Ph.D. in Genocide Studies

Clark University

The new interdisciplinary Genocide Studies doctoral program broadens the methodological, conceptual, and empirical training that we offer transcending history as a discipline, it goes beyond European and Ottoman genocides. Adding a cross-disciplinary Ph.D. to the existing doctoral program in History, the Strassler Center offers training designed to confront large-scale human rights abuses and events of mass violence in the past as well as in the present. Accommodating inter- and multidisciplinary methods that increasingly shape the field of genocide studies, students will graduate prepared for careers as leaders in government, NGOs, and various pedagogical institutions such as museums, memorials, and teacher training initiatives.Admission to the program is highly selective and most who are admitted choose to enroll. Graduate students receive tuition remission, an annual stipend, and research bursary for the entire five-year program. It seeks dedicated students committed to maintaining the momentum of scholarship, research and education about the Holocaust and other genocides into the future. Our doctoral students come to the program from Europe, North America, Israel, and beyond. They work closely with world-class faculty members in a supportive setting that fosters a tight-knit intellectual community. Contributing faculty from many departments enrich the training students receive. The diverse and engaged faculty expands students’ intellectual reach by incorporating cutting-edge methodologies, introducing new cases, and challenging old ideas.The Ph.D. in Genocide Studies relies 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. Graduates will be conversant in multiple disciplines and will be able to ''translate'' across these differences, becoming practitioners prepared to apply knowledge and skills in problem-oriented work and real-life contexts.

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences