Professor of History & Director of The Center for Judaic, Holocaust, & Human Rights Studies
Phone: (239) 590-1282
E-Mail: pbartrop@fgcu.edu
Office: LIB 332

Education
Ph.D., Monash
Dip. Ed., Melborne
M.A., La Trobe
B.A. Hons, La Trobe 

Research and Teaching Interests: Holocaust, Genocide Studies 

Courses Offered

• EUH 3241 The Holocaust

Books

• A Biographical Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good (ABC-CLIO, 2012).
• with Steven Leonard Jacobs, Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide (Routledge, 2011).
• with Samuel Totten, The Genocide Studies Reader (Routledge, 2009).
• with Samuel Totten and Steven Leonard Jacobs, A Dictionary of Genocide, 2 volumes (Greenwood Press, 2007).
• Co-edited with Samuel Totten and Steven Leonard Jacobs, Teaching about the Holocaust: Essays by College and University Teachers (Praeger, 2004).
• Bolt from the Blue: Australia, Britain and the Chanak Crisis (Halstead Press, 2002).
• Surviving the Camps: Unity in Adversity during the Holocaust (University Press of America, 2000).
• Editor, False Havens: The British Empire and the Holocaust (University Press of America, 1995).
• Australia and the Holocaust, 1933-45 (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 1994).
• Editor, The Dunera Affair: A Documentary Resource Book (Jewish Museum of Australia/Schwartz and Wilkinson, 1990).
• Scores, Crowds and Records: Statistics on the Victorian Football League, 1946-83 (History Project Incorporated, 1984).

Articles and Essays

• "Getting the Terminology Right: Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Crimes against Humanity in Biafra," inThe Nigeria-Biafra War: Genocide and the Politics of Memory, ed. Chima J. Korieh (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2012), 43-59.
• “Genocide, Rape and the Movies” in Rape: Weapon of War and Genocide, eds. Carol Rittner and John K. Roth (St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 2012),
• “Massacre and the Movies: Soldier Blue and the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864,” in Kristi M. Wilson and Tomas Crowder-Taraborrelli, eds,, Film and Genocide (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012), pp. 109-212.
• “‘Almost indescribable and unbelievable:’ The Garrett Report and the Future of Jewish Refugee Immigration to Australia in 1939,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 46, no. 4 (Fall 2011), pp. 549-556.
• “Portrayals of Christians in Holocaust Movies: Priests in Dachau and Volker Schlöndorff’s The Ninth Day,” Shofar, Vol. 28, no. 4 (Summer 2010), pp. 28-40.
• “Authority can take no risks: Australia and the Internment of Enemy Aliens during the Second World War,” in Emily Turner-Graham and Christine Winter, eds., National Socialism in Oceania: A Critical Evaluation of its Effect and Aftermath (Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 131-145.
• “The Ten Commandments, the Holocaust, and Reflections on Genocide,” in Steven Leonard Jacobs, ed., Confronting Genocide: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (Lexington Books, 2009), pp. 209-221.
• “The Evolution and Devolution of a World Apart: The Nazi Concentration Camps and the Holocaust,” in Steven Leonard Jacobs, ed., Maven in Blue Jeans: A Festschrift in Honor of Zev Garber (Purdue University Press, 2009), pp. 255-275.
• “After the Killing Stops: Postgenocide Societies and Issues Relating to Prevention and Intervention,” in Samuel Totten, ed., The Prevention and Intervention of Genocide. Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review, Vol. 6 (Transaction Publishers, 2008), pp. 231-253.
• with Samuel Totten, “Prevention and Intervention of Genocide in the 1990s and Early 2000s,” in Samuel Totten, ed., The Prevention and Intervention of Genocide.  Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review, Vol. 6 (Transaction Publishers, 2008), pp. 31-61.
• “La relación entre guerra y genocidio en el siglo viente: una reflexion,” Revista de Estudios sobre Genocidio, Vol. 1, no. 1 (November 2007), pp. 36-49.
• “Episodes from the Genocide of the Native Americans” (Review Essay), Genocide Studies and Prevention, Vol. 2, no. 2 (Summer 2007), pp. 183-190.
• with Samuel Totten, “The United Nations and Genocide: Prevention, Intervention, and Prosecution,” in Samuel Totten, ed., Genocide at the Millennium. Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review, Vol. 5 (Transaction Publishers, 2005), pp. 113-147.
