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About Kelly McFall
Kelly McFall is Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program at Newman University.
NBN Episodes hosted by Kelly:
March 22, 2026
Germany
Few countries are more haunted by the darker aspects of their history than Germany. Nazi crimes continue to cast a long shadow at home and abroad. Ger…
March 21, 2026
The Erasure and Revitalization of Indigenous Cultures and Languages
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine and Adam Muller, eds., The Erasure and Revitalization of Indigenous Cultures and Languages: A Special Issue of Genocide Studie…
February 15, 2026
Lethal Elites
Lethal Elites: The Institutions and Professionals That Made the Holocaust Possible (Bloomsbury, 2025) is an eye-opening book highlights the role of el…
January 30, 2026
The Colonial Way of War
The violence of colonial wars between 1890 and 1914 is often thought to have been uniquely shaped by the nature of each of the European empires. The C…
January 11, 2026
Never Again
As reports of mass killings in Bosnia spread in the middle of 1995, Germans faced a dilemma. Should the Federal Republic deploy its military to the Ba…
January 6, 2026
Still Life with Bones
In Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains (Crown, 2023), anthropologist Alexa Hagerty learns to see the dead body with a forensi…
December 16, 2025
Global Approaches to the Holocaust
The field of contemporary Holocaust studies is increasingly international in perspective. These approaches do not detach themselves from European hist…
November 23, 2025
Sites of Genocide
Adam Jones will be familiar to anyone interested in the field of genocide studies. He's published one of the leading textbooks in the field. He's bee…
October 7, 2025
Genocide Studies International Vol 16.1
Why should we ask students to learn about genocides? What outcomes do we aim for from this learning? How successful are we being and how can we do be…
September 27, 2025
Memory Politics After Mass Violence
Memory Politics After Mass Violence: Attributing Roles in the Memoryscape (Bristol UP, 2025) explores how political actors draw on memories of violent…
August 24, 2025
Hitler
Every generation returns to the titanic heroes and villains of the 20th century. And every generation produces a new set of biographies--often immense…
August 8, 2025
Comrades Betrayed
What claims could Jewish veterans make on the Nazi state by virtue of their having fought for Germany? How often did Germans treat Jewish veterans di…
August 3, 2025
Holocaust Testimonies
Close to a time when there will be no more survivors to speak about their suffering, this innovative study takes much-needed stock of the past, presen…
August 2, 2025
The Genocide in Rwanda in Comparative Perspective
The Genocide in Rwanda in Comparative Perspective: Death and Survival on the Lake Kivu Shore (Routledge, 2025) combines social science concepts, histo…
July 28, 2025
Japanese War Crimes during World War II
When you mention Japanese War crimes in World War Two, you’ll often get different responses from different generations. The oldest among us will talk …
July 8, 2025
Genocide Studies International Partners with New Books Network
Today I’m thrilled to announce a new partnership with Genocide Studies International. GSI is one of the preeminent journals in the field of Genocide …
January 12, 2025
Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities
The 9/11 attacks, as well as the ones in Madrid, London, Paris and Brussels; the genocides in Nazi Germany, Rwanda and Cambodia; the torture in dictat…
January 10, 2025
The Strategy to End the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda
Utilizing Strategic Theory as a framework for warfare and incorporating the testimonies and experiences of eight genocide survivors as well as militar…
January 10, 2025
Persecution and Genocide
Gervase Phillips' book Persecution and Genocide: A History (Routledge, 2024) offers an unparalleled range of comparative studies considering both pers…
December 9, 2024
Spaces of Treblinka
Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp (U Nebraska Press, 2024) utilizes testimonies, oral histories, and recollections from Jewish, German, and …
October 16, 2024
Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule
Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule: Resettlement, Germanization and Population Policies in Comparative Perspective (Bloomsbury, 2023) exam…
September 27, 2024
Between the Wires
Waitman Wade Beorn's book Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv (University of Nebraska Press, 2024) tells for the first time…
September 5, 2024
Fate Unknown
In Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 2023), Dan Stone tells the story of the last great…
August 13, 2024
Destroy Them Gradually
Perpetrators of mass atrocities have used displacement to transport victims to killing sites or extermination camps to transfer victims to sites of fo…