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The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies offers students the opportunity to do an interdisciplinary undergraduate concentration, including a summer internship, and a Ph.D. program.
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Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Mission
The Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
at Clark University is a thriving and an intellectually dynamic
forum for education and scholarship about the Holocaust, the Armenian
Genocide, and other genocides around the world. This is the only program in the country
that offers a
Ph.D. in Holocaust History and Genocide Studies.
The mission of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and
Genocide Studies reaches beyond the boundaries of the University: to
educate professionals of many fields about genocide and the Holocaust;
to provide a lecture series free of charge and open to the public; to
use scholarship to address current problems stemming from the murderous
past; and to participate in the public discussion about a host of
issues ranging from the importance of intervention in genocidal
situations today to the significance of state-sponsored denial of the
Armenian genocide and the well-funded denial of the Holocaust.
Dedicated to teaching, research, and public service, the Center trains the next cadre of Holocaust
historians and genocide studies scholars of the future, teachers, Holocaust museum directors and curators, and
experts in non-governmental organizations and government agencies.
The establishment of this Ph.D. program has been
acclaimed by experts in the field as the most decisive step to date in
furthering Holocaust scholarship.
The Center provides a successful model for academic
institutions and organizations both nationally and internationally. This
program has an important intellectual presence on the Clark campus, and it sends
a clear signal to colleges across the country about the significance of this
subject for students.
Brief History
In September 1997, Clark initiated an undergraduate concentration in
Holocaust and Genocide Studies which has developed into an inspiring,
interdisciplinary program offering 26 courses taught by
11 professors in residence in five different departments, in addition
to our annual Distinguished Visiting Professor.
In 1998, the University established a standard-setting
Ph.D.
program in Holocaust History along with the Rose Professorship of
Holocaust History. Also in 1998, a second endowed professorship, the Strassler Family
Chair for the Study of Holocaust History, was
established, followed in 2002 with the Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide
Studies, enabling the Center to provide
Ph.D. level education about the Armenian Genocide as well.
In Response to the News
Recent Center News
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