Prof. Samuel Totten is a Distnguished Fellow of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide Jerusalem
Professor Emeritus
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
479-927-0318 (H)
samstertotten@gmail.com
Areas of Research: Genocide by Attrition in the Nuba Mountains, The Darfur Genocide, and the Prevention and Intervention of Genocide
EDITORSHIPS
2012-22013 – Co-Founding Editor of Genocide Studies International (University of Toronto Press)
2009-2013 — Series Editor of Genocide Studies, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey
2005-2012 — Co-editor, Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal (University of Toronto Press)
2001-2005 — Book Review Editor, Journal of Genocide Studies (Carfax Publishers)
EXPERIENCE:
2012-2018 — Field Research and providing humanitarian aid to the Nuba Mountains people in Sudan.
1987-2012 – Retired from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, after 25 years of service.
January 1, 2008-June 15, 2008 – Fulbright Scholar, Centre for Conflict Management, National University of Rwanda, Butare, Rwanda.
July and August 2004 — Investigator with the U.S. State Department’s Atrocity Documentation Project, eastern Chad
1996 — Promoted to rank of Professor, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
1992-1996 — Promoted to rank of Associate Professor. Also granted tenure. University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
1987-1992 – Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. College of Education and Health Professions
AWARDS & HONORS
2018 to December 2018 – Presidential Professor, Chapman University, Orange, California
2011 – Distinguished Alumni Award, Teachers College, Columbia University
2009-2010 – Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
2008 – Fulbright Fellow, National University of Rwanda, Centre for Conflict Management, Butare, Rwanda
2007 – Arkansas Peace & Justice Heroes Award. Awarded by The Omni Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology, Fayetteville, Arkansas
1993 — Inducted into the University of Arkansas Teaching Academy
SELECT LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Totten, Samuel (in process). A Serial Perpetrator of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide: The Regime of Sudanese President Omar al Bashir.
Totten, Samuel (in process). Severed Lives: Short Stories About Genocide.
Totten, Samuel (under consideration) All Eyes on the Sky: A Novel About the War Torn Nuba Mountains, Sudan
Totten, Samuel (Ed.) (in production). Teaching About Genocide: Advice and Insights from Secondary Teachers and Professors. Volume Two. New York: Rowman & Littlefield. Volume Four.
Totten, Samuel (Ed.) (in production). Teaching About Genocide: Advice and Insights from Secondary Teachers and Professors. Volume Two. New York: Rowman & Littlefield. Volume Three.
Totten, Samuel (Ed.) (in production). Centuries of Genocide: Case Studies and Eyewitness Accounts. Fifth Edition. University of Toronto Press.
Totten, Samuel (Ed.) (in production) Dirty Hands and Vicious Deeds: The U.S. Government’s Complicity in Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Volume Two.
Totten, Samuel, and Theriault, Henry (2020). The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: An Introduction. University of Toronto Press.
Totten, Samuel (2019) Teaching About Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide: Fundamental Issues and Pedagogical Approaches. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishers.
Totten, Samuel (Ed.) (2018). Teaching About Genocide: Advice and Insights from Secondary Teachers and Professors. Volume Two. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
Totten, Samuel (Ed.) (October 2018). Teaching About Genocide: Advice and Insights from Secondary Teachers and Professors. Volume One. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
Totten, Samuel (Ed.) (2018). Last Lectures: The Prevention and Intervention of Genocide. New York: Routledge.
Totten, Samuel (Ed.) (2017). Sudan’s Nuba Mountains People Under Siege: Accounts by Humanitarians in the Battle Zone. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishers.
Totten, Samuel; Theriault, Henry; and von-Joeden Forgey, Elisa (Eds.(2016) Controversies in the Field of Genocide Studies. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Totten, Samuel, and Feinberg, Stephen (Eds.) (2016). Essentials of Holocaust Education: Fundamental Issues and Approaches. New York: Routledge.
Totten, Samuel (2015). Genocide by Attrition: Nuba Mountains, Sudan. Second Edition. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. Second Edition
Totten, Samuel, and Gryzb, Amanda (Eds.) (2015). Conflict in Sudan: The Nuba Mountains and Beyond. New York: Routledge.
Totten, Samuel (Eds.) (2015). Advancing Genocide Studies: Personal Stories and Insights of Scholars of Genocide Studies. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Totten, Samuel (Ed.) (2014). The Plight and Fate of Children During and Following Genocide. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Totten, Samuel (Ed.) (2013) Impediments to the Prevention and Intervention of Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review. Volume 10. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Totten, Samuel, and Parsons, William S. (Eds.) (2012) Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Testimony. Fourth Edition. New York: Routledge.
