Donald Bloxham Explained

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.

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)
• (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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: University of Edinburgh, Bloxham . Shc.ed.ac.uk . 2011-10-13 . 2012-08-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110928144552/http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/history/staff/dbloxham.htm . 28 September 2011 . dmy-all .
2. Web site: Dr. Donald Bloxham — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum . 2022-06-25 . www.ushmm.org.
3. Web site: The Holocaust. Critical Historical Approaches. Donald Bloxham and Tony Kushner . Us.macmillan.com . 2009-12-04 . 2012-08-24.
4. Web site: About our staff . 2022-06-25 . The University of Edinburgh . en.
5. http://ehq.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/38/1/126?etoc= European History Quarterly