Extended CV - European University Institute

A. Dirk Moses
Professor of Global and Colonial History (19 th and 20 th Centuries)
Department of History and Civilization
European University Institute
Villa Schifanoia
Via Boccaccio 121
50133 Florence – Italy
Tel. [+39] 055 4685 597
Fax [+39] 055 4685 203
Email: dirk.moses@eui.eu
CURRENT POSITION
Professor of Global and Colonial History, European University Institute, Florence (since January 2011).
Associate Professor in Modern History, University of Sydney (appointed lecturer in February 2000).
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Modern European History, University of California, Berkeley, USA, 1994–2000.
M.A. Modern European History, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, 1992–1994.
M.Phil. Early Modern European History, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 1988–1989.
B.A. History, Government, and Law, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 1985–1987.
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, PRIZES
Membership, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, January-April 2011 (declined).
Australian Scholar Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, October-
December 2010.
Visiting Senior Fellow, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, August-September 2010.
Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University, September-
November 2009.
Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, 2009–2011.
Das Historische Buch and H-Soz-u-Kult, “The Historical Book of the Year” prize for 2009, category
of Extra-European History, for Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation and Subaltern
Resistance in World History (New York: Berghahn Books, 2008).
Das Historische Buch and H-Soz-u-Kult, “The Historical Book of the Year” prize for 2008, category
of Contemporary History, for German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2007).
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, 1 January 2008–31 December 2008.
Visiting Fellow, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (Center for Research on Contemporary
History), Potsdam, March–December 2008.
Sir Zelman Cowen Universities Fund Fellowship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, January-June
2007.
Charles H. Revson Memorial Fellowship, United States Holocaust Memorial and Museum,
Washington, DC, November 2004–February 2005.
Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, 2003–2006.
Faculty of Arts Teaching Award, 2003.
Sesqui Grant, University of Sydney, 2002.
Faculty of Arts, Seed Money, University of Sydney, 2002.
Sesqui Grant, University of Sydney, 2001.
Faculty of Arts, Seed Money, University of Sydney, 2000.
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German Research Council Fellowship, Freiburg University, Germany, 1999–2000.
Mabelle McLeod Lewis Memorial Fund, Write-Up Fellowship, Stanford, 1999.
Krefeld History Prize, American-German Historical Symposium, 1999.
Reinhard Bendix Memorial Fellowship, Institute for International Studies, UC Berkeley, 1997–98.
International Student Development Fellowship, Freiburg University, Germany, 1997.
Hans Rosenberg Fellowship, History Department, UC Berkeley, 1996–99.
Summer Research Grant, Mellon Foundation, UC Berkeley, 1995.
Summer Research Grant, Center for German Studies, UC Berkeley, 1995.
GA Insurance Australian Bicentennial Scholarship, University of St. Andrews, 1988–89.
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Monograph
German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2007/paperback 2009), 304 pp.
Reviewed in: American Historical Review, Journal of Modern History, H-Soz-Kult, H-German, Modern Intellectual History,
History and Theory, Intellectual History Review, Central European History, Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, Historische
Zeitschrift, The Historian, Biblioteca, National Identities, Contemporary European History, Canadian Journal of History,
German Quarterly, Archiv Für Sozialgeschichte, German Politics and Society, Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Anthologies
Colonial Counterinsurgency and Mass Violence: The Dutch Empire in Indonesia (Abingdon: Routledge,
2014). Co-editor. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415856836.
Genocide: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies. 6 vols. (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010), 2,400pp.
Editor’s introduction and selection of 88 texts.
The Oxford Handbook on Genocide Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010/paperback
2013). Contributor and co-editor.
Reviewed in: English Historical Review, History: Reviews of New Books, H-Soz-Kult, Beiträge zur Geschichte des
Nationalsozialismus.
The Modernist Imagination: New Essays in Intellectual History and Critical Theory (New York and
Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009). Co-contributor and co-editor.
Reviewed in: European Review of History, Canadian Journal of History, H-German.
Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History (New York
and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008/paperback 2009). Contributor and editor.
Reviewed in: Journal of Global History, Journal of World History, International History Review, Holocaust and Genocide
Studies, European History Quarterly, Australian Journal of Politics and History, borerlands e-journal, Canadian Journal of
History, H-Soz-Kult, Journal of Australian Colonial History, New Routes, Peripherie, Sehepunke, Journal of Genocide Research,
Vingtième siècle, Zeitschrift für Genozidforschung.
Colonialism and Genocide (Abingdon: Routledge, 2007/paperback 2008). Contributor and co-editor.
Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Aboriginal Children in Australian History
(New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2004/paperback 2005). Contributor and editor.
Reviewed in: American Historical Review, Journal of World History, Australian Book Review, Sehepunkte, borderlands
e-journal, Journal of Australian Studies, Patterns of Prejudice, History Australia, Itinerario, Australian Journal of Politics
and History, Institute of Historical Research reviews.
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Journal Special Issues
“Mass Violence and the End of the Dutch Colonial Empire in Indonesia,” Journal of Genocide Research,
14:3-4 (2012). Co-Editor.
“East Pakistan War, 1971,” Journal of Genocide Research, 13:4 (2011). Editor.
Forum Section on “The Intellectual History of the Federal Republic,” German History, 27:2 (2009),
244-58. Editor.
“Intervention after Iraq,” Ethics & International Affairs, 19:2 (2005). Editor.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
“Das römische Gespräch in a New Key: Hannah Arendt, Genocide, and the Defense of Imperial
Civilization,” Journal of Modern History, 85:4 (2013), 1-47. In press.
“Genocide,” Australian Humanities Review, 55 (November 2013). In press.
“Introduction: Mass Violence and the End of the Dutch Colonial Empire in Indonesia,” special
double issue, Journal of Genocide Research, 14:3-4 (2012), 257-76. Written with Bart
Luttikhuis.
“Intellectual History in and of the Federal Republic of Germany,” Modern Intellectual History, 9:3
(2012), 625-39.
“The Canadian Museum for Human Rights: the ‘Uniqueness of the Holocaust’ and the Question
of Genocide,” Journal of Genocide Research, 14:2 (2012), 215-38.
“Revisiting a Founding Assumption of Genocide Studies,” Genocide Studies and Prevention, 6:3
(2011), 289-302.
“Genocide and the Terror of History,” Parallax, 17:4 (2011), 90-108. Reprinted in Rick
Crownshaw, ed., Transcultural Memory (Abingdon: Routledge, 2013).
