[1] Totten was a distinguished professor at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville where he taught from 1987 to 2012 and served as the chief editor of the journal Genocide Studies and Prevention.
[3] Totten took a faculty position with the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas in 1987 and taught there until retiring from teaching in 2012.
[4] He received a Fulbright Scholarship at the Centre for Conflict Management, National University of Rwanda.
He conducted research into the genocidal actions of the Government of Sudan in the Nuba Mountains that began in the late 1980s to mid-1990s, and continued through his work in 2012.
During the 2009-2010 academic year Totten served as the Ida King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust and Education at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.