Helen Fein (1934 – May 14, 2022) was a historical sociologist and professor who specializes on

genocide Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944, combining the Greek word (, "race, people") with the Lati ...

human rights Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for certain standards of hu ...

, collective violence and other issues. She is an author and editor of four books and monographs, a former associate of the International Security Program (

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...

), and a founder and first president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. She was the executive director of the Institute for the Study of Genocide (

City University of New York , mottoeng = The education of free people is the hope of Mankind , budget = $3.6 billion , established = , type = Public university system , chancellor = Fél ...

). She died on May 14, 2022.

Publications

* ''Genocide Watch'', 1992. * ''Genocide: A Sociological Perspective'', 1993 * ''Accounting for Genocide'', 1979 * ''Human Rights and Wrongs'', 2007

References

1934 births 2022 deaths American sociologists American women sociologists 21st-century American women {{US-sociologist-stub