Degree, Yale University; degree in Law, Harvard University. Founding Executive Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Kennedy School of Government; Lecturer on US Foreign Policy, Kennedy School; covered wars in Balkans, US News and World Report. Author: A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide; introduction to Origins of Totalitarianism; writing: book on causes and consequences of historical amnesia in American foreign policy; political biography of UN's Sergio Vieira de Mello (2008). Recipient of award, Pulitzer Prize (2003).