Dr. Samuel P. Oliner (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley) is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Humboldt State University, and Founder and Director of the Altruistic Personality and Prosocial Behavior Institute. He is Founding Editor of the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, an international peer-reviewed social science journal. He is the author and co-author of several dozen publications on the Holocaust, altruism, prosocial behavior, and national and international race relations. He has appeared on numerous national television shows, presented scholarly papers at professional conferences, and has lectured widely in the U.S. and several other countries on the topics of rescuers of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe, racism and anti-Semitism, war and genocide, and heroic altruism. He has received the Scholar of the Year award at Humboldt State University, 1994 and has won a Humboldt County Peace Prize, 2008.