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Ben Kiernan is the A.Whitney Griswold professor
of history, professor of international and area studies, and director of the Genocide Studies
Program at Yale University.
Professor Kiernan is author of many books including Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (Yale University Press, 2007), Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia: Documentation, Denial and Justice in Cambodia and East Timor (Transaction Publishers, 2008), The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979 (Yale University Press, 1996 and 2008) and How Pol Pot Came to Power: Colonialism, Nationalism and Communism in Cambodia, 1930-1975 (1985 and 2004). He has also published over 100 scholarly articles on Southeast Asia and the global history of genocide.
He is also editor of Conflict and Change in Cambodia (2006), Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge, the United Nations, and the International Community (1993), Burchett: Reporting the Other Side of the World, 1939-1983 (1986) and co-editor of The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective (2003). His work has been translated into 13 languages and widely reviewed internationally.
Professor Kiernan's book, Le Génocide au Cambodge, 1975-1979: Race, idéologie et pouvoir was published by Gallimard in its distinguished series, Nouvelle Revue Française, in 1998.
Before moving to Yale University in 1990, Professor Kiernan taught at the University of NSW and the University of Wollongong. At Yale, he founded the Cambodian Genocide Program in 1994, and the Genocide Studies Program in 1998. He is a member of the editorial boards of Critical Asian Studies, Human Rights Review, Zeitschrift für Genozidforschung, and Genocide Studies and Prevention.
His book Blood and Soil, translated into several languages, won the Independent Publishers' 2008 gold medal for best book in the History category. Links:
Yale University's Genocide Studies Program |
