Genocides by the Oppressed: Subaltern Genocide in Theory and Practice

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

209 Biographical Notes Editors Nicholas A. Robins is a lecturer in the Department of History at North Carolina State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from Tulane University. He is author of Priest-Indian Conflict in Upper Peru: The Generation of Rebellion, 1750– 1780; Native Insurgencies and the Genocidal Impulse in the Americas; Genocide and Millennialism in Upper Peru: The Great Rebellion of 1780–1782; The Culture of Conflict in Modern Cuba; Mesianismo y Semiótica Indígena en el Alto Perú: La Gran Rebelión de 1780–1782; and El mesianismo y la rebelión indígena: La rebelión de Oruro en 1781. He is also editor of Conflictos Políticos y movimientos sociales en Bolivia and Cambio y continuidad en Bolivia: etnicidad, cultura e identidad, as well as numerous articles. Adam Jones is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada. From 2005 to 2007, he was postdoctoral fellow in the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction; Crimes against Humanity: A Beginner’s Guide; and Gender Inclusive: Essays on Violence, Men and Feminist International Relations. He serves as executive director of Gendercide Watch (www.gendercide .org), a Web-based educational initiative that confronts gender-selective atrocities against men and women worldwide. He is also senior book review editor of the Journal of Genocide Research. Personal web site: http://adamjones.freeservers.com. Email: adam.jones@ubc.ca. Authors Alexander Laban (Alex) Hinton is Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Affairs at Rutgers University, Newark. He is the author of Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide and five edited or co-edited collections: Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation; Night of the Khmer Rouge: Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia; Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide; Genocide: An Anthropological Reader; and Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions. He is currently working on several other projects, including an edited volume, Local Justice, a book on 9/11 and Abu Ghraib, and a book on the politics of memory and justice in the aftermath of the Cambodian genocide. Eric Langenbacher is Visiting Assistant Professor and Director of Special Programs in the Department of Government, Georgetown University, where he teaches courses on comparative politics, political culture, and political films. He has also taught at George Washington University and in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His book manuscript Memory Regimes and Political Culture in Contemporary Germany is currently under review. His research interests center on political culture, collective memory, political institutions, and public opinion in Europe and the United States. 210 Evelin G. Lindner is an interdisciplinary social scientist. She holds two Ph.D.s, in social medicine and social psychology. In 1996, she began her research on humiliation and its role in genocide and war. This research conducted from 1997 to 2001 involved more than 200 interviews with people implicated in or knowledgeable about Rwanda, Somalia, and Nazi Germany. Lindner is currently concentrating on planned books and articles on humiliation, as well as establishing the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network as an international platform for further work on the subject. She is affiliated with the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network, New York; the University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, Norway; and the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris; and she teaches in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Australia, and other places globally. David B. MacDonald holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics. He is the author of Balkan Holocausts? Serbian and Croatian Victim-Centered Nationalism and the War in Yugoslavia and Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide: The Holocaust and Historical Representation. Formerly a Senior Lecturer in Political Studies at the University of Otago, he now teaches political science at the University of Guelph. E. O. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. He received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University, where his dissertation research focused on the evolutionary basis of social play in rhesus monkeys. He has done fieldwork with nonhuman primates in Micronesia as well as in Africa. His fieldwork has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the World Wildlife Fund, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, and the Leakey Foundation. Smith has also done research with captive nonhuman primates at the Yerkes National Primate Center, and has received...