FoT Board

President – Alexandre Dauge-Roth He teaches French and Francophone Studies at Bates College (Maine) and works on the literature and films on the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda. He has created “Friends of Tubeho” after a research trip in Rwanda in April 2006. In May 2009, he has conducted with his students an oral history project with 13 members of Tubeho. In Spring 2010, he has published with Lexington Books “Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda: Dismembering and Remembering Traumatic History.”
Vice-President – Kirk Read He teaches French and Francophone Studies at Bates College (Maine) and works on Renaissance literature and Orientalism in North-African literature.
Secretary & Treasurer – Katherine Dauge-Roth She teaches French at Bowdoin College (Maine) and works on XVIIth Century French culture and literature.
Board Member – Elizabeth Applegate She is a Ph.D. student in French literature at New York University, writing on fiction and testimony about the genocide of the Tutsis.  In the Summer 2009, she went to Rwanda and taught English to FoT students for several weeks.
Board Member – Amy Marczewski Carnes Amy completed her Ph.D. in French and Francophone Studies at UCLA in 2007, and worked for two years with Human Rights Watch in Los Angeles. She currently serves as Associate Director of International Programs for the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.
Board Member – Elizabeth Eames She teaches Anthropology at Bates College (Maine) and works on gender relations in comparative perspective, the relationship between production and reproduction, cinematic representations of Africa and Africans, and the political mobilization of African market women.

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Board Member – Lynn Tirrell Lynne Tirrell teaches philosophy at U Mass Boston, and works primarily in the philosophy of language, feminist theory, aesthetics, and literary theory. Her work on hate speech in the US led her to study changing linguistic practices in Rwanda before, during, and after the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi. Friends of Tubeho Ambassador – Berthe Kayitesi Berthe, a Tubeho alumnus, survived the 1994 genocide and pursued studies in Canada. As a FoT Ambassador, she supports us by organizing fundraising events and raising the international profile of the organization.In 2009, she has also published in French a testimony of her experience of surviving the genocide as an orphan “Demain ma vie. Enfants chefs de famille dans le Rwanda d’après” (Paris: Editions Teper, 2009) To learn more about Berthe, click here http://www.rcinet.ca/rci/ac /videos.asp?id=4 to see a video of her story (in French).