Eric Markusen

Eric Markusen (born October 8, 1946 , † January 29, 2007 ) was an American sociologist and professor of sociology and social work at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, Minnesota, USA, and research director of the Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Dansk Center for Holocaust- og Folkedrabsstudier, DCHF) in Copenhagen . After its integration into the Danish Institute for International Studies (Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier, DIIS) in 2003, he worked there as a Senior Researcher.

Markusen conducted research in the countries of the former Soviet Union, Cambodia, Croatia, Bosnia, Poland, Serbia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Rwanda and Chad. Later he concentrated on the countries of ex-Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He died of cancer.

Publications

• with R. Lifton: The Genocide Mentality: Nazi Holocaust and Nuclear Threat. 1990
• with C. Summers: Computers, ethics, and collective violence. In: Journal of Systems and Software. Volume 17, No. 1, 1992, pp. 91-103.
• Co-editor with D. Kopf Holocaust and Strategic Bombing: Genocide and Total War in the Twentieth Century. 1995
• with C. Summers: Collective Violence: Harmful Behavior in Groups and Governments. 1999
• with S. Totten: Genocide in Darfur. 2006

Web links

• Obituary Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 9 (2007)