Table of Contents

Introduction - Samuel Totten and Steven Leonard Jacobs

*Historians*

1.Finding the Words - Rouben Paul Adalian

2.Confronting the Armenian Genocide - Richard G. Hovannisian

3.Vita Felix, Via Dolorosa: An Academic Journey towards Genocide - Henry R. Huttenbach

4.Facts and Values: A Personal Intellectual Exploration - James E. Mace

5.The Questioner - Yves Ternon

*Political Scientists*

6.A German-born Genocide Scholar - Barbara Harff

7.Studying Genocide to Protect Life - Herbert Hirsch

8.How I Came to the Study of Genocide - Kurt Jonassohn

9.My Journey in the Study of Genocide - Robert Melson

10.From the Study of War and Revolution toDemocide—Power Kills - R. J. Rummel

11.Who Is My Neighbor? - Roger W. Smith

12.Breaking the Membrane - Colin Tatz

*Sociologists*

13.From Social Action to Social Theory and Back: Paths and Circles- Helen Fein

14.The Quest for Scholarship in My Pathos for the Armenian Tragedy and Its Victims- Vahakn N. Dadrian

15.Gauging Genocide: Social Science Dimensions and Dilemmas - Irving Louis Horowitz

16.Leo Kuper: A Giant Pioneer - Israel W. Charny

17.My Path to Genocide Studies - Eric Markusen

*Lawyers and Jurists*

18.Bearing Witness- M. Cherif Bassiouni

19.Totally Unofficial Man - Raphael Lemkin

20.The Call - Gregory H. Stanton

*Psychologists*

21.A Passion for Life and Rage at the Wasting of Life - Israel W. Charny

22. The Roots and Prevention of Genocide and Other Collective Violence: A Life's Work Shaped by a Child's Experience - Ervin Staub

*Theologian*

23.From Holocaust to Genocide: The Journey Continues - Steven Leonard Jacobs

*Independent Scholars*

24.Confronting Genocide in Cambodia - David Hawk

25.A Matter of Conscience - Samuel Totten

Selected Bibliography

About the Contributors

Index

About the Author

Samuel Totten is professor of curriculum and instruction in the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas. Fayetteville. He is the editor of First Person Accounts of Genocidal Acts and Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views, and book review editor for the Journal of Genocide Research. Steven Leonard Jacobs is associate professor and Aaron Aronov Chair of Judaic Studies in the department of religious studies at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. He is the author of Shirot Blalik: A New and Annotated Translation of Chaim Nachman Blalik's Epic Poems, Raphael Lemkin's Thoughts on Nazi Genocide: Not Guilty? and Contemporary Christian and Contemporary Jewish Religious Responses to the Shoah.

Reviews

-[A collection of] powerful stories related by some of the 25 contributors to Pioneers of Genocide Studies, edited by Samuel Totten and Steven Leonard Jacobs. These autobiographical accounts are extremely interesting, both because they allow insight into why the various scholars entered the field of genocide studies, and because they summarize many of the scholars' key findings and intellectual preoccupations... [D]efining genocide--and equally, explaining what is not genocide--is very important, both in order to invoke the law of genocide as it now stands and to extend the umbrella of the law to those who ought to be protected by it, but are not... This inspirational volume will help... continue work in this stressful field.- --Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Journal of Genocide Research -Will genocide ever end? No one can be sure, but if hope for a genocide-free world persists, considerable credit belongs to pioneers of genocide studies such as those represented in this informative book. Following in the footsteps of Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term genocide, the leading scholars who speak in these pages show not only how they became committed to genocide prevention but also what steps must be taken if genocide is to afflict humanity no more. Inspiring and instructive, Pioneers of Genocide Studies maps paths and policies that twenty-first century life urgently needs to take.- --John K. Roth, Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College and author, Holocaust Politics -Sam Totten and Steve Jacobs have collected an astonishing array of scholars to reflect on their work in the area of genocide studies. Individually and collectively, these essays are alternately thoughtful, prophetic, enlightening, and moral. What reader could ask for more? Pioneers of Genocide Studies will help shape the lives and work of future scholars in this important and evolving field.- --Dr. Carol Rittner RSM, Distinguished Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

"[A collection of] powerful stories related by some of the 25 contributors to Pioneers of Genocide Studies, edited by Samuel Totten and Steven Leonard Jacobs. These autobiographical accounts are extremely interesting, both because they allow insight into why the various scholars entered the field of genocide studies, and because they summarize many of the scholars' key findings and intellectual preoccupations... [D]efining genocide--and equally, explaining what is not genocide--is very important, both in order to invoke the law of genocide as it now stands and to extend the umbrella of the law to those who ought to be protected by it, but are not... This inspirational volume will help... continue work in this stressful field." --Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Journal of Genocide Research "Will genocide ever end? No one can be sure, but if hope for a genocide-free world persists, considerable credit belongs to pioneers of genocide studies such as those represented in this informative book. Following in the footsteps of Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term genocide, the leading scholars who speak in these pages show not only how they became committed to genocide prevention but also what steps must be taken if genocide is to afflict humanity no more. Inspiring and instructive, Pioneers of Genocide Studies maps paths and policies that twenty-first century life urgently needs to take." --John K. Roth, Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College and author, Holocaust Politics "Sam Totten and Steve Jacobs have collected an astonishing array of scholars to reflect on their work in the area of genocide studies. Individually and collectively, these essays are alternately thoughtful, prophetic, enlightening, and moral. What reader could ask for more? Pioneers of Genocide Studies will help shape the lives and work of future scholars in this important and evolving field." --Dr. Carol Rittner RSM, Distinguished Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey