The Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.A. seeks applications to its doctoral program in History and to its new interdisciplinary PhD in Genocide Studies. Applications from any country are welcome.

Our landmark PhD program confers a doctorate in History. Students study the causes, conduct and consequences of genocides and learn to apply historiographical methods to the history of the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, and other events of mass violence and to learn to locate them in their specific social, political, and cultural contexts.

The newly established interdisciplinary PhD in Genocide Studies trains students to address a broad definition of genocide studies that confronts large-scale human rights abuses and events of mass violence. It aims at students who plan to pursue careers as practitioners in NGOs and other settings that require the ability to apply academic knowledge to real-life contexts.

The Strassler Center is a forum for education and scholarship about the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, and other genocides around the world. Dedicated to teaching, research, and public service, the Center trains the Holocaust historians and genocide studies scholars of the future—the next cadre of professors, teachers, museum directors and curators, and non-governmental organization and government agency experts—about genocide and genocidal situations. Our faculty include Thomas Kühne (Holocaust, European history), Frances Tanzer (Holocaust, Jewish studies), Taner Akcam (Armenian genocide), Ken MacLean (East Asia and Transitional Justice), Chris Davey (Afrika and Genocide Prevention), and Sultan Doughan (Holocaust Pedagogy and Antisemitism), and affiliated faculty from eight departments.

The deadline for applications to the program is 15 January 2022. Further information and the application are online: https://www.clarku.edu/centers/holocaust/doctoral-programs/

Doctoral students receive a full tuition subvention and fellowship support in the form of an annual living stipend and research bursary throughout the five years of the Ph.D. program. Questions may be directed to chgs@clarku.edu or to me,
Thomas Kühne, Director, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 950 Main St, Worcester, MA 01610, U.S.A., tkuehne@clarku.edu.