“Paranoia and Partisanship: Genocide Studies, Holocaust Historiography and the ‘Apocalyptic
Conjuncture’,” Historical Journal, 54:2 (2011), 553-83.
“Official Apologies, Reconciliation, and Settler Colonialism: Australian Indigenous Alterity and
Political Agency,” Citizenship Studies, 15:2 (2011), 145-59.
“Time, Indigeneity, and Peoplehood: The Postcolony in Australia,” Postcolonial Studies, 13:1
(2010), 31-54.
“Besatzung, Kolonialherrschaft und Widerstand: Das Völkerrecht und die Legitimierung von
Terror,” Peripherie: Zeitschrift für Politik und Ökonomie in der Dritten Welt, 116 (December
2009), 399-424.
“The Contradictory Legacies of German Jewry,” Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, 54 (2009), 36-43.
“The Fate of Blacks and Jews: A Response,” Journal of Genocide Research, 10:2 (2008), 1-19.
“Toward a Critical Theory of Genocide,” Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence, April 2008,
http://www.massviolence.org/Article?id_article=189.
“Moving the Genocide Debate Beyond the History Wars,” Australian Journal of Politics and
History, 54:2 (2008), 248-70.
“The Structure of German Identity after the Holocaust,” Zmanim (in Hebrew), 1 (2008), 41-55.
“The Non-German German and the German German: Dilemmas of Identity after the Holocaust,”
New German Critique, 101 (Summer 2007), 45-94.
“Stigma and Sacrifice in Postwar Germany,” History and Memory, 19:2 (2007), 139-80.
“Why the Discipline of ‘Genocide Studies’ Has Trouble Explaining How Genocides End?”, Social
Sciences Research Council, December 2006, http://howgenocidesend.ssrc.org/Moses/.
“Raphael Lemkin as Historian of Genocide in the Americas,” Journal of Genocide Research, 7:4
(2005), 501-29. Written with Michael A. McDonnell.
“Hayden White, Traumatic Nationalism, and the Public Role of History,” History and Theory,
44:3 (2005), 311-332. Reprinted and translated into Spanish in Historia: Antropologia y Fuetes
Orales, 38:2 (2007), 81-106
“The Public Relevance of Historical Studies: A Rejoinder to Hayden White,” History and Theory,
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44:3 (2005), 339-48.
“Genocide and Holocaust Consciousness in Australia,” History Compass, 1 (2003) AU 28, 1-11.
“Conceptual Blockages and Definitional Dilemmas in the Racial Century: Genocide of
Indigenous Peoples and the Holocaust,” Patterns of Prejudice, 36:4 (2002), 7-36. Extracted in
Berel Lang and Simone Gigliotti, eds., The Holocaust: A Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), 449-
63. Reprinted in A. Dirk Moses and Dan Stone, eds., Colonialism and Genocide (Abingdon:
Routledge, 2007), 148-180.
“Coming to Terms with the Past in Comparative Perspective: Germany and Australia,”
Aboriginal History, 25 (2001), 91-115. Reprinted in Russell West and Anja Schwarz, eds.,
Polycultural Societies and Discourse: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Australia and Germany
(Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007), 1-30.
“An Antipodean Genocide? The Origins of the Genocidal Moment in the Colonization of
Australia,” Journal of Genocide Research, 2:1 (2000), 89-107.
“The Forty-Fivers: A Generation Between Fascism and Democracy,” German Politics and Society,
17 (1999), 95-127. Translated, in German, in Die Neue Sammlung, 40 (April 2000), 233-63.
“Structure and Agency in the Holocaust: Daniel J. Goldhagen and his Critics,” History and Theory,
37 (1998), 194-219.
“Modernity and the Holocaust,” Australian Journal of Politics and History, 43:3 (1997), 441-45.
“Cultural Ideologies and Historical Legitimation,” German Politics and Society, 15 (1997), 125-30.
“Academic Freedom Today: A Student’s Point of View,” Bulletin of the Australian Society for Legal
Philosophy, 16 (1991/92), 71-90.
Chapters in Anthologies
“A Dialogue on the Ethics and Politics of Transcultural Memory” (with Michael Rothberg), in
Lucy Bond and Jessica Rapson, eds., The Transcultural Turn: Interrogating Memory Between and
Beyond Borders (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014). In press.
“Civil War or Genocide? Britain and the Secession of East Pakistan in 1971,” in Aparna Sundar
and Nandini Sundar, eds., Civil War and Sovereignty in South Asia: Regional and Political
Economy Perspectives (New Delhi: Sage India, 2014). In press.
“Protecting Human Rights and Preventing Genocide: The Canadian Museum for Human for
Human Rights and the Will to Intervene,” in Adam Muller, Karen Busby, and Andrew
Woolford, eds., The Idea of a Human Rights Museum (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press,
2014). In press.
“Does the Holocaust Reveal or Conceal Other Genocides? The Canadian Museum for Human
Rights and Grievable Suffering,” in Douglas S. Irvin, Alexander L. Hinton, and Tom
LaPointe, eds., Hidden Genocides: Power, Knowledge, and Memory (New Brunswick: Rutgers
University Press, 2013), 21-51. In press.
“From Central Europe to Australia: Civilisational Ideals and Minority Survival,” in Gwenda
Tavan, ed., State of the Nation: Essays for Robert Manne (Melbourne: Black Inc., 2013). In press.
“The Holocaust and World History: Raphael Lemkin and Comparative Methodology,” in Dan
Stone, ed., The Holocaust and Historical Methodology (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books,
2012), 272-89. Abridged German translation published as “Weltgeschichte und Holocaust:
Ein Blick in Raphael Lemkins unveröffentlichte Schriften,” in Sybille Steinbacher, ed.,
Holocaust und Völkermorde: Die Reichweite des Vergleichs (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2012), 195-
214.
“Race and Indigeneity in Contemporary Australia,” in Manfred Berg and Simon Wendt, eds.,
Racism in the Modern World: Historical Perspectives on Cultural Transfer and Adaptation (New
York: Berghahn Books, 2011), 329-52.
“Europe in the World: Systems and Cultures of Violence,” in Donald Bloxham and Robert
Gerwarth, eds., Political Violence in Twentieth Century Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge
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University Press, 2011), 11-39, 211-17. Written with Donald Bloxham, Martin Conway,
Robert Gerwarth, and Klaus Weinhauer.
“Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing,” in Donald Bloxham and Robert Gerwarth, eds., Political
Violence in Twentieth Century Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 87-139,
225-38. Written with Donald Bloxham.
“The United Nations, Humanitarianism and Human Rights: War Crimes/Genocide Trials for
Pakistani Soldiers in Bangladesh, 1971-1974,” in Stefan-Ludwig Hoffman, ed., Human Rights
in the Twentieth Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 258-80. German
translation in Stefan-Ludwig Hoffman, ed., Moralpolitik: Geschichte der Menschenrechte im 20.
Jahrhundert (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2010), 307-37.
“Hannah Arendt, Imperialisms, and the Holocaust,” in Volker Langbehn and Mohammad
Salama, eds., German Colonialism, Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany (New York:
Columbia University Press, 2011), 72-92.
“The National Apology to the Stolen Generations and the Frontier of Indigenous Alterity,” in
Russell West-Pavlov and Jennifer Wawrzinek, eds., Frontier Skirmishes: Cultural Debates in
Australia after 1992 (Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2010), 311-28.
“The Holocaust and Colonialism,” in Peter Hayes and John Roth, eds., The Oxford Handbook of
Holocaust Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 68-80.
“Der nichtdeutsche Deutsche und der deutsche Deutsche: Stigma und Opfer-Erlösung in der
Berliner Republic,” in Daniel Fulda, Stefan-Ludwig Hoffman, and Till van Rahden, eds.,
Demokratie im Schatten der Gewalt: Geschichten des Privaten im deutschen Nachkrieg 1945-2005
(Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2010), 353-78.
“The Field of Genocide Studies,” in A. Dirk Moses, ed., Genocide: Critical Concepts in Historical
Studies. 6 vols. (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010), 1-23.
“Redemptive anti-Semitism and the Imperialist Imaginary,” in Paul Betts and Christian Wiese,
eds., Years of Persecution, Years of Extermination: Saul Friedländer and the Future of Holocaust
Studies (London: Continuum, 2010), 233-54.
“Australian Memory and the Apology to the Stolen Generations of Indigenous People,” in
Aleida Assman and Sebastian Conrad, eds., Memory in a Global Age: Discourses, Practices, and
Trajectories (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010), 32-58. Written with Danielle Celermajer.
“Eugenics and Genocide,” in Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine, eds., The Oxford Handbook on
Eugenics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, August 2010), 192-209. Written with Dan Stone.
“Raphael Lemkin, Culture, and the Concept of Genocide,” in Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk
Moses, eds., The Oxford Handbook on Genocide Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2010), 19-41.
Various contributions to Patrick Bahners and Andreas Cammern, eds., Der Streit um die
Bundesrepublik und die DDR: Hans-Ulrich Wehlers “Deutsche Gesellschaftsgeschichte” in der Debatte
(Munich: C.H. Beck, 2009).
“‘The Muslims are our Misfortune!’,” in Greg Noble, ed., Lines in the Sand: The Cronulla Riots and
the Limits of Australian Multiculturalism (Sydney: Institute of Criminology, 2009), 95-110.
Written with Geoffrey Brahm Levey.
“West German Generations and the Gewaltfrage: The Conflict of the Sixty-Eighters and the
Forty-Fivers,” in Warren Breckman, Peter Gordon, A. Dirk Moses, Samuel A. Moyn, and
Elliot Y. Neaman, eds., The Modernist Imagination: News Essays in Intellectual History and
Critical Theory (New York: Berghahn Books, 2009), 268-95. Written with Elliot Neaman.
“Empire, Colony, Genocide: Keywords and Intellectual History,” in A. Dirk Moses, ed., Empire
Colony Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History (New York:
Berghahn Books, 2008), 3-54.
“Genocide and Modernity,” in Dan Stone, ed., The Historiography of Genocide (Houndmills:
Palgrave MacMillan, 2008), 156-93.
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“Genocide in Australia?” in Deborah Gare and David Ritter, eds., Making Australian History:
Perspectives on the Past since 1788 (Melbourne: Thomson Learning, 2007), 183-89.
“Disentangling Master Concepts of Extermination,” in Stephan Atzert and Andrew Bonnell., eds.,
Europe’s Pasts and Presents (Unley: Australian Humanities Press, 2004), 401-18.
“Genocide and Settler Society in Australian History,” in A. Dirk Moses, ed., Genocide and Settler
Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Aboriginal Children in Australian History (New York:
Berghahn Books, 2004), 3-48.
“The Holocaust and Genocide,” in Dan Stone, ed., The Historiography of the Holocaust
(Houndmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004), 533-55.
“Revisionism and Denial,” in Robert Manne, ed., Whitewash: On Keith Windshuttle’s Fabrication of
Aboriginal History (Melbourne: Black Inc., 2003), 337-70.
“The Weimar Syndrome in the Federal Republic of Germany: Carl Schmitt and the Forty-Fiver
Generation of Intellectuals,” in Holger Zaborowski und Stephan Loos, eds., Leben, Tod und
Entscheidung: Studien zur Geistesgeschichte der Weimarer Republik (Berlin: Duncker und Humblot,
2003), 187-207.
“Biblical Narratives in German and American National Utopias,” in Norbert Finzsch and
Hermann Wellenreuther, eds., Visions of the Future in Germany and America (Oxford and New
York: Berg Publishers, 2001), 431-44.
“The State and the Student Movement in West Germany, 1967-1977,” in Gerard J. De Groot, ed.,
Student Protest: The Sixties and After (London: Longman, 1998), 139-49.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Comments as a member of a panel of experts organized by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on
Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Deutsche Gesellschaftsgeschichte, Vol. 5, August/September 2008.
http://lesesaal.faz.net/wehler/experten.php?bl=%2Fwehler%2Fexp_forum.php
“Comment,” in Tobias Freimüller, ed., Psychoanalyse und Protest: Alexander Mitscherlich und die
“Achundsechziger” (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2008), 154-155.
“The Meaning of Genocide,” Online Opinion, 18 March 2008,
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7253
“Pogrom Talk,” Online Opinion, 11 January 2006,
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=4038
“Forum, The Changing Legacy of 1945 in Germany: A Round-Table Discussion between Doris
Bergen, Volker Berghahn, Robert Moeller, Dirk Moses, and Dorothee Wierling,” German
History, 23:4 (2005), 519-46.
“Windschuttle, History Warriors and Real Historians,” Online Opinion, 11 April 2005,
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=3320.
