Totten to Address 16th Rwandan Genocide Commemoration

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Samuel Totten

Samuel Totten, University of Arkansas professor of curriculum and instruction, will speak during the International Symposium on Genocide in Rwanda set for April 4-8. He was invited by the National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide to speak on the topic "16 Years After the Genocide Against Tutsi: Handling Its Consequences."

Totten, an internationally known genocide scholar, developed a master's degree in genocide studies for the National University of Rwanda last year and taught the first course.

He was a Fulbright Scholar at the National University of Rwanda in 2008 and has spent the past four years visiting the country to interview survivors of the 1994 "machete genocide" in Rwanda for a book to be published later this year by Rutgers University Press.

An author and editor of numerous books about genocide, Totten has also been involved in investigating the continuing genocide in Darfur, Sudan. In 2004, he interviewed refugees in camps along the Chad/Darfur border as part of a U.S. State Department atrocities investigation team. He has since returned to the Chad/Darfur border to continue interviewing refugees. Totten is currently completing a two-volume set on Darfur for Praeger Publishers.

Totten is teaching this year at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey as the Ida King Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Holocaust and Genocide Studies.