Aaron Arredondo is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Missouri. His primary research interests involve racial inequalities, space and place, and Latina/o/x communities. His current work examines how Latina/o/x in the Upper South respond to the constraining dimensions of the whitespace through placemaking efforts.
Email Address: aia2pc@mail.missouri.edu

Alexandre Dauge-Roth is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Bates College. He has published numerous articles on the representation of the genocide against the Tutsi in literature, testimony, films, and documentaries. He is the author of Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda: Dismembering and Remembering Traumatic History (Lexington Books 2010).
Email Address: adaugero@bates.edu

Rangira Béa Gallimore, is Professor Emerita of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Missouri—Columbia. Her research focuses on women and violence. She has published books and articles on topics in Francophone Studies and on the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. She is the founder and former President of Step Up, American Association for Rwandan Women. She served as an expert consultant to UNESCO, the UNDP, the U.S. State Department and other international organizations concerning the role of women in post-conflict recovery. She is also a trained trauma counselor and a member of the STEP UP trauma training team.
Email Address: GallimoreR@missouri.edu

Richard Hessler, Ph.D. is emeritus professor of Sociology at the University of Missouri in Columbia. He publishes in the areas of gerontology and methodology. He is presently working on the epigenetics of Alzheimer’s disease. He is co-editor of IJCR.
Email address: Hesslerr@missouri.edu

Christine Holden is Associate Professor Emerita of History at the University of Southern Maine. Her courses and research interests include Russian and Soviet History, European women’s history and the Holocaust. She also taught at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. She is the co-complier of Russian Women, 1698-1917: Experience and expression, An Anthology of Sources (2002).
Email Address: holden@maine.edu

Neal G. Jesse is Professor of Political Science at Bowling Green State University. He is the author of books and numerous articles on ethnic conflict, Northern Ireland, small state foreign policy, and electoral systems. His most recent publication is Small States in the International System: At Peace and at War.
Email Address: njesse@bgsu.edu

Elmina Kulašić, a recent returnee to Bosnia from Chicago (USA), works on genocide prevention, human rights, and democracy and public policy issues in the United States, and Southeast Europe. Elmina holds two Master’s Degrees: one in Public Policy from the Central European University and another in Human Rights and Democracy from the Universities of Bologna and Sarajevo. She is the former Executive Director of the Advisory Council for BiH, Washington, D.C. She interned with ‘Senator‘ Barack Obama (IL office) and Senator Richard Durbin (IL office). Elmina has extensive public policy, education, and advocacy experience in the United States and Europe. She is currently the Senior Advisor at the Victims and Witnesses of Genocide Association in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Email Address: elmina.kulasic@gmail.com

Tola Olu Pearce, is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women’s & Gender Studies, and faculty advisor in the Peace Studies Program at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She obtained her Ph.D. from Brown University, Rhode Island. Research interests: sociology of health and illness, gender, social inequalities, development/globalization and human rights. She is co-editor of IJCR.
Email address: pearcei@missouri.edu

Ellen M. Taylor is a professor of English at the University of Maine at Augusta, where she also teaches Women and Gender Studies. As a poet, she is interested in narrative verse and voices of marginalized groups. She also teaches at the Maine State Prison.
Email Address: ellen.taylor@maine.edu

Eden Wales Freedman is an Assistant Professor of English at Mount Mercy University. She has published articles on reading race, gender, and trauma in the works of William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Eve Sedgwick. Her book project, Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma, explores readerly engagement of literary trauma.
Email Address: ewalesfreedman@mtmercy.edu