• with Samuel Totten, “The United Nations and Genocide: Prevention, Intervention, and Prosecution,” Human Rights Review, Vol. 5, no. 4 (July-September 2004), pp. 8-31.
• with Samuel Totten, “The History of Genocide: An Overview,” in Samuel Totten, ed., Teaching about Genocide: Issues, Approaches, and Resources (Information Age Publishing, 2004), pp. 23-55.
• “Punitive Expeditions and Massacres: Gippsland, Colorado, and the Question of Genocide,” in A. Dirk Moses, ed., Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History (Berghahn Books, 2004), pp. 194-214.
• “A Little More Understanding: The Experience of a Holocaust Scholar in Australia,” in Samuel Totten, Paul R. Bartrop and Steven Leonard Jacobs, eds., Teaching about the Holocaust: Essays by College and University Teachers (Praeger, 2004), pp. 1-15.
• “The Relationship Between War and Genocide in the Twentieth Century: A Consideration,” Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 4, no. 4 (December 2002), pp. 519-532.
• “Focus on Sudan” (Review Essay), Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 3, no. 2 (June 2001), pp. 285-291.
• “The Holocaust, the Aborigines, and the Bureaucracy of Destruction: An Australian Dimension of Genocide,” Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 3, no. 1 (March 2001), pp. 75-87.
• “Before the Refugees: Foreign Immigration Policy and Australia in the 1920s,” Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, Vol. XV, part 3 (November 2000), pp. 368-385.
• “Living within the Frontier: Early Colonial Australia, Jews, and Aborigines,” in Sander L. Gilman and Milton Shain, eds., Jewries at the Frontier: Accommodation, Identity, Conflict (University of Illinois Press, 1999), pp. 91-110.
• “Jewish Emancipation in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Australian Experience,” in Malcolm J. Turnbull, ed., The Australian Jewish Experience: A Colloquium. Papers Presented on 26 August 1997 to Honour Rabbi Dr John S. Levi (Australian Jewish Historical Society, 1998), pp. 1-9.
• “The Jew on the Screen: The Jazz Singer as a Paradigm or as a Stereotype,” Australian Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 12 (1998), pp. 143-157.
• “Divergent Experiences on the Frontier: Jews and Aborigines in Early Colonial Australia,” Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, Vol. XIV, part 1 (November 1997), pp. 23-37.
• “Comparative Genocide Studies at the University of South Australia: A Report on a Course,” International Network on Holocaust and Genocide, Vol. 12, no. 3 (1997), pp. 10-12.
• “The Powhatans of Virginia and the English Invasion of America: Destruction without Genocide,” Genocide Perspectives, Vol. 1 (1997), pp. 66-108.
• with Lois Foster, “The Roots of Multiculturalism in Australia and Canada,” in Kate Burridge, Lois Foster and Gerry Turcotte, eds., Canada-Australia: Towards a Second Century of Partnership (International Council for Canadian Studies/Carleton University Press, 1997), pp. 267-286.
• “The Year of Uncertainty: Australians and the Image of Foreign Jews in 1946,” in Howard Freeman, ed., A Portion of Praise: A Festschrift to Honour John S. Levi (Progressive Jewish Cultural Fund, 1997), pp. 246-266.
• “‘These People are Undesirable ...’: Australian Responses to Refugees from Nazism before World War II,” in G. Jan Colijn and Marcia Sachs Littell, eds., Confronting the Holocaust: A Mandate for the 21st Century (University Press of America, 1997), pp. 63-80.
• “Nuremberg, Fifty Years On: What was On Trial?”, in John Perkins and Jurgen Tampke, eds., Europe: Retrospects and Prospects (Southern Highlands Publishers, 1996), pp. 55-64.
• “Education in Adversity: The Dunera Internees During the Second World War,” Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, Vol. XIII, part 1 (November 1995), pp. 79-87.
• “Canada, Australia and the Holocaust: Comparing the Refugee Record of the Two Largest Dominions,” Australian-Canadian Studies, Vol. 13, no. 1 (1995), pp. 33-47.
• “The Australian Context of Genocide: Exploring the Destruction of Aboriginal Society,” Kaurna Higher Education Journal, no. 5 (March 1995), pp. 44-53.