“Debate on Past Signals Healthy Future,” The Australian, 14 July 2004.
“Triumph der Geschichtskrieger,” Frankfurter Rundschau, 10 February 2004.
“Whose Fabrication of Aboriginal History?” Australian Jewish News, 15 August 2003.
“Rendering the Past Less Unpalatable,” The Australian, 13 January 2003.
“Der Pathos der Nüchternheit,” Frankfurter Rundschau, 22 July 2002.
“Interview with Duncan Waterson, 13 July 2002,” in Paul Ashton and Bridget Griffen-Foley, eds.,
From the Frontier: Essays in Honour of Duncan Waterson (special joint issue of Journal of
Australian Studies and Australian Cultural History (Brisbane, 2001), 122-29.
“Debate Should Focus on the Apple, not the Core: Cultural Criteria in Determining Suitable
Immigrants are Historically Bankrupt,” The Australian, 31 December 2001. Written with
Geoffey B. Levey.
“Grinding the Generational Axe”: invited contribution to a review symposium of Rüdiger Hohls
and Konrad H. Jarausch, eds., Versäumte Fragen. Deutsche Historiker im Schatten des
Nationalsozialismus (Stuttgart, 2000) for H-Soz-u-Kult (international internet list for German
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Historians: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensio/symposiu/versfrag/moses.htm
“Sympathy for the Murderers of the Holocaust? A Reply to David Potts,” Australian Historical
Association Bulletin, 91 (December 2000), 27-32.
“Reviving the Culture of Discourse,” The Australian, 8 November 2000.
“Right’s Historical Wrongs: Revisionism is Shifting Germany's Attitudes Towards the
Holocaust,” The Australian, 19 July 2000.
Reviews
Yifat Gutman, Adam D. Brown, and Amy Sodaro, eds., Memory and the Future: Transnational
Politics, Ethics and Society (Houndmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010) in Criticism: A Quarterly for
Literature and the Arts, 53:4 (2011), 629-31.
Deborah Staines, ed., Interrogating the War on Terror: Inter-Disciplinary Perspectives (Newcastle:
Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007) in the Australasian Journal of American Studies, 29:2 (2010),
117-20.
Mark Mazower, Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Rules Europe (London: Penguin, 2008) in the
American Historical Review, 115:3 (2010), 885-86.
Tanisha M. Fazal, State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007) in the Journal of Genocide Research, 12:3 (2010),
281-82.
Ann Laura Stoler, Carole McGranaham, and Peter Perdue, eds., Imperial Formations (Santa Fe,
MX: School for Advanced Research Press; Oxford: James Currey, 2007) in the Journal of
Colonialism and Colonial History, 10:3 (Winter 2009).
John Cooper, Raphael Lemkin and the Genocide Convention (Houndmills: Palgrave MacMillan,
2008) in the Australian Journal of Politics and History, 55:1 (2009). 146-47.
Alon Confino, Germany as Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History (Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006) in National Identities, 10:4 (2008), 455-57.
Wolfgang Benz, Ausgrenzung, Vertreibung, Völkermord: Genozid im. 20. Jahrhundert (Munich:
Deutsche Taschenbuch Verlag, 2006) in the English Historical Review, no. 505 (December
2008), 1590-92.
Dagmar Herzog, Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in the Twentieth-Century Germany
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005) in German History, 25:3 (2007), 447-49.
Robert S. Frey, ed., The Genocidal Temptation: Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Rwanda and Beyond (Dallas:
University Press of America, 2004) in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 20:1 (2006), 141-43.
Bain Attwood, Telling the Truth about Aboriginal History (Sydney 2005) in the Australian Book
Review (November 2005), 13-14.
Richard J. Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich (London 2003) in German History, 22 (2004), 656-
58.
Bill Niven, Facing the Nazi Past (London, 2001) in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 18 (2004), 480-
82.
D. D. Guttenplan, The Holocaust on Trial (New York, 2001), Geoff Eley, ed., The “Goldhagen
Effect” (Ann Arbor, 2001), and Robert R. Shandley, ed., Unwilling Germans? (Minneapolis,
1998) in the Journal of Modern History, 75 (2003), 994-1000.
Alexander L. Hinton, ed., Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide (Berkeley, 2002) in
Ethics and International Affairs (April 2003), 160-62.
Richard J. Evans, Telling Lies about Hitler: History, the Holocaust and the David Irving Trial
(London, 2002) in The Age (Melbourne), 10 August 2002.
Alison Palmer, Colonial Genocide (Adelaide 1999) in the Australian Journal of Politics and History,
45:1 (2002), 109-10.
Mark Levene and Penny Roberts, eds., The Massacre in History (New York, 1999) in the Journal of
Genocide Research, 3:3 (2001), 489-91.
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Jan-Werner Müller, Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity (New
Haven, 2000) in German Politics and Society, 19: 2 (Summer 2001), 119-24.
Thomas F. Homer-Dixon, Environment, Scarcity, and Violence (Princeton, N.J., 1999) in the Journal
of Genocide Research, 3:2 (2001), 307-10.
Mary Fulbrook, German National Identity after the Holocaust (London, 1999) in Politikon: The South
African Journal of Political Studies, 27 (April 2000), 175-77.
Norbert Elias, The Germans: Power Struggles and the Development of Habitus in the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Centuries (New York, 1996) on H-German (international internet list for German
historians: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=2826), February 1999.
Karl Dietrich Bracher, Turning Points in Modern European History (Cambridge, MA, 1995) in
German Politics and Society, 14 (1996), 129-33.
Translations
Christhard Hoffmann, “Politische Kultur und Gewalt gegen Minderheiten,” Jahrbuch für
Antisemitismusforschung, 2 (1994), 93-120, in Christhard Hoffmann and Werner Bergmann,
and Helmut Walser Smith, eds., Exclusionary Violence and Anti-Jewish Riots in Modern German
History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002), 67-92.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
Keynote Lectures, Invited Papers, Workshop Presentations, Master Classes
“Genocide in Global Historical (and Comparative) Perspective.” Faculty of Historical and
Cultural Studies, University of Vienna, 3 October 2013.
“Naming Genocide: The Legacy of Lemkin,” panel discussion, Center for Jewish History, New
York, 24 September 2013.
“How and Why the Use and Abuse of History is Inescapable, Inevitable and Invaluable for Life,”
Keynote address, Uses and Abuses of History: Public History in Greece, Volos, Greece, 30
August 2013.
