Donald Bloxham
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 a 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
- The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians
- The Holocaust: Critical Historical Approaches
- Genocide, The World Wars, and the Unweaving of Europe: essays by Donald Bloxham
- The Final Solution: A Genocide
- The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies
- Political Violence in Europe's Long Twentieth Century
- Why History? A History
- ''History and Morality''