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Samuel Totten

Samuel Totten is a genocide scholar based at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He is also a Member of the Council of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide (Jerusalem, Israel).

Totten's main research interests are genocide warning signals, the prevention and intervention of genocide, and post-genocide societies. Totten has conducted field research in Chad, along the Chad/Darfur, Sudan border, and throughout Rwanda.

Totten was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship (spring 2008) in order to conduct research and establish a graduate degree program in genocide studies at the National University of Rwanda (NUR).

In July and August of 2004, Totten served as one of 24 investigators on the U.S. State Department's Darfur Atrocities Documentation Project whose express purpose was to conduct interviews with refugees from Darfur in order to ascertain whether genocide had been perpetrated or not in Darfur. Based upon the data collected by the team of investigators, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell declared on September 9, 2004, that genocide had been perpetrated in Darfur, Sudan, by Government of Sudan troops and the Janjaweed.

In 2005, Totten was named one of the inaugural chief co-editors of Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, the official journal of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS).

Since 2003, Totten has also served as the managing editor of Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review—a series of volumes comprised of critical essays and annotated bibliographies that address a broad array of issues germane to the field of genocide studies. To date, Totten has edited three volumes for the series: Genocide at the Millennium (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2005); The Prevention and Intervention of Genocide (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2007); and Genocide: The Plight and Fate of Girls and Women (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, forthcoming)

Select List of Publications

Articles/Essays

• "The Intervention and Prevention of Genocide: Sisyphean or Doable?" Journal of Genocide Research, June 2004, 6(2)


• "The U.S. Government Darfur Genocide Investigation" (with Eric Markusen) Journal of Genocide Research, June 2005, 7(2)


• "Investigating Allegations of Genocide in Darfur: The U.S. Atrocities Documentation Team and the UN Commission of Inquiry" (with Eric Markusen) in Joyce Apsel (Ed.) Darfur: Genocide Before Our Eyes. New York: Institute for the Study of Genocide, 2005.

Books

• First-Person Accounts of Genocidal Acts Committed in the Twentieth Century (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991)


• Genocide in the Twentieth Century: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts (co-edited with William S. Parsons and Israel W. Charny) (New York: Garland Publishers, Inc., 1995)


• Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts (co-edited with William S. Parsons and Israel W. Charny. Second edition. (New York: Routledge, 2004)


• Teaching About Genocide: Issues, Approaches, Resources (Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishers, 2005)


• Genocide in Darfur: The Investigation and Findings of The Darfur Atrocities Documentation Team (with Eric Markusen) (New York: Routledge, 2006)


• The Prevention and Intervention of Genocide: An Annotated Bibliography (New York: Routledge, 2007)


• Genocide Dictionary (with Paul Bartrop) (forthcoming from Greenwood Publishers).

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