The Causes of Genocide
David N. Smith
Wednesday, 10 Nov 1999 at 12:00 pm – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
David Smith's current projects include studies of authoritarianism, anti-Semitism, and genocide, and he is editing Marx's ethnological notebooks, Patriarchy and Property, for Yale University Press. Previous publications include studies of Orwell, Marx's Capital, and the history of higher education. He is associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Kansas.
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