A. Dirk Moses
Professor
Anne & Bernard Spitzer Chair in International Relations
Areas of Expertise/Research
- Genocide
- Human Rights
Building
NAC
Office
4/135
Phone
2126505223

A. Dirk Moses
Profile
A. Dirk Moses is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations at the City College of New York, CUNY. He is a scholar of genocide and international affairs, memory studies and modern Germany.
Raised in Brisbane, Australia, he was educated at the Universities of Queensland (B.A. 1987), St. Andrews (M.Phil. 1990), Notre Dame (M.A. 1994), and California, Berkeley (Ph.D. 2000). Before coming to City College, he was the Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from July 2000 to July 2022. Between 2000-2010 and 2016-2020, he taught at the University of Sydney. He held the Chair of Global and Colonial History at the European University Institute, Florence, from 2011 to 2015.
Dirk has written extensively in the fields of genocide and memory studies. His latest book, The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression, appeared in 2021. An updated and abridged German version was published in 2023 as Nach dem Genozid: Grundlage für eine neue Erinnerungskultur.
Recent anthologies include The Holocaust Museum and Human Rights: Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials (2025), The Russian Invasion of Ukraine Victims Perpetrators Justice and the Question of Genocide (2024), Patriotic History and the (Re)Nationalization of Memory (2023), and Genocide: Key Themes (2022).
He has held fellowships at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C; and at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam as an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow.
Dirk has been senior editor of the Journal of Genocide Research since 2011, and co-edits the War and Genocide book series for Berghahn Books. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of African Military History, Journal of Perpetrator Research, Patterns of Prejudice, Memory Studies, and the Journal of Mass Violence Research. He also serves on advisory board of the UCD Centre for War Studies, the Memory Studies Association, and the RePast project.
Education
PhD University of California at Berkeley, 2000.
MA University of Notre Dame, 1994.
MPhil University of St. Andrews,1990.
BA University of Queensland, 1987.
Courses Taught
PSC 25900 Human Rights and Human Wrongs
PSC 31266 Genocide in Global Perspective
PSC 35800 Humanitarian Intervention
PSC 31167 Colonialism and Violence
Publications
MONOGRAPHS
Nach dem Genozid: Grundlage für eine neue Erinnerungskultur (Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2023).
The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Russian translation forthcoming.
German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007 /
paperback 2009). Winner of the H-Soz-u-Kult ‘The Historical Book of the Year’ prize for 2008, category of Contemporary History.
ANTHOLOGIES
The Holocaust Museum and Human Rights: Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, January 2025). Edited with Jennifer Barrett and Avril Alba.
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine Victims Perpetrators Justice and the Question of Genocide (Abingdon: Routledge, 2024). Contributing editor with Diana Dumitru.
Patriotic History and the (Re)Nationalization of Memory (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023).
Edited with Kornelia Kończal.
Genocide: Key Themes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022). Contributing editor with Donald Bloxham.
Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Contributing editor with Marco Duranti and Roland Burke.
The Holocaust in Greece (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). Edited with Giorgos Antoniou.
Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide: The Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967–1970 (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018).
Edited with Lasse Heerten.
Colonial Counterinsurgency and Mass Violence: The Dutch Empire in Indonesia (Abingdon: Routledge, 2014). Edited with Bart Luttikhuis.
The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). Contributing editor with Donald Bloxham.
Genocide: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies, six vols. (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010). Contributing editor.
The Modernist Imagination: News Essays in Intellectual History and Critical Theory (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009). Contributing co-editor.
Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation and Subaltern Resistance in World History (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008/paperback 2009). Contributing Editor. Winner of the H-Soz-u-Kult 'The Historical Book of the Year' prize for 2009, category of
Extra-European History. Russian translation forthcoming.
Colonialism and Genocide (London: Routledge, 2007/paperback 2008). Contributing editor with Dan Stone.
Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History (New York: Berghahn Books, 2004 /paperback 2005). Contributing editor.