About the Center

The UMD Center for Genocide, Holocaust, and Human Rights Studies was established in the spring of 2006 thanks to a generous (and anonymous) grant from a Minnesota foundation. It is housed within the College of Liberal Arts where it has found continually gracious and considerate support from the collegiate Dean, Linda Krug.

The Center is an affiliate of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CGHS) on the Twin Cities campus and works closely with its Director, Stephen Feinstein on programming and other issues. The Center is a member of the Association of Holocaust Organizations and collaborates with that organization as well.

The Center is committed to both on-campus programming as well as community out-reach. It seeks to balance it programming among the three areas of its concern and to work with groups on and off campus that share its commitments. It has therefore shared programming with the

• Royal D. Alworth Institute for International Studies
• Baeumler-Kaplan Holocaust Commemoration Committee
• American Indian Learning Resource Center
• Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Services
• College of Liberal Arts
• UMD chapter of Amnesty International-USA
• Tweed Museum of Art
• Temple Israel of Duluth
• Center of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota, TC

The Center’s current Director, Alexis Pogorelskin, a specialist in Russian and modern European history as well as Holocaust Studies and the history of Hollywood, looks forward to sharing responsibility with a diverse board which will contribute to the range and breadth of the Center’s programming.

The Center’s offices are located in 110 Cina Hall, but for further information regarding its work or programming, please contact Dr. Pogorelskin at

Department of History
University of Minnesota
265 ABAH
1121 University Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
apogorel@d.umn.edu
218 726-7548