Director, Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (MAHG)
Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide

Ph.D., Clark University

M.A., Tel Aviv University

B.A., Bar-Ilan University 

Dr. Raz Segal is Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide at Stockton University, where he also serves as director of the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (MAHG). He is also founder and co-coordinator of the Refugee Studies Initiative at Stockton. He held a Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and he was a Senior Fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (2023) and a recipient of the Baron Velge Award for his work on the history of World War II (2024). His publications include Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914-1945 (Stanford University Press, 2016), and he is at work on a book on the distortion, weaponization, and mobilization of Holocaust history in the reproduction of white supremacy and state violence, including a focus on Israel’s assault on Palestinians from the 1948 Nakba to the current genocidal assault on Gaza. In addition to scholarly publications, he has published op-eds, book reviews, and larger articles on genocide, state violence, and memory politics in Hebrew, English, and German in The Guardian, LA Times, The Nation, Jewish Currents, +972 Magazine, Time Magazine, Forward,Jacobin, and Berliner Zeitung, and he has appeared on Counter Points, MSNBC, Al Jazeera English, Democracy Now! and ABC News.   

Areas of Expertise: Holocaust and Genocide Studies; modern European history (with a focus on central and southeast Europe); Jewish history

Key publications:

• Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914-1945 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016; paperback 2020), forthcoming Ukrainian translation in 2026 with Academic Studies Press. 
• Days of Ruin: The Jews of Munkács during the Holocaust (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem Publications, 2013; Hebrew, 2011) 
• Guest Editor of a special issue on Genocide: Mass Violence and Cultural Erasure of Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly, vol. 138 (June 2018) (Hebrew), including the introductory essay: “Genocide: Mass Violence in the Modern World”
• “Settler Antisemitism, Israeli Mass Violence, and the Crisis of Holocaust and Genocide Studies,” Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 53 (2) (2024), 50-73
• “State Violence during World War II,” in Ben Kiernan, Wendy Lower, Norman Naimark, Scott Straus (eds.), The Cambridge World History of Genocide, Volume III: Genocide in the Contemporary Era, 1914-2020 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 308-334
• “Antisemitism as a Question in Holocaust Studies,” co-authored with Amos Goldberg, in Scott Ury and Guy Miron (eds.), Antisemitism and the Politics of History (Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University Press, 2023), 299-318 (first published in Hebrew, in: Zion: A Quarterly for Research in Jewish History, vol. LXXXV (1-4) (2020))
• “The Modern State, the Question of Genocide, and Holocaust Scholarship,” Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 20 (1) (2018), 108-133 

Ph.D., University of Georgia

M.A., Eastern Michigan University

B.S., Eastern Michigan University

Dr. Christina M.Morus is an Associate Professor of Communication & Genocide Studies, and currently the Chair of the Communication Studies program. With an academic background in Rhetoric, with an emphasis on Peace & Conflict and Gender Studies, a critical consideration ofpre- and post-conflict discourses at the intersections of gender, media, politics, popular thought and public memory are at the core of her scholarship and pedagogy. In 2009, Dr.Morus was a Fulbright Scholar in residence at the University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Political Sciences and the Center for Women’s Studies. She continues to work closely with Belgrade’s pacifist, feminist organization Women in Black and their sister organization DAHTheatre on issues of gender and transitional justice in the Balkans, often serving as a grant writer and English language project coordinator for both groups. While much of her field research centers on the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia, she has also worked on the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, the Khmer Rouge Genocide in Cambodia, the Genocide of Guatemala’s Maya, and the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. Her past projects considered the impacts of Serbian historical narratives, embedded within a range of public discourses, on the normalization of violence that accompanied the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia. Her current research considers the impacts of historical narratives on post-war discourses and the extent to which they influence regional sustainable stability and social repair. She is presently working on a book analyzing the ways in which grassroots civil society organizations in Serbia and Bosnia are shaping post-conflict transition through carefully crafted, consciously counter-hegemonic, vernacular rhetorical strategies deployed in public space. Dr. Morus’ publications include:

