Dirk Moses took up the Chair in Global and Colonial History at the European University Institute, Florence, in January 2011 after eleven years at the University of Sydney. A native of Brisbane, Australia, he was educated at the Universities of Queensland (B.A. 1987), St. Andrews (M.Phil. 1990), Notre Dame (M.A. 1994), and U.C. Berkeley (Ph.D. 2000). Before coming to Sydney, he was a research fellow in history at the University of Freiburg, where he worked on postwar German debates about the recent past, a project that appeared as German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (Cambridge, 2007).
While researching on Germany, Dirk has pursued a parallel interest in genocide in colonial contexts, on which he has published many articles, book chapters, and edited books, including the prize-winning Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation and Subaltern Resistance in World
History (Berghahn 2008/pbk 2009). Most recently, he has co-edited the Oxford History of Genocide Studies (2010) and a six-volume collection of essays on genocide for Routledge's Critical Studies series.
Dirk has held research fellowships in Germany, Israel, and the U.S.A., including, in 2010, at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. for his current project on the "Diplomacy of Genocide," a study of genocide claims in postcolonial secessionist civil wars in the 1960s and early 1970s. He is currently finishing a critical intellectual history of the genocide concept and historiography called Genocide and the Terror of History.
Dirk is senior editor of the Journal of Genocide Research, and co-edits the book series "War and Genocide" for Berghahn Books. He is also on the
editorial boards of the journals Patterns of Prejudice, Memory Studies, and Settler Colonial Studies, and on the international academic advisory boards of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies; the Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence, and the Institute For Genocide Awareness & Applied Research.
While researching on Germany, Dirk has pursued a parallel interest in genocide in colonial contexts, on which he has published many articles, book chapters, and edited books, including the prize-winning Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation and Subaltern Resistance in World
History (Berghahn 2008/pbk 2009). Most recently, he has co-edited the Oxford History of Genocide Studies (2010) and a six-volume collection of essays on genocide for Routledge's Critical Studies series.
Dirk has held research fellowships in Germany, Israel, and the U.S.A., including, in 2010, at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. for his current project on the "Diplomacy of Genocide," a study of genocide claims in postcolonial secessionist civil wars in the 1960s and early 1970s. He is currently finishing a critical intellectual history of the genocide concept and historiography called Genocide and the Terror of History.
Dirk is senior editor of the Journal of Genocide Research, and co-edits the book series "War and Genocide" for Berghahn Books. He is also on the
editorial boards of the journals Patterns of Prejudice, Memory Studies, and Settler Colonial Studies, and on the international academic advisory boards of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies; the Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence, and the Institute For Genocide Awareness & Applied Research.
