Carolyn J. Dean is John Hay Professor of International Studies and Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty at Brown University. She is the author of several books, among them The Self and Its Pleasures: Bataille, Lacan and the History of the Decentered Subject, The Frail Social Body: Pornography, Homosexuality and other Fantasies in Interwar France, The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust, and the forthcoming Jewish Memory and the Rhetoric of Victimhood.
Alexandra Garbarini is an assistant professor in the history department of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She completed her doctorate in 2003 at the University of California, Los Angeles.Her first book, Numbered Days: Diary Writing and the Holocaust(Yale University Press, 2006) was a runner-up for the National Jewish Book Award, Holocaust category. Her current research focuses on testimonial responses to mass atrocities and their reception in Europe and the United States during the interwar years.
Olga Gershenson is an Assistant Professor of the Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She is the author of Gesher: Russian Theatre in Israel (Peter Lang, 2005) and co-editor of Ladies and Gents (Temple UP, 2009). She is now working on her new book, The Holocaust in Soviet and Russian Cinema.
Krista Hegburg is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. Her research focuses on violence, reparation, narrativity, and minority communities in the Czech Republic. She has taught at Rutgers University and the University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw, Poland, where she also co-founded the International Institute for the Study of Culture and Education. She recently co-edited a special issue of The Anthropology of East Europe Review (2008) on the topic of Roma and Gadje. Her current projects include a collaborative interdisciplinary research project, Everyday Life in the Camps, that examines lived experience in the Nazi camp system through the lens of everyday history and ethnography, and a study of political speech and Czech minoritarian politics.
Dagmar Herzog is Professor of History and Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her work concerns the intersections of the histories of religion and Jewish-Christian relations, Holocaust memory studies, and the histories of gender and sexuality. She is the author of Intimacy and Exclusion: Religious Politics in Pre-Revolutionary Baden (1996, repr. 2007), Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (2005), and Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics (2008). Her edited collections include: Lessons and Legacies VII: The Holocaust in International Perspective (2006) and Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century (2009).
Karl Jacoby is a professor history at Brown University. He is the author of Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation and Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History.
Paul B. Jaskot is a professor of modern art and architectural history at DePaul University. He is the author of The Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy as well as many articles on the relationship of art and politics in Nazi-era and postwar Germany. Most recently, he co-edited Beyond Berlin: Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past. He has also lectured and published on other topics related to contemporary architecture and politics. Last year, he gave the Jean and Harold Gossett Lecture for the Committee on Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago. In addition to his scholarly work, Jaskot is also the President of the College Art Association, the largest professional group for artists and art historians in the world.
Erin McGlothlin is Associate Professor of German at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Second Generation Holocaust Literature: Legacies of Survival and Perpetration (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2006). McGlothlin has also written articles for such journals as Narrative, The Germany Quarterly and Gegenwartsliteratur and in numerous edited volumes. In addition, she is co-editor with Lutz Koepnick of After the Digital Divide: German Aesthetic Theory in the Age of New Digital Media (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2009).
Dirk Moses joined the Department of History at the University of Sydney in 2000 after studying in Australia, Scotland, the United States and Germany. Before coming to Sydney, he was a research fellow in the Department of History at the University of Freiburg, where he worked on postwar German debates about the recent past, a project that has appeared as German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (Cambridge, 2007). His current interests are in world history, genocide, the United Nations, and colonialism/imperialism, about which he has published a number of anthologies, most recently Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation and Subaltern Resistance in World History (2008) and, with Donald Bloxham, The Oxford Handbook on Genocide Studies (2010).
R. Clifton Spargo is a fiction writer and critic, who teaches at Marquette University. Formerly a Whiting Fellow in the Humanities and a Pearl Resnick Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, he is the author of two critical monographs — The Ethics of Mourning (Johns Hopkins UP 2004) and Vigilant Memory: Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the Unjust Death (Johns Hopkins UP 2006), as well as co-editor with Robert M. Ehrenreich of After Representation?: The Holocaust, Literature, and Culture (Rutgers UP and U.S. Holocaust Museum Press 2009). A recent finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Prize in Fiction and past winner of Glimmer Train’s Award for New Writers, he has published stories in The Antioch Review, Fiction, Glimmer Train, SOMA, and other journals; and his essays, reviews, and opinion pieces have appeared in venues such as The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, The Yale Review, Commonweal, PMLA, and Raritan. Visit his new author’s website at www.rcliftonspargo.com to learn more about his work.
Scott Straus is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies and Director of the Human Rights Initiative at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His primary research interests include the study of genocide, violence, human rights, and African Politics. Straus is the author of The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda (Cornell University Press, 2006), which received the 2006 Award for Excellence in Political Science and Government from the Association of American Publishers, and, with Robert Lyons, Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide (MIT/Zone Books, 2006). He has published articles related to genocide in World Politics, Politics & Society, Foreign Affairs, Genocide Studies and Prevention, Journal of Genocide Research, Patterns of Prejudice, and the Wisconsin International Law Journal, and he has received grants from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the United States Institute of Peace.