Scott Straus

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Scott Straus (born May 9, 1970) is an American political scientist currently serving as a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley.{{Cite web|title=Scott Straus|url=https://sites.google.com/view/scott-straus/home|access-date=2022-02-13|website=sites.google.com|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=Scott Straus {{!}} Institute of International Studies|url=https://iis.berkeley.edu/people/scott-straus|access-date=2022-02-13|website=iis.berkeley.edu}} Strauss received a BA in English from Dartmouth College and a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/04/07/MN192568.DTL|title=Rwanda: Aftermath of Genocide|last=Marquez Garcia|first=Sandra|date=7 April 2002|work=San Francisco Chronicle|access-date=4 February 2010}}{{cite web|url=http://users.polisci.wisc.edu/straus/Straus%20CV%207%2008.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091210214138/http://users.polisci.wisc.edu/straus/Straus%20CV%207%2008.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-12-10|title=Scott Straus|publisher=University of Wisconsin–Madison|access-date=2009-11-02}} His research focuses on genocide, violence, human rights and African politics. He was previously a freelance journalist based in Africa,{{cite news|url=http://www.pe.com/localnews/hemet/stories/PE_News_Local_D_rwanda29.134dcc89.html|title=Higher purpose drives desire to help|last=Agha|first=Marisa|author2=Wells Miller, Bettye|date=29 March 2006|work=The Press-Enterprise|access-date=4 February 2010}} and in 2000 was a visiting fellow at Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. He is the 2018 winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas for Improving World Order for his book Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa.{{cite web|url=http://grawemeyer.org/world-order/#toggle-id-3|title=Grawemeyer Awards, World Order, Previous Winners|publisher=grawemeyer.org|access-date=2018-12-06}}

Straus is author of The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda (Cornell University Press, 2006), which won the 2006 Award for Excellence in Political Science and Government from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers, an honorable mention in the African Studies Association's 2007 Melville J. Herskovits Award, and Choice magazine's Outstanding Academic Title award for 2007.{{cite web|url=http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4587|title=The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda|publisher=Cornell University Press|access-date=2009-11-02}} Among his other books are Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures, co-authored with David K. Leonard (Lynne Rienner, 2003), and Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide, in collaboration with photographer Robert Lyons (MIT Press/Zone Books, 2006). In 2016, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum published his Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention.{{Cite book|last=Straus|first=Scott|title=Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention|publisher=US Holocaust Memorial Museum|year=2016|isbn=9780896047150|location=Washington, DC}} He also translated The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History by the French historian Jean-Pierre Chrétien into English (MIT Press/Zone Books, 2003).{{cite news|url=http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2003/08/26/great_lakes_traces_the_struggles_strife_of_an_african_region/|title='Great Lakes' traces the struggles, strife of an African region|last=Meier|first=Mary|date=26 August 2003|work=The Boston Globe|access-date=4 February 2010}} He has also co-edited Remaking Rwanda, State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence with Lars Waldorf.{{cite book |url=http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/4876.htm |title=UW Press - : Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence, Edited by Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf |website=uwpress.wisc.edu |access-date=4 September 2013}}