Career
Professor Waller has a significant role in Keene State College"s new baccalaureate program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, which offers courses in Holocaust Studies and courses in genocide and comparative genocide. He has held fellowships with the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in Washington, District of Columbia, and is an affiliated scholar at the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation. Doctor Waller was previously a Professor of psychology at Whitworth University, in Spokane, Washington, and was the Edward B. Lindaman Chair from Fall 2003-2007.
Waller was the inaugural Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont.
Waller"s book, Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing, is a standard text for students of genocide throughout the United States. He is widely recognized for his work on intergroup relations and prejudice, and in 1996 developed a study program titled "Prejudice Across America." The program drew national media attention and was named by President Bill Clinton"s Initiative on Race as one of America"s "Promising Practices for Racial Reconciliation." Many of the experiences from the study program are chronicled in Doctor Waller"s first book, Face to Face: The Changing State of Racism Across America.
And in a second book, Prejudice Across America. In addition to three books (one of which has been released in a revised and updated second edition), Waller has published twenty-nine articles in peer-reviewed professional journals and contributed eighteen chapters in edited books
Concepts from Becoming Evil have been the basis for an international best-selling novel (The Exception by Christian Jungersen) and a play being workshopped at University of California, Los Los Angeles A Hungarian translation of Becoming Evil was scheduled for release in 2010.
