Teaching Resources

A Primer on
Understanding Genocide

Together with Sara E. Brown and Jamie D. Wise, I wrote a free primer on understanding genocide. This primer addresses seven critical questions: 1. Why teach about genocide? 2. What is genocide? 3. Why does genocide occur? 4. Why do people commit genocide? 5. Why do people rescue during genocide? 6. How do people and communities rebuild after genocide? 7. How can we prevent genocide? The primer distills academic research into short summaries and was funded by the California Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education.

Teaching Resources on Rwanda

We also created a series of 14 lesson plans about the 1994 genocide that targeted Tutsi in Rwanda. These lesson plans accompany the primer; each chapter can be tied to two lesson plans. Click below to access them, and please be in touch if you find any errors or have any suggestions!

Teaching Resources on Guatemala

Based on a collaboration with the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala, we also created resources for educators teaching about the genocide in Guatemala. These resources focus on the history of the genocide as well as on the aftermath with an emphasis on the role of forensic anthropology.

College Courses

Please contact me if you have questions regarding my classes!

  • A three-week education abroad course based in Kigali, Rwanda, each summer.

  • An upper-level criminology course focused on how crimes became global, as well as global responses to crime.

  • A service-learning course that examines what genocide is, why it happens, and how communities rebuild through engaged activities with community partners.

  • A graduate-level course on the sociology of conflict and violence, both in the United States and internationally.

  • A graduate-level course on qualitative methods, with an emphasis on interviewing and content analysis.

  • A graduate-level course on best practices in teaching sociology.