“Combining Structure and Affect in Explaining Political Violence,” Representing Violence:
History, Politics and Theory, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen, 10 June 2013.
“Vom Terror der Geschichte zu einer kosmopolitischen Zukunft: Die Entkolonialisierung der
Erinnerung in einem globalen Kontext,” Einstein Forum, Potsdam, 30 April 2013.
“Holocaust Studies and Genocide Studies: A Fraught Relationship?” Remembering Primo Levi:
From Memory to the Archive, NYU–Villa la Pietra, Florence, 19 March 2013.
“Settler Colonialism and Decolonization: National Liberation Movements and the Terror of
History,” Transitions to New Political Order in Divided Societies: Comparative Lessons for
Israel/Palestine, EUI, 8-9 March 2013.
“Hannah Arendt and Raphael Lemkin on Empire and Genocide,” Thinking for Yourself: A
Conference in Honour of Professor Robert Manne, La Trobe University, 28 February-1
March 2013.
Participation as invited panel member in Berliner Colloquium zur Zeitgeschichte, “Zwei Links–
Zwei Rechts: Zur Anschlussfähigkeit der Ideologien des 20. Jahrhunderts,” 15-16 February
2013.
“Terrorized Histories and Cosmopolitan Futures: Decolonizing Memories in Global Context,”
Keynote address, Regions of Memory conference, Warsaw, 28 November 2012.
“Taner Ackam’s The Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity: A Commentary,” Strassler Center for
Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 13 September 2012.
“How and Why Did Genocide Become a Non-Political Crime?,” Asia Pacific Centre for the
Responsibility to Protect, University of Queensland, 21 August 2012; Berkeley Human
Rights Seminar, 4 September 2012; NEH workshop, “Genocide and Human Rights: A
Fraught Relationship?” CUNY Graduate Center, 7 September 2012; Department of History,
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University of Sussex, 14 March 2013, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 22 May 2013;
University of Haifa, 30 May 2014.
“Partitions, Forced Population ‘Transfers’ and the Question of Human Rights in the 1930s and
1940s,” Department of History, University of Michigan, 5 April 2012, IBEI-Barcelona, 17
May 2012; Danish Institute of Human Rights, 24 May 2012; Humboldt University, Berlin, 31
May 2012; NIOD-Goethe Institute, Amsterdam, 4 June 2012; Human Rights and Imperialism
in Historical Perspective, University of Sydney, 10-11 August 2012; Critical Perspectives on
Human Rights Working Group, UC Berkeley, 4 September 2012; Center for European
Studies, Harvard University, 12 September 2012; Borderlands: Imperialism, Colonialism,
Environment and Culture workshop, Vilnius, 22-23 September 2012; University of St.
Andrews, 24 April 2013.
“Holocaust and Genocide,” in Diesseits und jenseits des Holocaust: Aus der Geschichte lernen in
Gedenkstätten, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 16 September 2011.
“Genocide” postgraduate master class, Australian National University, 18 August 2011.
“Genocide,” in Keywords lecture series, Australian National University, 15 August 2011.
“Genocide and the Terror of History: Trauma, Memory, Politics,” postgraduate workshop,
University of East Anglia, 25 May 2011.
“Humanitarian Intervention in the Age of Decolonisation: The international community and
genocide in the secession of East Pakistan, 1971,” Graduate School Lecture, University of
East Anglia, 25 May 2011.
“The Diplomacy of Genocide: Britain and Allegations of Genocide in East Pakistan, 1971,”
Department of History, Australian National University, 17 August 2011; Department of
History, University of Sydney, 1 August 2011; Department of War Studies, University
College, Dublin, 1 April 2011; Friedrich Meinecke Institute, Free University of Berlin, 16
May 2011; Department of History, University of Sydney, 1 August 2011; School of History,
Australian National University, 17 August 2011.
“Has the Holocaust Helped us to Remember or to Forget Genocide?” Forgotten Genocides:
Memory, Silence, Denial, Rutgers University, Newark, 28-29 March 2011.
“The Limits of Contrition: Australia, Canada and the Dilemmas of Remembering Indigenous
Genocides,” Memory: Silence, Screen, Spectacle, New School for Social Research, 24-26
March 2011.
“The Limits of Contrition: Germany, Australia, Canada and the Dilemmas of Remembering
Indigenous Genocides,” Erinnern/Vergessen: Die Fallstricke des Opfergedenkens in
“Tätergesellschaften,” Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden/Forschungsstelle für
Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg/Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University, Hamburg,
23-25 February 2011.
“The Diplomacy of Genocide: The International, the National and the Domestic in the East
Pakistan Genocide/Secession War of 1971,” A Return to the Social? Methods and Meanings
of the Social in the Aftermath of the Cultural Turn, FRIAS, University of Freiburg, 3-4
March 2011.
“The (Non) Question of Humanitarian Intervention in the Genocide/Civil War in East
Pakistan, 1971,” The Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution, and Human
Rights, Rutgers University, 2 December 2010; Boston College, 2 December 2010.
“Empire and Genocide,” Department of History, New School of Social Research, 12 November
2010.
“Partition, East Pakistan and Forced Migration, 1947-1971,” Forced Migration Research
Group, University of Virginia, 4 November 2010.
“Völkermord und die Aufarbeitung von Vergangenheiten aus Globaler Sicht,” Sixth Simon
Wiesenthal Lecture, Vienna, 28 September 2010.
“Security and Pre-Emption: Genocide Studies and Holocaust Historiography: A Convergence?,”
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Keynote Address, International Network of Genocide Scholars, Second Global Conference on
Genocide, University of Sussex, 28 June-1 July 2010.
“The ‘International Community’ and the Civil War in East Pakistan in 1971,” Civil War in
South Asia Conference, University of Delhi, 16-17 February 2010.
“Genocide and the Terror of History,” Keynote Address, Transcultural Memory: A Conference,
University of London, 4-6 February 2010.
“The Terror of History and the Origins of Genocide,” On Memory: An Interdisciplinary
Symposium, Swinburn University of Technology, Melbourne, 23 June 2009.
“Indigeneity, ‘Wissenschaft’ and Aboriginal Intellectuals in Contemporary Australia,” in the
series “Ways of Knowledge: Wissensweisen – Wissenswelten – Wissenswanderungen” of the
Platform World Religions and Interactions and the History Department, Erfurt University, 4
November 2008.
