Paul R. Bartrop, PhD

pbartrop@fgcu.edu

Dr. Paul Bartrop is recognized as one of the world's leading scholars of the Holocaust and genocide. He is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida. In 2011-2012 he was the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Richard Stockton College, New Jersey.

Between 1997 and 2011 he taught, and was then Head of the Department of History, at Bialik College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. At Bialik he taught a range of subjects in History, Jewish Studies, International Studies, and Comparative Genocide Studies. Concurrently, he was for many years an Honorary Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University, Melbourne. He has previously been a Scholar-in-Residence at the Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust, Tolerance and Humanitarian Values at Northern Arizona University, and a Visiting Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. In Australia, he taught at the University of South Australia, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and Monash University.

His latest work is entitled An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide Biography: Portraits of Evil and Good (2012). His major current project is Experiencing Genocide: Personal Accounts from Victims, Perpetrators, and Witnesses (a project being undertaken at the invitation of ABC-CLIO), and an ongoing project, The Holocaust and Genocide through Movies: Armenia and the Holocaust to Rwanda and Darfur.

His published works include Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide (2010), The Genocide Studies Reader (2009); A Dictionary of Genocide (2 vols) (2008); Teaching about the Holocaust: Essays by University and College Educators (2004); Bolt from the Blue: Australia, Britain and the Chanak Crisis (2002); Surviving the Camps: Unity in Adversity During the Holocaust (2000); False Havens: The British Empire and the Holocaust (1995); Australia and the Holocaust, 1933-1945 (1994); and The Dunera Affair: A Documentary Resource Book (1990).

In addition, he has published numerous scholarly articles in journals and books. He is a member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars; the Australian representative on the International Committee of the Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust; a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the international journal Genocide Studies and Prevention; a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies; and a member of the Advisory Board of the Genocide Education Project, California. Paul R. Bartrop is a Past President of the Australian Association of Jewish Studies.