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Education
BA, University of Queensland, 1987
MPhil, University of St. Andrews, 1990
MA, University of Notre Dame, 1994
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2000
Research Interests
Raised in Australia of parents with professional interests in German history, Dirk naturally gravitated to the study of the Australian and German pasts. 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. In his spare time, he edits the Journal of Genocide Research.
Recent Public Engagements
"Nazism, Socialism and the Falsification of History" ABC Religion and Ethics, August 19, 2018.
Nazism, Socialism and the Falsification of History
Some Notable Publications
Courses Taught (as schedule allows)
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HIST 508.001: Europe and Humanitarian Aid
HIST 178h.002: Liberalism, Socialism and Fascism in Europe
HIST 152: European History since 1650
HIST 466: Modern European Intellectual History