• “South Australia and the Nuremberg Trials: Perceptions of Inhumanity and Justice,” Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, no. 22 (1994), pp. 98-112.
• “Britain’s Colonial Empire and Jewish Refugees During the Holocaust: The Limits of Rescue Reached,” Australian Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 8, no. 2 (1994), pp. 67-84.
• “The Nuremberg Trials and the Holocaust: Crimes against Humanity as Viewed from Australia (1945-46),” Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, Vol. XII, part 3 (November 1994), pp. 606-618.
• “From Lisbon to Jamaica: A Study of British Refugee Rescue during the Second World War,” Immigrants and Minorities, Vol. 13, no. 1 (March 1994), pp 48-64.
• “Foreign Immigration between the Wars: the Role of the Public Service,” in J.J. Eddy and J.R. Nethercote, eds., Towards National Administration: Studies in Australian Administrative History (Hale and Iremonger/Royal Institute of Public Administration Australia, 1994), pp. 157-167.
• “Landscape of Death, Kingdom of Night: Children’s Literature of the Holocaust,” in Wendy Parsons and Robert Goodwin, eds., Landscape and Identity: Perspectives from Australia (Auslib Press, 1994), pp. 136-144.
• “Incompatible with Security: Enemy Alien Internees from Singapore in Australia, 1940-45,” Journal of the Australian Jewish Historical Society, Vol. XII, part 1 (November 1993), pp 149-169.
• “‘No Real Racial Problems ...’: Australia, Refugees, and the Evian Conference, 1938,” in Alice L. Eckardt, ed., Burning Memory: Times of Testing and Reckoning (Pergamon Press, 1993), pp 21-41.
• “Dealing with the Enemy at Home: The Control and Internment of Aliens in Australia during World War II,” in Judith Smart and Tony Wood, eds., An ANZAC Muster: War and Society in Australia and New Zealand 1914-18 and 1939-45 (Monash Publications in History, 1992), pp.151-162.
• “Degradation in the Concentration Camp: The Nazi Assault on the Human Condition during the Holocaust,” Australian Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. VI, no. 1 (1992), pp 103-130.
• “The Role and Record of the Australian Jewish Historical Society: How Have Australian Jews Remembered Their Past?,” Journal of the Australian Jewish Historical Society, Vol. XI, part 3 (November 1991), pp 570-580.
• “Attitudes Towards Refugees in 1939 and 1989: A Comparison,” Without Prejudice, no. 2 (February 1991), pp 14-18.
• “‘A Low Class of White People’: The Garrett Report of 1939 and Plans for Jewish Migration to Australia in the 1940s,” Menorah: Australian Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 4, nos. 1 & 2 (December 1990), pp 28-39.
• “The `Jewish Race’ Clause in Australian Immigration Forms, 1939: Reasonable or Racist?,” Journal of the Australian Jewish Historical Society, Vol. XI, part 1 (November 1990), pp 69-78.
• “The Dunera Affair: A Scandal for Whom?,” Journal of the Australian Jewish Historical Society, Vol. XI, part 1 (November 1990), pp 14-19.
• “Bruno Bettelheim and the Extreme Situation: The Debate Over Prisoner Behaviour in Nazi Concentration Camps (1943-76),” Menorah: Australian Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 3, no. 2 (December 1989), pp 32-46.
• with W.D. Rubinstein and Suzanne D. Rutland, “The Future of Australian Jewish Historiography: A Panel Discussion,” Menorah: Australian Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 3, no. 1 (July 1989), pp 29-42.
• “‘Not a problem for Australia:’ The Kristallnacht viewed from the Commonwealth, November 1938,” Journal of the Australian Jewish Historical Society, Vol. X, part 6 (May 1989), pp 489-499.
• “Indifference of the Heart: Canada, Australia and the Evian Conference of 1938,” Australian-Canadian Studies, Vol. 6, no. 2 (1989), pp 57-74.
• “Enemy Aliens or Stateless Persons? The Legal Status of Refugees from Germany in Wartime Australia,” Journal of the Australian Jewish Historical Society, Vol. X, part 4 (November 1988), pp 270-280.
• “The Premier as Advocate: A.G. Ogilvie, Tasmania and the Refugee Crisis, 1938-39,” Tasmanian Historical Research Association Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 35, no. 2 (June 1988), pp 49-57.