Totten, Samuel (2012). Genocide by Attrition: Nuba Mountains, Sudan. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Totten, Samuel, and Ubaldo, Rafiki (2011). We Cannot Forget: Interviews with Survivors of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Totten, Samuel, and Hitchcock, Robert (Eds.) (2011). Genocide of Indigenous Peoples. Volume 9. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. Hitchcock is Chair of the Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University.
Totten, Samuel (December 2010). An Oral and Documentary History of the Darfur Genocide. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Security International Press.
Totten, Samuel (Ed.) (2009). The Plight and Fate of Females During and Following Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review. Volume 8. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Totten, Samuel and Parsons, William S. (Eds.) (2009) Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Testimony. Third Edition. New York: Routledge.
Totten, Samuel, and Bartrop, Paul (Eds.) (2009). The Genocide Reader. New York: Routledge.
Totten, Samuel and Bartrop, Paul (2008). Dictionary of Genocide. Westport, CT: Praeger. Co-authored with Dr. Paul Bartrop, Department of History, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Totten, Samuel (Compiler/Editor) (2008). The Prevention and Intervention of Genocide: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Routledge.
Totten, Samuel (Ed.) (2007) The Prevention and Intervention of Genocide: Genocide, A Critical Bibliographic Review. Volume 7. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Totten, Samuel, and Markusen, Eric (Eds.) (2006). Genocide in Darfur: Investigating Atrocities in the Sudan. New York: Routledge. Co-edited with Dr. Eric Markusen, Senior Researcher, Danish Institute on International Relations, Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Copenhagen.
Totten, Samuel (Ed.) (2005). Teaching About Genocide. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
Totten, Samuel (Ed.) (2005). Genocide at the Millennium — Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review. Volume 8. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Totten, Samuel; Parsons, William S.; and Charny, Israel W. (Eds.) (2004). Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts. Second Edition. New York: Routledge Publishing. Totten served as chief editor. Co-edited with: Dr. Israel Charny (Professor of Psychology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and Executive Director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, Israel), and William S. Parsons (Chief of Staff, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.).
Totten, Samuel, and Jacobs, Steven L. (Eds.) (2002). Pioneers of Genocide Studies. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. Co-edited with Dr. Steven Jacobs, Department of Religion, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
Encyclopedia of Genocide (1999). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC CLIO Press. Chief Editor: Israel W. Charny. Associate Editors: Rouben Adalian, Armenian National Institute, Washington, D.C.; Steven Jacobs, Temple Shalom, Huntsville, AL; Eric Markusen, Institute on International Relations, Copenhagen, Denmark; Samuel Totten, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Totten, Samuel; Parsons, William S.; and Charny, Israel W. (Eds.) (1997). Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. Served as chief editor. Co-edited with: Dr. Israel Charny (Professor of Psychology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and Executive Director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem), and William S. Parsons (Chief of Staff, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.). Expanded, paperback version of Genocide in the Twentieth Century.
Totten, Samuel; Parsons, William S., and Charny, Israel W. (Eds.). (1995). Genocide in the Twentieth Century: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Testimony. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. Served as chief editor. Co-editors: Dr. Israel Charny, Hebrew University and Executive Director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide (Jerusalem), and William S. Parsons, Educational Director, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, D.C.).
Totten, Samuel (Ed/Compiler) (1991). First Person Accounts of Genocidal Acts Committed in the Twentieth Century: A Critical Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:
Totten, Samuel (2018). “The Plights of the Girls and Women of Darfur.” In Elissa Bemporad and Joyce Warren (Eds.) Women and Genocide: Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Totten, Samuel (October 2016). “Anti-Genocide Activists: A Critique.” In Samuel Totten, Henry Theriault and von Joeden Forgey (Eds.) Controversies in Genocide Studies. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Totten, Samuel (2013). “The Plight and Fate of Children in Darfur.” In Samuel Totten (Ed.) The Plight and Fate of Children During and Following Genocide. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Totten, Samuel (2013). “The Plight and Fate of Children in Guatemala.”In Samuel Totten (Ed.) The Plight and Fate of Children During and Following Genocide. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Totten, Samuel (2011). “Genocide of the Nuba.” In Samuel Totten and Robert K. Hitchcock (Eds.) Ethnocide and Genocide of Indigenous Peoples: Genocide – A Critical Bibliographic Review. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Totten, Samuel (2011). “Genocide of the Black Africans in Darfur.” In Samuel Totten and Robert K. Hitchcock (Eds.) Ethnocide and Genocide of Indigenous Peoples: Genocide – A Critical Bibliographic Review.
