ELISA VON JOEDEN-FORGEY
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
Dr. Marsha Raticoff Grossman Associate Professor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Stockton University, 2015-present
Director, Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (MAHG) Program, Stockton University, 2015-2017
Founding Director, Genocide Prevention Certificate Program, Stockton University
EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania, PhD in History, May 2004
Doctoral Thesis: “Nobody’s People: Colonial Subjects, Race Power and the German State, 1884-1945”
Columbia University School of Law, SSRC-MacArthur Dissertation Fellow, International and Naturalization Law, 1998
University of Pennsylvania, MA in History, 1994
Thesis: “Spaces of Memory, Spaces for Survival: The German Africa Show and Nazi Racial Discourse”
University of Hamburg, Fulbright Grantee, 1992-1993
Columbia University, BA with honors in African Studies and History,1991
FELLOWSHIPS & HONORS
Koopman-Van Der Kar Research Scholarship, 2017
Research and Professional Development Grants, Stockton University, 2014 & 2015
Bradley Fellowship in International Relations, University of Pennsylvania, 2000-2001
SSRC-MacArthur Dissertation Fellowship for International Peace and Security, 1998-2000
SSRC/ACLS International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship, 1998 (declined)
SSRC-Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, 1998 (declined)
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 1996
Ford Dissertation Development Grant, 1995
Social Science Research Council Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, 1995
Fulbright Grant, 1992-1993
Department of Anthropology Summer Stipend, Columbia University, 1990
TEACHING & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Stockton University, 2016-present
Director, Genocide and Human Rights University Program, University of Toronto, 2018
Workshop Instructor, “Gender and Genocide,” Genocide and Human Rights University Program (GHRUP), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 2015-present
Assistant Professor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Stockton University, 2014-2016
New Courses: The Armenian Genocide (graduate), Genocide Watch Internship (graduate), Perspectives on Genocide/Diplomacy Lab, Genocide Prevention Research Seminar (graduate), Lemkin and the Genocide Convention (graduate)
Visiting Assistant Professor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Stockton University, 2013-2014, Courses: Gender and Genocide (graduate), Contemporary Genocides (graduate), History of Genocide (graduate), Approaches to Auschwitz, Seminar on the Holocaust, Perspectives on Genocide, Women and Genocide
Visiting Scholar, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, 2011-2013
Lecturer, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, 2001-2011, Courses: World War I, The World Since 1750, Human Rights in History, The Comparative History of Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Europe, Weimar Germany, Africa Since 1800, European Empires 1830-1947, Modern Europe: Between Colony and Metropole
Adjunct Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University-Camden, 2009
Instructor, College of General Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2001-2011, Courses: The Comparative History of Genocide, Race in World History, The World Since 1750
Instructor, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, 1996-1997, Course: Teaching American History in West Philadelphia High School
Teacher’s Assistant, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, 1995-199, Course: Teaching American History in West Philadelphia High School
Teacher’s Assistant, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, 1994-1995, Courses: Africa Before 1800 (Fall 1994), Africa Since 1800 (Spring 1995)
Writing Across the University Teaching Fellowships, University of Pennsylvania, 1993-1995
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
President, Genocide Watch, 2016-2018
Co-Director, Iraq Project in Genocide Prevention – Iraq, 2016-present
Co-Editor, Genocide Studies International, 2016-present
Member, Weinstein Holocaust Symposium, Wroxton College of Fairleigh Dickenson University, 2014-present
Workshop Co-Organizer, “Matter of Black Lives: Genocide and the African-American Experience in the USA,” March 4-6, 2017 and Feb 28- March 2, 2018, Stockton University
Founding Director, Genocide Prevention Certificate Program, Stockton University
Director, Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program, Stockton University, 2015-2017
First Vice President, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), 2015-2017
