Donald Bloxham FRHistS is a Professor of Modern History, specialising in genocide, war crimes and other mass atrocities studies. He is the editor of the Journal of Holocaust Education.[1]

He completed his undergraduate studies at Keele and postgraduate studies at Southampton, where he received PhD in history.[2] He worked as Research Director of the London-based Holocaust Educational Trust. He is Richard Pares Professor of European History at the University of Edinburgh, having previously been lecturer of Twentieth Century History at the university.[3][4]

From 2007 to 2008, he was J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.[2]

Awards

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Books

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  • Genocide on Trial: War Crimes Trials and the Formation of Holocaust History and Memory (Oxford University Press, 2001)
  • The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (Oxford University Press, 2005)[5]
  • The Holocaust: Critical Historical Approaches (Manchester University Press, 2005)
  • Genocide, The World Wars, and the Unweaving of Europe: essays by Donald Bloxham (Vallentine, Mitchell and Co., 2008)
  • The Final Solution: A Genocide (Oxford University Press, 2009)
  • The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies (editor, with A. Dirk Moses) (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
  • Political Violence in Europe's Long Twentieth Century (editor, with Robert Gerwarth) (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
  • Why History? A History (Oxford University Press, 2020)
  • History and Morality (Oxford University Press, 2020)

References

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  1. ^ "University of Edinburgh, Bloxham". Shc.ed.ac.uk. 13 October 2011. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Dr. Donald Bloxham — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum". www.ushmm.org. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
  3. ^ "The Holocaust. Critical Historical Approaches. Donald Bloxham and Tony Kushner". Us.macmillan.com. 4 December 2009. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
  4. ^ "About our staff". The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
  5. ^ European History Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 1, 126-128 (2008), doi:10.1177/02656914080380010408