Biography

Jody Russell Manning teaches Modern European History with a focus on Holocaust and Genocide Studies as well as Memory and Memorials. Manning also serves as the Associate Director for the Rowan Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights (RCHGHR) and helped develop Rowan’s one-of-a-kind Holocaust and Genocide Education (HGE) graduate program. In addition, he remains faculty advisor to RCHGHR Student Association. Manning helped organize two important international conferences at Rowan University: “Where Do We Go from Here? Genocide Education in the 21st Century - Genocide Studies International Symposium on Genocide Education” in 2023 with the Zoryan Institute as well as the upcoming “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Yizker Bikher” with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Fall 2024. He was lead CHSS instructor on the “Warsaw Virtual Reality Project” in cooperation with Engineering and Communications and Creative Arts.

Manning remains honored to have served as the first American intern in the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust (ICEAH) at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, Poland from 2005-2009, which continued through his 2010-2011 Fulbright fellowship year with Jagiellonian University. Manning co-founded and organized the first International Graduate Students' Conference for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Manning holds experiential learning vital to education and continues to run a Study Abroad program to Europe each summer, which includes “Nazi Germany & the Holocaust” and “Heart of Europe: Memory & Culture.” His academic interests include Holocaust History, Genocide Memory, The Nazi Camp System, Post-WWII Cities and Societies, Polish-Jewish Relations, Comparative Genocide, Racial Thought, as well as Memorials and Memory. His publications explore the continuing ramifications of genocide on contemporary society.