Dr. Carol Rittner, RSM, a member of the MidAtlantic (USA) Community of the Sisters of Mercy, is Distinguished Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies and the Dr. Marsha Raticoff Grossman Professor of Holocaust Studies at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. She is the author or editor of 15 books and numerous essays in various scholarly and educational journals about the Holocaust and other genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries. Dr. Rittner has lectured around the world - Canada, England, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, Sweden, Cambodia, and Israel - to name a few places, besides the USA.Her most recent publications include The Holocaust and the Christian World (2000); Will Genocide Ever End? (2004), No Going Back: Letters to Pope Benedict XVI (2009); Learn Teach Prevent: Holocaust Education in the 21st Century (2011); Violence Against Women (2011); and Rape as a Weapon of War & Genocide (2012). Dr. Rittner was the Executive Producer of The Courage to Care, an Academy Award-nominated (1986) documentary film about non-Jews who rescued Jews During the Holocaust, and Triumph of Memory (1987), a documentary film about non-Jews who survived Nazi concentration camps during WW II and the Holocaust. She is working on a new documentary about Catholic nuns in America entitled Sisters, which is in production and should be completed in Spring 2013.Dr. Rittner's current research interests include the Jewish Community that used to live in Derry, Northern Ireland, rescue during the Holocaust and other genocides, and the use of rape as a weapon of war and genocide. In addition to teaching graduate and undergraduate students, Dr. Rittner is the Editor of Mercywords, An E-journal (www.mercywords.org).