchandiser. She taught adult GED and Citizenship courses for Kettering's Adult Basic Literacy Education Center. She currently works at The Center for Holocaust & Humanity Education (CHHE) as their Education Coordinator. CHHE 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 include coordinating CHHE's permanent exhibit, Mapping Our Tears, tour program for student and community groups, as well as overseeing the Speakers' Bureau and Traveling Exhibits programs. She also is a facilitator for their adult education programs and works closely with the Director of Education to create other educational programming for students and community organizations, designing education guides, and exhibits. Trinity 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.

Amanda Solomon graduated in May 2019, after completing an MA thesis titled “From Warsaw to Chicago: Escaping Nazi and Contemporary United States Ghettos.” As she writes in the Introduction, her work traces how “ghettos emerged as a ‘solution’ to an increase in an unwanted population, and how the targeted group’s collective public identity as dangerous and criminal prevents or impedes a successful escape. This thesis therefore aims to challenge our understanding of how ghettos emerge and function as a structure of oppression, and to demonstrate the need and value of including the Holocaust within a broader history of mass violence.”

While working on her thesis, Amanda Solomon was offered a position she could not pass on: Manager of Museum and Holocaust Education at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education (OJMCHE). What drew Amanda to OJMCHE was their core exhibition, Discrimination and Resistance: An Oregon Primer. This exhibition allowed Amanda to implement an integrative approach and connect the Holocaust to Oregon's history through tools of discrimination and resistance. In October 2018, she relocated to Portland, Oregon and has since worked on developing and overseeing all education programming. This includes tours, student workshops, professional development workshops, book clubs, Speakers' Bureau, and volunteer docent programs.

Within her first week on the job, Amanda was asked to help develop content for a bill that would mandate Holocaust and genocide education in the state of Oregon. On 28 May 2019, the bill unanimously passed its final vote on the House floor, and it will go into effect in the 2020-2021 school year. Amanda will now be collaborating with the Department of Education to develop curriculum and grade-specific content standards.

 Andrea Heymann worked as the Hillel/Young Leadership Director for the Jewish Federation of Atlantic and Cape May Counties. She currently serves as Program Director for the Hillel Graduate Student Network of the Greater Philadelphia area. Link: https://www.jewishgrads.org/

Vincent worked as a marketing and communications specialist for Rotor Clip Co., Inc. He currently serves as the Development and Communications Associate for Challah for Hunger in Philadelphia. Link: https://challahforhunger.org/