Newswise — Samuel Totten, a genocide scholar at the University of Arkansas, is available for interview for stories related to genocide and educating about genocide.
In his 20 years as a genocide scholar, Totten has moved beyond cataloging and commemorating past genocides to working to intervene and prevent future genocides. He spent the first part of 2008 in Rwanda on a Fulbright Fellowship establishing a graduate degree program in genocide studies at the National University of Rwanda and conducting an oral history project among survivors of the Rwandan genocide.
Working with a Rwandan independent researcher and journalist, Totten has established the Post Genocide Education Fund to enable survivors of genocide " whether in Rwanda or other countries " to attain a university education.
In addition to his work in Rwanda, Totten has visited refugee camps in Chad multiple times to conduct interviews, beginning in 2004 when he served as an investigator on the U.S. State Department's Darfur Atrocities Documentation Project. Subsequently, he edited Genocide in Darfur: Investigating Atrocities in the Sudan (2006).
Totten has lectured widely in the United States and internationally. He has published extensively in the fields of Holocaust education, genocide education, first-person accounts of genocide, the prevention and intervention of genocide and the Darfur genocide. He edited the first guide for educators about genocide, Teaching About Genocide (2004). He is co-author with Australian historian Paul Bartrop of the first Dictionary of Genocide (2008).
RSS