Workshop Instructor, “Patterns of Genocide,” Program for Middle and High School Teachers, Historical Society of Princeton, 1 October 2015
Co-Organizer (with Betsy Erbaugh), Teaching Circle in Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, Stockton University, 2014-2016
Coordinator, Career Colloquia Lecture Series, Master of Arts Program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Stockton University
Coordinator, Armenian Genocide Remembrance Event, Stockton University, 2015-2017
Coordinator, Graduate Student Teaching Experience, Master of Arts Program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Stockton University
Editorial Advisory Board Member, Genocide Studies International, 2010-2016
Editor and Reviews Editor, H-Genocide, 2009-2015
Workshop Instructor, Raphael Lemkin Program in Genocide Prevention, Auschwitz Institute, 2010 & 2011
Manuscript Reviews, Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, the Women’s Press, Amsterdam University Press, African Studies Review, Patterns of Prejudice, Genocide Studies and Prevention, the European Journal of Women’s Studies, the International Journal of Genocide Studies, Criminal Justice Studies, and the Journal of Human Rights
LECTURES & CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Paper Presentation: “The Body of the Absent Presence: Violence and Power in the Global Thingification of Suffering,” International Association of Genocide Scholars Biannual Conference, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 14-19 July 2019
Keynote Address: “Human Security from the Grassroots: Power, History, & the Dialogic Imagination (or A New Approach to Genocide Prevention),” 6th INoGS Global Conference on Genocide, Marseilles, France, 7 July 2018 (invited)
Lecture: “Yazidi Women and Genocide: Sexualized Violence, Global Circuits, and the Ethics of Awareness,” Northern Arizona University, 15 February 2018 (invited)
Lecture: “Devil in the Details: The Assault on the Jewish Family During the Holocaust,” Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, 19 October 2016 (invited)
Lecture: “Gender and the Genocidal Economy,” College of the Holy Cross, March 2016 (invited)
Lecture: “Genocide and Public Health,” McMaster University, History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Speaker Series, January 2016 (invited)
Lecture: “Gender and the Future of Genocide Studies,” Queensborough Community College, 30 September 2015 (invited)
Paper Presentation: “Gendering Lemkin: Unearthing Sexual Violence (and Other Gendered Atrocities) in Raphael Lemkin’s Writings,” International Association of Genocide Scholars Biannual Conference, Yerevan, Armenia, 8-12 July 2015
Paper Presentation: “Gendering Genocide Prevention: 100 Years Past and Future,” Responsibility 2015 Conference, New York City, 13-15 March 2015 (invited)
Keynote Address: International Workshop on “Gendering a Sustainable Future: Conflict, Genocide and Climate Change,” International Research Network at Hamburg University/KlimaCampus, 16-17 September 2013 (invited)
Chapter Presentation: “Sexual Violence and the Prevention of Genocide in the Short and Long Term,” Reconstructing Genocide Prevention Workshop, Program in Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Cardozo Law School, 24 September 2103 (invited)
Spring Lecture Series: “Gender and Genocide: Identification, Definition, and Prevention,” Richard Stockton College, MA Program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, April 2012 (invited)
Forgotten Genocides Conference: “Forgetting Genocide before It Happens: Genocidal Categories and German Political Culture Before World War I,” Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, March 2011 (invited)
Raphael Lemkin Workshop: “Post World War II Genocides,” Auschwitz Institute, Krakow, Poland, June 2010 (invited)
The Sarah Sharbach Memorial Lecture: “Why Genocide is also a Crime against Women,” Worcester State University, Worcester, MA, April 2010 (invited)
Raphael Lemkin Workshop: “The History of Genocide,” Auschwitz Institute, Krakow, Poland, October 2009 (invited)
Paper Presentation: “The Missing Link: Gender and Genocide Prevention,” International Association of Genocide Scholars Conference, Washington, DC, June 2009
Paper Presentation: “Race Anxiety in Imperial Germany: Colonial Legal Categories and their Discontents,” German Studies Association Conference, St. Paul, MN, October 2008
Paper Presentation: “Scenarios of Power: Gender and Genocidal Violence,” International Association of Genocide Scholars Conference, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, July 2007
Paper Presentation: “From ‘Territorium Nullius’ to ‘Personum Nullius’: German Colonial Law and the Invention of African “Eingeborene,” African Studies Association Conference, Houston, Texas, November 2001
