Scott Straus

Scott Straus

Scott Straus is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. He studied for a BA in English at Dartmouth College and received his PhD from University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on genocide, violence, human rights and African politics. He was previously a freelance journalist based in Africa, and in 2000 was a Visiting Fellow at Institut 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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