Dirk Moses is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of Political Science. He researches different aspect of genocide. 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. He has also taught at the University of Sydney and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
While completing his first book, German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (2007), he edited three anthologies on genocide and colonialism: Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children (2004), Colonialism and Genocide (2007), and Empire, Colony Genocide: Conquest, Occupation and Subaltern Resistance in World History (2008). Since then, he has been researching postcolonial conflict in Africa and South Asia for his project on the “Diplomacy of Genocide.” His investigation of the origins and function of the genocide concept appears in his second monograph, The Problems of Genocide (2021). Dirk is also working on a book called “Genocide and the Terror of History” about traumatic memory and the constitution of genocidal subjectivities.
Dirk has held fellowships at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; at the (opens in a new window)Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C; and at the (opens in a new window)Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam as an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow. He was a visiting fellow at the (opens in a new window)WZB Center for Global Constitutionalism in Berlin in September-October 2019, and senior fellow at the (opens in a new window)Lichtenberg-Kolleg in Göttingen in the winter of 2019-20.
Dirk has been senior editor of the (opens in a new window)Journal of Genocide Research since 2011, and co-edits the War and Genocide book series for (opens in a new window)Berghahn Books. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal (opens in a new window)of African Military History(opens in a new window), (opens in a new window)Journal (opens in a new window)of Perpetrator Research, (opens in a new window)Patterns of Prejudice, (opens in a new window)Memory Studies, (opens in a new window)Journal of Mass Violence Research, and (opens in a new window)Monitor: Global Intelligence of Racism. He also serves on advisory board of the (opens in a new window)Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, the (opens in a new window)Memory Studies Association, and the (opens in a new window)RePast project.