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Elisa G. von Joeden-Forgey <Elisa.Forgey@stockton.edu> University of Pennsylvania I am currently working on a comparative research project that examines "genocidal atrocities," or the ways in which perpetrators use family institutions and roles to torture their victims before killing them. These atrocities have occurred in cases of conflict that are not generally believed to constitute genocide, such as the Japanese sex slavery system in World War II and the recent war in Sierra Leone, and I believe they can help us identify genocidal aspects to conflicts that are not otherwise thought to be genocidal in nature. I would like to offer reviewers the opportunity to rethink political violence in terms of the long-term historical process that eventually can lead to genocide. In line with this, I would like to cast the net fairly widely in terms of the books available for review. |
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Address: | 821 League Street Phildelphia, Pennsylvania 19147 United States |
Primary Phone: | 215-627-1855 |
List Affiliations: | Former Review Editor for H-Genocide |
Reviews: | Thinkable Genocide |
Interests: | African American History / Studies Diplomacy and International Relations European History / Studies Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
Bio: I received my BA from Columbia University in African Studies and my MA and PhD in modern German and modern African History from the University of Pennsylvania. An SSRC-Macarthur Dissertation Fellowship in International Peace and Security gave me the opportunity to pursue training in international and naturalization law, which I incorporated into my doctoral research. My dissertation, "Nobody's People: Africans, Germans and the Colonial Boomerang, 1884-1945," is in the manuscript phase. My recent work has been in genocide studies, and I am currently working on a chapter on "Gender and Genocide" for the Oxford Handbook on Genocide. Other recent publications and conference papers include: “Scenarios of Power: Gender and Genocidal Violence,” International Association of Genocide Scholars Conference, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, July 2007 “Race Power, Freedom and the Democracy of Terror in German Racialist Thought,” in Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History, ed. Richard King and Dan Stone (London: Berghahn, 2007) “The ‘German Africa Show’ and the Nazi State,” in Black Victims of the Nazis (London: Black Stock Press, 2006) “Race Power in Postcolonial Germany: The German Africa Show and the National Socialist State, 1935-1940,” in Germany’s Colonial Pasts, ed. Eric Ames, Marcia Klotz, and Lora Wildenthal (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005) “Die „Deutsche Afrika-Schau“ und der NS-Staat,” trans. Peter Martin, in Zwischen Charleston und Stechschritt: Schwarze im Nationalsozialismus, ed. Peter Martin and Christine Alonzo (Hamburg: Dölling & Gallitz Verlag, 2004) For the last 7 years I have taught a course on the Comparative History of Genocide at the University of Pennsylvania and have been active in campus events related to genocide and human rights. |