Educating about Genocide and Mass Atrocities
The history of genocide, mass atrocities, crimes against humanity and their continuing consequences stand at the core of the Strassler Center at Clark University. Home to a uniquely rich undergraduate program and a landmark doctoral program, the Strassler Center is the first and only institute of its kind. Since 1998, it has gained international standing as the foremost PhD program training students in Holocaust History, the Armenian Genocide, and other genocides perpetrated around the globe. Center faculty and students foster important scholarship and germinate significant ideas as conveners of a robust series of international symposia, workshops, and conferences that broaden the boundaries of genocide studies by introducing less known cases and novel approaches. The causes, conduct, and consequences of genocide are complex and require multifaceted approaches. The Strassler Center is committed to pushing boundaries in order to foster greater knowledge as well as to train professionals who hope to find solutions, offer healing and aid, education, and opportunities for memorialization.
Our Faculty and Expertise
Thomas Kühne, Ph.D.
Director, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies; Strassler Colin Flug Chair in the Study of Holocaust History; Professor, Department of History
Research Highlights
Elyse Semerdjian, Ph.D.
Stephen and Marian Mugar and Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian’52 Chair
Research Highlights
Ken MacLean, Ph.D.
Professor, International Development and Social Change (IDCE) & Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies; Director: Genocide and Human Rights Concentration
Research Highlights
Frances Tanzer, Ph.D.
Rose Professor of Holocaust Studies and Modern Jewish History and Culture; Assistant Professor, Department of History
Research Highlights
- Holocaust scholar Frances Tanzer delves into the past to better understand the present
- USHMM Conference – “Fleeing the Nazis: Austrian Jewish Refugees to the United States Panel II”
- “Performing the Austrian-Jewish (Negative) Symbiosis: Stella Kadmon’s Viennese Stage from Red Vienna to the Second Republic”
Land Acknowledgment
We acknowledge the long history of Nipmuc peoples and their bonds of kinship on the land where the Strassler Center community teaches, learns, and researches about genocide and mass violence.
Strassler Center in Focus
Documenting the Armenian Genocide: Essays in Honor of Taner Akçam
- Honors the life and the work of Taner Akçam, the first Turkish intellectual to acknowledge the Armenian genocide
- Includes twelve contributions from Armenian genocide scholars around the globe
- Sheds new light on the historiography of the genocide, its perpetrators, victims, and bystanders
Barry Hoffman Nazi Postcard Collection
This collection is comprised of 1,471 postcards that are connected to the Nazi Party in Germany.
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Strassler Center hosts ‘The War in Ukraine Through a Camera Lens’
Colin Flug Wing is a haven for genocide scholars
Event celebrates wing, 20 years of doctoral education at Strassler Center
Akçam offers proof of plan to annihilate Armenians
Historian: Ottoman leaders ‘spoke openly’ of how to exterminate population
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