Meet the Director

Richard Quinlan, Ph.D.

Originally from Providence, Rhode Island, Rich Quinlan spent twenty-six years as a classroom teacher. After graduating from Franklin and Marshall College as an English major, Rich has earned three master’s degrees in Secondary English education, Political Science, and History from Long Island University, Post Campus. In 2019, Rich joined the staff of Mercy College in the Bronx, New York as adjunct professor of both American and Modern European history. He is also a contributor to Airwars.org, a London-based NGO that reports upon civilian deaths in war zones around the world, along with the Human Rights Research Center. Rich graduated in August 2021 with a Ph.D. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Gratz College in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. His dissertation addressed the need for transitional justice and reconciliation in post-genocide Burundi.

His personal and professional life was transformed by his participation in the summer of 2015 with the fortunate involvement with the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers Program organized through the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants. Rich was one of twenty-four teachers selected from across the United States to spend two weeks touring Germany and Poland, gaining a greater understanding of the causes, implementation, and lasting ramifications of the Holocaust. It motivated him to commit myself to the study of the Holocaust and working to prevent future atrocities.