Paper Presentation: “Acts of Sovereignty: Duala Foreign Policy, 1884-1914” African Studies Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November 1999
Paper Presentation: “Africans and German Law: the Duala Elite between Sovereignty and Subjugation,” Symposium on Law, Colonialism and Human Rights in Africa, Stanford University, May 1999
Paper Presentation: “Both African and German: Colonial Legal Contradictions and the Duala Elite of Cameroon,” Institut für Afrika- und Asienwissenschaften, Humboldt University, Berlin, November 1997
Roundtable Presentation: “Academically-based Community Service and the Production of Collaborative Knowledge,” American Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C., October 1997
Paper Presentation: “Both African and German: Colonial Legal Contradictions and the Duala Elite of Cameroon,” German Studies Association Conference, Washington, DC, September 1997
Roundtable Presentation: “Communicating the Past: Viewpoints on University-Community Collaborations,” Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, October 1996
Paper Presentation (with Wambui Mwangi): “Of Prepositions and Propositions: Perspectives on Feminism and the Epistemology of Africanist Collaboration,” Fourth Annual African Studies Consortium Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, October 1996
Paper Presentation: “Thoughts on Concept Formation in Social Science,” Ford Workshop on the Problematics and Identities of States, University of Pennsylvania, March 1996
PUBLIC SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS, PANELS & WORKSHOPS
Speaker, Third Global Forum Against the Crime of Genocide, Yerevan, Armenia, 9-11 December 2018
Speaker, “Sexual and Gender- Based Violence as a Method of Warfare,” The War Against Women and the Pursuit of Peace and Justice: Side Event during the Sixteenth Session of Assembly of the States Parties to the ICC, United Nations, 12 December 2017 (invited)
Panelist, “Genocide in the 21st Century,” Darfur Women’s Action Group Annual National Symposium, Washington, DC, October 28-30, 2017 (invited)
Panelist, “Gender Violence and Reproductive Justice,” Large-Scale Violence and Its Aftermaths, Kean University, 25-28 June 2017 (invited)
Panelist, “Revisiting Genocide Experience: Recognition and Protection,” Third Lalish Conference for Peace and Coexistence, Dohuk, Iraq, 25-26 April 2017 (invited)
Panelist, “Drawing Against Oblivion” Exhibition Panel Discussion, Stockton University, 26 October 2016
Panelist, “Women and Genocide in the 21st Century: The Case of Darfur,” Darfur Women’s Action Group Annual National Symposium, Washington DC, October 21-22, 2016 (invited)
Speaker, Defending Religious Freedom and Other Human Rights: Stopping Mass Atrocities Against Christians and Other Believers, United Nations, 28 April 2016
Speaker, Second Global Forum Against the Crime of Genocide, Yerevan, Armenia, 23 April 2016
Speaker, International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime, United Nations, 9 December 2015
Speaker, “The Brutal Reign of ISIS: Crimes Against Women and Children,” Stockton STAND Event, Stockton University, 1 December 2015
Panelist, “Gender and Genocide,” 38th Annual Holocaust Lecture Series, Vanderbilt University, 3 November 2015 (invited)
Panelist, Israel Academic Exchange Seminar, Strassler Center, Clark University, 17-20 September 2015 (invited)
Panelist, “Giving Women their Place in Holocaust History,” American Jewish Historical Society, New York City, 9 November 2014 (invited)
Panelist, “Seminar on Teaching Rape as a Weapon of War and Genocide,” Oxford, UK, 8-11 March 2014
Author Workshop, “Deconstructing Prevention Conference: The Theory, Policy and Practice of Mass Atrocity Prevention,” Co-organized by the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation, 25-26 February 2013
Panelist, “Gender and Genocide: Masculinity, Femininity, and the Potentials of GBV as an Early Warning Indicator of Genocide,” Program for the Study of Gender and Conflict, George Mason University, in collaboration with the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 28 November 2012
Panelist, “Sexual Violence during Times of War,” Seminar on Sexual Violence during the Holocaust, Co-Sponsored by the Shoah Foundation and the Remember the Women Institute, University of Southern California, 8-9 November 2012
Commentator, “The Greatest Silence,” University of Pennsylvania, 2009
Commentator, “Return to Freetown,” Temple University Human Rights Film Festival, 2005-2006
Panel member, “A Call to Action for Sudan,” US Holocaust Memorial Museum Committee on Conscience & STAND, University of Pennsylvania, 18 November 2004
