Kiernan, Ben 1953-
KIERNAN, Ben 1953-
PERSONAL: Born January 29, 1953, in Melbourne, Australia; son of Peter Brian (a solicitor) and Joan Catherine (a homemaker) Kiernan. Education: Monash University, B.A. (with first class honors), 1975, Ph.D., 1983.
ADDRESSES: Office—Department of History, Yale University, Box 208324, New Haven, CT 06520-8324.
CAREER: University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, tutor in history, 1975-77; University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, lecturer, senior lecturer in history, 1986-89; Yale University, New Haven, CT, associate professor of history, 1990-97, founding director of Cambodian Genocide Program, 1994-99, professor of history, 1997-99, A. Whitney Griswold Professor of history, 1999—, founding director, Genocide Studies Program, 1998—.
MEMBER: American Historical Association, Association for Asian Studies, Australian Historical Association.
WRITINGS:
The Samlaut Rebellion, Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), 1975.
How Pol Pot Came to Power, Verso (London, England), 1985.
(Editor) Burchett: Reporting the Other Side of theWorld, 1939-1983, Quartet (London, England), 1986.
Cambodia: The Eastern Zone Massacres, Columbia University Center for Human Rights (New York, NY), 1986.
(Editor) Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1993.
The Pol Pot Regime, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1996.