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Eric Reeves
professor, English, Smith College
Eric Reeves is Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He has spent the past ten years working full-time as a Sudan researcher and analyst, publishing extensively both in the US and internationally. He has testified several times before the Congress, has lectured widely in academic settings, and has served as a consultant to a number of human rights and humanitarian organizations operating in Sudan. Working independently, he has written on all aspects of Sudan's recent history. His book about Darfur, *A Long Day's Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide*, was published in May 2007. He is also at work on a longer-range project surveying the international response to ongoing war and human destruction in Sudan over the past 25 years, *Sudan: Suffering a Long Way Off*.