FRANK CHALK

SHORT BIOGRAPHY AND CONTACT INFORMATION

Professor Frank Chalk (Ph.D., History, University of Wisconsin) is the co-author, with Prof. Kurt Jonassohn, of The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies (Yale University Press, 1990). 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.

Professor Chalk served as President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (June 1999-June 2001), and is a past president of the Canadian Association of African Studies. He is the Co-Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the history and sociology of genocide, the Holocaust, and the history of United States foreign relations. During his sabbatical leave in the academic year 2000-2001, Prof. Chalk was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC.

Professor Chalk’s current research focuses on two areas: radio broadcasting in the incitement and interdiction of gross violations of human rights, including genocide, and the history of the domestic laws on genocide developed by nations who seek to implement through their national legislation the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. He expects both research projects to result in books. His most recent publications include chapters on “Hate Radio in Rwanda,” published in The Path of A Genocide: The Rwanda Crisis from Uganda to Zaire, Howard Adelman and Astri Suhrke, editors (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Press, 1999) and “Radio Broadcasting in the Incitement and Interdiction of Gross Violations of Human Rights, including Genocide,” in Genocide: Essays Toward Understanding, Early Warning, and Prevention, Roger Smith, editor (Association of Genocide Scholars, 1999). Together with Dinah Shelton, Howard Adelman, Alexander Kiss, and William Schabas, he was an editor of the three-volume Macmillan USA (Thomson Gale) Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, which was published in November 2004.

Contact Information:

Professor Frank Chalk
Department of History
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3G 1M8

Telephone (Work): (514) 848-2424, ext 2404
Telephone (Home): (514) 489-0306
Telephone (Facsimile): (514) 848-4538

E-Mail: drfrank@alcor.concordia.ca

Web URL: http://migs.concordia.ca