Program: Genocide Studies, PhD - Clark University

Overview

The PhD in Genocide Studies will rely on a curriculum that trains students not primarily in the diachronic, but in the synchronic dimension of genocides and thus in disciplines such as anthropology, psychology, political science, sociology, literary studies, legal studies, and pedagogy.

Ph.D. Requirements

To obtain a PhD, students are required to register for four semesters of courses (years 1 and 2) and satisfactorily complete at least 12 units (upper-level seminars, lectures, or directed readings). They include

Either HGS Introduction to Advanced Genocide Studies, or HGS Theory and Methods for Genocide and Mass Atrocities Research (students must take either course);

Four electives chosen from at least four different disciplines, these understood as Clark departments or defined by the disciplinary design of the course and the disciplinary training of the instructor. (Directed Readings with non-Clark faculty do not count as one of these four electives.) The choice of these four electives must be approved by the the Director of Graduate Studies;

Two Directed Studies (HGS 399) thematically and/or methodologically related to the dissertation project.

The 12 units are to be chosen in a way that at least four of the following major areas are covered by thematically focused courses: 1) Americas and Australia, 2) Africa, 3) East and South Asia, 4) Middle (Near) East (including former Ottoman Empire), 5) East Europe (Slavic Europe, Balkans, former Russian Empire), 6) Central, Western, and Northern Europe. The Director of Graduate Studies approves the selections.

Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Faculty

Core Faculty

Taner Akçam, Ph.D.

Thomas Kuehne, Ph.D.

Ken MacLean, Ph.D.

Frances Tanzer, Ph.D.

Contributing Program (affiliated) Faculty

Anita Häusermann Fábos, Ph.D.

Benjamin Korstvedt Ph.D.

Srinivasan Sitaraman, Ph.D.

Valerie Sperling, Ph.D.

Shelly Tenenbaum, Ph.D.

Robert D. Tobin, Ph.D.

Johanna Ray Vollhardt, Ph.D.

Kristen Williams, Ph.D.

Courses

Courses offered within the last two academic years