• “The Australian Government’s ‘Liberalisation’ of Refugee Immigration Policy in 1938: Fact or Myth?,” Menorah: Australian Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 2, no. 1 (June 1988), pp 66-82.
• “‘Good Jews’ and ‘Bad Jews:’ Australian Perceptions of Jewish Migrants and Refugees, 1919-39,” in W.D. Rubinstein, ed., Jews in the Sixth Continent (Allen and Unwin, 1987), pp.169-184.

Invited Addresses (Partial List)

• “When Good Breaks Out during Genocide: Case Studies of Heroic Acts in the Face of Evil,” Jewish Holocaust Centre, Melbourne, 1 August 2012.
• “The Kristallnacht as Seen from Australia, November 1938,” Annual Ida E. King Memorial Lecture, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, 10 November 2011.
• Keynote Address, Assyrian Genocide Martyrs’ Commemoration, Melbourne, 14 August 2011.
• Keynote Address, Assyrian Genocide Martyrs’ Commemoration, Melbourne, 8 August 2010.
• “False Havens: The British Empire and the Holocaust,” Department of History, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 25 September 2009.
• “Genocide as a Problem for Our Times: Never Again or Whenever Again?”, annual Armenian Genocide Commemorative Lecture, Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, NSW Parliament House, Sydney, 24 April 2009.
• “Remembering the Armenian Genocide after the Age of Genocide,” annual April 24 Armenian Genocide Commemoration, Sydney, 19 April 2009.
• “Recognising and Remembering the Armenian Genocide,” annual April 24 Armenian Genocide Commemoration, Melbourne, 24 April 2007.
• “A Question of Doing Right: Human Duty and the Holocaust,” annual Yom Hashoah address, Canberra, ACT, 14 April 2007.
• “Education as a Tool for Combating Genocide Denial: The Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide,” The Martin Sloane Family Lecture and Discussion, Holocaust Center of Northern California, San Francisco, 18 December 2005.
• “Genocide: A Social Problem or a Defining Characteristic of the Modern World?”, public lecture delivered at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 2 December 2004.
• “Who was the Holocaust?”, annual Yom Hashoah address, Adelaide, South Australia, 28 April 2003.
• “Genocide and the Modern World: Never Again, Ever Again, or Whether Again?”, public lecture delivered at Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand, 21 September 2001.
• “Remembering the Holocaust in an Age of Genocide,” annual Yom Hashoah address, Adelaide, South Australia, 1 May 2000.

Conference Presentations

• “When Good Breaks Out during Genocide: Case Studies of Heroic Acts in the Face of Evil,” paper presented at 3rd Global Conference on Genocide, International Network of Genocide Scholars, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, June 28-July 1, 2012.
• “The Wannsee Conference: A Decision, or a Confirmation?”, paper presented at 42nd Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY, 12-14 May 2012.
• “The Seventh Cross (1944) and the Cinematic Concentration Camp,” paper presented at Western Jewish Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 25-26 March 2012.
• “Adolf Eichmann at the Movies: An Examination of Film Portrayals of Eichmann and their Significance,” paper presented at Midwest Jewish Studies Association Annual Conference, Oakland University, Michigan, 23-24 October 2011.
• “Holocaust Studies and Genocide Studies: Is there a Difference? And if, so, Why,” paper presented at 10th International Holocaust Studies Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 19-22 October 2011.
• “`Action Equals Intent:’ The Equation of Criminal Actions with the Issue of Intention, An Historical Perspective,” paper presented at “A Contextual View of Genocidal Intent” Conference, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, 21-23 September 2011.
• “The Question of Genocide in the Nineteenth Century: Warrigal Creek, A Case Study,” paper presented at Aftermath: Holocaust Survivors in Australia, 2nd Annual Dr Jan Randa Conference in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, Melbourne, 5-6 June 2011.
• “A Landscape of Desolation: Francesco Rosi’s The Truce,” paper presented at Western Jewish Studies Association Conference, San Diego, California, 10-11 April 2011.
• “The Nuremberg Trials, 1945-1946: What was Really on Trial? Nuremberg from a Historian’s View,” paper presented at 31st Annual Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, Millersville University, Pennsylvania, 7-8 April 2011.
• “Political Realism, Sovereignty and Intervention: Is Genocide Prevention Really Possible in a World of Nation States?”, paper presented at Genocide and Mass Atrocities in the Asia-Pacific: Legacies and Prevention, Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Queensland, 21-22 March 2011.
