Education
He studied for a Bachelor in English at Dartmouth College and received his Doctor of Philosophy from University of California, Berkeley on the Rwandan Genocide.
journalist political scientist
He studied for a Bachelor in English at Dartmouth College and received his Doctor of Philosophy from University of California, Berkeley on the Rwandan Genocide.
His research focuses on genocide, violence, human rights and African politics. He was previously a freelance journalist based in Africa, and in 2000 was a Visiting Fellow at Institut d"Études Politiques de Paris. He also translated The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History by the French historian Jean-Pierre Chrétien into English (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press/Zone Books, 2003).
He has also co-edited Remaking Rwanda, State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence with Lars Waldorf.
Straus is author of The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda (Cornell University Press, 2006), which won the 2006 Award for Excellence in Political Science and Government from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers, an honorable mention in the African Studies Association"s 2007 Melville J. Herskovits Award, and Choice magazine"s Outstanding Academic Title award for 2007.
