Samuel Totten is a genocide

Genocide

Genocide is defined as "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group", though what constitutes enough of a "part" to qualify as genocide has been subject to much debate by legal scholars...

 scholar, Professor of the University of Arkansas

University of Arkansas

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, Fayetteville

Fayetteville

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, a Member of the Council of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide

Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide

The Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide was founded in Jerusalem, in 1979, by Israeli scholars Israel W. Charny, Shamai Davidson and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel....

, Jerusalem. In 2005 he became one of the chief co-editors of Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, the official journal of the International Association of Genocide Scholars

International Association of Genocide Scholars

The International Association of Genocide Scholars is a global, interdisciplinary, non-partisan organization that seeks to further research and teaching about the nature, causes, and consequences of genocide, and advance policy studies on prevention of genocide. The Association, founded in 1994 by...

 (IAGS).

Samuel Totten earned a master's degree and a doctoral degree at Teachers College, Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

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In 2004, he served as an investigator on the U.S. State Department's Darfur

Darfur

Darfur is a region in western Sudan. An independent sultanate for several hundred years, it was incorporated into Sudan by Anglo-Egyptian forces in 1916. The region is divided into three federal states: West Darfur, South Darfur, and North Darfur...

 Atrocities Documentation Project. Then he has conducted research on Rwandan genocide

Rwandan Genocide

The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass murder of an estimated 800,000 people in the small East African nation of Rwanda. Over the course of approximately 100 days through mid-July, over 500,000 people were killed, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate...

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He is a recipient of the National Council for Teachers of English's Richard Meade Research Award and a 1995 EdPress Award.

Publications

• Totten, Samuel, and Parsons, William S. (Eds.) (2012). Centuries of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Testimony. Fourth Edition. New York: Routledge.

• Totten, Samuel (2012). Genocide by Attrition: The Nuba Mountains in the Sudan. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

• Totten, Samuel, and Ubaldo, Rafiki (2011). We Cannot Forget: Interviews with Survivors of the Genocide in Rwanda. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

• Totten, Samuel (2010). An Oral and Documentary History of the Darfur Genocide. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Security International.

• Totten, S. and Parsons, William (Eds.) (2009). Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Testimony. Third Edition. New York: Routledge

• Totten, S. & Markusen, E. (Eds.) (2006). Genocide in Darfur: Investigating Atrocities in the Sudan. New York: Routledge.

• Totten S. (2006). The Prevention and Intervention of Genocide: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Routledge.

• Totten, S. (Ed.) (2005). Genocide at the Millennium. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

• Totten, S., Parsons, W.S., & Charny, I.W. (Eds.) (2004). Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Testimony. Second Edition. New York: Routledge

• Totten, S. (Ed.) (2004). Teaching About Genocide. Greenwich, CT: Information Age.

• Totten, S. & Jacobs, S. (Eds.) (2002). Pioneers of Genocide Studies. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

• Charny, I.W. (Chief Editor), Adalian, R., Jacobs, S., Markusen, E. & Totten, S. (Associate Editors) (1999). Encyclopedia of Genocide. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC CLIO Press.

• Totten, S., Parsons, W.S. & Charny, I.W. (Eds.) (1997). Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. Expanded, paperback version of Genocide in the Twentieth Century.

• Totten, S., Parsons, W.S. & Charny, I.W. (Eds.) (1995). Genocide in the Twentieth Century: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Testimony. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.

• Totten, S. (1991). First Person Accounts of Genocidal Acts Committed in the Twentieth Century: A Critical Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.