Ethnohistory Program Assistant and African Studies Center Graduate Research Assistant, University of Pennsylvania, 2003-2004
Co-organizer of the Scholar-for-a-Day with Marc Bloch, African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 2002
Juvenile Justice Liaison (volunteer), American Friends Service Committee, Criminal Justice Unit, Philadelphia, PA, 2000
North American Endowment Officer, CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal, 1997-1998
Special Projects Assistant, School District of Philadelphia, 1997
Co-organizer of the Faculty-Graduate Student Urban Research Seminar Series, Urban
Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania, 1995-1996
Assistant Director, Program in West Philadelphia Information Systems,Center for Community Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania, 1995-1996
Assistant Bibliographer for African Studies,African Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania, 1994-1997
Organizer of the Scholar-for-a-Day with Jane Guyer, African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 1994-1995
PUBLICATIONS
Gender and Genocide Prevention (forthcoming)
“Update on South Philly immigrants detained by ICE: ‘I haven’t seen the sun in two months’,” Philadelphia Inquirer (12 September 2019)
“My friends were detained by ICE in Philly. Here’s what happened when I tried to help them” Philadelphia Inquirer (18 July 2019)
“Women in the Herero Genocide,” in Elissa Bemporad and Joyce Warren (eds), Women in Genocide (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018) (invited)
Co-Editor (with Henry Theriault and Sam Totten), Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review, Vol. 11: Controversies in the Field (Transaction Publishers, 2017)
“Avatar. Corporaciones, colonialismo y genocidio/Avatar: Corporations, Colonialism and Genocide,” in Daniel Soto and Moira Nakusi (eds), Gobierno Corporativo y Ética en los Negocios. Análisis de Casos Cinematográficos/Corporate Governance and Business Ethics. Analysis of Cinematographic Cases (Chile 2017) (invited)
“Gendering Genocide,” in Andrea Peto (ed), MacMillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender, War Volume (MacMillan, forthcoming) (invited)
“Spiritual Restitution,” in Marion Hussong (ed), Manfred Bockelmann: Drawing Against Oblivion Exhibition Catalogue (Galloway, NJ: Stockton University, 2016)
“Domesticating Genocide: Comments on Hitler’s Furies,” East Central Europe Roundtable, 44:1 (2017): 160-163 (invited)
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, “Gender and the Future of Genocide Studies and Prevention,” in Amy Randall (ed), Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Survey (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016) (invited)
“Gender and the Genocidal Economy,” in Charles Anderton and Jürgen Brauer (eds), Economic Aspects of Genocide, Mass Killing, and Their Prevention (Oxford University Press, 2017) (invited)
“Gender, Sexualized Violence, and the Prevention of Genocide,” in Sheri Rosenberg, Tibi Galis and Alex Zucker (eds), Reconstructing Atrocity Prevention (Cambridge University Press, 2015) (invited)
“Awareness” and “Histories” in Carol Rittner and John Roth (eds), Teaching about Rape in War and Genocide (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) (invited)
“Hidden in Plain Sight: Genocidal Categories in German Political Culture before World War I,” in Alex Hinton (ed), Hidden Genocides (Newark, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2014) (invited)
“Sexual Violence against Children during Genocide,” in Sam Totten (ed), Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review, Vol. 11: The Plight and Fate of Children During and Following Genocide (NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2015) (invited)
“Gender and the Future of Genocide Studies and Prevention,” Genocide Studies and Prevention 7:1 (Spring 2012), 89-107
“Genocidal Masculinity,” in Adam Jones (ed), New Directions in Genocide Research (New York/London: Routledge, 2011) (invited)
“Sexual Violence and Genocide in the DRC,” Institute for the Study of Genocide Newsletter 45 (Winter 2010)
“Devil in the Details: Life Force Atrocities and the Assault on the Family in Times of Conflict,” Genocide Studies and Prevention 5:2 (2010)
“Gender and Genocide,” in Dirk Moses and Donald Bloxham (eds), Oxford History Handbook on Genocide (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010) (invited)
“Race Power, Freedom and the Democracy of Terror in German Racialist Thought,” in Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History, ed. Richard King and Dan Stone (London: Berghahn, 2007) (invited)
“The ‘German Africa Show’ and the Nazi State,” in Black Victims of the Nazis (London: Black Stock Press, 2006)
