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Donald Bloxham

Donald.Bloxham@ed.ac.uk
0131 650 3757
Room 303, William Robertson Building

Professor of Modern History

I graduated from the universities of Keele and Southampton. After completing my PhD I was Research Director of the London-based charity the Holocaust Educational Trust for 18 months. In 2000 I took up a two-year Leverhulme Special Research postdoctoral fellowship at Southampton University, before being appointed to a lectureship at Edinburgh in 2002. I was promoted to a readership at Edinburgh in 2006 and to a personal chair in 2007.

In 2006 I was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize. In 2007 I was awarded an Edinburgh University Chancellor’s Award. My last book, on the Armenian genocide, was awarded the (biennial) Raphael Lemkin Award for 2007 by the International Association of Genocide Scholars. In the academic year 2007-8 I shall be, by invitation, J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

My research interests concern the perpetration, punishment and representation of genocide, war crimes and other mass atrocities. I am also interested in the history and practice of international law and humanitarian intervention.

I am author of The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (Oxford University Press, 2005); Genocide on Trial: War Crimes Trials and the Formation of Holocaust History and Memory (Oxford University Press, 2001); and co-author, with Tony Kushner, of The Holocaust: Critical Historical Approaches (Manchester University Press, 2005). With Ben Flanagan, I am editor of Remembering Belsen: Eyewitnesses Recall the Liberation (London: Vallentine, Mitchell and Co., 2005). A volume of my own essays is forthcoming in 2007. I am also series editor, with Mark Levene, of the forthcoming ten-volume Oxford University Press monograph series entitled Zones of Violence, and am editor, with A. Dirk Moses, of the forthcoming Oxford University Press Handbook of Genocide. Formerly an editor of the Journal of Holocaust Education, the Vallentine Mitchell and Co. Library of Holocaust Testimonies and the Holocaust Educational Trust Research Papers, I am presently on the editorial board of four journals - Holocaust Studies, Patterns of Prejudice, Zeitschrift für Genozidforschung, and the Journal of Genocide Research, and am on the board of foreign 'correspondents' of the journal 900. Per una storia del tempo presente.