Dirk Moses

Professor of Global and Colonial History (19th-20th centuries)

Tel. [+39] 055 4685 587/362
Fax [+39] 055 4685 203

Email: Dirk.Moses@eui.eu 

Secretary Kathy Wolf Fabiani 

Postal address:

Department of History and Civilization
Via Boccaccio 121 - 50133 Florence - Italy
Villino - Office VL 29 

Personal Homepage 

 

Office Hours

For appointments please contact: Kathy Wolf Fabiani 

 Fields of Research

• Global, Transnational, International, and Colonial History

• Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing

• Memory Studies

• Intellectual History

• Modern Germany

 Languages

English and German

 Current Seminars at EUI

• The Partitions of Europe, Palestine, and India after World War II  - Autumn Term 2011/2012
• New Topics and Methods for International History in a Globalized World  (with Profs. F. Romero and A. Gfeller - RSCAS) - Autumn Term 2011/2012
• Thesis Writing Seminar  (with Prof. H-G. Haupt) - Spring Term 2011/2012
• Approaches to Intellectual History  (with Prof. M. van Gelderen) - Spring Term 2011/2012

 Current Research Projects

• Genocide and the Terror of History: a study of memory, trauma, colonialism, and the historiography of genocide

• The Diplomacy of Genocide: a study of the ‘international community’s’ reaction to allegations of genocide in decolonized states in Asia and Africa in the 1960s and 1970s 

 Selected Recent Publications 

Monograph

• German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007/paperback 2009).

Anthologies

• Genocide: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies, 6 vols., 2,400pp. (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010).
• The Oxford Handbook on Genocide Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). Co-editor.
• The Modernist Imagination: New Essays in Intellectual History and Critical Theory (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009). Co-editor.
• Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008/paperback 2009).

 

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

• “Paranoia and Partisanship: Genocide Studies, Holocaust Historiography and the ‘Apocalyptic Conjuncture’,” The Historical Journal, 54:2 (2011), 615-645.
•  “Official Apologies, Reconciliation, and Settler Colonialism: Australian Indigenous Alterity and Political Agency,” Citizenship Studies, 15:2 (April 2011), 145-159. 
• “Time, Indigeneity, and Peoplehood: The Postcolony in Australia,” Postcolonial Studies, 13:1 (2010), 31-54.
• “Besatzung, Kolonialherrschaft und Widerstand: Das Völkerrecht und die Legitimierung von Terror,” Peripherie: Zeitschrift für Politik und Ökonomie in der Dritten Welt, 116 (December 2009), 399-424.