• “Teaching History Using Movies: Values and Limitations,” paper presented at History Teachers’ Association of Victoria Middle Years Conference, Cliftons Training Centre, 440 Collins Street, Melbourne, 22 October 2010.
• “Holocaust/Genocide Education and Film: How Much is Too Much?”, paper presented at Multiple Jewish Identities: History, Language, Culture, Politics, Religion, Zionist Federation of Australia Jewish Educators’ Conference, Bialik College, 15-16 August 2010.
• “Resisting Genocide: Bisesero (Rwanda), Srebrenica (Bosnia), and the Bielskis in Poland Compared,” paper presented at 30th Annual Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, Millersville University, Pennsylvania, 14-16 April 2010.
• “Aftermath: Options for Jewish Refugee Immigration to Australia as a Wartime Issue,” paper presented at Aftermath: Holocaust Survivors in Australia, International Conference, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, Melbourne, 14-15 March 2010.
• “1939-2010: Prelude to Catastrophe – What have we Learned? A Panel Discussion,” paper presented at 40th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, St Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 6-8 March 2010.
• “Almost indescribable and unbelievable: The Garrett Report and the Future of Jewish Refugee Immigration to Australia in 1939,” paper presented at 40th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, St Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA, 6-8 March 2010.
• “Getting the Terminology Right: Revisiting the Question of Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes against Humanity in Biafra,” paper presented at The Biafra-Nigeria Civil War: Our Stories and Lessons Learned, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 25-26 September 2009.
• “The Colour of History: Thinking about Colour in Stimulating Children’s Interest in Big Historical Events,” paper presented at 2nd Culture of Thinking Conference, Bialik College, Melbourne, Victoria, 23-25 August 2009.
• “Film and Genocide: An Examination of Answered by Fire as a Way into Understanding East Timor in 1999,” paper presented at International Association of Genocide Scholars 8th Biennial Conference, George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia, 7-10 June 2009.
• “Movies and the Death Camps: The Grey Zone and Escape from Sobibor as Depictions of Resistance and Escape from the Holocaust,” paper presented at 29th Annual Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, Millersville University, Pennsylvania, 1-3 April 2009.
• “Last-Ditch Haven: Jamaica’s Role in the Re-Rescuing of Jews from the Holocaust,” paper presented at Association for Jewish Studies 40th Annual Conference, Washington DC, 21-23 December 2008.
• “Massacre and the Movies: A Consideration of Soldier Blue and the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864,” paper presented at Revisiting the Massacre in History: An Interdisciplinary Workshop, University of Newcastle, NSW, 25-26 September 2008.
• “Portrayals of Christians in Holocaust Movies: Priests in Dachau and Volker Schlöndorff’s The Ninth Day,” paper presented at Memory in a Memory-Less Age Conference, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 7-9 September 2008.
• “History and the Language of Genocide,” paper presented at Atrocities Outlawed, Human Rights Affirmed: The International Quest to Halt Genocide since 1948, 28th Annual Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, Millersville University, Pennsylvania, 2-4 April 2008
• “Empathy or Sympathy in the Human Rights Classroom: Or, Will Homer Simpson Inherit the Earth?” paper presented at A Culture of Thinking Conference, Bialik College, Melbourne, Victoria, 21-23 July 2007.
• “State Sovereignty as an Inhibition to the Stopping of Genocide: The International System and Political Realism,” paper presented at International Association of Genocide Scholars, Biennial Conference, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 9-13 July 2007.
• “‘This was not how I intended it!’ Liberation, Testimony, and Reflections by Survivors of the Nazi Concentration Camps,” paper presented at 37th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, Cleveland, Ohio, 11-13 March 2007.
• “Assuming Responsibility: The Dutch Government and the Srebrenica Massacre,” paper presented at Genocide Against Bosniaks on UN Safe Area Srebrenica, International Scientific Conference Honoring the 10th Anniversary of Genocide Committed in Srebrenica in July 1995, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 10-15 July 2005.
• “Genocide Studies Abroad: Report on Australia for Roundtable at IAGS 2005,” paper presented at International Association of Genocide Scholars, Biennial Conference, Boca Raton, Florida, 4-7 June 2005.
• “Genocide: A Social Problem or a Defining Characteristic of the Modern World?,” paper presented at International Association of Genocide Scholars, Biennial Conference, Boca Raton, Florida, 4-7 June 2005.
