Founding Co-Directors

Frank Chalk
Frank Chalk, Professor of History, Concordia University, is a founding co-director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS). With Kurt Jonassohn, he is the author of The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies (Yale Univ. Press, 1990). He is also an Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity (Macmillan USA, Thomson Gale, 2004). Prof. Chalk’s chapters and articles have appeared in a number of books and journals, including Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He has lectured and presented papers on genocide at conferences and universities around the world and before the Prosecution Staff of the International Criminal Tribunal on the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda at The Hague. More information.

Kurt Jonassohn
Kurt Jonassohn, Professor of Sociology (Emeritus), Concordia University, is a founding co-director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS). In the area of comparative studies of genocide he has published, with Frank Chalk, The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies (Yale, 1990) and, with Karin Solveig Björnson, Genocide and Human Rights Violations in Comparative Perspective (Transaction, 1998), in addition to journal articles and book chapters. He is also an Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of Genocide (ABC-CLIO, 1999). In the past he was secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (1970-1974) and an executive secretary of the International Sociological Association (1974-1982). He is currently engaged, with Mervin Butovsky, in collecting unpublished memoirs of Holocaust survivors in Canada that are being made available in the Concordia Archives and on this web site: Holocaust Survivor Memoirs