“Hannah Arendt on Genocide and Imperialism: A Reconsideration,” New York Consortium on
Intellectual and Cultural History, CUNY Graduate Center, 16 October 2008.
“Genocide and the Crisis of Modernity,” College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota, 14
October 2008.
“‘68’ und die Intellektuellendebatten in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren im Kontext von
Generationenverhältnissen,” ‘68’ an deutschen Universitäten: Vorgeschichte, Ereignisse,
Auswirkungen, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, 28-30 November
2008.
“East Pakistan, 1971,” How Genocide End Workshop, Social Sciences Research Council, 10-11
October 2008, Harvard University.
“The East Pakistani Secession, Genocide, and the UN, 1971-1973,” University of Freiburg, 28
May 2008; Genocide Studies Program, Yale University, 9 October 2008; Bern University,
Switzerland, 24 November 2008; Flinders University, 20 March 2009, University of
Queensland, 21 August 2009.
“Empire, Colony, Genocide: A New Context for the Holocaust,” University of Sussex, 21
February 2008; Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, 17 April 2008; University of
Cologne, 17 May 2008; University of Bielefeld, 3 June 2008; University of Trier, 4 June 2008.
“Imperial Transfers: Race and Empire in the Völkisch Imagination,” Public Lecture Series,
“Wissen-Transfer-Differenz: Transnationale Verflechtungen von Rassismen ab 1700,”
Humboldt University, Berlin, 6 May 2008.
“The Nazi Past and Political Emotions: German Intellectuals and Generational Change,”
Workshop on “Coming to Terms with the Nazi Past,” Royal Holloway, University of London,
and the Imperial War Museum, 22 February 2008.
“Empire and Genocide: Thoughts from Australia,” Centre for Genocide and Mass Violence,
University of Sheffield, 21 February 2008.
“Empire, Colony, Genocide: Keywords and the Philosophy of History,” Van Leer Institute,
Jerusalem, “The Holocaust and Globalization,” 24 June 2007.
“Colonialism, the Holocaust, and the Concept of Genocide,” Lebanese American University,
Beirut, 4 April 2007; Tel Aviv University (“The S. Daniel Abraham Lecture in International
History”), 12 April 2007; Macquarie University, 31 October 2007.
“Toward a Critical Theory of Genocide,” Customs in Common: Law, Culture and Memory
Seminar, Division of Law, Macquarie University, 13 October 2005.
“The Deep Structure of Postwar German Memory,” Departments of Sociology and Jewish
Studies, University of Virginia, 1 February 2005.
“Towards a Critical Theory of Genocide,” Department of History, University of Michigan, 27
January 2005; Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial and
Museum, 26 January 2005, Genocide Studies Program, Yale University, 2 February 2005.
“Genocide in Australia? Conceptual Challenges and Memory Politics,” The Australian Centre,
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University of Melbourne, 16 August 2004.
“Responding to Revisionism and Denial,” University of Queensland, Genocide Studies Group, 24
November 2003.
“Holocaust and Genocide: Entanglement of Master Concepts,” University of Melbourne, 25
August 2003; University of California, Berkeley, 9 September 2003; University of Notre Dame,
12 September 2003; University of Illinois, Champagne/Urbana, 15 September 2003; Boston
University, 25 September 2003; Trinity College, Hartford, 29 September 2003; Columbia
University, 30 September 2003; Georgetown University, 8 October 2003; Institute for Social
Research, Hamburg, Germany, 15 October 2003; Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig, 16
October 2003; American University Beirut, 2 November 2003; National University of
Singapore, 12 November 2003.
“History, Memory and Reconciliation in Germany,” Centre for Cross Cultural Research,
Australian National University, Canberra, Visiting Scholars Workshop “Memory, History and
Cross Cultural Research,” 22 October 2002.
“The Uniqueness Concept in Holocaust and Genocide Studies,” Freilich Foundation Teacher
Seminar, Australian National University, 6 September 2002.
“Coming to Terms with the Genocidal Pasts in Comparative Perspective: Germany and
Australia,” Macquarie University Law School, 2 May 2002.
“The Genocide Convention and Colonial Australia,” UNSW Law School, 19 March 2002.
“The Forty-Fivers and the Languages of Republicanism in West Germany,” Institute of
Historical Research, University of London, 31 January 2002.
“Die Fünfundvierziger und die Liberalisierung Deutschlands,” Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte,
Stuttgart, Germany, 22 January 2002.
“The Languages of Republicanism and the Foundation of West Germany,” German Historical
Institute 10 April 2001, Institute for European Studies, UC Berkeley, 12 April 2001.
“Colonial Genocide: the Case of Australia,” Department of History, University of Colorado,
Boulder, 17 April 2001.
“Legitimacy Dilemmas and Genocidal Pasts in West German and Australia,” Responsibility,
Community and History Workshop, Macquarie University, Sydney, 16 June 2000.
“Ideengeschichtliche Überlegungen zur Rezeption Carl Schmitts in der frühen Bundesrepublik,”
in the Max Müller Symposium: “‘Katastrophenjahre?’ Leben, Tod und Entscheidung in der
Weimarer Republik,” Freiburg, Germany, 7-10 October 1999.
“Die Fünfundvierziger: Die Sprache der Demokratie und die Liberalisierung der Bundesrepublik,
1945-1977” (“The Forty-Fivers: The Language of Democracy and the Liberalization of the
Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1977”). Freiburg-Tübingen Annual Workshop on German
History, Feldberg, May 1999.
“Land Rights und die Genozidfrage: Menschenrechte und Aborigines in Australien, 1778-1998”
(“Land Rights and the Question of Genocide: Human Rights and Indigenous Australians,
1778-1998”) Colloquium Politicum, Freiburg University, Germany, 3 December 1998.
“1968 und die deutsche politische Kultur” (1968 and German Political Culture), Center for
European Integration Studies, University of Bonn, Germany, 16 January 1998.
“The Meaning of History: German Intellectuals and the Re-Unification of Germany,” Midwestern
Graduate Student Forum, University of Chicago, June 1994.
Conference Papers
“The Holocaust and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights,” Aftermath: Sites and Sources of
History and Memory conference, Monash University, Melbourne. 6-7 August 2013.
“Partitions and Peoples: Forced Population Movements and the Construction of Nations in
India/Pakistan, Palestine, and Europe, 1945-1971,” American Historical Association
conference, 4 January 2012.
