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America, 2000), and Australia and the Holocaust, 1933–1945 (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 1994). His current projects include a volume titled Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide, as well as A Biographical Encyclopedia of Modern Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good and Illuminating the Holocaust: Looking at Movies to Explain the Inexplicable. He is a member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars and a member of the editorial advisory boards of Genocide Studies and Prevention, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and the Genocide Education Project.
Fiona Bateman is a postdoctoral researcher on the project “Texts, Contexts, Cultures” at the Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway. Her work “Texts of Biafra: Recording and Remembering the Nigerian Civil War, 1967–1970” is an element of the research grouping “Globalisation, Empire and Culture.” She teaches a third-year English seminar on African writing and a module on cinema and colonialism for the MA in Culture and Colonialism. Her PhD thesis, “The Spiritual Empire: Irish Catholic Missionary Discourse in the Twentieth Century,” discusses the similarities shared by missionary texts (1920–1950) with aspects of imperial discourse in terms of representations, genre, and ideology.
Augustine Duru holds both an MDiv and an MA in Theology from the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He received his BPhil from the Pontifical Urban University, Rome (affiliated with Seat of Wisdom Seminary, Nigeria) and a BA in philosophy from Imo State University, Nigeria. Duru completed his CPE at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and his residency at Rush University Medical Center, both in Chicago. He has conducted extensive research on the transmission of Christianity, with a focus on Africa and the African diaspora. His current research interests include ethical dimensions of cross-cultural studies, exploring the challenges faced by African immigrants, the contemporary African diaspora, and interdisciplinary frameworks for the study of religion, violence, and conflict resolution. Duru has taught at Immaculate Conception Seminary