Shannon Fyfe, now a Non-Resident Fellow of the Institute after leaving Mason for the School of Law

at Washington and Lee University, and Douglas Irvin-Erickson a Resident Member of the Institute

from the Carter School, are leading this project area. With seed funding from the Scheidt Family

Foundation, the project had sought to create and develop a multidisciplinary undergraduate major and

minor in Genocide Studies and Prevention to be housed in the College of Humanities and Social

Sciences, primarily in the Philosophy Department, with connections across multiple departments and

units at Mason.