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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:

Genocide Studies May 17, 2023

Never Again

Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust

Andrew I. Port

Hosted by Kelly McFall
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 Balkans to prevent a …
Genocide Studies April 11, 2023

Hypocrisy and Human Rights

Resisting Accountability for Mass Atrocities

Kate Cronin-Furman

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Hypocrisy and Human Rights: Resisting Accountability for Mass Atrocities (Cornell University Press, 2022) examines what human rights pressure does when it does not work. Repressive states with absolutely no intention …
Genocide Studies April 2, 2023

Still Life with Bones

Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

Alexa Hagerty

Hosted by Kelly McFall
In Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains (Crown, 2023), anthropologist Alexa Hagerty learns to see the dead body with a forensic eye. She examines bones for marks …
Genocide Studies March 20, 2023

From Discrimination to Death

Genocide Process Through a Human Rights Lens

Melanie 0'Brien

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Melanie 0'Brien's book From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process Through a Human Rights Lens (Routledge, 2022) studies the process of genocide through the human rights violations that occur during genocide. Using …
Genocide Studies March 4, 2023

To Save Heaven and Earth

Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide

Jennie E. Burnet

Hosted by Kelly McFall
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 Rwandan genocide of Tutsi …
Genocide Studies February 22, 2023

In the Shadow of Genocide

Justice and Memory Within Rwanda

Stephanie Wolfe, Matthew Kane and Tawia Ansah

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Stephanie Wolfe, Matthew Kane and Tawia Ansah's In the Shadow of Genocide: Justice and Memory Within Rwanda (Routledge, 2023) brings together scholars and practitioners for a unique inter-disciplinary exploration of …
Military History February 4, 2023

Blood and Ruins

The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945

Richard Overy

Hosted by Kelly McFall
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 its origins …
Genocide Studies November 22, 2022

Genocide

Key Themes

Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses

Hosted by Kelly McFall
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 about the state and nature of …
Genocide Studies October 3, 2022

The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide

Sara Elise Brown and Stephen David Smith

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Sara Brown and Stephen Smith have edited a much needed and fascinating compilation of essays on the intersection of religion and mass atrocity.  Their intent is not to theorize the …
Genocide Studies August 11, 2022

Sites of Genocide

Adam Jones

Hosted by Kelly McFall
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 been influential in drawing attention …
Genocide Studies August 2, 2022

British Responses to Genocide

The British Foreign Office and Humanitarianism in the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1923

Amy E. Grubb and Elisabeth Hope Murray

Hosted by Kelly McFall
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 know it's …
Genocide Studies June 1, 2022

The Memory of Goodness

Eva Fleischner and Her Contributions to Holocaust Studies

John K. Roth and Carol Rittner

Hosted by Kelly McFall
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 Studies (National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education …
Genocide Studies February 15, 2022

Teaching about Genocide

Advice and Suggestions from Professors, High School Teachers, and Staff Developers

Samuel Totten

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Samuel Totten's Teaching about Genocide (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020) presents the insights, advice and suggestions of secondary level teachers and professors in relation to teaching about various facets of genocide. The contributions are …
Sports February 14, 2022

Before March Madness

The Wars for the Soul of College Basketball

Kurt Edward Kemper

Hosted by Kelly McFall
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 game that privileged wins and …
Sports February 3, 2022

The Sports Revolution

How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics

Frank Andre Guridy

Hosted by Kelly McFall
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 watched, it never occurred …
Genocide Studies December 28, 2021

After Genocide

Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda

Nicole Fox

Hosted by Kelly McFall
In the wake of unthinkable atrocities, it is reasonable to ask how any population can move on from the experience of genocide. Simply remembering the past can, in the shadow …
Genocide Studies December 6, 2021

Humane

How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War

Samuel Moyn

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Is it possible that efforts to make war more humane can actually make it more common and thus more destructive?   This tension at the heart of this query lies at the …
Genocide Studies December 3, 2021

Propaganda and the Genocide in Indonesia

Imagined Evil

Saskia E. Wieringa and Nursyahbani Katjasungkana

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Several months ago, Saskia Wieringa joined her co-authors Jess Melvin and Annie Pohlman on the show to talk about their edited volume The International People's Tribunal for 1965 and the …
Genocide Studies December 3, 2021

Cultural Genocide

Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations

Jeffrey S. Bachman

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Jeffrey Bachman's edited volume Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations (Routledge, 2019) asks where the boundaries between genocide and other kinds of mass atrocity violence rest and what the stakes are …
Genocide Studies September 22, 2021

Comrades Betrayed

Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler

Michael Geheran

Hosted by Kelly McFall
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 differently from Jewish men without …
Genocide Studies August 19, 2021

The Compromise of Return

Viennese Jews After the Holocaust

Elizabeth Anthony

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Most often our engagement with the Holocaust is a process of wrestling with the absence of presence and the presence of absence.  This is right and important and necessary. But Elizabeth …
Genocide Studies June 10, 2021

Drunk on Genocide

Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany

Edward B. Westermann

Hosted by Kelly McFall
The title of Edward Westermann's new book, Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany (Cornell University Press, published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2021) …
Genocide Studies June 9, 2021

A Sad Fiasco

Colonial Concentration Camps in Southern Africa, 1900–1908

Jonas Kreienbaum

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Holocaust and Genocide historians have spent much time and effort recently considering the connections between the experiences and ideas of colonialism and subsequent mass atrocity violence.  Jonas Kreienbaum's recent book …
Genocide Studies March 22, 2021

The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East

Laura Robson

Hosted by Kelly McFall
My students are generally 19 or 20 or 21. They have never known the Middle East without American boots on the ground. They have never turned on the news and …