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.
He completed his undergraduate studies at Keele and postgraduate studies at Southampton, where he received PhD in history. 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.
From 2007 to 2008, he was J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Awards
- 2006 Philip Leverhulme Prize
- 2007 Edinburgh University Chancellor's Award
- 2007 Raphael Lemkin Award by the International Association of Genocide Scholars
Books
- 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)
- 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
- "University of Edinburgh, Bloxham". Shc.ed.ac.uk. 13 October 2011. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
- ^ "Dr. Donald Bloxham — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum". www.ushmm.org. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
- "The Holocaust. Critical Historical Approaches. Donald Bloxham and Tony Kushner". Us.macmillan.com. 4 December 2009. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
- "About our staff". The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
- European History Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 1, 126-128 (2008), doi:10.1177/02656914080380010408
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