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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:
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…
June 29, 2024
Colonial Paradigms of Violence
In recent years, scholars have rediscovered Hannah Arendt`s "boomerang thesis" – the "coming home" of European colonialism as genocide on European soi…
May 17, 2024
New Microhistorical Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust
In 1997, Saul Friedländer emphasized the need for an integrated history of the Holocaust. His suggestion to connect ‘the policies of the perpetrators,…
March 18, 2024
The Holocaust
The Holocaust is much-discussed, much-memorialized and much-portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked. Spanning …
March 16, 2024
Memories and Representations of Terror
Memories and Representations of Terror: Working Through Genocide (Routledge, 2024) explores how memories and representations shape our understanding o…
October 5, 2023
Equality Unfulfilled
The year 1972 is often hailed as an inflection point in the evolution of women's rights. Congress passed Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972,…
August 15, 2023
Genocidal Conscription
Christopher Harrison's book Genocidal Conscription: Drafting Victims and Perpetrators Under the Guise of War (Lexington Books, 2023) examines how some…
July 31, 2023
Jasenovac Concentration Camp
In Jasenovac Concentration Camp: An Unfinished Past (Routledge, 2023), Kuznar, Lucic and Odak provide a wide-ranging collection of essays about the me…
May 17, 2023
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…
April 11, 2023
Hypocrisy and Human Rights
Hypocrisy and Human Rights: Resisting Accountability for Mass Atrocities (Cornell University Press, 2022) examines what human rights pressure does whe…
April 2, 2023
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…
March 20, 2023
From Discrimination to Death
Melanie 0'Brien's book From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process Through a Human Rights Lens (Routledge, 2022) studies the process of genocide th…
March 4, 2023
To Save Heaven and Earth
In To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide (Cornell UP, 2023), Jennie E. Burnet considers people who risked their lives in the 1994 R…
February 22, 2023
In the Shadow of Genocide
Stephanie Wolfe, Matthew Kane and Tawia Ansah's In the Shadow of Genocide: Justice and Memory Within Rwanda (Routledge, 2023) brings together scholars…
February 4, 2023
Blood and Ruins
Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945 (Viking, 2022) to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and…
November 22, 2022
Genocide
Donald Bloxham and Dirk Moses have offered us a unique opportunity--a chance to see authors and editors in conversation with each other and themselves…
October 3, 2022
The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide
Sara Brown and Stephen Smith have edited a much needed and fascinating compilation of essays on the intersection of religion and mass atrocity. Their…
August 11, 2022
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…
August 2, 2022
British Responses to Genocide
When I was an undergrad, the chronology of World War One was simple. The war began in August of 1914 and ended in November of 1918. Now, of course, we…
June 1, 2022
The Memory of Goodness
Today I talked to Carol Rittner and John K. Roth about their edited volume The Memory of Goodness: Eva Fleischner and her contributions to Holocaust …
February 15, 2022
Teaching about Genocide
Samuel Totten's Teaching about Genocide (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020) presents the insights, advice and suggestions of secondary level teachers and p…
February 14, 2022
Before March Madness
Big money NCAA basketball had its origins in a many-sided conflict of visions and agendas. On one side stood large schools focused on a commercialized…
February 3, 2022
The Sports Revolution
When I was a teenager, I spent entirely too much time at the Pontiac Silverdome watching the Detroit Pistons play basketball. In all the games I watc…