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.

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. 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

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 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.

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).