About the Chapter:
Insights from social psychology students’ experiences in the 2015-16 KHC-NEH Colloquium, “Gender, Mass Violence, and Genocide,” are shared. In addition to attending at least one event during the fall 2015 semester, students completed a reflection identifying ways gender and violence intersect during genocide and drawing on specific historical examples given during the series. Students focused on how gender was reflected in the language used by genocidal regimes and in the specific forms of violence that were waged against victims. Students integrated theory with details from the series to develop a fresh perspective on genocide analysis. This chapter highlights students’ impressions of their learning, as well as reflections on the ways in which engagement with the series enriched the course experience for the participants and instructor.
About the Author:
Azadeh Aalai, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Queensborough Community College, CUNY. She is a social psychologist specializing in mass media depictions, the psychology of aggression, warfare and genocide, and gender-related studies. She is also an adjunct for the M.A. program in Psychology at New York University. She was the recipient of a KHC-NEH grant naming her the scholar-in-residence at the Kupferberg Holocaust Center for 2017-18. She has also worked with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a recipient of the Silberman faculty seminar exploring the themes of sex and gender during the Holocaust.
Brooklyn Museum, “Gender and Genocide: Sexual Violation of Women during the Holocaust and Other Atrocities”
Marisa Fox-Bevilacqua, “Silence Surrounding Sexual Violence During Holocaust”
Jon Mueller, “Genes, Gender & Culture”
Misko Stanisic, “Gender Perspectives in Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust”
Lauren Wolfe, “Conflict Profile: Holocaust”
Renee Ghert-Zand, “Groundbreaking study exhumes untold Nazi brutalization of women’s bodies”
For more information about “Gendered Experiences in and Memories of the Nazi Holocaust” held on December 2, 2015, click here.