• Morus, Christina M, (2011), “War Rape and the Global Condition of Womanhood: Learning from the Bosnian War,” in Roth & C. Rittner (eds.), Rape: Weapon of War and Genocide (Paragon House)
• Morus, Christina M. (2011), “Half the Sky: Considering the Audience-Conscious Rhetorical Strategies of Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn,” Expositions – An Interdisciplinary Journal of Ethics
• Morus, Christina M. (2010), “Bosnia: Violence Born of History, History Born of Violence,” in L. Barria & S. Roper (eds.), The Development of Institutions of Human Rights: A Comparative Study (Palgrave MacMillan)
• Morus, Christina M. (2007), “The SANU Memorandum: Intellectual Authority and the Constitution of an Exclusive Serbian ‘People’,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Journal, vol. 4 (2)
• Morus, Christina M. (2007), “Slobo the Redeemer: The Rhetoric of Slobodan Milosevic and the Construction of the Serbian ‘people’,” Southern Communication Journal, vol. 72 (1). Lead Article

 

Ph.D., University of Delaware

M.A., University of Delaware

B.A., Randolph-Macon Woman’s College

Lauren M. Balasco is an Associate Professor of Political Science. She has taught at Stockton since the fall of 2017. Balasco earned her B.A. in Political Science and International Studies from Randolph Macon Woman’s College in 2006 and her Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Delaware in 2014. Lauren’s work on transitional justice, human rights, and international law has been published in a wide range of journals, including Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, Representation, International Journal of Transitional Justice, Conflict, Security and Development, International Journal of Human Rights, and the Journal of Human Rights. Her forthcoming book, Engaging Citizenship with Claire Abernathy (Stockton University) and Jennifer Forestal (Loyola University Chicago), introduces students to the field of Political Science through the lens of citizenship and civic engagement (Oxford University Press). In 2022, Dr. Balasco was the recipient of the Faculty of the Year Award at Stockton University.  Her most recent publications include:

• L.M. Balasco, Bea Ciordia, Eliza Garnsey, Sarine Karajerjian, Arnaud Kurze, Christopher K. Lamont, Nomzamo Ntombela, and Mariam Salehi. 2022. “Introducing Justicecraft: Political Change Across Space and Time.” Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS) (3) 51-108.
• L.M. Balasco and Kelly Bauer. 2020. “Political contestation within the human security paradigm: the state and indigenous rights in Peru and Chile.”  Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement. DOI: 10.1080/02255189.2020.1784107
• L.M. Balasco and Julio F. Carrión. 2019. “Required Consultation or Provoking Confrontation? The Use of the Referendum in Peace Agreements.” Representation, 55(2): 141-157. DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2019.1636852
• L.M. Balasco. 2018. “Locating Transformative Justice: Prism or Schism in Transitional Justice?”International Journal of Transitional Justice, Vol. 12(2): 368–378.

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Sociology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.

Master of Arts (M.A.), Communication, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.

 

Dr. Syeda Hadi is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Stockton University. Her criminological scholarship addresses female victimization and criminalization within the context of global conflict, immigration and forced migration. Dr. Hadi is also an accomplished teacher with a broad criminology and sociology portfolio at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. In addition, she has professional experience working with the United Nations Refugee Organization, the Population Council, and other international organizations. In her most recent publication in International Criminology, Dr. Hadi documented the experiences of female forced migrants in detention centers around the world. Previously Dr. Hadi has collaborated with renowned feminist criminologist, Dr. Meda Chesney-Lind and coauthored book chapters in the Routledge Handbook of International Crime and Justice Studies and in the Springer publication Women and Children as Victims and Offenders. These publications showcase experiences of women and girls within criminal justice systems in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the United States. To study the nuanced experiences of female migrants at the intersection of multiple vulnerabilities, Dr. Hadi has recently interviewed Rohingya refugees residing in one of the largest refugee camps in the world, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

Key publications:

 

2023     “Female Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Detention: An Exploratory Review of Research,”

International Criminology, 3(2), Springer. (https://rdcu.be/diz2c)

 

2020     “Female "deviance" and pathways to criminalization in different nations,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press. (https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.573)

2017     “Patriarchy, abortion, and the criminal System: Policing female bodies,” Women & Criminal Justice, 27:73–88, Taylor & Francis. (https://doi.org/10.1080/08974454.2016.1259601)

