Sumudu Atapattu, LLM, PhD (Cambridge), Attorney-at-law (Sri Lanka) is the Director of Research Centers and International Programs, and senior lecturer at University of Wisconsin Law School. She is affiliated with UW-Madison's Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Global Health Institute, the Center for South Asia, and the 4W Initiative, and is the Executive Director of the Human Rights Program. She is also the Lead Counsel for Human Rights at the Center for International Sustainable Development Law; and affiliated faculty at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights, Sweden. She has published widely including several books on climate change and human rights, international environmental law, and environmental justice. Before moving to the USA, she was an Associate Professor at Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, and a consultant to the Law & Society Trust, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Dr. Jess 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.

Ryann Casey is a New Jersey based artist, curator, and educator. Casey holds a BA in Photography with a minor in Gender Studies from Stockton University and an MFA/MS in Photography and Art History from Pratt Institute. She currently works as an adjunct Professor of Photography, Art History and Critical Theory at Stockton University, MCCC and Rowan College. Casey’s current photographic and curatorial projects focus on themes of loss, trauma and memory.  

I grew up in Jerusalem and educated at Tel Aviv University and UC Berkeley. I am broadly interested in the theory and practice of writing history displayed in particular in the topics of memory, culture, and nationhood. My work has often taken modern German history as a point of departure, yet has consistently cast its net wider. As a historian, I have sought to reach in my work the edges of the historical discipline, those areas of research and theory where the historical method meets ethnography, literature, anthropology, and cultural studies. In my writing over the years, I have sought to craft a narrative weaving together story telling with critical analysis. But in recent years I have been particularly interested in probing into different possibilities of historical narration. Among my book publications are The Nation As a Local Metaphor: Württemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871-1918 (1997) and Germany As a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History (2006). In the last few years I worked on the Holocaust and wrote Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust As Historical Understanding (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2012) and A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide (Yale UP, 2014). It explores the German sensibilities in the Third Reich that underlie the persecution and extermination of the Jews, making them conceivable and imaginable; the project was awarded a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship.Completing A World Without Jews, I sought a new challenge, in terms of method, sources, and interpretation, and chose to work on a topic squarely within Jewish and Israeli history. My current project, Imagining Palestine and Israel, 1948: Jews and Palestinians between Local Experience and Global History crafts two narratives: one is based on the experience of Arabs, Jews, and British based on letters, diaries, and oral history, and the second is placing 1948 within global perspective of decolonization, the break-up of the British Empire, human rights, and, in particular, modern forced migrations and partitions. I am the recipient, among others, of grants from the Fulbright, Humboldt, and Lady Davis Foundations, the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University, the Social Science Research Council, the Israel Academy of Sciences, the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at Washington, DC.

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.

Dr. Asya Darbinyan is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Martin-Springer Institute, Northern Arizona University, where she teaches courses on the history of the Holocaust and on women’s experiences during genocide. She earned her Ph.D. in History from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University. Her research and teaching expertise stand at the intersection of Armenian history, the history of the Russian Empire, genocide, refugees, and humanitarian interventions. Before joining the Martin-Springer Institute, Dr. Darbinyan was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University, and the Deputy Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute in Yerevan, Armenia.

Debórah Dwork is the founding Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Graduate Center — CUNY. Pathbreaking in her early oral recording of Holocaust survivors, Dwork weaves their narratives into the history she writes. Her award-winning books include Children With A Star; Flight from the Reich; Auschwitz; and Holocaust. Dwork is also a leading authority on university education in this field: she envisioned and actualized the first doctoral program specifically in Holocaust History and Genocide Studies. Recipient of the International Network of Genocide Scholars Lifetime Achievement Award (2020), Debórah Dwork was honored to serve as Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and as a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and an ACLS Fellow. 

Rob Gregg is Professor of History and Dean of General Studies. His publications include a work on African-American migration (Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression), one on comparative history (Inside Out, Outside In), and an co-edited encyclopedia (Routledge's Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture). He also produced an online volume of essays on migration and immigration (Histrionyx: Rethinking Migration in American History).

