Curriculum

The MAHG degree requires the completion of 36 credits and the submission of a capstone project: 2 core courses (3 credits each), 8 or 9 elective courses (3 credits each), and 1 or 2 capstone courses (3 credits each). A minimum of 2 Holocaust electives (H) and 2 Genocide electives (G) are required. All the online courses in the Genocide Prevention Certificate (GPC) program are open to MAHG students. Please refer to the GPC website.

Please note that the MAHG/GPC program offers each semester 3 courses on campus and 2 or 3 online courses.

Admissions Criteria

Application Deadline

Fall: July 1

Spring: November 26

Summer: March 15

To be considered for admission to the Master of Arts in Holocaust & Genocide Studies Program, applicant must submit the following:

1. Discover Stockton Online Application (you must create a Discover Stockton Account)
   • If you are a recent Stockton graduate, check to see if you qualify for the Direct Entry Option.
2. Application Fee: $50 (non-refundable), submitted with your online application
3. Graduate application essay
4. Three current letters of recommendation sent electronically via the Discover Stockton Application
5. Resume
6. Official transcripts from all colleges/universities attended (including Stockton) showing a minimum GPA of 3.0 or higher mailed or dropped off directly to the Office of Graduate Studies.

Frequently Asked Questions

Listing of Program Faculty

Core Faculty

Dr. Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Elisa.Forgey@stockton.edu

609-626-3824 |  F-214

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Dr. Elisa von Joeden-Forgey

Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
B.A., Columbia University

Dr. Elisa von Joeden-Forgey is an Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University in New Jersey, President of Genocide Watch, and former First Vice President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Prior to this she was a Visiting Scholar and Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her BA in History from Columbia University and a PhD degree in modern German and African history from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2010 and 2011 Dr. von Joeden-Forgey was a workshop coordinator for the Raphael Lemkin Program in Genocide Prevention hosted by the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation in Krakow and Oswiecim, Poland. In 2014 she was chosen as one of thirty-six scholars to join the Stephen S. Weinstein Symposium on Post-Holocaust Ethics at Wroxton College in Oxfordshire, England.

Dr. von Joeden-Forgey has received research grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Ford Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation, and has published widely in the fields of comparative genocide and German history. Her current research on race, gender and genocide has appeared in the jounral Genocide Studies and Prevention, Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies, New Directions in Genocide Research, Genocide: A Bibliographic Review, Hidden Genocide: Power, Knowledge and Memory, and Reconstructing Atrocity Prevention and Economic Aspects of Genocide, Mass Killing, and Their Prevention. She is currently completing a book on gender and the prevention of genocide that will be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Areas of Expertise: Comparative Genocide Studies, Intellectual and World History, Modern Germany and Africa, Colonialism/Imperialism, Gender and Sexual Violence.

Dr. Michael Hayse, Associate Professor of History

Michael.Hayse@stockton.edu

609-652-4659 |  F-125

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Dr. Michael Hayse

Associate Professor of History

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.

Dr. Raz Segal, Program Coordinator, Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (MAHG) & Assistant Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Raz.Segal@stockton.edu

609-626-3853 | J-205

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Dr. Raz Segal

Program Coordinator, Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (MAHG) & Assistant Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies

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. Segal earned his Ph.D. at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (History Department), Clark University (2013). Dr. Segal is engaged in his work with the challenges of exploring the Holocaust as an integral part of modern processes of imperial collapse, the formation and occasional deformation of nation-states, and their devastating impact on the societies they sought (and seek) to break and remake. Integrative and comparative, his research stands at the intersection of modern European history, Holocaust scholarship, Genocide Studies, and Jewish history, and links the Holocaust to genocide and mass violence before, during, and after World War II. Dr. Segal’s book, Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914-1945 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016) explores these issues through a regional case study. Dr. Segal also serves as Executive Secretary (2017-2019) 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) (in the series Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe)
• 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; peer-reviewed), including the introductory essay: “Genocide: Mass Violence in the Modern World”
• “The Modern State, the Question of Genocide, and Holocaust Scholarship,” Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 20 (1) (2018), 108-133

