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Eric Markusen
Eric Markusen (8 October 1946 – 29 January 2007) (M.S.W., University of Washington, Ph.D., University of Minnesota) was Professor of Sociology and Social Work at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, Minnesota, USA, and Research Director of the Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Copenhagen. He also served as Associate Editor of the two-volume "Encyclopedia of Genocide", published in 1999.
Markusen's research took him to former Soviet satellites, Cambodia, Croatia, Bosnia, Poland
included a draft of a letter written by Lowry advising the ambassador on how to prevent mention of the Armenian Genocide in scholarly works. Roger W. Smith, Eric Markusen and Lifton also state they caught Lowry "ghosting" for the Turkish ambassador in Washington regarding the denial of the Armenian Genocide. The incident has been brought up as example of the issue of ethics in scholarship. Lowry later apologized for the letter.
Criticism Princeton appointment protests.
In 1995, Lifton, Smith, and Markusen published an article criticizing Lowry's behavior