Donald Bloxham

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is a Professor of Modern History, specialising in

genocide Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people. Raphael Lemkin, who first coined the term, defined genocide as "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group" by ...

war crimes A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hos ...

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 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

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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 (; 24 June 1900 – 28 August 1959) was a Polish lawyer who is known for coining the term "genocide" and for campaigning to establish the Genocide Convention, which legally defines the act. Following the German invasion of Poland ...

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

References

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