Biographies of Contributors

Donald Bloxham is Professor of Modern History at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of, inter alia, Genocide on Trial (2001), The Great Game of Genocide (2005), and, with Tony Kushner, The Holocaust: Critical Historical Approaches (2005). In 2007–2008 he was J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Ilya Bourtman is an independent researcher specializing in Russia’s Middle East and energy policies. In 2005 he served as a researcher at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies in Ramat Gan, Israel. Among his publications are “Israel and Azerbaijan’s Furtive Embrace,” Middle East Quarterly (Summer 2006) and “Putin and Russia’s Middle Eastern Policy,” Middle East Review of International Affairs (June 2006). His senior thesis, entitled “‘Blood for Blood, Death for Death!’: History, Mechanism and Portrayal of Soviet Investigations and Military Tribunals (1943–1946),” received the 2005 Arthur Kouguell Memorial Prize at the Johns Hopkins University.

Rachel Feldhay Brenner is Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature and a Senior Fellow in the Institute of Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2005–2006, she held a Sosland Foundation Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Among her publications are Ha-hofetz litzor: Ha-amanit v’holam b’yetzirata shel Ruth Almog (The Freedom to Write: The Woman-Artist and the World in Ruth Almog’s Fiction)(forthcoming with Hakibbutz Hameuchad); Inextricably Bonded: Israeli Jewish and Arab Writers Re-Visioning Culture (2003); and Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust—Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, and Etty Hillesum (1997).

Dustin Ells Howes is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Louisiana State University. His book Toward a Credible Pacifism: Violence and the Possibilities of Politics is forthcoming with SUNY Press. He is the author of “When States Choose to Die: Reassessing Assumptions about What States Want” (International Studies Quarterly 47, no. 4 [2003]) and “Two Meanings of Violence” in the interdisciplinary volume Ruminations on Violence, edited by Derek Pardue (2008).

Kevin P. Spicer, C.S.C., is currently Visiting Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, and Associate Professor of History at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts. He is the author of Resisting the Third Reich: The Catholic Clergy in Hitler’s Berlin (2004) and Hitler’s Priests: Catholic Clergy and National Socialism (Northern Illinois University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2008), as well as editor of Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence, and the Holocaust (Indiana University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2007). Spicer was a Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005–2006, and currently serves on the Museum’s Church Relations Committee. He is a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross.