A. Dirk Moses - 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):
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/forum/type=buchpreis
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): http://hsozkult.geschichte.huberlin.de/forum/type=buchpreis.
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.
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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.
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, Scotland, 1988–
89.
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Monograph
German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2007/paperback 2009), 304 pp.
Anthologies
Genocide: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies. 6 vols., 2,400pp. (Abingdon: Routledge,
2010). Editor’s introduction and selection of 88 texts.
The Oxford Handbook on Genocide Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
Contributor and co-editor.
The Modernist Imagination: New Essays in Intellectual History and Critical Theory (New York and
Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009). Co-contributor and co-editor.
Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History (New
York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008/paperback 2009). Contributor and editor.
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.
Journal Special Issues
“Mass Violence and the End of the Dutch Colonial Empire in Indonesia,” special double issue, Journal of
Genocide Research, 14:3-4 (2012). Co-Editor.
“East Pakistan War, 1971,” special issue of the 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. Guest editor.
“Intervention after Iraq,” special issue of Ethics & International Affairs, 19:2 (2005). Guest 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 (2013), forthcoming.
“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.
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“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.
“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 (Tel Aviv), 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, 44:3 (October 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.
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“An Antipodean Genocide? The Origins of the Genocidal Moment in the Colonization of
Australia,” Journal of Genocide Research, 2 (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 (1997), 441-445.
“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
“Has the Holocaust Helped Us Remember or Forget Other Genocides?: The Canadian
Museum of Human Rights and its Critics,” in Doug Irvin, Alexander Hinton, and Tom
LaPointe, eds., Hidden Genocides: Power, Knowledge, and Memory (New Brunswick: Rutgers
University Press, 2013).
“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. Translated and abridged version published as “Weltgeschichte und
Holocaust: Ein Blick in Raphael Lemkins unveröffentlichte Schiften,” 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
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
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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.
“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
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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 Historians: http://hsozkult.geschichte.huberlin.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
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(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.
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.
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Karl Dietrich Bracher, Turning Points in Modern European History (Cambridge, Mass., 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
Invited Papers, Keynote Lectures, and Workshop Presentations
“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.
“Partitions, Forced Population ‘Transfers’ and the Question of Human Rights in the 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; Critical Perspectives on
Human Rights Working Group, UC Berkeley, 4 September 2012; Center for European
Studies, Harvard University, 12 September 2012.
“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 of 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,” Erinnernen/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,
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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?,” 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.
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“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,
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.
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“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
“Partitions, Population ‘Transfers’ and the Question of Human Rights and Genocide in the
1930s and 1940s,” Human Rights and Imperialism in Historical Perspective, University of
Sydney, 10-11 August 2012.
“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.
“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
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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'. 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.
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REFEREEING OF MANUSCRIPTS, GRANTS, AND TENURE COMMITTEES
Journals:
African Affairs, Alternatives, American Historical Review, Australian Indigenous Studies, borderlands
e-journal, Contemporary European History, Contemporary Politics, Crossroads, Eras Journal,
European History Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, The Germanic Review,
History and Memory, Journal of Australian Studies, Peripherie.
Presses:
Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Yale University Press, Berghahn
Books, Palgrave MacMillan, Routledge, Pearson Publishing, Contiuum-Bloomsbury.
Research Institutions:
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Czech Science Foundation, German Research Council (DFG),
Irish Academy of Sciences, Israel Science Foundation, UK Economic and Social Research
Council, Leverhulme Trust, Newton International Fellowship of the Royal Society (UK),
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, University of Vienna.
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Organized workshop on “New Directions in Genocide Research,” European University
Institute, 10-11 November 2011.
Organized workshop on “Partitions in Twentieth-Century Global History” at the University
of Sydney, 25 September 2009.
Organized international conference “Genocide and Colonialism” at the University of Sydney,
18-20 July 2003, under the auspices of the Humanities Research Centre, Australian
National University.
Co-organized an Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) workshop on “The
Genocide Effect” in July 2001 at the University of Sydney.
TEACHING
Seminars taught at the European University Institute, Florence:
Decolonization in Modern History (Winter 2012).
Genocide in Global Perspective (Spring 2011).
Thesis Design Seminar (Spring 2011).
International History (Winter 2011 and 2012)
The Partitions of India, Palestine and Europe (Winter 2012).
Thesis Writing Seminar (Spring 2012).
Approaches to Intellectual History (Spring 2012).
Doctoral Students at the European University Institute, Florence:
Laura Almagor, “Forgotten Alternatives: Jewish Territorialism as a Movement of Political
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.”
Sharon-Beth Burke, “The Pan-African Movement and Diplomacy in Europe 1919-1945:
Transnational Culture and the Politics of Race”
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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,“Voicing Silences: A Methodology to Deconstruct the
Institutionalization of the Armenian Genocide Denial in Turkish National History”
Daniel Knegt, “A New Order for France and Europe? European Thought and International
Contacts of the French Extreme Right 1933-1939.”
Stephanie Lämmert, “ The Human Rights Discourse in Tanzania, 1940-1980.”
Jakob Lehne, “The Concept of Zeitgeist in European Thought.”
Diana M. Natermann, “Young Colonials: A Comparative History of Individual Lives in the
Congo Free State and German East Africa (1885-1914).”
Florian Wagner, “Nationalist Confrontation or Transnational Cooperation? A Comparative
History of Colonial Associations in Germany, France, Spain and Belgium (1880-1914).”
University of Sydney, Faculty of Arts Teaching Award, 2003.
New University Teacher program, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Sydney,
June 2000.
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)
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).
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”
(expected 2013).
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ADMINISTRATION
Co-Director, Degree in Liberal Studies (2001–2009), and Bachelor of Liberal Arts and
Sciences (2009-2010).
Department of History research seminar coordinator, 2009-2010.
COMMUNITY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Assessor for the Australian Research Council
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.
MEMBERSHIPS
German Studies Association (USA), International Network of Genocide Scholars, H-Soz-u-Kult.
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