Howard Adelman
Howard Adelman has been a
Professor of Philosophy at York in Toronto since 1966. He was the founder
and Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University until
the end of 1993 and editor of Canada's periodical on refugees,
Refuge, for ten years until 1993. Howard Adelman has written
extensively on the Middle East, humanitarian intervention, membership
rights, ethics, refugee policy and refugee resettlement. His two most
recent co-edited books were: Immigration and Refugee Policy: Australia
and Canada Compared, University of Melbourne Press and University of
Toronto Press, and African Refugees, Westview Press. He has also
written many government reports and studies. In 1996, he and his colleague
from Norway, Astri Suhrke, published a major study entitled: Early
Warning and Conflict Management: the Genocide in Rwanda as part of the
recently published five volume study: International Response to
Conflict and Genocide: Lessons from the Rwanda Experience.
Adrian Arbib
Adrian Arbib studied photography at the London College of Printing during
the early 1980's and has since then concentrated on human rights and
social documentary photgraphy. His work covers England, India, Kenya,
Mongolia, Rwanda, and Sudan as well as numerous other places across the
globe.
Johanna Baum
Johanna Baum is a second year graduate student in the Comparative
Literature and Literary Theory program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Her work focuses on 20th century American and Israeli literature. She is
primarily interested in the intersections between literature, psychology,
and history.
Vance Bell
Vance Bell is the founder and editor-in-chief of Other Voices
Catherine Bernard
Catherine Anna Bernard graduated from Stanford University in 1995 with a
B.A. in Modern Thought and Literature. tell him that I, her
senior honors thesis, won three university prizes. She spent a year
as a Mellon Fellow in Humanistic Studies at the University of California
at Berkeley/Graduate Theological Union Joint Program in Jewish Studies,
and is currently a first-year student and a Dean's Merit Scholar at the
New York University School of Law.
Ilana Blumberg
Ilana Blumberg is a doctoral candidate in the Dept of
English, writing on objects in Victorian fiction. She has taught courses
regarding issues of representation in literature of the Holocaust and
African-American slavery.
Ward Churchill
Ward Churchill (Keetoowah Cherokee) is Professor of American Indian
Studies at the University of Colorado/Boulder, and a member of the Board
of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem. Among his
many books are A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the
Americas, 1492 to the Present (1997), Fantasies of the Master Race:
Literature, Cinema and the Colonization of American Indians (rev. ed.,
1998) and Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to
Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization (rev. ed., 1999), all available
from Arbiter Ring Publishers, Winnipeg.
Stephen Feinstein
Stephen C. Feinstein is Professor Emeritus at the University of
Wisconsin-River Falls and is currently serving as Director of the Center
for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Ian Hancock
The Hon. Ian F. Hancock is a professor at The University of Texas at
Austin where he teaches Romani Studies and is director of the
International Romani Archives and Documentation Center. In 1997 he was
awarded the Rafto Foundation's International Human Rights Prize in Norway
for his work for Roma, and the Gamaliel Chair in Peace and Justice. In
1998 President Clinton appointed him to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Council where he serves as its sole Romani member.
Sheila Kunkle
Sheila Kunkle has a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of
Pittsburgh. She is an Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at Vermont
College of Norwich University, where she also teaches in the new Virtual
College. She is currently working on a book tentatively entitled,
"Locating Love," an exploration into the writings of Jacques Lacan.
She is acting as Guest Editor for this special issue on genocide.
Aaron Levy
Aaron Levy, a
photographer and writer, is currently Resident Junior Fellow
at the Kelly Writers House,
University of Pennsylvania. An exhibition of
his abstract color photographs at the University of Pennsylvania
closed recently in December 1999; a collection of his prose poetry is
forthcoming from Handwritten Press in February 2000. He currently
organizes the Kelly Writers House Series Theorizing
in Particular, and serves as
editor of the journal Other Voices.
Harold Marcuse
Harold Marcuse is Associate Professor of History at University of
California, Santa Barbara. His work deals primarily with modern German
history. He has recently completed Legacies of Dachau: The Uses and
Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933-2000, forthcoming from Cambridge
University Press.
Anson Rabinbach
Anson Rabinbach is Professor of History at Princeton University and
specializes in 20th century European history, with an emphasis on German
intellectual history. He is currently Director of European Cultural
Studies and teaches courses on European intellectuals, fascism, and the
history of technology. He is the author of The Crisis of Austrian
Socialism (1983); The Human Motor (1990); and In the Shadow
of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals Between Apocalypse and
Enlightenment (1997).
Gordon Rumson
Gordon Rumson has performed widely, composed over 80 works in a
variety of genres and has written numerous articles on a wide range of
topics published in such places as The Wisconsin Academy Review,
The Journal of the American Liszt Society, The Double Reed
Journal, The Godowsky Society Newsletter, The Canadian Music
Teacher, Music and Vision and The American Organist. He
has done extensive research into little-known composers editing their works
for publication while also investigating music and sound in their cultural
and psychological aspects.
Renata Salecl
Renata Salecl, Philosopher and Sociologist at the Institute of
Criminology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and visiting scholar at
the University of Michigan Fall 1999. She is editor of Gaze and Voice
As Love Objects with Slavoj Zizek, 1996, and author of the forthcoming
Perversions of Love and Hate, Verso Books, 2000.
Rebecca Scherr
Rebecca Scherr is a graduate student in the English program at the
University of Minnesota. Her interests are: narrative and film theory,
trauma, women's Holocaust narratives, literary modernism. She is
currently writing on Charlotte Salomon's Life? or Theater? and Art
Spiegelman's Maus.
Ervin Staub
Ervin Staub is a Professor of Psychology at University of Massachussettes,
Amherst. He is the author of numerous books including The Roots of
Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence,
Cambridge, 1991. he is currently writing a book with the
tentative title, "A Brighter Future: Raising Caring and Nonviolent
Children."
Imre Szeman
Imre Szeman is an Assistant Professor of the Department of
English/Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition at
McMaster University (Ontario, Canada). He is co-editor of Pierre
Bourdieu: Fieldwork of Culture and has just complete a book manuscript
entitled Zones of Instability: Literature, Postcolonialism and the
Nation. He is currently working on the second edition of the Johns
Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Stevan Weine
Dr. Weine is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of
Illinois at Chicago where he is a researcher, writer, clinician and
teacher. He is co-founder and co-director of the Project on Genocide,
Psychiatry and Witnessing of the University of Illinois at Chicago. His
scholarly work centers on understanding the traumatization of genocide and
political violence with a special focus on its socio-cultural dimensions.
Weine is principal investigator of a National Institute of Mental Health
unded research study called "A Prevention and Access Intervention for
Survivor Families" which is investigating the Bosnian CAFES and Kosovar
TAFES family interventions. He is author of this book of narrative
non-fiction called When History is a Nightmare: Lives and Memories of
Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Rutgers, 1999). He has also
received grants from the Health Research and Policy Center, the Institute
of Humanities, and the Great Cities Institute.
For further information please contact:
Vance Bell
Editor-in-Chief
Other Voices
ov@dept.english.upenn.edu
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