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The Salem Award: Eric Reeves

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Eric Reeves

Eric Reeves

Eric Reeves, a professor at Smith College, has written and published extensively on Sudan for the past nine years. He has served as a researcher and consultant to numerous human rights and humanitarian organizations working in Sudan, and has testified formally on Sudan in a variety of governmental forums, including several Congressional hearings. His publications have appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The International Herald Tribune, and many major American metropolitan newspapers, as well as international newspapers and journals. Longer essays on Sudan have appeared in Dissent, The Nation, Human Rights Review and African Studies Review. His work is also published on a weekly basis in a variety of Sudanese magazines, newspapers, and websites. The contents of his own website, www.sudanreeves.org, are archived by the African Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division of the United States Library of Congress.

He serves on the Advisory Board of the US Committee for Refugees (Washington, DC); the Board of Advisors for Genocide Watch and The International Campaign to End Genocide; the Board of Advisors to the Darfur Peace and Development Association; and is a director of the "Schools for Sudan" initiative.

He is regularly asked to provide expert commentary on Sudan to the BBC, Radio France International, PBS, NPR, as well as to the major international news services and the foreign correspondents for a wide range of newspaper publications. He is presently at work on a book-length study of American and international policy responses to Sudan over the last decade.


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