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“Raphael Lemkin, ‘Threatened People’ and the Concept of Genocide,” 47 Deutscher
Historikertag, Dresden, 1 October 2008.
“The Disappearance of Genocide as a Concept in International Law and Politics after 1948,”
Human Rights in the Twentieth Century: Concepts and Conflicts, Berlin, 19-21 June 2008.
“Redemptive Antisemitism in Colonial Modality: Recontextualising a Classic Concept,” Centre for
German-Jewish Studies, “The Holocaust and Saul Friedländer’s Nazi Germany and the Jews,”
University of Sussex, 14-15 June 2008.
“The Apology to the Stolen Generation in Australia,” Identities in Transition: Challenges for
Transitional Justice in Divided Societies, International Center for Transitional Justice, New
York, 13–14 March 2008.
“Traumatic Memories in Australia: An Irritating Past for Settler Colonialism,” Memories in the
Age of Globalization, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna, 6-8
March 2008.
“Racism in Australia (and Modernity) in the Age of the ‘War on Terror’,” Global Dimensions of
Racism in the Modern World: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives,” Heidelberg
University, 12-14 July 2007.
“Genocide, Crimes against Humanity and Humanitarian Intervention: The Limits of the Liberal
Political Theology,” Power, Rule and Governmentality in Zones of Emergency: The Israeli
Occupation in a Global Perspective, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 3-5 June 2007.
“Der nichtdeutsche Deutsche und der deutsche Deutsche: Stigma und Opfer-Erlösung in der
Berliner Republik,” Demokratie im Schatten der Gewalt Geschichten des Privaten im
deutschen Nachkrieg 1945-2005. Konferenz am Deutschen Literaturarchiv in Marbach, 19-21
October 2006. “World History and Twentieth Century Genocide: Some Observations: Political
Violence,” Twentieth-Century Europe, Workshop II: Genocide in the Twentieth Century,
University of Edinburgh, 1-2 September 2006.
“The Deep Structure of Postwar German Identity and the Nazi Past,” Deutsch-Israelische
Stiftung für Wissenschaftliche Forschung und Entwicklung (GIF), “‘What We Remember
and What We Would Rather Forget...’: Collective Reminiscence and Collective Oblivion as
Factors in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation,” Berlin, 14-16 December 2005.
“Genocide and Global History: Europe and the World System,” Australasian Association of
European History, Melbourne, 12-15 July 2005.
“The Historiography of Comparison,” inaugural conference, European Network of Genocide
Scholars, “Genocides: Forms, Causes and Consequences: The Herero-War (1904-08) in
Historical Perspective,” Berlin, 13-15 January 2005.
“Genocide and Colonialism in Australia,” Lesson and Legacies VIII International Conference on the
Holocaust, Brown University, Providence, 4-7 November 2004.
“The Languages of Republicanism and the Foundation of West Germany,” German Studies
Association, New Orleans, 19-21 September 2003.
“Holocaust and Genocide,” Australasian Association for European History, University of
Queensland, Brisbane, 7 July 2003.
“German Conservatism and the Forty-Fiver Generation of Intellectuals,” German Studies
Association, San Diego, 3-6 October 2002.
“The Question of Uniqueness in Holocaust and Genocide Studies,” European History Group
conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 July 2002.
“Germany and its Past: a Model for Poland and Australia?” Extremism and Exclusion: The
European Experience and Australian Resonances, Contemporary Europe Research Centre,
Melbourne University, 14-15 November 2001.
“Modernity and the Two Genocidal Moments in Australian History,” The Lesser Evil, New York
University, 1-3 April 2001.
“Coming to Terms with the Past in West Germany and Australia: A Comparative Perspective'.
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ILAS Conference 2000: Violence, Memory and National Reconciliation: Latin America, Spain, South
Africa, Timor and Australia, La Trobe University, 13-14 October 2000.
“Die ‘Fünfundvierziger’: Generationelle und intellektuelle Auseinandersetzungen um die
Begründung der Republik,” 43. Deutscher Historikertag, Aachen, Germany, 26-29 September
2000.
“The Languages of Republicanism and the Foundation of West Germany,” Ends and Beginnings
Conference, European Studies, University of New South Wales, 14-15 July 2000.
“The Forty-Fivers: A Generation of Intellectual Liberalizers?” Germany 2000. Taking Stock,
Bristol University, 7-10 April 2000.
“An Antipodean Genocide? The Origins of the Genocidal Moment in the Colonization of
Australia,” biannual conference of the Association of Genocide Scholars, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, 13-15 June 1999 (and at the University of Sydney, University of Newcastle, and
Macquarie University during 2000).
“Coming to Terms with Genocidal Past: Germany and Australia,” Gesellschaft für Australien-
Studien, Klagenfurt, Austria, 23-26 September 1997.
“Revolution and History: Neo-Conservative Intellectuals’ Response to Vergangenheitsbewältigung,
1968-1982,” German Studies Association, Chicago, September 1995.
“The Historian’s Debate Revisited: Germans and their History Since Re-Unification,” German
Studies Association, Dallas, October 1994.
“History’s Burden: Memory, Identity, and Citizenship in Germany, 1982-1993,” Council for
European Studies, Chicago, May 1994.
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Workshop, “New Directions in the Study of Civilizational Discourse,” European University
Institute, 6 December 2013.
Workshop, “New Directions in African Studies,” European University Institute, 10 May 2013.
Workshop, “Nation and Gender in Modern India,” European University Institute, 3 May 2013.
Workshop: “New Directions in Genocide Research,” European University Institute, 11 November
2011.
Workshop: “Partitions in Twentieth-Century Global History,” University of Sydney, 25
September 2009.
International conference: “Genocide and Colonialism,” University of Sydney, 18-20 July 2003,
under the auspices of the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University.
Workshop: “The Genocide Effect,” University of Sydney, July 2001, under the auspices of the
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA).
TEACHING
Seminars taught at the European University Institute, Florence:
Genocide in Global Perspective (Spring 2011).
Thesis Design Seminar (Spring 2011).
International and Global History (Winter 2011, 2012, 2013)
The Partitions of India, Palestine and Europe (Winter 2012).
Thesis Writing Seminar (Spring 2012).
Approaches to Intellectual History (Spring 2012: with Martin Gelderen).
Histories of International Law (Spring 2013: with Nehal Bhuta).
Decolonization in Modern History (Winter 2012).
