- Scott Straus
Scott Straus is an Assistant Professor of
Political Science and International Studies atUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison in theUnited States . He studied for a BA in English atDartmouth College and received his PhD fromUniversity of California, Berkeley . His research focuses ongenocide ,violence ,human rights andAfrican politics . He was previously a freelance journalist based in Africa, and in2000 was a Visiting Fellow atInstitut d'Études Politiques de Paris .Straus is author of "The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda" (Cornell University Press, 2006), which won the 2006 Award for Excellence in Political Science and Government from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the
Association of American Publishers . His other books are "Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures", co-authored with David K. Leonard (Lynne Rienner , 2003), and "Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide", in collaboration with photographer Robert Lyons (MIT Press /Zone Books , 2006). He also translated "The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History" by the French historian Jean-Pierre Chrétien into English (MIT Press/Zone Books, 2003).External links
* [http://www.polisci.wisc.edu/users/straus/ Scott Straus's homepage]
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