Robert Melson (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Melson is professor emeritus of political science and a member of the Jewish studies program at Purdue University, in Indiana, United States. From 2003-2005, he was the President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS). In 2006 and 2007, he was the Cathy Cohen-Lasry Distinguished Professor in the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. His primary area of expertise is in ethnic conflict and genocide. His interest in the topic derives from his family's experience in Europe, as well as from his field work in Nigeria in 1964-65, a year before the onset of the Nigerian-Biafran civil war. The story of his and his family's survival during the Holocaust is told in False Papers (University of Illinois Press, 2000), which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for 2001.