Elisa von Joeden-Forgey holds  the Endowed Chair in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College. Before this she served as the Dr. Marsha Raticoff Grossman Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University, where she started the first graduate-level academic certificate program in Genocide Prevention. She earned a BA from Columbia University and a PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania. She teaches and researches on genocide prevention, gender and genocide, comparative genocide, the Holocaust, sexualized violence, imperialism, race, and war.