Directors
Advisory Council
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Dr. Olaf BerwaldDepartment of Languages (German) |
Dr. Berwald is an Assistant Professor of German at UND (Ph.D. UNC-Chapel Hill, M.A. Eberhard-Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany). His book publications include monographs on Renaissance Rhetoric, and on the German-Jewish novelist and playwright Peter Weiss (whose 1965 play "The Investigation," based on court transcripts from the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial, catalyzed discussions of the Holocaust in Germany), as well as an essay collection on religion, aesthetics, and commemoration of the victims of the Nazi regime. Berwald has also written a wide range of articles on ethics, exile, and critiques of mass violence in the works of Hesse, Kafka, Canetti, Nietzsche, Benn, C. Einstein, and Broch. His current research projects include a forthcoming collection of essays on "Global North / Global South Encounters," and a volume on "Black and German Dialogues." His most recent essay on human rights violations is entitled, "Recolonizing Reason: Torture and the Globalization of Indifference." |
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Dr. Patrick Carr is a faculty member of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology within the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at UND. He also serves the School as Assistant Dean for Faculty Development and as Director of Basic Sciences in the first year of the medical curriculum. Originally from Canada, Dr. Carr was educated at Brandon University and the University of Manitoba. Before arriving at UND in 1998, he lived in Washington, D.C. and Dayton, OH. Dr. Carr's interests in issues surrounding humanism and professional development in medical education fit dovetail nicely with the principles of the Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies. |
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Dr. Rebecca Weaver-HightowerDepartment of English |
Rebecca Weaver-Hightower is an Assistant Professor of English specializing in postcolonial studies. Just released was her book Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals and Fantasies of Conquest (Minnesota 2007), an analysis of how island castaway tales presented fantasies that made the expansion of empire more palatable. Her current work, Sorry Deeds, Guilty Dreams: Writing, Remorse and Reparation in the Post-Settler Colony, is a comparative project analyzing Australian, South African, Canadian and U.S. settler literatures for how certain stories helped those cultures to process the guilt from the displacement and oppression of indigenous peoples during colonial settlement. Weaver-Hightower has published on Caribbean, Irish, Australian, African, British and other postcolonial literatures, and she is the Book Reviews editor of The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. She is excited about the opportunities the Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies offers for collaborative work and for bringing the University of North Dakota's attention and resources to fight for global social justice. |