The History of Emotions (Winter 2013)
Doctoral Students at the European University Institute, Florence:
Laura Almagor, “Forgotten Alternatives: Jewish Territorialism as a Movement of Political
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Action and Thought (1895-1960).”
Anais Angelo, “Léopold Sédar Senghor of Senegal and Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya: ‘Political
Trajectories’ of Two State Builders.”
Elena Borghi, “The Origins of Feminism in the Hindi Region, 1900-1930: Women’s Publishing,
Uma Nehru and Western Feminisms.”
Eirik Brazier, “From Immigrant to Soldier: European Immigrants in the Australian and
Canadian Armies, 1914-1918” (completed 2013).
Sharon Elizabeth Burke, “The Pan-African Movement and Diplomacy in Europe 1919-1945:
Transnational Culture and the Politics of Race.”
Boyd van Dijk, “The Fourth Geneva Convention: Reinventing the Laws of War after the
Horrors of WWII.”
Roel Frakking, “The Double-edged Sword: Employing Indigenous Forces in the Colonial
Defence of Indonesia and Malaya.”
Daniel Freis, “The Politics of Pathology: Revolution, Society and Psychiatric Experts in
Germany, Austria and Switzerland, 1916-1939.”
Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci, “Turkey: Silent Nation.”
Daniel Knegt, “A New Order for France and Europe? European Thought and International
Contacts of the French Extreme Right 1933-1939.”
Stephanie Lämmert, “Legal Disputes in the Usambara Mountains, Tanzania, During Colonial
Rule.”
Jakob Lehne, “The Concept of Civilization in International Strategic Debates in Britain and
Germany, 1850–1914.”
Diana M. Natermann, “Colonial In-betweens. Expectations and Experiences in the Congo Free
State and German East Africa 1884-1914.”
Martina Ravagnan, “The Displaced Persons Camps for Jewish Refugees in Italy (1945-1950): An
Analysis through Yiddish Publications.”
Florian Wagner, “Nationalist Confrontation or Transnational Cooperation? A Comparative
History of Colonial Associations in Germany, France, Spain and Belgium (1880-1914).”
EUI PhD Examinations:
Mark Williams, “Violence and Politics in the German Revolution, 1918-1919” (November 2011).
Jannis Avram Panagiotidis, “Laws of Return? Co-Ethnic Immigration to West Germany and
Israel (1948-1992)” (May 2012).
Lieselotte Luyckx, “Soviet DPs for the Belgian Mining Industry (1944-1960): The Daily
Struggle against Yalta of a Forgotten Minority?” (October 2012).
Moritz Deutschmann, “ Empire and Statehood in the Russo-Iranian Encounter, 1880s-1911”
(June 2013).
Nicholas McGeehan, “Slavery and International Law” (October 2013).
Eirik Brazier, “Stranger in a Strange Land? The Imperial Officer in Canada and the Australian
Colonies c.1870-1914” (November 2013).
University of Sydney Doctoral Students:
Andrew Beattie, “Contested Legitimacy After the Cold War: The Bundestag Commission of
Inquiry into the East German Past” (2005). Winner of Jean Monnet Best Thesis Prize, 2005.
Book: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=BeattiePlaying
David Smith, “Ecology and Non-Violence Across the Species Barrier: German Greens and the
Politics of Animal Protection” (2007). Winner of Jean Monnet Best Thesis Prize, 2007.
Jonathan Lane, “‘A Public Opinion’: A. P. Elkin on Aborigines, Purpose and Citizenship: A Study
in the Paradox of Self-Determination” (2008).
Sandra Kostner, “Greek and Italian Migration to Australia and Germany and the Educational
and Occupational Situation of the Second Generation: A Comparative Analysis” (2009).
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Avril Alba, “Redeeming the Holocaust: Uncovering the Sacred Narratives of the Secular
Museum” (2011).
Martin Braach-Maksvytis, “Germany, Palestine, Israel and the (Post-) Colonial Imagination”
(2013).
Courses taught at the University of Sydney:
HSTY 1045 Modern European History, 1750-1914 (2000-2004, 2010)
HSTY 2652 Genocide in Historical Perspective (2005, 2007, 2010)
HSTY 2607 Approaches to the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2006, 2009)
JCTC 2606 The Holocaust (2000-2006)
HSTY 3073/6081 German History, 1789-1914 (2001, 2004)
HSTY 3084/6079 German History, 1914-2000 (2001, 2004)
HSTY 4111 Historical Revisionism (2001-2003)
HSTY 6989 Genocide in Global Perspective (2006, 2010)
HSTY 6990 National Socialist Extermination Policies (2006)
HSTY 6991 Terror in Historical Perspective (2006, 2007)
Teaching Award and Training:
University of Sydney, Faculty of Arts Teaching Award, 2003.
New University Teacher program, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Sydney, June
2000.
ADMINISTRATION
Max Weber Post-Doctoral Program representative, Department of History and Civilization,
European University Institute.
Co-Director, Degree in Liberal Studies (2001–2009), and Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Sciences
(2009-2010), University of Sydney
Department of History research seminar coordinator, 2009-2010, University of Sydney.
COMMUNITY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
European Research Council assessor on Consolidator Grant – SH6: “The Study of the Human
Past: Archaeology, History and Memory,” for 2013.
Australian Research Council assessor. Since 2012.
Judge, category “Critical Writing,” New South Wales Literary Awards, 2006.
Participation in “The Great Debate” on Historical Objectivity. UNSW, 27 July 2002. Used in
High School Certificate teaching in extension history syllabus.
“Berlin Summer Series” of three lectures on twentieth century Berlin for the Potsdamer Platz
Exhibition at Sydney Exhibition Space, 6 December 2000, 7 February 2001, 8 March 2001.
Occasional lectures for guides at the Sydney Jewish Museum.
Occasional lectures for the Centre for Continuing Education, Sydney University on German
historiography and the Holocaust.
EDITORSHIPS
Senior Editor: Journal of Genocide Research (since 2011 / Associate Editor since 2006).
Joint Series Editor: “War and Genocide,” Berghahn Books (Oxford and New York).
Editorial Board: Patterns of Prejudice, Memory Studies, and Settler Colonial Studies.
International Academic Advisory Board: Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies;
Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence, and Institute For Genocide Awareness & Applied
Research; Centre for War Studies, University College, Dublin.
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MEMBERSHIPS
International Network of Genocide Scholars, H-Soz-u-Kult.
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