Dirk Moses

Professor
Dirk Moses
Born 1967
Brisbane
Nationality Australian
Fields Modern history
Institutions

Anthony Dirk Moses (born 1967 in Brisbane) is an Australian historian. He is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sydney[1] and Professor of Global and Colonial History at the European University Institute.[2] He is widely regarded as a leading expert on the history of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and on the history of colonialism, especially genocide in colonial contexts. He is known for coining the term "the racial century" in reference to the period 1850–1950.[3] He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Genocide Research.

He received his BA in History, Government, and Law at the University of Queensland in 1987, an M Phil in Early Modern European History at the University of St. Andrews in 1989, an MA in Modern European History at Notre Dame University in 1994, and a PhD in Modern European History at the University of California, Berkeley in 2000.

He is the son of the noted historian John A. Moses and of the former Chancellor of the University of Canberra Ingrid Moses.

Contributions

References

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  2. Dirk Moses
  3. Anne Fuchs, Jonathan James Long, W.G. Sebald and the Writing of History, p. 110, Königshausen & Neumann, 2007
  4. World cat book page

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