Ashley L. Greene
Ashley L. Greene is Associate Professor and Chair of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College, home to the country's first undergraduate major in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Graduate Coordinator for Keene's Applied Genocide Prevention Certificate and its MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. She holds a joint Ph.D. in Peace Studies and History from the University of Notre Dame, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, where she specialized in twentieth-century Africa the role of education in conflict-affected societies.
Greene's research focuses on the role of enslavement in genocide, the empirical study of the genocide process, and prevention education and policy work. Her work on History education and statecraft in Uganda received the Dan David Prize for the field of History and Memory. She is a recipient of the National Security Education Program Boren Fellowship, and received the University of Notre Dame Outstanding Graduate Instructor award for her course on Human Trafficking in Africa.
In her policy work, Greene partners with stakeholders to build societal resiliencies to identity-based violence. She has designed atrocity prevention training programs for policymakers and civil society actors in eight countries within Africa's Great Lakes region. She worked as Academic Programs Associate for Africa and Transitional Justice at the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities (AIPG) from 2017-2022, where she and her team implemented a one million dollar Jo Cox Memorial Grant to advance prevention initiatives in Africa.
Greene has consulted on a range of prevention initiatives. She is a member of the United Nations/UNESCO Genocide Education Advisory Group and provided consultation for the UNESCO project: Advancing Genocide and Global Citizenship Education to Strengthen the prevention of atrocity crimes in Africa." Other consultations include "the role of business in transitional justice contexts" for the UN Working Group on Business & Human Rights, Peace Direct's "Atrocity prevention and peacebuilding" report, and the "Atrocity Prevention Standard for Suppliers" report for Microsoft.
Greene's work has been published in the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, in edited volumes including Decolonisation and Public Life: The Politics of Knowledge in Uganda (James Currey), Historical Dialogue and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities, and the 3rd edition of Teaching About Genocide: Advice from Secondary Level Teachers and Professors, 3rd ed. She is the author of "You will have to draw pictures to describe us": The Genocidal Process and the Plight of Myanmar's Muslims" (Burma Human Rights Network, 2025). She is co-author of PeaceTalk: A Compendium of Hope, which documents major shifts in the law, rhetoric, and practice of peace (Wipf & Stock, 2025).
Greene's ongoing research includes the forthcoming book, Genocidal Enslavement: Uncovering the Role of Slavery in Genocide, written with co-author and slavery expert Kevin Bales. She is a lead contributor to the Edinburgh-Brown Guidelines on the Legal Parameters of Genocide and a member of an interdisciplinary team conducting data and network science research toward the creation of a new dataset of genocidal episodes.
Greene's research focuses on the role of enslavement in genocide, the empirical study of the genocide process, and prevention education and policy work. Her work on History education and statecraft in Uganda received the Dan David Prize for the field of History and Memory. She is a recipient of the National Security Education Program Boren Fellowship, and received the University of Notre Dame Outstanding Graduate Instructor award for her course on Human Trafficking in Africa.
In her policy work, Greene partners with stakeholders to build societal resiliencies to identity-based violence. She has designed atrocity prevention training programs for policymakers and civil society actors in eight countries within Africa's Great Lakes region. She worked as Academic Programs Associate for Africa and Transitional Justice at the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities (AIPG) from 2017-2022, where she and her team implemented a one million dollar Jo Cox Memorial Grant to advance prevention initiatives in Africa.
Greene has consulted on a range of prevention initiatives. She is a member of the United Nations/UNESCO Genocide Education Advisory Group and provided consultation for the UNESCO project: Advancing Genocide and Global Citizenship Education to Strengthen the prevention of atrocity crimes in Africa." Other consultations include "the role of business in transitional justice contexts" for the UN Working Group on Business & Human Rights, Peace Direct's "Atrocity prevention and peacebuilding" report, and the "Atrocity Prevention Standard for Suppliers" report for Microsoft.
Greene's work has been published in the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, in edited volumes including Decolonisation and Public Life: The Politics of Knowledge in Uganda (James Currey), Historical Dialogue and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities, and the 3rd edition of Teaching About Genocide: Advice from Secondary Level Teachers and Professors, 3rd ed. She is the author of "You will have to draw pictures to describe us": The Genocidal Process and the Plight of Myanmar's Muslims" (Burma Human Rights Network, 2025). She is co-author of PeaceTalk: A Compendium of Hope, which documents major shifts in the law, rhetoric, and practice of peace (Wipf & Stock, 2025).
Greene's ongoing research includes the forthcoming book, Genocidal Enslavement: Uncovering the Role of Slavery in Genocide, written with co-author and slavery expert Kevin Bales. She is a lead contributor to the Edinburgh-Brown Guidelines on the Legal Parameters of Genocide and a member of an interdisciplinary team conducting data and network science research toward the creation of a new dataset of genocidal episodes.