Collaboration with OSPI in Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5950
Earlier this year, the Washington legislature allocated funds to the institute to develop curriculum and teacher training for school teachers in Washington State on Genocide Education.
Two Western faculty members, Prof. Rachel Paul and Prof. Sarah Zarrow, will be spearheading the project for the RWI. They have taught courses in the Holocaust & Genocide Studies minor since its inception in 2019. We are excited to work with our content and curriculum experts during the upcoming year and will keep you updated about our progress.
Rachel Paul, Assistant Professor, Political Science
Rachel Paul is a Senior Instructor of Political Science. She teaches courses in Nationalism, Genocide and Global Politics; Comparative Foreign Policy; Democratization and International Relations. Her research areas include nationalism and ethnicity, ethnic groups and foreign policy, mass atrocity prevention, the politics of commemoration, and the role of trauma in political socialization. She is a Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellow in Atrocity Prevention at SUNY-Binghamton.
Sarah Zarrow, Associate Professor, History
Sarah Zarrow is an Associate Professor in the History department, where she holds the Endowed Professorship in Jewish History. Her research focuses on Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe, and she teaches courses on European Jewish history, East European history, and the Holocaust.