“Race Power in Postcolonial Germany: The German Africa Show and the National Socialist State, 1935-1940,” in Germany’s Colonial Pasts, ed. Eric Ames, Marcia Klotz, and Lora Wildenthal (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,2005)
“Die „Deutsche Afrika-Schau“ und der NS-Staat,” trans. Peter Martin, in Zwischen Charleston und Stechschritt: Schwarze im Nationalsozialismus, ed. Peter Martin and Christine Alonzo (Hamburg: Dölling & Gallitz Verlag, 2004)
Co-author (with John Puckett). “History as Public Work,” in Connecting Past and Present: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning, ed. Ira Harkavy and Bill M. Donovan (Washington, DC: American Association for Higher Education, 2000)
Co-Editor (with Leonhard Harding), Mpundu Akwa: The Case of the Prince from Cameroon (Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 2000)
Co-author (with with Wambui Mwangi). “Of Prepositions and Propositions: Perspectives on Feminism and the Epistemology of Africanist Collaboration,” Journal of Cultural Studies (Nigeria) 3:1 (2001)
“Defending Mpundu: Dr. Moses Levi of Altona and the Prince from Cameroon,” in Mpundu Akwa: Der Fall des Prinzen von Kamerun. Das neuentdeckte Plädoyer von Dr. M. Levi, ed. Leonhard Harding(Hamburg, Lit Verlag, 2001)
“‘Die große Negertrommel der kolonialen Werbung’: Die Deutsche Afrika-Schau, 1935-1943,”
Werkstatt Geschichte 3:9 (December 1994): 25-33.
CONFERENCE COMMENTARIES
Discussant for Gayatri Spivak’s paper, “Righting Wrongs,” Ethnohistory Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, December 2001
Discussant, Scholar-for-a-Day with Johannes Fabian, Panel IV: “Remembering the Present and Producing the Past: Tschibumba and the Art of Colonial History,” African Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant for the panel “Self-Representation through African Popular Culture,” Sixth Annual African Studies Consortium Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, October 1998
Discussant, Scholar-for-a-Day with Jean and John Comaroff, Panel I: “Boundaries, Realities, and the Politics of Dispute,” African Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania, March 1996
Discussant for Peter van der Veer’s paper presentation: “The Moral State: Religion, Nation and Empire in Victorian Britain and British India,”Ethnohistory Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, February 1996
Discussant for Achille Mbembe’s paper presentation: “Figures of the Subject in Times of Crisis,”Faculty-Graduate Student Urban Research Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, April 1995
Discussant, Scholar-for-a-Day with Jane Guyer, Panel II: “Economies of Households,” African Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania, November 1994
Discussant for Michael Camille’s paper presentation: “The Image and the Self: Unwriting Medieval Bodies,”Ethnohistory Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, November 1994
REVIEWS
Review of R. Charli Carpenter, Born of War: Protecting Children of Sexual Violence Survivors in Conflict Zones, Journal of Genocide Research 10:3 (September 2008)
Review of Heide Fehrenbach, Race after Hitler, Patterns of Prejudice 42:2 (May 2008)
“Review of Thorsten Altena, ‘Ein Häuflein Christen in der Heidenwelt des dunklen Erdteils,’ H-German, H-Net Reviews,June 2006 URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=319651159735680
“Review of Villia Jefremovas, Brickyards to Graveyards: From Production to Genocide in Rwanda,” H-Genocide, H-Net Reviews, January, 2005. URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=80031109089734
“Review of Jon Miller, Missionary Zeal and Institutional Control: Organizational Contradictions in the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast, 1828-1917,” H-German, H-Net Reviews, November, 2004. URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=115941101758310
“Review of Mahmood Mamdani, When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda,” H-Genocide, H-Net Reviews, June, 2002. URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=12971025209981
Review of Ralph Austen and Jonathan Derrick, Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers, African Studies Review 42:3 (1999)
“Review of Adell Patton, Jr, Physicians, Colonial Racism and Diaspora in West Africa,” H-Africa, H-Net Reviews, August, 1997. URL: http://www.hnet.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=32524875815958
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical Association
African Studies Association
German Studies Association
International Association of Genocide Scholars
International Network of Genocide Scholars
LANGUAGES
German
French
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