Background
Totten, Samuel was born on February 26, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Totten, Samuel was born on February 26, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Bachelor in English, California State University, Long Beach, 1972. Master of Arts in English, California State University, Sacramento, 1978. Master of Education, Columbia University, 1982.
Doctor of Education, Columbia University, 1985.
Samuel Totten earned a master"s degree and a doctoral degree at Teachers College, Columbia University. In 2004, he served as an investigator on the United States. State Department"s Darfur Atrocities Documentation Project. In 2005 he became one of the chief co-editors of Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, the official journal of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS).
In 2008 He served as a Fulbright Scholar at the Centre for Conflict Management, National University of Rwanda.
Between 2004 and 2011, he conducted research along the Chad/Darfur, Sudan border into the genocide perpetrated by the Government of Sudan in Darfur. Between 2010 and today he has conducted research into the genocidal actions of the Government of Sudan in the Nuba Mountains in the late 1980s to mid 1990s, and the crimes against humanity being perpetrated today (July 2011-ongoing through at least June 2012)
During the 2009-2010 academic year Totten served as the Ida King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust and Education at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
Totten has traveled throughout the war-torn Nuba Mountains multiple times from 2011 to April 2015 as he conducted research into both the genocide by attrition experienced by the people of the Nuba Mountains in the 1990s and the ongoing crisis today (June 2011-present). While there, Government of Sudan Antonov bombers dropped 55 bombs on civilian areas, resulting in deaths and grievous injuries.
Member edition board Amnesty International, San Francisco, since 1989. Member National Council for the Social Studies, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Educators for Social Responsibility (edition board since 1990.