James Waller

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Dr. James E. Waller is a widely recognized scholar in the field of Holocaust and genocide studies, and was the inaugural Cohen Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College located in Keene, New Hampshire. He now holds the inaugural Christopher J. Dodd Chair in Human Rights Practice at the University of Connecticut.

At Keene State College and within the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Waller teaches courses primarily focused on genocide and comparative genocide. He was previously a Professor of Psychology at Whitworth University, in Spokane, Washington, and was the Edward B. Lindaman Chair from Fall 2003-2007.^[1] He has also held visiting research professorships at Technische Universität Berlin in Berlin, Germany (1990), the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Eichstatt, Germany (1992), and in the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security & Justice]] 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, 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, Waller educates and trains in genocide prevention for the US Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He has also 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.