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Ben Kiernan
American FootballAvgSeason 202341.2Benedict F. "Ben" Kiernan (born 1953) is an Australian-born American academic and historian who is the Whitney Griswold Professor Emeritus of History, Professor of International and Area Studies and Director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University.
Ben Kiernan is a renowned expert on world history, Southeast Asia, colonialism, nationalism, communism, and genocide. He is the author of several books, including Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination, and the editor of The Cambridge World History of Genocide.
Ben Kiernan. How does the Cambodian tragedy of Pol Pot's revolution (1975-1979) fit into the global history of genocide? The Cambodian case can be understood as part of a long history of mass atrocities stemming back to ancient Sparta, but also drawing from modernity.
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Ben Kiernan is a professor of history and a leading scholar of genocide and Southeast Asian studies. He has authored and edited numerous books and articles on Cambodia, Vietnam, and other regions, and has won several awards and honors for his work.
Ben Kiernan, a Yale historian and expert on Cambodia, led a team that discovered and analyzed the archives of the Khmer Rouge secret police. The archives provide evidence for the trial of Pol Pot's deputy and other genocide perpetrators.
Yale University Press, Jan 1, 2007 - Social Science - 724 pages. For thirty years Ben Kiernan has been deeply involved in the study of genocide and crimes against humanity. He has played a key...
Jun 1, 2008 · Ben Kiernan is the founder and director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University and the pre-eminent historian of the Cambodian genocide.