Totten, Samuel (2011). “Genocide of the Mayans in Guatemala.” In Samuel Totten and Robert K. Hitchcock (Eds.) Ethnocide and Genocide of Indigenous Peoples: Genocide – A Critical Bibliographic Review.
Totten, Samuel (2010). “The United States Recalcitrance to Ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crimes of Genocide,” pp. 195- 204. In Agnieszka Bienczyk-Missala and Slawomir Debski (Eds.) Rafal Lemkin: A Hero of Humankind. Warsaw, Poland: Polski Instytut Spraw Miedzynarodowych.
Totten, Samuel (2009). “Talk, Talk and More Talk: Little to No Action in Darfur,” pp. 183-214. In Amanda F Grzyb (Ed.) Darfur and the World: International Response to Crimes Against Humanity in Western Sudan. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press..
Totten, Samuel (2009). “Genocide in Darfur,” pp. 555-607. In Samuel Totten’s and William S. Parsons (Eds.) Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts. Third Edition. New York. Routledge.
Totten, Samuel (2009). “The Plight and Fate of Black African Females of Darfur,” pp. 137-168.In Samuel Totten (Ed.) The Plight and Fate of Females During and Following Genocide. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Totten, Samuel (2009).”The Plight and Fate of Females of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide,” pp. 107-135. In Samuel Totten (Ed.) The Plight and Fate of Females During and Following Genocide. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Totten, Samuel (2006). “The Prevention of Genocide: Complexities, Missed Opportunities, and Possibilities.” In Samuel Totten (Ed.) The Prevention and Intervention of Genocide. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Totten, Samuel, and Bartrop, Paul (2006). “The Prevention and Intervention of Genocide in the 1980s, 1990s, and Early 2000s.” In Samuel Totten (Ed.) The Prevention and Intervention of Genocide. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Totten, Samuel, and Markusen, Eric (2006). “Into the Field: The Perspectives of the Investigators.” In Samuel Totten and Eric Markusen (Eds.) Genocide in Darfur: Investigating Atrocities in the Sudan. New York: Routledge.
Markusen, Eric, and Totten, Samuel (2005). “Investigating Allegations of Genocide in Darfur: The U.S. Atrocities Documentation Team and the UN Commission of Inquiry,” pp. 48-59. In Joyce Apsel (Ed.) Darfur: Genocide Before Our Eyes. New York: Institute for the Study of Genocide.
Totten, Samuel (2005). “The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations and the Prevention, Intervention and Punishment of Genocide in the 1980s, 1990s, and Early 2000s,” pp. 75-111. In Samuel Totten (Ed.) Genocide at the Millennium. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Totten, Samuel, and Bartrop, Paul (2005). “The United Nations Genocide: Prevention, Intervention, and Prosecution,” pp. 113-146. In Samuel Totten (Ed.) Genocide at the Millennium. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Totten, Samuel (2004). “To Deem or Not To Deem ‘It’ Genocide: A Double Edged Sword,” pp. 41-55. In Robert S. Frey (Ed.) The Genocidal Temptation. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
Totten, Samuel; Parsons, William S.; and Hitchcock, Robert (2003). “Confronting Genocide and Ethnocide of Indigenous Peoples: Issues of Intervention and Prevention,”pp. 54-91. In Alex Hinton (Ed.) Annihilating Difference: Anthropological Views of Genocide. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
“A Task Whose Time Has Come,” pp. 167-175. In Carol Rittner, John Roth, and James Smith (Eds.) Will Genocide Ever End? New York: Paragon Books, 2002.
Totten, Samuel (2002). “A Matter of Conscience,” pp. 545-580. In Samuel Totten and Steven Jacobs (Eds.) Pioneers of Genocide Studies. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers (Rutgers University).
ARTICLES/ESSAYS
Totten, Samuel (2016). “Field Report: Nuba Mountains, Sudan.” Genocide Studies International.
Totten, Samuel (2014). “Lip Service Vis-à-vis Prevention of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity.” Genocide Studies International, Winter, 1(1).
Totten, Samuel (2011). “The State and Future of Genocide Studies and Prevention.” Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, Winter, 6(3):207-230.
Totten, Samuel (2009). “The UN International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur: New and Disturbing Findings.” Genocide Studies and Prevention, December, 4(3):354-378.
Totten, Samuel (2009). “Rwanda: More Than Meets the Eye.” Social Education, October.
Totten, Samuel (2009). “Plight and Fate of Black African Females in Darfur.” Culture and Civilization. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Totten, Samuel (2006). “Rwanda: A Nation Resilient in the Aftermath of Genocide.” Social Education, November, 70(7): 415-418.
