More About Amy Fagin
Education
1977 – 1981. University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Bachelor of Arts, Spanish Linguistics
1982 – 1984. University of California, Davis; Master’s Program in International Agriculture Development
2019 – 2021. Stockton University; Master’s Program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Bibliography
Holtzberg, Maggie. (2008). Keepers of Tradition. University of
Massachusetts Press. Available here.
Diamant, Anita. (1998). The New Jewish Wedding. Scribner.
Publications
Fagin, Amy. (2015). “Book Review: Native America and the Question of Genocide,” Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: Vol. 9: Iss. 2: 125-126. Available here.
Fagin, Amy. (2014). “War, Genocide and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work, by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, University of Minnesota Press 2012, 243 pp.,” Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: Vol. 8: Iss. 2: 83-84. Available here.
Fagin, Amy. (2010). “Beyond Genocide. An Ounce of Prevention,” Genocide Prevention Now: Iss. 1.
Fagin, Ami. (2017). One Hundred and One Visual Haiku: Vol. 1. Haley’s.
Fagin, Ami. (2018). One Hundred and One Visual Haiku: Vol. 2. Haley’s.
Awards & Fellowships
2020. Koopman-van de Kar Award for Graduate Students
2020. Wroxton College Stephen S. Weinstein Holocaust Symposium
2019. International Association of Genocide Scholars Service Award
2018. Wroxton College Stephen S. Weinstein Holocaust Symposium
2017. Jewish Holocaust Center of Melbourne, AU Scholarship
2017. International Association of Genocide Scholars Service Award
2016. Keene State College Summer Institute on Genocide Studies & Prevention Fellowship
2007. Harold Grinspoon Foundation, Arts and Culture Initiative
2006. Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists, Finalist, Traditional Arts Award
2006. Harold Grinspoon Foundation, Arts and Culture Initiative
2005. Harold Grinspoon Foundation, Arts and Culture Initiative
Solo Exhibition History
2019. Keene State College, Keene, NH (series on permanent display)
2017. Athol Public Library, Athol, MA
2017. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Brisbane, AU
2016. Michelson’s Gallery, Northampton, MA
2016. Raritan Community College, Raritan Valley, NJ
2016. Greenwich High School, Greenwich, CT
2015. Clark University, Worcester, MA
2015. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2013. Old Academy Building, New Salem, MA
2011. Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY
2011. Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario
2010. Bronx Community College, Bronx, NY
2010. Raritan Community College, Raritan Valley, NJ
2009. Bronx Community College, Bronx, NY
2008. Smith College, Northampton, MA
2007. Williams Collect, Williamstown, MA
2007. Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA
2006. Elms College, Chicopee, MA
2005. Ha-Tikvah Holocaust Education Center, Springfield, MA
2005. Congregation B’nai Israel, North Adams, MA
Group Exhibition History
2019. Fruitlands Museum (Juried Exhibition), Harvard, MA
2018. Melrose Arts Festival, (Juried Exhibition), Melrose, MA
2017. Zullo Gallery, Annual (Juried Exhibition), Medford, MA
2017. Melrose Arts Festival (Juried Exhibition), Melrose, MA
2016. Art Speaks Truth to Power, Cambridge College, Cambridge, MA
2015. Pursuing Justice Through Art, Whistler House Museum, Lowell, MA
2014. Lowell Folk Festival, Lowell, MA
2009. Lowell Folk Festival, Lowell, MA
2008. Keepers of Tradition, National Heritage Museum, Lexington, MA
2007. International Association of Genocide Scholars Conference, Saravejo, Bosnia Herzegovina
Teaching
2019. Travel Seminar: “Post Conflict Strategies in Collective Memory and Reconciliation,” case study, Sri Lanka
2018. Introduction to Watercolor @ New Salem Summer Arts Intensive, MA
2017. “The Art of Shabbat” (10-week course) @ Jewish Community of Amherst, MA
2017. Beyond Genocide: Community Conversations & Global Perspectives @ Keene State College, NH
2017. “Manuscript Illumination: Traditional Art Form, Modern Techniques and Applications” @ Museum of Russian Icons, Clinton, MA
2016. Community Conversations, Global Perspectives: Beyond Genocide Educators Training Workshop @ Raritan Valley Community College, NJ
2016. Resident Mentor, 3rd Winter School in Genocide and Justice @ Dhaka, Bangladesh
2016. “Chronology and Geography of Genocide,” “Definitions, Detection, Deterrence, and Prevention” @ BMICH, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2016. History of Hebrew Manuscript Illumination @ Kolbo, Brookline, MA
2016. Travel Seminar: “Mass Atrocity, Memory, and Memorialization,” case study, Argentina
2016. Panelist, “Art in Response to Genocide” @ Emerging Arts Leadership Symposium, Washington D.C.
2016. “Beyond Genocide: Community Conversations & Global Perspectives” @ Greenwich High School Greenwich CT
2015. “Mass Atrocity, Memory, and Memorialization” @ University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2015. “Beyond Genocide: Community Conversations & Global Perspectives” @ University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2015. “Introduction to Manuscript Illumination Technical Workshop for Artists” @ Museum of Russian Icons, Clinton, MA
2015. “Thinking Through Art: Pedagogy in Genocide Studies and an Introduction to Visual Thinking Strategies” at Keene State University, NH
2015. “Genocide: Chronology and Geography, a Global Perspective” @ Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA
2015. “Abyssinian Illuminations: Art, Religion, Empire” @ Museum of Russian Icons, Clinton, MA
2015. Introduction to Basic Drawing workshop @ New Salem Public Library, New Salem, MA
2015. “Genocide Memorialization and the Pursuit of Justice: Three Case Studies” @ Liberation War Museum, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2015. “Geography of Genocide: Thinking Through Art” @ University of Dhaka, Dhaka Bangladesh
2015. “Introduction to Manuscript Illumination: Technical Workshop for Artists” @ University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2015. “Composition in Compassion & the Question of Dark Tourism: Ethiopia and Rwanda Transposed” (performance) @ University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2014. “Introduction to Manuscript Illumination: Technical Workshop for Artists” @ Buffalo State University School of Arts and Humanities, NY
2014. Organizer, Emerging Scholars Travel Seminar: Rwanda & Ethiopia Sites of Conscience
2014. “The Modern Museum and Representation of Indigenous Peoples of the Northeast US” @ Rutgers University Newark, NJ
2014. “The Modern Museum and Representation of Indigenous Peoples of the Northeast US” @ University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
2013. Three Atrocities, Three Museums, Three Countries” (lecture) @ University of Siena, Italy
2012. Beyond Genocide Introduction @ San Francisco State University, San Francisco CA
2011. Beyond Genocide Introduction @ Universidad Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Advisory & Executive Boards
2018 – present. University of Massachusetts Amherst Fine Arts Center Board of Directors
2017 – present. New Salem Academy for the Arts Steering Committee
2017 – present. International Association of Genocide Scholars Executive Board, Secretary/Treasurer
2016 – present. Massachusetts Arts Leadership Council Steering Committee
2015 – 2017. International Association of Genocide Scholars Advisory Board
2014 – 2018. Center for the Study of Genocide and Justice International Advisory Board, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2013. African Union Human Rights Memorial Project Consultative Session 3, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2011 – 2013. International Association of Genocide Scholars Advisory Board