Tolerance Resource Center 10th Anniversary Celebration
Concludes with Dr. James Waller Lecture

SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio—27 March 2008—Notre Dame College’s Tolerance Resource Center announced  the final speaker in its yearlong series commemorating the tenth anniversary of the center. Dr. James Waller will present Never Again: Genocide in the 21st Century Thursday, April 10th at 7:30 p.m. in the College’s Performing Arts Center. The program is free of charge and open to the public.

Dr. Waller, professor of psychology at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington, specializes in race relations in the U.S., and holocaust and genocide studies. He earned a doctorate in Experimental Social Psychology from the University of Kentucky, and a bachelor of sciences degree in Psychology from Asbury College in Wilmore, KY. He is a recipient of the 2007 First Voice Humanitarian Award from the Chicago Center for Urban Life & Culture. He is the founder of two groundbreaking Whitworth off-campus study programs: Prejudice Across America, which he began in 1996; and Religion, Peace and Conflict in Northern Ireland, which he inaugurated in January 2006.

Waller has taught and presented papers around the globe. In June 2005 he coordinated and led a faculty seminar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. During summer 2007 he traveled to Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, where he chaired a panel and delivered a paper on perpetrators of genocide at the biennial meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Waller also participated in a pre-conference seminar held on the grounds of the former Auschwitz death camp in Krakow, Poland, where he presented a paper focused on Nazi doctors at Auschwitz.

An award-winning author and educator, Waller has written numerous books and scholarly articles on genocide and racial prejudice including Face to Face: the Changing State of Racism Across America (Perseus Books, 1998), Prejudice Across America (University Press of Mississippi, 2000) and Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing (Oxford University Press, 2002). In March 2007 Oxford released the revised and updated second edition of Becoming Evil, which is used by universities worldwide in courses on holocaust and genocide studies. The book was short-listed for the biennial Raphael Lemkin Award from the International Association of Genocide Scholars and is being adapted as a play at UCLA.

The Tolerance Resource Center, located in the College’s Clara Fritzsche Library, is dedicated to the promotion of holocaust studies and other issues of racial, cultural and religious diversity in the world around us. It offers materials and training for teachers of the holocaust. Resource materials, educational programs and artistic exhibits are available to students, faculty, scholars and the general public. The collection includes books, periodicals, video recordings, and curriculum materials on tolerance and diversity, teaching the Holocaust, and Native American issues.

Notre Dame College is located at 4545 College Road in South Euclid. Refreshments will be served. For more information contact Karen Zoller at 216.373.5267 or kzoller@ndc.edu.