Provided by Wikipedia Dr. James E. Waller is a widely recognized scholar in the field of Holocaust and genocide studies, and the inaugural Cohen Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College located in Keene, New Hampshire.
At Keene State College and within the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Dr. Waller teaches courses primarily focused on genocide and comparative genocide. Dr. Waller was previously a Professor of Psychology at Whitworth University, in Spokane, Washington, and was the Edward B. Lindaman Chair from Fall 2003-2007. He has also held visiting research professorships at the Technical University of Berlin in Berlin, Germany (1990), the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Eichstatt, Germany (1992), and in the George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Justice and Security at Queen’s University Belfast in Belfast, Northern Ireland (2017). He also directs, and teaches in, Keene State’s annual Summer Institute on Genocide Studies and Prevention.
In addition to being an educator, Dr. Waller is also regularly involved in the policy-making arena with his role as Director of Academic Programs with the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities (AIPG), as the curriculum developer and lead instructor for the Raphael Lemkin Seminar for Genocide Prevention.
Within AIPG, Dr. Waller educates and trains in genocide prevention for the US Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Dr. Waller also has delivered briefings on genocide prevention and perpetrator behavior for the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the CIA Directorate of Intelligence, and the International Human Rights Unit of the FBI.
