Seth Eislund
Genocide Scholar
Researcher of Violent Religious Ideologies
Writer
About Me
Hi! My name is Seth Eislund. I am a genocide scholar and researcher of violent religious ideologies. I write about the 2014 Yazidi Genocide in Iraq and Syria, the Holocaust, and the history of religious and genocidal ideologies, among other subjects. I am the founder of the Yazidi Genocide Archive, a digital project that catalogs, translates, and disseminates primary sources about the genocide, as well as oral histories from survivors and interviews with scholarly experts.
In June 2022, I graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in History, and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, from Carleton College in Northfield, MN. In May 2026, I graduated with an M.A. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University. I completed my master's thesis on identifying the main Islamic State elites and lower-level perpetrators responsible for the Yazidi Genocide.
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B.A.
Medford University
Medford, MA
2002
M.A.
John Marco University
Rome, Italy
2009
Ph.D.
Blue Cove University
CA Department of Earth &
Environmental Sciences