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Paul R. Bartrop (born November 3, 1955) is an Australian historian of
the Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...
and
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. From August 2012 until December 2020 he was Professor of History and Director of the
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at
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,
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,
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. In 2020 he was appointed to the honorary position of Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Canberra (the Australian Defence Force Academy). In April 2021 he became Professor Emeritus of History at Florida Gulf Coast University. During the academic year of 2011-2012 he was the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.


Education and career

Bartrop is descended from a British convict sent to
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in the early 1820s, James Bartrop, and his wife Elizabeth Wright Bartrop. He is the son of Donald Anthony Bartrop (1918-1974) and Barbara Eileen Bartrop, née Page (1920-2013). He attended
Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
's
La Trobe University La Trobe University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its main campus is located in the suburb of Bundoora. The university was established in 1964, becoming the third university in the state of Victoria an ...
(BA Hons, 1977; MA, 1982), and received his PhD from
Monash University Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university has a ...
in 1989, with a dissertation entitled ''Indifference and Inconvenience: Australian Government Policy toward Refugees from Nazism, 1933-1939.'' Across a varied academic career, he has taught at
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, the
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(a
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in the Australian tertiary education system, now
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), the
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,
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, and the
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. In 1997 he joined the teaching faculty at Melbourne's
Bialik College Bialik College is an independent comprehensive co-educational early learning, primary and secondary Jewish day school, located in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn East, Victoria, Australia. Established in 1942 in Carlton North, Victoria, ...
, where he pioneered a Year 10 elective, Comparative Genocide Studies. At the time it was probably the only full-year
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course on comparative genocide anywhere in the world. At Bialik, Bartrop was the Head of the History Department (2005-2011), and taught subjects in History, Comparative Genocide Studies, Jewish Studies (including Holocaust Studies), International Studies, and Religion and Society. Between 1998 and 2010 Bartrop was an Honorary Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Education (and its predecessor schools) at Deakin University, appointed for his contributions to Jewish History and Genocide Studies. In 1996 he was a Visiting Professor in the Honors College at
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, and in 2002 was Scholar-in-Residence at the Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust, Tolerance and Humanitarian Values at
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, Flagstaff.


Recognition

In 1990 he was named an Honorary Life Member of the
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, and between 1991 and 1993 he served as president of the
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, having earlier been that organization's Vice-President. In 2008 he was conferred with the title "Friend of the Armenian Community" by the
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(Melbourne Chapter), and in 2011 received a Distinguished Service Award from Melbourne's Assyrian Community for his work in genocide awareness. In 2013 he was elected as vice-president of the
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in the United States, a position he held until his retirement in 2020. In July 2010 Bartrop was named as a member of the International Council of the
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.


Publications

* ''Cambodian Genocide: The Essential Reference Guide'' (ed.) (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2022) * ''The Routledge History of the Second World War'' (ed.) (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2021) * ''Children of the Holocaust'' (co-author with Eve E. Grimm) (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2020) * ''Heroines of Vichy France: Rescuing French Jews during the Holocaust'' (Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2019) * ''The Holocaust: The Basics'' (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2019) * ''The
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and the Jewish Refugee Crisis'' (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) * ''The Holocaust: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection'' (co-editor with Michael Dickerman) (4 volumes) (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2017) * ''Resisting the Holocaust: Upstanders, Partisans, and Survivors'' (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2016) * ''Bosnian Genocide: The Essential Reference Guide'' (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2016) * ''Modern Genocide: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection'' (co-editor with Steven Leonard Jacobs) (4 volumes) (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2015) * ''Genocide: The Basics'' (London and New York: Routledge, 2015) * ''Encountering Genocide: Personal Accounts from Victims, Perpetrators, and Witnesses'' (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2014) * ''A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good'' (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2012) * ''Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide'' (co-author with Steven Leonard Jacobs) (London and New York: Routledge, 2010) * ''The Genocide Studies Reader'' (co-editor with Samuel Totten) (New York: Routledge, 2009) * ''A Dictionary of Genocide'' (co-author with Samuel Totten and Steven Leonard Jacobs) (2 volumes) (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007) * ''Teaching about the Holocaust: Essays by College and University Teachers'' (with
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and Steven Leonard. Jacobs) (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004) * ''Bolt from the Blue: Australia, Britain and the Chanak Crisis'' (Sydney: Halstead Press, 2002) * ''Surviving the Camps: Unity in Adversity during the Holocaust'' (Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 2000) * ''False Havens: The British Empire and the Holocaust'' (Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 1995) * ''Australia and the Holocaust 1933-45'' (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 1994) * ''
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: A Documentary Resource Book'' (Melbourne:
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/Schwartz and Wilkinson, 1990) * ''Scores, Crowds and Records: Statistics on the Victorian Football League, 1946-83'' (Sydney: History Project Incorporated, 1984)


References

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