Roger W. Smith’s research while affiliated with William & Mary and other places

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Publications (3)


Professional Ethics and the Denial of Armenian Genocide
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March 1995

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210 Reads

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65 Citations

Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Roger W. Smith

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Eric Markusen

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Robert Jay Lifton

This article examines Turkish efforts to deny the Armenian genocide of 1915–17. Specifically, it exposes an arrangement by which the government of Turkey has channeled funds into a supposedly objective research institute in the United States, which in turn paid the salary of a historian who served that government in its campaign to discredit scholarship on the Armenian genocide. After a short review of the Armenian genocide and a range of Turkish denial efforts, three documents are reproduced in full. They include a letter that Robert Jay Lifton received from the Turkish Ambassador to the United States, and two documents that were inadvertently included with the Lifton letter—a memorandum to the Turkish Ambassador and a draft letter to Lifton for the Ambassador's signature. After a critical analysis of each document. we discuss the harmfulness of genocide denial and explore why intellectuals might engage in the denial of known genocides. The article concludes with reflections on the relationship between scholars and truth.


Women and Genocide: Notes on an Unwritten History

December 1994

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71 Reads

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36 Citations

Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Whatever has been written about the history of genocide has been based mainly on the experiences of men. Yet women's experiences with genocide have often differed from those of men in terms of participation, forms of victimization, and consequences. This essay explores these issues, focusing In particular on the relationship between women and the perpetration of genocide.


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... This animalistic dehumanization (Haslam, 2006) or infrahumanization (Leyens et al., 2000) is conveyed, for instance, in historical depictions of Black people as 'apes' or 'monkeys' (Kendi, 2016). Another example is that Jews and Bosnians were thought of as 'vermin' during their respective killings in the Holocaust and Srebrenica genocide (Chalk & Jonassohn, 1990;Kelman, 1973). The second form of dehumanization is referred to as mechanistic dehumanization, through which people are denied the qualities of human nature such as personal depth, emotional responsiveness and agency; thus, one would think of someone as an object, cold, lacking emotions and indifferent to most things. ...

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Effects of dehumanization and disgust-eliciting language on attitudes toward immigration: a sentiment analysis of Twitter data
The History of Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies
  • Citing Article
  • March 1991

American Political Science Association

... A közvéleményben azonban még mindig az a tévhit él, hogy ezek a női elkövetők mentálisan sérültek, illetve őrültek, így emiatt kegyetlenebbek. 8 4 Smith (1994) Dolgozatomban rövid történeti áttekintést adok a ruandai népirtás előzményeiről, majd a ruandai nők helyzetét ismertetem a népirtás előtti időszakban. Ezt követően felvázolom azokat a lehetséges motivációkat, illetve mobilizációs eszközöket, amelyek szerepet játszhattak abban, hogy a ruandai nők elkövetőkké váljanak. ...

Women and Genocide: Notes on an Unwritten History
  • Citing Article
  • December 1994

Holocaust and Genocide Studies

... À tel point qu'un article du Washington Post de 2010 concluait, se focalisant sur la décennie 2000 : « Le gouvernement turc a dépensé des millions de dollars en lobbying à Washington au cours de la dernière décennie, en grande partie sur la question du génocide arménien » 12 . L'État turc a également cherché à influencer les médias et les milieux universitaires, en créant et en finançant des centres de recherche, tels que l'Institute of Turkish Studies de Princeton, et a parfois essayé d'influencer des journalistes pour les inciter à ne pas reconnaître le génocide (Smith, Markusen, Lifton, 1995). Dans le même temps, le rejet de la reconnaissance du génocide aux États-Unis a aussi été mis en oeuvre par des organisations turques-américaines, se réclamant de la communauté turque des États-Unis, estimée entre 300 000 et 500 000 individus 13 . ...

Professional Ethics and the Denial of Armenian Genocide
  • Citing Article
  • March 1995

Holocaust and Genocide Studies