Noted Roma historian Dr. Ian Hancock was keynote speaker at Jasenovac Research Institute’s 8th Annual Jasenovac Day of Commemoration Ceremonies held in New York, April 25th-26th, 2009.

“He is director of the Program of Romani Studies and the Romani Archives and Documentation Center at The University of Texas at Austin, where he has been a professor of English, linguistics and Asian studies since 1972. He has represented the Romani people at the United Nations and served as a member of the US Holocaust Memorial Councilunder President Bill Clinton, who, Hancock claims, has Romani ancestry.^[1] He also represented the Romani people at the 1997 Rafto Prize award. “

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