Scott Straus Author & Translator

Ben Kiernan is the Griswold Professor of History at Yale University and founding Director of Yale's Genocide Studies Program. His book Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (2007) won numerous prizes, including a gold medal for the best work of history, awarded by the Independent Publishers Association. Wendy Lower is the John K. Roth Professor of History and Director of the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights at Claremont McKenna College. She is also Chair of the Academic Committee of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Her book Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields (2013) was a finalist for the National Book Award, and has been translated into twenty-three languages. Norman Naimark is the Robert & Florence McDonnell Chair in East European Studies at Stanford University. He is also Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution and of the Institute of International Studies. He is the author of the acclaimed book Genocide: A World History (2016). Scott Straus is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (2016) and Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa (2015) won awards from the American Political Science Association and the International Studies Association.