• “The Holocaust as a Case of Genocide: What is it About the One that Makes it an Expression of the Other?”, paper presented at 35th Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, St Joseph's University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 5-8 March 2005.
• “Sovereignty as an Inhibition to Intervention, and Hopes for the Future,” paper presented at 35th Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, St Joseph's University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 5-8 March 2005.
• “Genocide: A Social Problem or a Defining Characteristic of the Modern World?,” paper presented at Society for the Study of Social Problems, Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, 13-15 August 2004.
• “The United Nations Genocide Convention: More than Killing, Less than Everything,” paper presented at War, Culture and Humanity Conference, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, 15-17 April 2004.
• “Responsibility and Resignation: The Dutch Government and the Srebrenica Massacre,” paper presented at Australasian Association for European History, 15th Biennial Conference, University of Queensland, 7-11 July 2003.
• “Assuming Responsibility: the Srebrenica Massacre and the Resignation of the Dutch Government, 16 April 2002,” paper presented at International Association of Genocide Scholars, Biennial Conference, Irish Human Rights Centre, University of Galway, Ireland, 7-10 June 2003.
• “Genocide and Human Rights Education: An Australian Perspective,” paper presented at 33rd Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, St Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1-4 March 2003.
• “The Death Camps as the Defining Aspect of ‘Holocaust Uniqueness,’” paper presented at Australian Association of Jewish Studies, 15th Annual Conference, University of Sydney, 16-17 February 2003.
• “Holocaust Education and Genocide Education in the Jewish School,” paper presented at Zionist Federation of Australia, National Australasian Jewish Educators’ Conference 2002, Bialik College (Melbourne), 20-22 July 2002.
• “Teaching the Holocaust Using Movies: Quick Fix, or Window to Understanding?” paper presented at 32nd Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, Kean University, Union, New Jersey, 2-5 March 2002.
• “Australian Responses to Jewish Refugees from Nazism Before the Second World War: A Religious Issue?” paper presented at Religion and Bigotry in Australia, 1865-1950 conference conducted by the Freilich Foundation, Australian National University, Canberra, 7-9 December 2001.
• “‘Two Different Activities’: Reflections on Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Bosnian War”, paper presented at Australasian Association for European History, Biennial Conference, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 9-12 July 2001.
• “Australia, the Genocidal Democracy: A Case Study Which Disproves the Rule,” paper presented at Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (AAS) Workshop “The Genocide Effect,” St Paul’s College, University of Sydney, 4-5 July 2001.
• “Education as a Tool for Combating Genocide Denial,” paper presented at Association of Genocide Scholars, Fourth Biennial Conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 10-12 June 2001.
• “The Future of Holocaust Denial: Education and Denial,” panel discussant at 31st Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, St Joseph’s University, Pennsylvania, 3-6 March 2001.
• “The Philosemitism of Harry James Cargas (1932-98): Jewish Suffering, Christian Guilt and the Shoah,” paper presented at Australian Association of Jewish Studies, 13th Annual Conference, University of New South Wales, 11-12 February 2001.
• “The Relationship Between War and Genocide: A Consideration,” paper presented at A Century of Killing: Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the 20th Century conference, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, 10-12 October 2000.
• “Education as a Tool for Combating Holocaust Denial,” paper presented at WIZO (Women's International Zionist Organization) War against Holocaust Denial symposium, Melbourne, 10 September 2000.
• “‘The Composition of the Future Population’: Aboriginal Assimilation and Jewish Immigration Restriction during the 1930s,” paper presented at 2000 History and Sociology of Eugenics Conference, Newcastle, NSW, 26-28 April 2000.
• “Australia as a Site of Genocide: The Holocaust, Aboriginal Destruction and the Expression of a Genocidal Culture,” paper presented at 30th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, St Joseph's University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 4-7 March 2000.
• “Survivor Testimonies as Historical Documents: The Holocaust through the Eyes of Those Who Were There,” paper presented at Australian Association of Jewish Studies, 12th Annual Conference, Melbourne, 7-8 November 1999.
• “Teaching Genocide Studies in School and University: Differing Approaches, Similar Outcomes,” paper presented at Association of Genocide Scholars, Third Biennial Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 13-15 June 1999.
