Donald Bloxham

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is a Professor of Modern History, specialising in

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, war crimes and other mass atrocities studies. He is the editor of the ''Journal of Holocaust Education''. He completed his undergraduate studies at

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and postgraduate studies at

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, where he received PhD in history. He worked as Research Director of the London-based Holocaust Educational Trust. He is

Richard Pares Richard Pares (25 August 1902 – 3 May 1958) was a British historian. He "was considered to be among the outstanding British historians of his time." Family life and education The eldest son of the five children of the historian Bernard Pares ...

Professor of European History at the

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, 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

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Awards

*2006

Philip Leverhulme Prize The Philip Leverhulme Prize is awarded by the Leverhulme Trust to recognise the achievement of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising. The prize sche ...

*2007

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Chancellor's Award *2007

Raphael Lemkin Raphael Lemkin ( pl, Rafał Lemkin; 24 June 1900 – 28 August 1959) was a Polish lawyer who is best known for coining the term ''genocide'' and initiating the Genocide Convention, an interest spurred on after learning about the Armenian genocid ...

Award by the

International Association of Genocide Scholars The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) is an international non-partisan organization that seeks to further research and teaching about the nature, causes, and consequences of genocide, including the Armenian genocide, the Holoca ...

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)European History Quarterly
Vol. 38, No. 1, 126-128 (2008), *''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 Robert Gerwarth (born 12 February 1976) is a German historian and author who specialises in European history, with an emphasis on German history. Since finishing a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oxford, he has held ...

) (Cambridge University Press, 2011) *''Why History? A History'' (Oxford University Press, 2020) *''History and Morality'' (Oxford University Press, 2020)

References

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