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Paul R. Bartrop (born November 3, 1955) is an Australian historian of
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and
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. From August 2012 until December 2020 he was Professor of History and Director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University,
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,
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. Between 2020 and 2021 he was an honorary Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Canberra (the Australian Defence Force Academy). In April 2021 he became Professor Emeritus of History at Florida Gulf Coast University, and in 2022 he became an honorary Principal Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne. During the academic year of 2011-2012 he was the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.


Education and career

Bartrop is descended from a British convict sent to
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in the early 1820s, James Bartrop, and his wife Elizabeth Wright Bartrop. He is the son of Donald Anthony Bartrop (1918-1974) and Barbara Eileen Bartrop, née Page (1920-2013). He attended
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's
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(BA Hons, 1977; MA, 1982), and received his PhD from
Monash University Monash University () is a public university, public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Named after World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the ...
in 1989, with a dissertation entitled ''Indifference and Inconvenience: Australian Government Policy toward Refugees from Nazism, 1933-1939.'' Across a varied academic career, he has taught at
Monash University Monash University () is a public university, public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Named after World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the ...
, the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education (a
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in the Australian tertiary education system, now
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), the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
Deakin University Deakin University is a public university in Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1974 with antecedent history since 1887, the university was named after Alfred Deakin, the second Prime Minister of Australia and a founding father of Australian Fede ...
, and the
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. In 1997 he joined the teaching faculty at Melbourne's Bialik College, where he pioneered a Year 10 elective, Comparative Genocide Studies. At the time it was probably the only full-year
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course on comparative genocide anywhere in the world. At Bialik, Bartrop was the Head of the History Department (2005-2011), and taught subjects in History, Comparative Genocide Studies, Jewish Studies (including Holocaust Studies), International Studies, and Religion and Society. Between 1998 and 2010 Bartrop was an Honorary Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Education (and its predecessor schools) at Deakin University, appointed for his contributions to Jewish History and Genocide Studies. In 1996 he was a visiting professor in the Honors College at
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, and in 2002 was Scholar-in-Residence at the Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust, Tolerance and Humanitarian Values at
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, Flagstaff.


Recognition

In 1990 he was named an Honorary Life Member of the Jewish Museum of Australia, and between 1991 and 1993 he served as president of the
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, having earlier been that organization's Vice-President. In 2008 he was conferred with the title "Friend of the Armenian Community" by the Armenian National Committee (Melbourne Chapter), and in 2011 received a Distinguished Service Award from Melbourne's Assyrian Community for his work in genocide awareness. In July 2010 Bartrop was named as a member of the International Council of the
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. In 2013 he was elected as vice-president of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association in the United States, a position he held until his retirement in 2020. In December 2022 Paul Bartrop was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) in the United Kingdom.


Publications

* ''The Routledge History of the First World War'' (ed.) (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2024) * ''The Holocaust in 100 Histories'' (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024) * ''The Holocaust: Country by Country'' (co-author with Eve E. Grimm) (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024) * ''Sources for Studying the Holocaust: A Guide'' (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2023) * ''The Holocaust and Australia: Refugees, Rejection, and Memory'' (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022) * ''The Holocaust: The Essential Reference Guide'' (co-author with Eve E. Grimm) (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2022) * ''Cambodian Genocide: The Essential Reference Guide'' (ed.) (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2022) * ''The Routledge History of the Second World War'' (ed.) (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2021) * ''Children of the Holocaust'' (co-author with Eve E. Grimm) (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2020) * ''Heroines of Vichy France: Rescuing French Jews during the Holocaust'' (Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2019) * ''The Holocaust: The Basics'' (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2019) * ''The Evian Conference of 1938 and the Jewish Refugee Crisis'' (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) * ''The Holocaust: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection'' (co-editor with Michael Dickerman) (4 volumes) (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2017) * ''Resisting the Holocaust: Upstanders, Partisans, and Survivors'' (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2016) * ''Bosnian Genocide: The Essential Reference Guide'' (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2016) * ''Modern Genocide: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection'' (co-editor with Steven Leonard Jacobs) (4 volumes) (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2015) * ''Genocide: The Basics'' (London and New York: Routledge, 2015) * ''Encountering Genocide: Personal Accounts from Victims, Perpetrators, and Witnesses'' (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2014) * ''A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good'' (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2012) * ''Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide'' (co-author with Steven Leonard Jacobs) (London and New York: Routledge, 2010) * ''The Genocide Studies Reader'' (co-editor with Samuel Totten) (New York: Routledge, 2009) * ''A Dictionary of Genocide'' (co-author with Samuel Totten and Steven Leonard Jacobs) (2 volumes) (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007) * ''Teaching about the Holocaust: Essays by College and University Teachers'' (with Samuel Totten and Steven Leonard. Jacobs) (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004) * ''Bolt from the Blue: Australia, Britain and the Chanak Crisis'' (Sydney: Halstead Press, 2002) * ''Surviving the Camps: Unity in Adversity during the Holocaust'' (Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 2000) * ''False Havens: The British Empire and the Holocaust'' (Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 1995) * ''Australia and the Holocaust 1933-45'' (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 1994) * '' The Dunera Affair: A Documentary Resource Book'' (Melbourne: Jewish Museum of Australia/Schwartz and Wilkinson, 1990) * ''Scores, Crowds and Records: Statistics on the Victorian Football League, 1946-83'' (Sydney: History Project Incorporated, 1984)


References

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