TORONTO, ON, January 12, 2025 – The International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (A Division of the Zoryan Institute) is pleased to announce that Dr. Amy Sodaro has joined the editorial team of Genocide Studies International (GSI). She joins an interdisciplinary group of co-editors, including Dr. Alex Alvarez (Criminal Justice), Dr. Cheng Xu (Political Science), Dr. Henry Theriault (Philosophy), and Dr. Kelly McFall (History), further strengthening the journal’s commitment to diverse scholarly perspectives in genocide studies.

Dr. Sodaro is an established and valued member of the Zoryan Institute’s academic community. For the past four years, she has served as a faculty member in the Institute’s Genocide and Human Rights University Program (GHRUP) hosted at the University of Toronto. She is a professor of sociology at the City University of New York and teaches the “Memory and Memorialization” unit at the GHRUP. Her scholarship examines the ethical obligation to remember and commemorate violence, while also emphasizing that memory politics play an increasingly central role in contemporary political, social, and ethical debates and decision-making

Reflecting on her new role with GSI, Dr. Sodaro shared:

“I am excited to join the GSI editorial team and contribute to the journal’s important work producing rigorous academic research, supporting critical analysis and raising awareness about genocide, mass violence and human rights around the world.”

Through her research on how societies remember genocide and mass violence, Dr. Sodaro brings expertise that strengthens the journal’s engagement with questions of memory, commemoration, and their significance for understanding mass atrocities.

For more information on GSI, please visit: https://www.genocidestudies.org/gsi-journal.

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About Dr. Amy Sodaro:

Amy Sodaro is professor of sociology at the City University of New York/Borough of Manhattan Community College. Her research focuses on memorialization of past violence in memorial museums. She is the author of Lifting the Shadow: Reshaping Memory, Race and Slavery in US Museums (2025) and Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence (2018), and co-editor of Museums and Sites of Persuasion: Politics, Memory and Human Rights (2019) and Museums and Mass Violence (2025). She is an editor of the Sage journal Memory Studies and co-chair of the Memory Studies Association Museums and Memory working group.