Kiernan, Ben

"Ben Kiernan" is the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History, professor of international and area studies, and director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University (www.yale.edu/gsp). He served as founding director of Yale's Cambodian Genocide Program (1994-99) and convenor of the Yale East Timor Project (2000-02). He is the author of "How Pol Pot Came to Power, The Pol Pot Regime, and Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Exterminatiion from Sparta to Darfur".