Totten, Samuel (2006). “The US Investigation into the Darfur Crisis and the US Government’s Determination of Genocide.” Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, July, 1(1):57-78. Refereed.
Totten, Samuel (2005). “The United Nations and Genocide.”Society, May/June, 42(4):6-13. Refereed.
Totten, Samuel (2005). “Does History Matter? Ask the Armenians.” Social Education, 69(6):328-332. Refereed.
Totten, Samuel, and Markusen, Eric (2005).”The U.S. Government Darfur Genocide Investigation.” Journal of Genocide Research, June, 7(2):279-290. Refereed.
Totten, Samuel (2004). “The Darfur Atrocities Documentation Project.” Social Education, 68(7):438-443. Refereed.
Totten, Samuel (2004). “The Intervention and Prevention of Genocide: Sisyphean or Doable? Journal of Genocide Research, 6(2):229-247. Refereed.
Totten, Samuel, and Bartrop, Paul (2004). “The United Nations and Genocide: Prevention, Intervention, and Prosecution.” Human Rights Review, July-September, 5(4):8-31. Refereed.
Totten, Samuel (2004). “The Darfur Interview Project: A Historical Precedent But…” The Aegis Review on Genocide. Summer/Autumn, 1(3):9-11. Refereed.
Totten, Samuel (2003). “Witnessing the Making of History: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic.” Social Education, 67(5):267-272. Refereed.
Totten, Samuel (2001). “Addressing the ‘Null Curriculum’: Teaching About Genocides Other than the Holocaust.” Social Education, 65(5):309-313. Refereed.
Totten, Samuel (1999). “The Scourge of Genocide: Issues Facing Humanity Today and Tomorrow.” Social Education, March, 63(2):116-121. Refereed.
Entries in an Encyclopedia
Totten, Samuel, and Markusen, Eric, (forthcoming). “Genocide in Darfur.” Encyclopedia of Conflict. New York: Berghan Books. Refereed.
Totten, Samuel (2005). “Diaries,” pp. 250-253. In Dinah L. Shelton (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. New York: MacMillan. Refereed.
Totten, Samuel (2005). “Documentation,” pp. 264-258. In Dinah L. Shelton (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. New York: MacMillan. Refereed.
Totten, Samuel (2001). “Holocaust Education in the United States.” In Walter Laqueur (Ed.) Holocaust Encyclopedia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Refereed.
Totten, Samuel (2001). “First-Person Accounts of the Holocaust.” In Walter Laqueur (Ed.) Holocaust Encyclopedia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Refereed.
Totten, Samuel (1999). “The Work of Genocide and Holocaust Organizations.” In Israel W. Charny (Chief Editor) Encyclopedia of Genocide. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC CLIO Press. Refereed.
Totten, Samuel (1999). “First-Person Accounts of Genocide,” pp. 241-243. In Israel W. Charny (Chief Editor) Encyclopedia of Genocide. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC CLIO Press. Refereed.
Totten, Samuel (1999). Totten, Samuel (1999). “Genocide in Guatemala,” pp. 281-283. In Israel W. Charny (Chief Editor) Encyclopedia of Genocide. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC CLIO Press. Refereed.
Totten, Samuel (1999). “Pinochet, Augusto,” pp. 460-462. In Israel W. Charny (Chief Editor) Encyclopedia of Genocide. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC CLIO Press. Refereed.
SHORT BIO
Samuel Totten is a genocide scholar based at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He teaches a course in the Department of Political Science entitled “Genocide in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Is Prevention a Sisyphean Ordeal?”
In July and August of 2004, Totten served as one of 24 investigators on the U.S. State Department’s Darfur Atrocities Documentation Project whose express purpose was to conduct interviews with refugees from Darfur in order to ascertain whether genocide had been perpetrated or not in Darfur. Based upon the data collected by the team of investigators, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell declared on September 9, 2004, that genocide had been perpetrated in Darfur, Sudan, by Government of Sudan troops and the Janjaweed.
For the past seven years he has conducted research into the Darfur Genocide (2003 to present) and the Nuba Mountains Genocide (late 1980s into the 1990s) in refugee camps along the Chad/Darfur border and in the Nuba Mountains.
Since 2003, Totten has served as the managing editor of a series entitled Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers). The two most recent volumes in the series are: Fate and Plight of Women During and Following Genocide (2009), The Genocide of Indigenous Peoples (with Robert Hitchcock) (2011) Impediments to the Prevention and Intervention of Genocide (2012). The next volume in the series is: The Plight and Fate of Children During and Following Genocide (scheduled for publication in 2014).
June 12, 2019