Eleazar barkan biography of alberta

Professor of International and Public Affairs

Director, Columbia Institute for the Study of Human Rights

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Dr.

Barkan is Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, Director of SIPA's Human Rights Concentration, and Director of Columbia's Institute for the Study of Human Rights. He is also founding Director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation (IHJR) in The Hague.

Barkan, Elazar, historian, Columbia University, New York City, USA. Beria, Lavrentii Pavlovich (), Georgian; People's Commissar of Internal Affairs.

Elazar Barkan has argued that joint participation in rewrit- ing and disseminating a revised history of an event allows a society to demonstrate.

Scientific Racism on Display: Representations of Indigenous Cultures and Societies at the Turn of the 20th Century.

As political concepts, reconciliation and redress are still contemporary ideas.

Organizers and Advisors: Elazar Barkan is co-director of the Institute for Historical Justice and.

Professor Barkan served on ISHR’s board of directors before becoming ISHR’s co-director in 2007 and director in 2008. Previously, Professor Barkan served as chair of the History Department and the Cultural Studies Department at the Claremont Graduate University, where he was the founding director of the Humanities Center.

Professor Barkan received his PhD from Brandeis University in Comparative European History and BA from Tel Aviv University.

His research interests focus on