Contributors
- Contributors
Stephen F. Burgess is Professor in the Department of International Security Studies, US Air War College. He co-authored South Africa's Weapons of Mass Destruction with Helen Purkitt (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2005), and 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). He has published numerous articles and book chapters on African and South Asian security issues. Since 1999, Burgess has taught courses on international security, peace and stability operations, and African regional and cultural studies. 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.
Georgina Holmes holds a PhD in International Relations (IR) Theory and Media from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). A key aspect of her research is the inclusion of African women in IR theories of war and genocide. She is currently writing a book on the gendered politics of mediatized conflict in Rwanda and Eastern Congo and has published a number of articles including "The Postcolonial Politics of Militarizing Rwandan Women: An Analysis of the Extremist Magazine Kangura and the Gendering of a Genocidal Nation-State" (Minerva Journal of Women and War 2, no. 2, 2008).
Regine Uwibereyeho King is a PhD candidate at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. Her research interests are alternative approaches to mental health for survivors of massive violence and post-conflict reconstruction. Her work experience includes course instruction, research assistantships, community-based mental health practice in Canada and Rwanda.
Bedross Der Matossian is Assistant Professor of Modern Middle East History in the Department of History at the University of Nebraska/Lincoln. Born and raised in Jerusalem, he is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he began his graduate studies in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. He completed his PhD in Middle East History in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University in 2008. His dissertation, entitled Ethnic Politics in Post-Revolutionary Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Arabs, and Jews in the Second Constitutional Period (1908-1909), dealt exclusively with interethnic politics during the first year of the Second Constitutional Period (1908-1918). From 2008 to 2010, he was a lecturer of Middle East history in the Faculty of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he taught a variety of courses pertaining to world history, Islam and the West, political history of the modern Middle East as well as the Arab-Israeli conflict. His areas of interest include ethnic politics in the Middle East, interethnic violence in the Ottoman Empire, the social and economic history of the Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and modern Armenian history. [End Page 203]
Roger W. Smith is Professor Emeritus of government at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. He has written and lectured widely on the history, nature, and prevention of genocide and on the issue of denial. Smith is a co-founder and past president of the International Association of Genocide Studies and Human Rights University Program and, since 2003, Director of the Zoryan Institute's Genocide and Human Rights University Program, a two-week intensive seminar held annually at the University of Toronto. In 2008 the Republic of Armenia presented him with its highest civilian award, the Mosves Khorenatsi Medal, for his contributions to international recognition of the 1915 Genocide. [End Page 204]
