Christopher Browning
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Frank Porter Graham
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Research Interests
Professor Browning joined the UNC-CH faculty in the Fall of 1999. His publications include: Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 (2004); Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (1992); The Path to Genocide (1992); Fateful Months: Essays on the Emergence of the Final Solution (1985); and The Final Solution and the German Foreign Office (1978). In the Spring of 1999, he gave the George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures at Cambridge University, which have been published under the title Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers (2000). In the spring of 2002, he delivered the first George Mosse Lectures at the University of Wisconsin, which have been published as Collected Memories: Holocaust History and Postwar Testimony. He is also working on a case study of the Jewish factory slave labor camps in Starachowice in central Poland, based on nearly 265 survivor testimonies.
Graduate Students Advised by Christopher Browning
- Waitman Beorn
- Ricky Law (co-advised by Miles Fletcher)
- Kevin Mason
- Michael Meng (co-advised by Konrad Jarausch)
- David Pizzo
- Richards Plavnieks
- Eric Steinhart
- Patrick Tobin
- Jennifer Walcoff (co-advised by Konrad Jarausch)
Courses Offered (As Schedule Allows)
For current course listings, consult the Directory of Classes.
- HIST 262 -- History of the Holocaust
- HIST 463 -- Germany since 1918
- HIST 774 -- European History 1919-1945
Contact
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of History
CB #3195, Hamilton Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195
cbrownin@email.unc.edu

