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Beatriz Manz, an anthropologist and native of Chile, has conducted extensive research
in Guatemala and Mexico. She has received several grants, including a
Peace Fellowship from the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe for her research among
Guatemalan refugees in Mexico. Most recently, she was the recipient of a John
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation research and writing grant. She is
currently associate professor of geography and ethnic studies at the University of
California, Berkeley.
David Maybury-Lewis is Edward C. Henderson Professor of Anthropology at Harvard
University and the founder and president of Cultural Survival, an organization
that defends the rights of indigenous peoples.
Carole Nagengast is professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico,
where she teaches classes on human rights, class, gender, ethnicity, and transnationalism.
She does research with Mixtecs from southern Mexico, the U.S.-Mexico
border region, and in Poland. Major publications include articles in the Annual Reviews
of Anthropology (1994), the Journal of Anthropological Research (1997), Latin American
Research Review (1990), and the volume Reluctant Socialists: Class, Culture and the Polish
State (1991). She has a forthcoming edited volume entitled The Anthropologist as
Activist and is writing an ethnography of Mixtec migrants to the United States. Nagengast
served on the board of directors at Amnesty International and was a
member of the American Anthropology Association Committee for Human
Rights. She currently chairs the American Anthropological Association Committee
on Public Policy, the Association for the Advancement of Science Committee on
Social Responsibility, and the AAAS Subcommittee on Human Rights.
William S. Parsons is the former director of education and now chief of staff for
the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. He is the
author of the study guide Everyone’s Not Here: Families of the Armenian Genocide (Armenian
Assembly of America 1989), coauthor of Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust
and Human Behavior (Intentional Publications 1982), and coeditor of Century of
Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views (Garland 1997).
Kenneth Roth is the executive director of Human Rights Watch, the largest
U.S.-based international human rights organization. He has conducted human
rights investigations around the globe, devoting special attention to issues of justice
and accountability for gross abuses of human rights, standards governing
military conduct in time of war, the human rights policies of the United States
and the United Nations, and the human rights responsibilities of multinational
businesses. He has written extensively on a range of human rights topics in such
publications as the New York Times, the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, the Nation,
and the New York Review of Books. He appears often in the major media, including
NPR, the BBC, CNN, PBS, and the principal U.S. networks. He has testified repeatedly
before the U.S. Congress.