Gregory H. Stanton Appointed 2005-2006 James Farmer Professor in Human Rights

The Department of History and American Studies is pleased to welcome Dr. Gregory H. Stanton as James Farmer Visiting Professor in Human Rights for the 2005-2006 academic year. A native of Illinois, Dr. Stanton brings a wealth of academic and public service experience to his current position as president of Genocide Watch: The International Campaign to End Genocide. Launched at The Hague Appeal for Peace in 1999, the Campaign is an international coalition of human rights organizations that seek to end genocide in the twenty-first century. An important part of Stanton’s efforts at Genocide Watch is the Cambodian Genocide Project, an effort to broker an agreement between the United Nations and the Royal Cambodian Government to try the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime.

Before assuming leadership of Genocide Watch, Stanton was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in 2001 and 2002, an honor that followed a successful career as a Foreign Service Officer in the Department of State where he served as a Human Rights Officer. Before joining the State Department, Stanton taught law at American University and Washington and Lee University. He has also served in the Peace Corps and was posted to the Ivory Coast in Africa.

After completing his undergraduate studies at Oberlin College, Stanton completed a graduate degree in theology at the Harvard Divinity School. He holds a law degree from Yale Law School and completed both an M.A. and PhD in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Stanton has contributed numerous articles and essays on genocide to scholarly journals and books and will, during his appointment at Mary Washington College, continue to work on his next book, The Eight Stages of Genocide: How Governments Can Tell When Genocide Is Coming and What they can Do to Stop It, a project he has undertaken for the Woodrow Wilson Center Press.

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