For nearly 20 years, Jamila has organized in labor, LGBTQIA TS & GNC/ HIV+, racial/migrant/reproductive justice, and anti-imperialist movements. Jamila is a community organizing educator, and Ph.D. student studying Community Organizing and Social Movements, with a focus on migration and no borders at CUNY Graduate Center. Their most recent book chapter, “Bridging Immigration Justice and Prison Abolition”, is published in Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention and Deportation. Additionally, Jamila is a co-PI on a Community Action Research study on criminalization and resistance of Immigrant and Muslim communities. Jamila is humbled to have received several recognitions, honors, and awards for their work, and is a Frederick Douglass Bicentennial 200 Abolitionist honoree. Jamila is a steering committee member of the International Open Borders Conference and serves on the Board of Directors of the Free Migration Project. Prior to Ph.D. school, Jamila was the founding executive director of the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project and holds an MSW in Community Organizing & Program Development with a focus in Immigrants and Refugees from Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College.

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.

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. Hone has lived in Mexico for the past 11 years and have 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. Hone earned 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, Hone 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.

Dr. Khudish currently serves as an Assistant Professor at the Department of History and International Relations in Uzhhorod National University (Ukraine). He received his PhD in History from the Uzhhorod National University (Ukraine).

Dr. Khudish has authored several academic publications, including “Migration Experiences of Jewish Holocaust Survivors from Transcarpathia,” in Holocaust and Modernity: Studies in Ukraine and the World (2019). He has further been the recipient of several awards throughout his career, including the Grant for Doctoral Students and Young Scholars (The Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, Yad Vashem, 2018), the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Fellowship (2017), and the Eastern Partnership of Visegrad Fund Scholarship (2015, 2016).

Björn Krondorfer, Regents’ Professor, is Director of the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University and Endowed Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies. His field of expertise is religion, gender, and culture, and (post-) Holocaust and reconciliation studies. He is currently the VP of the “Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life” (APRIL) and co-chair of the “Consortium of Higher Education Centers for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies.” He received a Senior Research Fellowship at the Vrije University, Amsterdam. Publications include Unsettling Empathy: Working with Groups in Conflict (2020); The Holocaust and Masculinities (2020); Reconciliation in Global Context (2018); Male Confessions: Intimate Revelations and the Religious Imagination (2010); Men and Masculinities in Christianity and Judaism (2009); and Remembrance and Reconciliation (1995). He guest-edited the CrossCurrents journal issues Strangers or Neighbors? Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Perspectives on Refugees (2018) and Antisemitism and Islamophobia (2015). He has organized international academic symposia and mentored and curated the exhibits, Through the Eyes of Youth: Life and Death in the Bedzin Ghetto; Resilience: Women in Flagstaff’s Past and Present; Wounded Landscapes; and Echoes of Loss: Artistic Responses to Trauma.

Dr. Sanjeevini Badigar Lokhande is Academic Coordinator for the University of Pennsylvania’s (UPenn) College Achievement Program and Visiting Scholar at the South Asia Center, UPenn. Her first book, Communal Violence, Forced Migration and the State: Gujarat Since 2002 published by Cambridge University Press in 2015 has been described as essential reading for a much debated episode of violence in India. She has also published articles in the Journal of Genocide Research, South Asia and has a chapter in Springer’s Disaster Studies by Janki Andharia. While her research has a strong empirical focus, as in her first book, she centrally engages with larger theoretical questions. She researches displacement, human rights and identity. Sanjeevini is deeply invested in the success of first generation and low-income scholars and is a first generation academic herself. She has been a non-resident Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), UPenn (2016-2017). She has taught Comparative Politics and the Politics of Identity in America as Visiting Assistant Professor at Temple University. Sanjeevini was a tenured Assistant Professor at the University of Mumbai three years (2012-2015).

Fátima Martínez has been a Spanish journalist and lecturer in Journalism since 2008, PhD in Journalism in 2013 at Complutense University of Madrid; expertise in social media, digital journalism and international journalism, teaching Journalism in Universities in Spain and Colombia. Since 2017, she has been a full-time journalism professor at Universidad del Rosario, in Bogota, Colombia. Therefore, she became a documentary photographer after traveling around several countries covering human rights issues such as Greece, Colombia or Kenya, apart from living in countries such as the UK, USA and Spain. 

Daniel Moscovici is a Professor of Environmental Studies & Sustainability in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Stockton University. The university has a campus in the heart of the ecologically sensitive Pinelands National Reserve and another on the world famous Atlantic City Boardwalk.

Dan has a B.S. in Natural Resource Economics from Lehigh University (’00), an M.B.A. with focus on International Environmental Management from Villanova University (’03), an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (’05, ‘09) in Environmental Studies and Environmental Planning, respectively. Thereafter he worked first as a visiting instructor at Arcadia University in the International Studies Program and then as a post-doctoral research fellow at Drexel University managing the Great Works Symposium on Energy in 2010-2011.

His research and educational activities focus on defining, understanding and evaluating planning options for sustainable outcomes, specifically those that find balance between the economic, environmental and social perspectives. He is also interested in planning for energy, large-scale regional planning, the impact of tourism, and the study of pedagogy. Research topics of particular interest include sustainable viticulture and oenology to improve state resources; cruise ships and impacts on island nations; land preservation’s effect on the economy, environment and society of large regional areas, and ski mountain sustainability and climate change adaptation.

In addition to this work, Dan has a very international focus. While being raised in the United States, he was born in Romania and holds dual US/EU citizenship and has lived in Australia. He has traveled widely, given lectures on sustainability topics in Chile, Netherlands, Greece, and S. Korea, and also led student field study courses in Aruba, Costa Rica, Commonwealth of Dominica, Italy, and the UK. Conference presentations have been given in Canada, South Africa, the Netherlands, France, as well as many domestic cities. He strives to be an international scholar – informing his research and teaching.

Leah Mundell, Ph.D., is a lecturer in Anthropology at Northern Arizona University, where she also coordinates the Community Engagement Minor and teaches in the Sustainable Communities program. Her applied research has focused primarily on migration and issues affecting immigrant families in the U.S. and South Africa, from a community organizing perspective. Currently, she is engaged in collaborative research on sociocultural dimensions of Covid-19 and issues of educational equity for immigrant families in Northern Arizona. 

Kameika Murphy is an Atlantic World historian with expertise on the Black Atlantic. She is an assistant professor at Stockton University whose research pays special attention to military communities as a lens through which politics, agency, mobility, and culture in slave societies can be understood in much broader contexts, beyond conflict and war. Her more recent publications seek to connect the southern United States into a Greater Caribbean perspective by tracing the life stories African American refugees of the American Revolution. In addition to her role in academia, Dr. Murphy is passionate about public humanities initiatives that unpack lessons from the past to help shape community conversations on memory and the relationship between history and corporate social responsibility. She has worked with a number of corporate entities as training facilitator and public humanities consultant on content and strategy, including the imminent International African American Museum (IAAM) in Charleston, South Carolina.

Robert A. Neustadt, Professor of Spanish and Director of Latin American Studies at Northern Arizona University, has taken over one hundred students and colleagues on field trips to the U.S./Mexico border where participants experience the human, environmental and political dimensions of immigration. In 2011, Robert co-produced Border Songs, a double cd compilation of music and spoken word about the border and immigration. The Border Songs project raised nearly $100,000 for No More Deaths. In 2018, he released an album of original music, Voluntary Return: Songs of Solidarity with Migrants and Refugees, and he donates all proceeds to No More Deaths and the Colibrí Center for Human Rights. Robert’s full-length play, Border Voices / Voces fronterizas, is in press at NoPassport Press. He is currently writing a new book, Songs on the Line: Music and Politics on the US/Mexico Border.

Alex Otieno is associate dean, college of arts and sciences and assistant professor in the department of sociology, anthropology and criminal justice at Arcadia University. His teaching and research interests are in the intersection of health and human rights, housing policies and homelessness, religion and peacebuilding, sport for peace and development, Pan-Africanism and global Africa, the role of the United Nations in global governance, migration (including forced displacement and refugees), and sociology of higher education. He is currently working on a project focusing on using Black public intellectuals to facilitate emancipatory and liberation pedagogy in higher education alongside a project on migration, identity and belonging that applies reflexivity and social imaginaries together with auto/biography and auto/ethnography. 

