Alva Review-Courier -

Dr. Eric J. Schmaltz, professor of history and global studies at Northwestern Oklahoma State University and co-executive director of the endowed NWOSU Institute for Citizenship Studies, presented at the Fifth International Genocide Conference at California State University, Sacramento, in early November.

Schmaltz said the late Dr. Alexandre Kimenyi of the Ethnic Studies Department at Sacramento, a native of Rwanda who lost his entire family in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis, established this interdisciplinary conference.

Much of Schmaltz's research and publication work over the past 20 y...