Biography

Jody Russell Manning teaches Modern European History with a focus on Holocaust and Genocide Studies as well as Memory and Memorials. Manning is the coordinator of Rowan’s one-of-a-kind Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Education (MA HGE) and serves as the Associate Director for the Rowan Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights (RCHGHR). 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 “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Yizker Bikher” with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Weiner Holocaust Library in 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. He 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 and Memory, Comparative Genocide, The Nazi Camp System, Post-WWII Cities and Societies, Polish-Jewish Relations, European Racial Thought, as well as Memorials and Memory. Manning’s publications explore the continuing ramifications of genocide on contemporary society.