He graduated with honors in History and Political Science from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of California, Riverside in 1977. He is an award-winning writer and he spent ten years as the Education and Research Director of the Northern California Holocaust Center. William Seaman is the coordinator of the Portland chapter of the East Timor Action Network. He is a long time human rights activist who has been working on the issue of East Timor since the early 1980's.
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