Tolerance Resource Center 10th Anniversary Celebration
Continues James Waller Lecture Concludes
Spring Series of Events

Notre Dame College — South Euclid, Ohio — 14 March 2008 —The 2007-2008 academic year has seen a flurry of Tolerance Resource Center-related activities commemorating its 10th Anniversary of the Center. The celebration continues with a lecture by James Waller, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington, whose areas of expertise are race relations in the U.S., and Holocaust and genocide studies. Waller has 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. Last year he was 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 on teaching the Holocaust Studies 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 as part of an invited presentation 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 lecture will take place on Thursday, April 10th at 7:30 p.m. in Notre Dame College’s Performing Arts Center, located on the ground floor of the Administration Building. The event is free of charge and open to the general public. Refreshments will be served. For more information call Karen Zoller at (216) 373-5267.