INTERNATIONAL
Darfur: Religious questions, advocates and resources

IN THE NORTHEAST
• Eric Reeves, an English professor at Smith College in Northampton, Mass., has a Web site recording his six years of advocacy and analysis of the events in Sudan. He is a frequent op-ed writer and commentator on the subject. Read an April 24, 2005, Boston Globe article and a spring 2005 Smith Alumnae Quarterly article about his advocacy. Contact 413-585-3326, ereeves@smith.edu.
• Omer Bartov is professor of European history at Brown University in Providence, R.I., and author of In God’s Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century (Berghahn Books, 2001). In fall 2005, 200 students took his class, Modern Genocide and Other Crimes Against Humanity. Contact 401-863-1375, Omer_Bartov@brown.edu.
• Richard Lobban is professor and chair of anthropology at Rhode Island College. As a journalist he covered wars in Sudan. He is executive director and first president of the Sudan Studies Association. Contact 401-456-8784, rlobban@ric.edu.
• Debórah Dwork is director of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. She is also professor of Holocaust studies and modern Jewish history and culture. Contact 508-793-7450, ddwork@clarku.edu.
• Ronan Farrow is a student at Yale Law School and a UNICEF Spokesperson for Youth who works to end the killing in Darfur. Contact through the Genocide Intervention Network, for which he is a spokesman, 202-481-8220.

IN THE EAST
• Stephanie Nyombayire is a Rwandan student at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania who works to end the crisis in Darfur. Dozens of her family members died in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Contact through the Genocide Intervention Network, for which she is a representative, 202-481-8220.
• Michael N. Dobkowski is professor of religious studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, N.Y., and co-editor of The Coming Age of Scarcity: Preventing Mass Death and Genocide in the 21st Century (Syracuse University Press, 1998). Contact 315-781-3369, DOBKOWSKI@hws.edu.
• Timothy Longman is assistant professor of political science at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and author of Commanded by the Devil: Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press). Contact 845-437-5563, tilongman@vassar.edu.
• Randolph L. Braham is director of the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies at the City University of New York. He is author of The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary (Wayne State University Press, 2000) and The Vatican and the Holocaust (East European Monographs, 2000). Contact 212-642-2183, rbraham@gc.cuny.edu.
• Donna E. Arzt is a law professor at Syracuse University in New York. She is director of the school’s Center for Global Law and Practice and co-director of the Sierra Leone Project, which prepares legal papers for the Office of the Prosecutor of the international war crimes tribunal in that West African country. She teaches courses on international law and human rights and has written on religion, human rights and the United Nations’ Genocide Convention. Contact 315-443-2401, dearzt@law.syr.edu.

IN THE SOUTHEAST
• Gerald Shenk is professor of church and society at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va. He has written on religious and ethnic conflict in the Bosnian war. Contact 540-432-4264, shenkng@emu.edu.
• The Hillel chapter at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill sponsored a “Dimes for Darfur” campaign this year. The object was to collect 150,000 dimes, representing the 150,000 children who died during the Holocaust and raising money to help Darfur. Read a January 2006 Hillel story. Contact 919-942-4057.

IN THE SOUTH
• Helmut Walser Smith is Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History at Vanderbilt University and director of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities. He is author of The Holocaust and Other Genocides: History, Representation, Ethics (Vanderbilt University Press, 2002). Contact 615-322-5950, Helmut.W.Smith@Vanderbilt.edu.
• Margaret Vandiver, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Memphis, researches contemporary genocides. Contact 901-678-3401, vandiver@memphis.edu.

IN THE MIDWEST
• Robert Melson is political professor at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., and current president of the current president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, which he co-founded in 1995. His primary area of research is ethnic conflict and genocide, and he has written widely on the topic. Contact 765-494-4187, melson@polsci.purdue.edu.
• Rabbi Peter J. Haas is a Jewish studies professor and director of the Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He wrote Human Rights and the World’s Major Religions: The Jewish Tradition (Greenwood Press, 2005) Contact 216-368-2741, pjh7@case.edu.
• Michael A. Sells is professor of Islamic history and literature at the University of Chicago. He has written on genocide in Bosnia in the context of Islamic belief. Contact 773-702-8238, msells@uchicago.edu.
• Eric D. Weitz is a history professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis-St. Paul and author of A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation (Princeton University Press, 2005). Contact 612-624-7506, weitz004@umn.edu.
• Lawrence J. LeBlanc is professor of political science at Marquette University in Milwaukee and author of The United States and the Genocide Convention (Duke University Press, 1991). He specializes in international politics, international law and organizations, and U.S. foreign policy. Contact 414-288-3422, lawrence.leblanc@marquette.edu.
• Stephen Feinstein is director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota. The center researches contemporary genocides, including Darfur. Contact 612-624-0256, feins001@umn.edu.
• Bettina Arnold is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and author of   “Justifying Genocide: The Supporting Role of Archaeology in ‘Ethnic Cleansing’” for the book Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide (University of California Press, 2002). Contact 414-229-4583, barnold@uwm.edu.

IN THE SOUTHWEST
• Elias Wakoson is an English professor at Grayson County College in Denison, Texas, and president-elect of the Sudan Studies Association. Contact 903-463-8697, wakosonel@grayson.edu.
• Alan Kuperman is assistant professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda (Brookings Institution Press, 2001) and co-editor of Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion, and Civil War (Routledge, 2006). His op-eds on Sudan are posted on his home page. Contact 512-471-8245, akuperman@mail.utexas.edu.
• George E. Tinker is professor of American Indian cultures and religious traditions at Iliff School of Theology in Denver. He is author of Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide (Augsburg Fortress, 1993). Contact 303-777-0164, ttinker@iliff.edu.

IN THE WEST/NORTHWEST
• James E. Waller is a psychology professor at Whitworth College in Spokane, Wash., and author of Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing (Oxford University Press, 2002). Contact 509-777-4424, jwaller@whitworth.edu.
• John K. Roth is director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights and a professor of philosophy and religious studies at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Calif. He is editor of Genocide and Human Rights: A Philosophical Guide (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). He has written on the Holocaust and genocide in Rwanda. Contact 909-607-2891, john.roth@claremontmckenna.edu.
• Eliz Sanasarian is political science professor at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles and has written on gender distinction in genocide in the context of Armenia. Contact 213-740-3624, sanasari@usc.edu.
• Rabbi Marvin Hier is the dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles and its Museum of Tolerance. The center has co-sponsored a rally for Darfur. Contact 310-553-9036.