Contributors
- Contributors
Alex Alvarez earned his PhD in sociology from the University of New Hampshire in 1991 and is Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. From 2001 until 2003 he was the founding director of the Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust, Tolerance, and Humanitarian Values. His research mainly focuses on the areas of collective and interpersonal violence, including homicide and genocide. His first book, Governments, Citizens, and Genocide (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2001), was nominated for the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Book of the Year award in 2002 and for the Raphael Lemkin Book Award from the International Association of Genocide Scholars in 2003. His other books include Murder American Style (co-authored with Ronet Bachman; Wadsworth, 2002), Violence: the Enduring Problem (co-authored with Ronet Bachman; Los Angeles, Sage, 2008), and Genocidal Crimes (London, Routledge, 2009). He has also served as an editor for the journal Violence and Victims, was a founding co-editor of the journal Genocide Studies and Prevention, was a co-editor of the H-Genocide List Serve, and is an editorial board member for the journals War Crimes, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity: An International Journal and Idea: A Journal of Social Issues. He has been invited to present his research in various countries such as Austria, Bosnia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Alvarez also gives presentations and workshops on various issues such as violence, genocide, and bullying.
Stephen F. Burgess is Professor at the Department of International Security Studies, US Air War College. He is the author of Smallholders and Political Voice in Zimbabwe (Lanham, MD, University Press of America, 1997) and The United Nations under Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 1992-97 (Lanham, MD, Scarecrow Press, 2001), and he co-authored South Africa's Weapons of Mass Destruction (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2005) with Helen Purkitt. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on African and South Asian security issues, two of which are on the US Africa Command. Burgess helped to lead in the organization and execution of the Air Force Africa Command Symposium, which focused on air power and was held from March 31 to April 2, 2009 at Air University. Since 1999 Burgess has taught courses on international security, peace and stability operations, and African regional and cultural studies. He also is the resident expert in the Department on Pakistan and Afghanistan and Associate Director of the US Air Force Counterproliferation Center. Burgess holds a PhD from Michigan State University and has been a faculty member at Vanderbilt University, the University of Zambia, the University of Zimbabwe, and Hofstra University.
Daniel Feierstein holds a PhD in social sciences from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he directs the Genocide Chair that he created in 2001. He is also Director of the Center of Genocide Studies at the National University of Tres de Febrero, Argentina, as well as the Second Vice President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS). He worked as a consultant to the United Nations, helping to prepare Argentina's National Plan to Combat Discrimination (2004-2006) and National Human Rights Plan (2007-2008). His recent books include El genocidio como prá ctica social: Entre el nazismo y la experiencia argentina (Genocide [End Page 114] as a Social Practice: Between Nazism and the Experience of Argentina, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Buenos Aires, 2007) and Terrorismo de estado y genocidio en Ame´rica Latina (State Terrorism and Genocide in Latin America, Prometeo, Buenos Aires, 2009). He has also co-authored, in collaboration with Marica Esparza and Henry Huttenbach, State Violence and Genocide in Latin America (Routledge, New York, 2010).
Maureen S. Hiebert is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Law and Society at the University of Calgary, Alberta. She currently teaches courses in comparative politics and socio-legal studies and has previously taught comparative genocide in the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto. Hiebert received her PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto (March 2007) where she wrote her dissertation, The Origins of Genocide: Political Culture, Crisis, and the Construction of Victims, in which she explored the role played by the...
