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Scott Straus
Scott Straus (Berkeley Ph.D., 2004) works on violence, human rights, and African politics. His book on the Rwandan genocide, The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda (Cornell University Press, 2006), won several awards, including the best 2006 book in political science from the Association of American Publishers. Straus co-authored, with David Leonard, Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures (Lynne Rienner, 2003) and, with Robert Lyons, Intimate Enemy: Voices and Images of the Rwandan Genocide (Zone/MIT, 2006). Straus has published articles in World Politics, Politics and Society, Foreign Affairs, Genocide Studies and Prevention, The Journal of Genocide Research, and Patterns of Prejudice; he translated The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History (Zone 2003); and he has received fellowships from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Reesearch Council, and the United States Institute of Peace. Prior to his academic career, Straus was a freelance journalist in Africa. Straus currently directs the Human Rights Initiative at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. For more information on the latter, please visit: http://humanrights.wisc.edu.
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Recent Publications
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Scott Straus: “Genocide and Human Rights,” in Michael Goodhart, ed., Human Rights: Politics and Practice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 279-296.
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Scott Straus: “The Promise and Limits of Comparison: Rwanda and the Holocaust,” in Alan Rosenbaum, ed., Is the Holocaust Unique?: Perspectives on Comparative Genocide 3rd ed. (Boulder: Westview Press, 2009), pp. 245-257.
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Scott Straus: “From Rescue to Violence: Overcoming Local Opposition to Genocide in Rwanda,” translated as “L’échec de l’opposition locale au génocide rwandais,” in Jacques Sémelin, Sarah Gensburger, and Claire Andrieu, eds. Rescuing Practices in the Face of Genocide: Comparative Perspectives (Paris: Sciences Po University Press, 2008), pp. 345- 360.
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Scott Straus "Order in Disorder: A Micro-Comparative Study of Genocidal Dynamics in Rwanda,” in Stathis Kalyvas, Ian Shapiro, and Tarek Masoud, eds., Order, Conflict and Violence (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 301-320.
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Current Courses taught for Fall 2009-2010
318 - Comparative Study of Genocide
Instructors: Scott Straus Field: Comparative Politics
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