Executive Board

Elisabeth Hope Murray is currently an Associate Professor of Security Studies and International Affairs in Daytona Beach, FL, USA. As an historical sociologist with degrees in Political Science (PhD, University of Edinburgh), Nationalism Studies (MSc, University of Edinburgh), and International Relations (BA, Samford University, USA) her interests lie predominantly in comparative genocidal ideology studies and famine as a tool of genocide. Her current research focuses on British policy in response to atrocity and genocide in the Ottoman Empire, genocide and climate change, and ideological radicalization. Elisabeth is a long-time member of INoGS serving previously as the Executive Secretary (2015-2019) and Vice-Executive Secretary (2012-2015). Although she is an American citizen, she has lived in Australia, New Zealand, Venezuela, Scotland, and Germany.

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Elisabeth Anstett is a social anthropologist, senior tenured researcher at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and member of Adès (Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Ethique et Santé), an interdisciplinary research unit at the Faculty of Medical and Paramedical Sciences of Aix-Marseille University. Her research focuses on dead bodies and human remains management and care in genocide, mass violence and crisis contexts. She is co-editing the ‘Human Remains and Violence‘ book series and interdisciplinary academic journal at Manchester University Press.

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Rachel E. McGinnis is the Director of the Peace and Conflict Program at RIT Kosovo and an Assistant Professor in Public Policy and International Relations. She is an interdisciplinary scholar focusing on the fields of conflict science, sexual violence, and mass atrocities. Her research focal point is sexual violence during conflict concentrating specifically on male victimization. She holds a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from Nova Southeastern University (NSU), a Masters and a Bachelors of Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). She currently teaches at the RIT in Sociology/Anthropology. In addition, over the last few years, she has spent time volunteering in both Northern Ireland, Lebanon, Greece and this summer on the Turk-Syrian border. She works with PTSD and sexual violence survivors, as well as, works to bring awareness to local NGO’s, medical personnel, and government officials working with male refugees in the region. Rachel served previously as the Vice-Executive Secretary (2015-2019).

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Jeff Bachman is an Associate Professor at American University’s School of International Service. He is the author of The Politics of Genocide: From the Genocide Convention to the Responsibility to Protect (Rutgers University Press, 2022) and The United States and Genocide: (Re)Defining the Relationship (Routledge, 2017). He is also the editor of Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations (Routledge, 2019) and the forthcoming volumes Genocide: The Path Ahead (Rutgers University Press, 2023/2024) and A Modern History of Forgotten Genocides and Mass Atrocities (Routledge, 2024). He is currently working on a new book War and Genocide: Hierarchies of Violence and Suffering. His research has also been published in Journal of Genocide Research, Third World Quarterly, Genocide Studies and Prevention, and International Studies Perspectives, among others. He also hosts a New Books in Genocide Studies podcast and is on the Genocide Studies and Prevention editorial board.

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Adam Levin is a postdoctoral research fellow at the African Centre for the Study of the United States which is based at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. His research is based within the fields of English Literature and Cultural Studies. Adam entered genocide studies through his PhD study which focused on literary representations of trauma in works of Holocaust Literature and post-apartheid South African literature. Since then, his research has extended to focus on issues of race, racism, and populism in African American and post-apartheid literature. More recently, he has turned his attention to examining ways in which Humanities scholarship can engage in effective dialogues with civic engagement initiatives. In connection with this, Adam has, since 2022, been a faculty member on an interdisciplinary course entitled “Cultures of Hate and Oppression: Connecting the Conversations about Antisemitism, Hate, Holocaust, Gender and Colonialism”. Taught under the auspices of the Open Society University Network, the course brings together lecturing staff and postgraduate students from the University of the Witwatersrand, Bard College in the US, Central European University in Austria, as well as University of Birbeck and School of Oriental and African Studies in the UK. Working in collaboration with the Johannesburg and Holocaust Genocide Centre, the course aims to use the study of cultures of hate and oppression to prompt students to contribute to change and development within their respective societies. Apart from this, he is also a member of the South African Poetry Project (ZAPP), a collective of academics, professional poets and schoolteachers, whose activities are focused on promoting a love of teaching and learning poetry in South African schools. His work has been featured in Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, English Studies in Africa and Journal of Commonwealth Literature.

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