Reading List

Participants will be sent the following required readings in advance of the institute.

These texts will form the foundation of weekly institute activities, provide important primary source materials for classroom use, and offer insights and topics for final project exploration.

• Gross, Jan. Neighbors : The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland. Penguin Books, 2002.

• Iftin, Abdi Nor. Call Me American. Knopf, 2018.

• Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants. Milkweed Editions, 2020.

• Murad, Nadia, and Jenna Krajeski. The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight against the Islamic State. First edition. New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2017.

• Oppenheimer, Mark. "Community and Care: Squirrel Hill and the Tree of Life Shooting." Oct. 8, 2021. http://grif.ly/ww7X

• Poppo, Kristin. “A Pedagogy of Stewardship.” IslandWood: Inspiring the Next Generation of Environmental Stewards, New Horizons, Inc., 2013. http://grif.ly/55hc

• Topol, Sarah A. "The Schoolteacher and the Genocide." New York Times. Aug. 8, 2019. http://grif.ly/33Fw

• Totten, Samuel, and Henry Theriault. The United Nations Genocide Convention: An Introduction. Chapters 1, 2, and 4. University of Toronto Press, 2020.

• VICE News. (2020, February 14). Myanmar's Rohingya Genocide [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnHizRC6S8U&t=11s

• Zapruder, Alexandra. Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust, 2nd Ed. Yale University Press, 2015, Multimedia Edition. (Selected chapters)

For additional bibliography and final project resources, click here.