Professor Frank Chalk (Ph.D., History, University of Wisconsin) is the co-author, with Prof. Kurt Jonassohn, of The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies (Yale University Press, 1990). He has lectured and presented papers on genocide at conferences and universities around the world and before the Prosecution Staff of the International Criminal Tribunal on the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in The Hague. Professor Chalk recently served as President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (June 1999–June 2001). He is the Co- Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies and a member of the Department of History of Concordia University. Professor Chalk´s current research focuses on radio broadcasting in the incitement and interdiction of gross violations of human rights, including genocide, and the history of the domestic laws on genocide developed by nations who seek to implement the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Publications include: chapters on Hate Radio in Rwanda, published in The Path of A Genocide: the Rwanda Crisis from Uganda to Zaire.