Talk:Ben Kiernan
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[edit] Marriage to Gilmore
"Gregory Stanton '82JD, a close friend of Kiernan's and president of Genocide Watch, offers another explanation. "There's no way you can avoid becoming angry doing this type of work," he says. "Many people get depressed. They go under. Ben has reacted by channeling this into an extraordinary outpouring of extremely useful scholarship." Kiernan's wife, Glenda Gilmore, the Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale, agrees. "He researches and writes on tragedies," she e-mails me, "but it would be much more tragic to him if genocide happened and no one knew about it or took action. So, in a difficult way, his work uplifts him because he knows that he is making those lost lives count for more." [1]
[edit] Controversy
Can anyone clarify Kiernan vis-a-vis the Australian History Wars, a quote and response re Kiernan has been place on the Keith Windschuttle article, with a dismissive note on Kiernan's early analysis of the Cambodian genocide. Paul foord 08:40, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