Affiliated Faculty

Dr. Christina Morus, Associate Professor of Communication & Genocide Studies

Christina.Morus@stockton.edu

609-626-6874 | F-239

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Dr. Christina Morus

Associate Professor of Communication & Genocide Studies

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

Dr. Lauren Balasco, Assistant Professor of Political Science

Lauren.Balasco@stockton.edu

609-652-4743 | F-232

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Dr. Lauren Balasco

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Ph.D., University of Delaware

M.A., University of Delaware

B.A., Randolph-Macon Woman’s College

Dr. Balasco specializes in Comparative Politics with a focus on Latin America. Her research interests include transitional justice, human security, human rights, and democratization. Her latest projects focus on the Colombian peace process and the emergence of transformative justice in the Americas. Her most recent publications include:

• Lauren Marie Balasco. 2018. “Locating Transformative Justice: Prism or Schism in Transitional Justice?”International Journal of Transitional Justice, Vol. 12(2): 368–378.
• Lauren Marie Balasco. 2017. “Reparative development: re-conceptualising reparations in transitional justice processes.”Conflict, Security & Development Vol.17(1) :1-20.

Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Scholar: Fall 2018 - Spring 2019

The Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Holocaust and Genocide Studies brings to Stockton on a rotating basis, for one or two semesters each year, scholars of international renown to teach about the Holocaust and other genocides and to pursue scholarly work in their field.  Faculty who teach in the area of Holocaust and Genocide Studies come from a variety of disciplines and from various schools of their universities.

Dr. Ann Millin, Historian in the Educational Initiatives Division of the Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education

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Dr. Ann Millin

Historian in the Educational Initiatives Division of the Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education

Ann Mann Millin, Ph.D., was the Historian in the Educational Initiatives Division of the Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. During 2016, she was a member of the research team for the Museum’s 25th anniversary special exhibition, “Americans and the Nazi Threat,” which opened in 2018. Dr. Millin traveled the country each year, presenting at Holocaust teaching workshops for pre- and in-service teachers and was part of the team developing the Museum’s online resource for instructors of undergraduate courses, “Experiencing History.” She was the curator of the website for the Museum’s 2009 special exhibition, “State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda,” and was a core member of the production team for the film, Path to Nazi Genocide, which has been translated into multiple languages and distributed world-wide by the United Nations. Previously, Dr. Millin was a Historian with the Institute’s Leadership Programs, specifically, its Law Enforcement and Society-FBI Agent Trainee program.  Prior to joining the Institute, she was the Special Assistant to the Director of the Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies and the Program Coordinator of the Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance. She began her work at the Museum as the Historian in the Museum’s Photo Archives.

Dr. Millin received a B.A. in Speech and Theatre from Macalester College, an M.A. in Religious Studies from Vanderbilt University, and a Ph.D. in Jewish History from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Dr. Millin has been a research fellow at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and an Inter-University Fellow at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. She has taught Jewish History, Judaic Studies, World Religions, and Holocaust Studies at HUC-JIR, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Kentucky at Lexington. Her scholarly research focuses on the history of Jewish social welfare work in Germany and Austria. She is also conducting research on the responses of African-Americans to the Nazi threat. Dr. Millin is the translator of Götz Aly’s The Brief Life of Marion Samuel, 1931-1943 (Henry Holt/Metropolitan, 2008; http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/books/review/Newhouse-t.html).

Alumni Spotlight

College Educators/Higher Education

• Michael Dickerman (2011) – 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.
  
  

PhD and beyond

• Matthew Hone (2001) – 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 6 month investigation in El Salvador.
  
  
• Cyanne E. Loyle, Ph.D. (2004) – Cyanne Loyle is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. 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 or on Indiana University’s website.

Holocaust Museums and Centers

• Trinity Johnson (2008) – 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
  
  
• Jessica Hulten (2013) – 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
  
  
• Amanda Solomon (2019)– 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.

NGOs and other organizations

• Andrea Heymann (2016) – 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 Rodgers (2016) – 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/