Tracey Petersen manages the Education Outreach Section, Department of Global Communications, United Nations. The Education Outreach Section encompasses the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme, and the Outreach Programme on slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. The United Nations mandate both programmes to educate about these histories, so as to support the prevention of atrocity crimes from being committed again. Prior to joining the United Nations, Tracey was the Education Director of the Cape Town Holocaust Centre, South Africa and led the development and implementation of teacher training and public engagement projects tailored to engage with citizens of a country still emerging from a deeply damaged past. She has taught at both secondary and tertiary levels. She holds a PhD in history from the University of the Western Cape, an MPhil in Education from the University of Cape Town and is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminars.

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.

Yael Siman has a Ph.D. in Political Science from University of Chicago. She is associate professor, and the academic coordinator of the graduate program, at the social and political science department, Iberoamericana University Mexico City. She teaches a course on comparative genocide at the college level. She has conducted research on the experiences and narratives of Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Mexico and Latin America. Her recent publications include: “New Home and Transitional Spaces for Holocaust Survivors in Chile and Mexico” in Beyond Camps and Forced Labour, Palgrave-Macmillan (2020), and “Migration Narratives of Holocaust Survivors in Chile, Colombia and Mexico” in Lessons and Legacies XIV: The Holocaust in the 21st Century: Relevance and Challenges in the Digital Age, Northwestern University Press (2021). She is currently participating on a research project on the displacement and disappearance of victims of violence in Mexico, and the collective mobilization of their families.

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.     

Mariana Smith received a BFA in fine art and miniature painting from Moscow College of Applied and Industrial Arts in Moscow, Russia. After immigrating to the USA in 1992, she received a BFA with an emphasis in printmaking from the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus OH, and an MFA from the Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.  

In her studio, Mariana Smith combines printmaking, miniature painting, and digital video. Her installations address the nature of immigrant dislocations and the unrealized dream of a homeland. Smith’s work has been exhibited in the USA, Italy, China, Ireland, New Zealand, Guam, Taiwan, UK, and Armenia, and was displayed at the State of Ohio Governor’s Mansion in Columbus, Ohio.  

Adam Strom is the Executive Director of Re-Imagining Migration, an organization whose mission is to advance the education and well-being of immigrant-origin youth, decrease bias and hatred against young people of diverse origins, and help rising generations develop the understanding and habits of heart and mind that are necessary to build and sustain welcoming and inclusive communities.

Adam’s work educational career centers on preparing educators to help students recognize the fragility of democracy and their power as civic actors. He has focused on teaching and learning about identity, migration, racism and xenophobia in the past and the present He is the author of numerous resources for teachers and the educational curriculum, websites, and films produced under his direction have been used in tens of thousands of classrooms and experienced by millions of students around the world including over numerous resource books, study guides and films. Before helping to found Re-Imagining Migration, Strom was a long-time member of the senior leadership team at Facing History and Ourselves where he led the content development team.

Ada Trillo is a Philadelphia-based photographer. Born and raised in the U.S/ Mexican border region of Juarez and El Paso, her work focuses on sex trafficking, climate and violence-related international migration, and long-standing barriers of race and class. Her projects have been featured in international publications including The Guardian, Vogue, Smithsonian Magazine, and Mother Jones. Trillo’s work is held in the Library of Congress, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and other institutional and private collections. Her many awards include a First Place in the Tokyo International Foto Awards (2019), a British Journal of Photography Female In Focus Best Series Award and The Me & Eve Grant from the Center of Photographic Arts in Santa Fe (2020). Trillo’s images have been exhibited in the US, Japan, Luxembourg, Italy, England, France, and Germany. She holds degrees from the Istituto Marangoni in Milan, and Drexel University in Philadelphia. In 2021 she was accepted into Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism in the International Center of Photography in New York.

Faedah M. Totah is an associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA.  She is a trained anthropologist with a research interest in urban issues and place-making. She has worked extensively on the cultural, social, and economic impact of gentrification on the Old City of Damascus. The results of this research were the subject of the book Preserving the Old City of Damascus published in 2014 by Syracuse University Press.  She has also authored several articles dealing with Syria and the Middle East. Her current research focus is on migration and refugees in Syria. She is currently preparing a manuscript for publication that examines the experiences of Palestinian urban refugees in the Old City of Damascus and their relation with the Syrian government.