• “The Holocaust and the `Black Armband’ Critique of History: An Australian Perspective,” paper presented at 29th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, Long Island, New York, 6-9 March 1999.
• “‘We’re doing genocide’: Teaching Comparative Genocide Studies as Part of the Secondary Curriculum,” paper presented at Association of Principals of Jewish Schools of Australasia, Fifth Biennial Conference on Education, Melbourne, 12-14 July 1998.
• “Dwelling on the Past, or Remembering for the Future: Reflections on the Memorialisation of the Holocaust in the 1990s,” paper presented at Australian Association of Jewish Studies, 11th Annual Conference, Melbourne, 13-14 July 1997.
• “Holocaust Denial and the Jewish Student: Dealing with the `Revisionists’”, paper presented at Jewish Educators' Network/Zionist Federation of Australia, National Australian Education Conference, Melbourne, 8-9 June 1997.
• “Living Within the Frontier: Jews and Aborigines in Colonial Southeastern Australia,” paper presented at Jewries at the Frontier Conference, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 11-14 August 1996.
• “‘These people are undesirable’: Australian Responses to Refugees from Nazism before World War II,” paper presented at 26th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 3-5 March 1996.
• “Australia, Nuremberg and the Holocaust: Atrocity and Punishment Viewed from Down Under,” paper presented at 15th Annual Conference on the Holocaust, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, 14-15 April 1996.
• “Nuremberg, Fifty Years On: What was on Trial?” paper presented at Australasian Association for European Historians, Tenth Biennial Conference, University of New South Wales, 12-15 July 1995.
• “‘You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!’: The Three Movie Versions of The Jazz Singer Compared,” paper presented at Australian Association for Jewish Studies, Ninth Annual Conference, Melbourne, 9-11 July 1995.
• “Democide, Genocide and Holocaust: Tightening Up Some Loose Usage,” paper presented at Australian Association for Jewish Studies, Ninth Annual Conference, Melbourne, 9-11 July 1995.
• “Canada, Australia and the Holocaust: Comparing the Refugee Record of the Two Largest Dominions,” paper presented at Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand, Biennial Conference, La Trobe University, 16-18 February 1995.
• “Indigenous Peoples Under Colonialism: Genocide, Ethnocide or Something Else?” paper presented at The Australian Sociological Association (TASA), Annual Conference 1994, Deakin University, 7-10 December 1994.
• “Win Some, Lose Some: Britain’s Colonial Empire during the Holocaust,” paper presented at Australian Association for Jewish Studies, 8th Annual Conference, University of New South Wales, 2-5 July 1994.
• “The Nuremberg Trials as Viewed from Australia: Perceptions of Inhumanity and Justice,” paper presented at Australian Association for Jewish Studies, 8th Annual Conference, University of New South Wales, 2-5 July 1994.
• “Landscape of Death, Kingdom of Night: Children’s Literature of the Holocaust,” paper presented at Landscape and Identity Conference, University of South Australia Centre for Children’s Literature, Adelaide, 25-27 February 1994.
• “‘Selected by Providence’: Sir Nevile Henderson and British Appeasement in 1939,” paper presented at Australasian Modern British History Association, 8th Biennial Conference, University of Adelaide, 22-23 July 1993.
• “From Lisbon to Jamaica: Rescue from the Holocaust in 1942,” paper presented at Australian Association for Jewish Studies, 7th Annual Conference, Adelaide, 10-13 July 1993.
• “Australian Newspaper Reporting of the Holocaust: What was Known?” paper presented at Australian Association for Jewish Studies, 7th Annual Conference, Adelaide, 10-13 July 1993.
• with Lois Foster, “Exploring the Roots of Multiculturalism: Official Perspectives on Ethnic Interaction in Australia and Canada under War-Time Conditions,” paper presented at Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand, Biennial Conference, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, 14-16 December 1992.
• “The Australian Student Christian Movement and Education in Adversity: The Case of Internees in Australian Camps during the Second World War,” paper presented at 21st Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society, St Mark’s College, Adelaide, 1-4 October 1992.
• “Double Standards and Inconsistencies: Australian Policy towards European Jews during the Second World War,” paper presented at 1992 International Congress for the Study of Religion, University of Melbourne, 12-17 July 1992.
• “‘This is mass murder!’: Australian Press Responses to the Attack on the King David Hotel, 22 July 1946,” paper presented at Australian Association for Jewish Studies, Fifth Annual Conference, University of Melbourne, 6-9 July 1991.