2014     “Silence and the criminalization of victimization: On the need for an international feminist criminology.” The Routledge Handbook of International Crime and Justice Studies. (https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203837146)

 

2016     “Criminalizing women: Global strategies for denying female victimization.” In: Kury H., Redo S., and Shea E. (eds) Women and Children as Victims and Offenders: Background, Prevention, Reintegration. Springer, Cham. (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-08398-8_23)

 

Ph.D., University of Iowa

M.A., Northern Illinois University

B.A., Washington University, St. Louis

Dr. Bonnan-White specializes in the study of homeland security, emergency management, human security, and community response to conflict and crisis. Dr. Bonnan-White’s latest publications focus on community engagement in higher education, assessing community vulnerability, and humanitarian planning in Palestine. She has recently turned her attention to understanding the nexus between policing agencies and community perceptions of security. Her recent publications include:

• Bonnan-White, J., Lenaras, E. (2019). Leadership Opportunities in Service-Learning: A Pilot Study in a Homeland Security Classroom. Submitted to Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education. 11(3). https://discovery.indstate.edu/jcehe/index.php/joce/article/view/524

• Bonnan-White, J. (2017). Independent-living senior communities in disaster: self-efficacy and trust in responding agencies. Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. 14(2): 1-11. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsem-2016-0064

• Bonnan-White, J, Issa, A. (2016). Documenting the complex relationship between self-efficacy, resiliency, and workplace empowerment: a case study of humanitarian workers in Palestine. Journal of International Humanitarian Action. 1:7. doi: 10.1186/s41018-016-0011-y 

Ph.D., Teachers College of Columbia University 

Jordan Corson is an assistant professor of education and affiliated faculty member of both Migration Studies and the M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University. He recently completed his doctorate at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he defended his dissertation, Undocumented Educations: Everyday Educational Practices of Recently Immigrated Youth Beyond Inclusion/Exclusion. Jordan has published research in the fields of education and philosophy, anthropology and education, and teacher education. His research takes up ethnographic and historical methods to interrogate issues of transnational migration and educational theory through anti-colonial and abolitionist praxis.

B.A., Stockton University

Irvin Moreno-Rodriguez is a distinguished bilingual Holocaust educator whose research focuses on the role of Latin America during the Holocaust and the histories of Holocaust survivors in southern New Jersey. By focusing on Latin America’s role during the Holocaust and by leading tours and programs of the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center in Spanish, Irvin has made Holocaust education accessible to new audiences across the United States.

 

Wally and Lutz Hammerschlag Associate Professor of Holocaust Studies

Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill;
M.A., University of Maryland;
B.A., Dartmouth

Dr. Hayse’s main research interests revolve around the ways that Germany has grappled with the legacies of the Third Reich, World War II, and the Holocaust. He has curated exhibitions on the experiences of Holocaust Survivors, and translated memoirs. He is an advocate of experiential learning, global education, and study abroad who urges his students to travel, visit archives for their research, and to acquaint themselves with historical sites. To this end, Dr. Hayse leads study tours to Europe and Israel on the theme of the history of the Third Reich, World War II, and the Holocaust.

Areas of Expertise: 20th century German history, Russian and East European history, Holocaust and genocide studies, and history and memory.

 Doug Cervi earned his bachelor’s degree in History Education from Pennsylvania Military College, which is now Widener University, in 1973 and went on to teach social studies at Oakcrest High School. Over his 40 years of teaching at the high school level, Cervi received numerous honors and recognitions as a History and Holocaust educator including Princeton University Distinguished Teacher Recognition Finalist Award (2010, 2011), Widener University Alumnus of the Year (2008), New Jersey Holocaust Educator of the Year (2001), among many others. Cervi has also co-authored secondary school curriculum guides on topics in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and a memoir with Holocaust Survivor, David Wisnia. In 2002, Cervi earned his Master’s in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Richard Stockton State College (now Stockton University) and for the past seven years, he has served as Adjunct Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University. In June 2020, Cervi was appointed as the Executive Director of the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education. As Executive Director, Cervi is responsible for the administration, programs, and strategic plan of the Commission—which includes revising Holocaust and Genocide Studies curriculums for K-12 schools, offering professional development for middle and high school teachers, and providing teacher training and support, among many other tasks. As Executive Director, Cervi’s goal is to establish a plan to ensure that teachers at all grade levels have the resources needed to meet the curriculum standards and to provide students with age-appropriate instruction on the Holocaust and Genocide. Doug Cervi is also a proud Military veteran, having served as a 1st/2nd Lieutenant and Captain in the New Jersey National Guard and receiving numerous recognitions for his service such as Military Veterans of the Purple Heart Award and Disabled Military Veterans Award (2004).

