Contributors

Contributors Sociologist and historian Taner Akçam was born in the province of Ardahan, Turkey, in 1953. In 1995 he received his doctorate from the University of Hanover with a dissertation titled ‘‘The Turkish National Movement and the Armenian Genocide Against the Background of the Military Tribunals in Istanbul between 1919 and 1922.’’ Since 2002, he has been Visiting Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. Professor Akçam has lectured and published extensively on this subject, with eleven books and numerous articles in English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian and Turkish to his credit. His book From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide (2004) has been translated into Italian and will soon appear in Polish and French. A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and Turkish Responsibility was published by Metropolitan Books in November 2006. Akçam can be reached at takcam@umn.edu. Hannibal Travis is Assistant Professor of Law at Florida International University’s College of Law, Miami’s only public law school, where he teaches and researches in the fields of intellectual property, antitrust, jurisprudence, and international human-rights law. He graduated summa cum laude in philosophy from Washington University, where he was named to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as a member of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. After law school, Professor Travis clerked for the Honorable William Matthew Byrne, Jr., of the US District Court for the Central District of California and practiced law with O’Melveny & Myers in San Francisco. Thereafter, he was associated with Debevoise & Plimpton in New York. He has advised human-rights organizations working in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2005, the Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights published his article ‘‘Freedom or Theocracy? Constitutionalism in Afghanistan and Iraq.’’ Travis can be reached at travish@fiu.edu. William F.S. Miles is a professor of political science at Northeastern University in Boston and adjunct research professor of international studies at The Watson Institute of Brown University. His works on genocide have appeared in the Journal of Genocide Research, the Journal of Holocaust Education, Midstream, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He also convened the first-ever international symposium on Third World Views of the Holocaust. Miles can be reached at b.miles@neu.edu. Edward Paulino is an assistant professor in the Department of History at CUNY/John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, where he teaches courses on global history, genocide, borders, and ethnic conflict. He received a PhD in Latin American and Caribbean history from Michigan State University. His research interests include state formation, violence, historical memory, and ideology in the construction and legacy of national identity. Paulino can be reached at edpaulino@jjay.cuny.edu. Rubina Peroomian is a research associate at UCLA, where she earned her PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Her publications include Literary Responses to Contributors. Genocide Studies and Prevention 1, 3 (December 2006): 381–382. ß 2006 Genocide Studies and Prevention. Catastrophe: A Comparison of the Armenian and the Jewish Experience (a book based on her PhD thesis), a series of secondary textbooks on the Armenian Question and the Armenian Genocide, and research articles in scholarly journals. Her most recent publication is a compilation of materials, lesson plans, and strategies to teach the Armenian Genocide to Armenian K–12 students. Peroomian can be reached at rubinap@aol.com. David Scheffer is the Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law and Director of the Center for International Human Rights at the Northwestern University School of Law. He is a former US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997–2001). From 1999 to 2001 he headed the Atrocities Prevention Inter-Agency Working Group of the US government, and from 1993 to 1996 he was senior adviser and counsel to the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Scheffer can be reached at d-scheffer@law.northwestern.edu. Genocide Studies and Prevention 1:3 December 2006 382 ...