• “Australian Jewish Historiography and the Role of the Australian Jewish Historical Society: How Do Australian Jews Remember Their Past?” paper presented at Canadian Jewish Historical Society, Annual Conference, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 4-6 June, 1991.
• “A Marriage on the Rocks: British, French and Italian Support for Greece in Turkey, 1918-22,” paper presented at Australasian Association for European History, Biennial Conference, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, 12-15 February 1991.
• “Dealing with the Enemy at Home: The Control and Internment of Aliens During the Second World War,” paper presented at “An ANZAC Muster” Conference, Monash University/Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, 20-23 September 1990.
• “Investigating War Crimes in Canada and Australia: The Deschenes Commission and the Menzies Inquiry,” paper presented at Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand Conference 1990, Biennial Conference, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 19-22 July 1990.
• “‘A Low Class of White People’: The Garrett Report of 1939 and Plans for Jewish Migration to Australia in the 1940s,” paper presented at Australian Association for Jewish Studies, Fourth Annual Conference, University of New South Wales, 15-18 July 1990.
• “`Mismanaged, Inflexible and Irresponsible’: British Foreign Policy and the Chanak Crisis, September 1922,” paper presented at Australasian Modern British Historians Association Conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 6-8 July 1989.
• “Bruno Bettelheim and the Extreme Situation: The Debate over Prisoner Behaviour in Nazi Concentration Camps (1943-79),” paper presented at Australian Association for Jewish Studies, Third Annual Conference, University of Melbourne, 2-5 July 1989.
• “The ‘Jewish Race’ Clause in Australian Immigration Forms, 1939: Reasonable or Racist?” paper presented at Australian Association for Jewish Studies, Third Annual Conference, University of Melbourne, 2-5 July 1989.
• “‘Not a problem for Australia’: The Kristallnacht Viewed from  the Commonwealth, November 1938,” paper presented at Australian Association for Jewish Studies, Second Annual Conference, University of New South Wales, 24-27 July 1988.
• “Drawing the Line Somewhere: The Dominions and Refugee Immigration in the 1930s,” paper presented at Association of Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand Conference 1988, Biennial Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, 22-24 June 1988.
• “‘No real racial problems ...’: Australia and the Evian Conference, 1938,” paper presented at Eighteenth Annual Scholars Conference on the Holocaust and the Church Struggle, Washington DC, 6-8 March 1988.
• “The Australian Government’s ‘Liberalisation’ of Refugee Immigration Policy in 1938: Fact or Myth?” paper presented at Australian Association for Jewish Studies, Inaugural Conference, Melbourne, 10-13 August 1987.
• “The Australian Bureaucracy and the Management of Foreign Immigration between the Two World Wars,” paper presented at Royal Australian Institute of Public Administration, Third National Conference on Administrative History, Australian National University, Canberra, 17-18 November 1986.
• “The Premier as Advocate: A.G. Ogilvie and Refugees from Europe, 1938-39,” paper presented at Australian Historical Association, Biennial Conference, Adelaide, 25-29 August 1986.
• “The Jewish Stereotype in Canada and Australia: Its Past and its Future,” paper presented at Association of Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand Conference 1986, Biennial Conference, Griffith University, Brisbane, 14-16 May 1986.
• “‘Military considerations take precedence over all others’: Refugees, Enemy Aliens, and Australian Security, 1939-42,” paper presented at Australian War Memorial Fifth Annual Military History Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, 12-15 February, 1985.
• “Recent Trends in Holocaust Research: Or, ‘Holocaustology,’ and How to Avoid it,” paper presented at Australian Historical Association, Biennial Conference, University of Melbourne, 27-31 August 1984.
• “Rituals of Degradation in the Concentration Camp: The Systematisation of Terror during the Holocaust,” paper presented at The German-Jewish Experience: Eighth Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference, Sydney, 27-29 July, 1984.

Grants and Awards

• Member of the Board of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association, 2012.
• Assyrian Community of Victoria Excellence Award, 2011
• Friend of the Armenian Community, Melbourne, 2008
• Supported Researcher, University of South Australia, 1996
• Nomination for United States National Jewish Book Award for False Havens: The British Empire and the Holocaust, 1995
• Honorary Life Membership, Jewish Museum of Australia, 1990