Michael Dickerman is a scholar of the Holocaust and genocide. He teaches at Stockton University, Galloway, New Jersey, covering a range of courses relating to such topics as the Holocaust in comparative perspective, the Armenian Genocide, and moral and ethical aspects of the Holocaust. He also teaches graduate courses in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Gratz College, Pennsylvania. He was educated at Temple University, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, and the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Galloway.

He has presented papers at professional conferences, including the Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, the Midwest Jewish Studies Association, the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, and the Annual Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide at Millersville University, Pennsylvania. He has contributed articles to The Reconstructionist: A Journal of Contemporary Jewish Thought & Practice, and Mercywords: A E-Journal. Michael worked with Dr. Paul Bartrop as co-editor of the four-volume The Holocaust: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection published in September 2017. Link: https://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=A4908C

Patty Chappine is an adjunct professor at Stockton University where she has been teaching since 2014. Her classes include undergraduate courses in the Holocaust and Genocide studies minor, historical studies, general studies, and the American Studies graduate program. She is also working as the Rudnick Fellow for the Alliance Heritage Center at Stockton University. She earned a B.A. in Sociology and an M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Stockton University and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in History and Culture from Drew University in Madison, NJ. Her recent book New Jersey Women during World War II: On the Home Front and Abroad was published by Lexington Books in 2024. 

Matthew Hone is as an independent researcher and adjunct professor at Stockton University teaching courses on genocide, the history of racism, state violence in Latin America, and enforced disappearances, He has a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), researching “The Direct Participation of US Forces in Central America during the Cold War: The Case of El Salvador.” He has a Master’s in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Arcadia and Master’s in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Stockton University. Currently, Matthew is engaged in projects related to enforced disappearances in Mexico and US interventions in Latin America.

He is co-author of the recently published book, Victim Activists in Mexico: Social and Political Mobilization amid Extreme Violence and Disappearances with Yael Siman. Other notable article publications include: “How Ethnic and Religious Nationalism Threatens the Bosnian State”, “How Holocaust Memories Continue to Divide Serbs and Croats”,“Innovations in Intervention: El Salvador’s Role as a U.S. Strategic and Tactical Laboratory”, and “The Legacy of Vietnam in the U.S. Military Intervention in El Salvador”(Spanish).

Tiara N. Soares Murta completed her doctoral studies in the Cultural Studies department at Claremont Graduate University in California. Her research sits at the intersection of clinical ethics, cultural studies, and philosophy. Her dissertation, “The Ethics of Survival, or Notes Toward Jerusalem,” develops a critical framework she terms “phronetic poetics”: an ethics-inflected method of attuned reading that examines how institutional demands for coherence and legibility shape experiences of care, diagnosis, and survival, particularly in mental health and clinical contexts. For this work, her dissertation was awarded a Transdisciplinary Studies Award, with an additional Honorable Mention distinction recognizing its exceptional promise and impact. She was also named a finalist for the Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship.

Tiara holds a B.A. in Liberal Studies (Philosophy) with a concentration in Conflict Studies and a B.S. in Urban Studies with concentrations in Women’s Studies and Global Studies, as well as a M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Stockton University. Her master’s thesis, “The Securitization of the Holocaust Metanarrative: A Post-Post-Conflict Perspective,” examined how aesthetic and narrative structures of mass violence persist beyond formal conflict, with particular attention to museums, memory, and audience reception. That project’s attention to institutional power, narrative authority, and ethical responsibility laid the groundwork for her doctoral research, which extends these concerns into contemporary clinical and diagnostic regimes.

Across her work, she remains committed to examining how ethical attention is shaped – and often constrained – by the institutional forms through which knowledge, care, and history are produced.

Common Ground Educational Exchanges brings together K-12 educators from across Oregon to explore place-based issues that connect and divide our urban and rural communities. Beginning with water, a resource every Oregonian depends on and one that sits at the center of our deepest tensions, participating teachers build the perspective and curriculum to guide students in honest conversations and real civic engagement around the challenges we share.

Laurie Garcia is the Senior Associate Director of Education at Holocaust Museum Houston. In this role, Laurie leads Latino Initiatives at the Museum by highlighting the histories, experiences, stories, and contributions of the Latino community in the museum’s exhibitions, education programs, public programs, and outreach efforts. In addition, Laurie manages the Museum’s E-Books program and Trunks program; develops and facilitates professional development trainings and seminars for teachers; leads student workshops at the museum and in community settings; and assists with the creation of lesson plans, curriculum, and resources in English and Spanish. Laurie has been with the Education Department for 5 years and is passionate about Holocaust, Human Rights, and Social Justice education in K-12 classrooms. She earned her B.A. in History from Texas A&M University and her M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Stockton University. Prior to joining HMH, she worked in the field of early childhood education as an educator and family advocate.

Rachel Herman is the Program Platforms Lead of the USC Shoah Foundation. In this role, Rachel manages IWitness, the Visual History Archive, SFI Access, Echoes & Reflections and the building of in-app and Virtual IWalks. Rachel joined the Institute in 2017, working as a content specialist with the Education team. Rachel received her M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Stockton University and worked at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh for four years. Prior to that, she worked at the Holocaust Council of Greater MetroWest in New Jersey and was an intern at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.

Trinity Johnson is the Director of Holocaust Programs & Museum Experiences at The Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center (HHC) in Cincinnati, Ohio. She sets the vision for and oversees museum education and interpretation for all visitors, as well as the training of museum educators and volunteers. She leads the Commemoration Committee in planning the Cincinnati community’s commemorations of Kristallnacht, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Yom HaShoah. Serving as the liaison between HHC’s mission and the descendants community, she coordinates the Coppel Speakers Bureau and drives social and educational engagement for survivors and their families. With her MAHG degree, she was a key member of the design team that developed Cincinnati’s award-winning Holocaust museum located at historic Cincinnati Union Terminal. In 2022, she interviewed two local Cincinnati survivors for the museum’s Dimensions in Testimony (USC Shoah Foundation) gallery. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Holocaust & Genocide Studies at Gratz College.

Michael A. Morris began his career in Washington, DC, in the summer of 2014, working for The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars and later for the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington (JHSGW). At the JHSGW, his main responsibilities were leading walking tours and museum education programs. During this time, he completed another master’s degree at the George Washington University in Experiential Education and Jewish Cultural Arts. He continued his career in New York City, where he worked in the Collections and Exhibitions department at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust from March 2017 to March 2020, first as the Curatorial Assistant and later promoted to the position of Curatorial Associate. In addition to curating the exhibition, Rendering Witness – Holocaust-Era Art as Testimony, some of Michael’s curatorial responsibilities included leading artifact rotations into the museum’s former Core Exhibition, cataloguing and conducting historical research on objects in the museum’s collection, and meeting with individuals in the New York City area who wanted to donate Holocaust-era artifacts, usually from their family’s history, or artifacts pertaining to Jewish history in Europe or the United States either immediately before or after World War II.

Andrea Heymann is the Associate Regional Director of ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Philadelphia, where she responds to acts of bias and provides investigative assistance to law enforcement. Additionally, Andrea coordinates and delivers briefings to local, state and federal law enforcement agencies focusing on extremism, antisemitism and more. Prior to joining ADL in 2018, she was the Assistant Director of the Jewish Graduate Student Network in Philadelphia.

Aaliyah Tayyebi is a researcher and oral historian, currently working as an archivist with the MAHG program at Stockton University. She is developing a digital archive of 1971 Bihari oral histories as part of her post-graduate research initiative. Her research explores oral histories, subalternity, and epistemic justice in South Asia. She previously served as Head of Research and Digital Archiving at the Citizens Archive of Pakistan.