A. Dirk Moses

A. Dirk Moses
Moses during a presentation at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin in 2010
Born
Anthony Dirk Moses

1967 (age 56–57)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Parents
Academic background
Education
ThesisThe Forty-fivers[1] (2000)
Doctoral advisorMartin Jay
Academic work
Discipline
Sub-discipline
Institutions
Notable worksThe Problems of Genocide
Notable ideasRacial century
German catechism
Websitedirkmoses.com

Anthony Dirk Moses (born 1967) is an Australian scholar who researches various aspects of genocide. In 2022 he became the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of Political Science at the City College of New York, after having been the Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[2][3] He is a leading scholar of genocide, especially in colonial contexts, as well as of the political development of the concept itself.[4] He is known for coining the term racial century in reference to the period 1850–1950.[5] He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Genocide Research.

  1. ^ Moses, Anthony Dirk (2000). The Forty-fivers: The Languages of Republicanism and the Foundation of West Germany, 1945–1977 (PhD thesis). Berkeley, California: University of California, Berkeley. OCLC 47068134.
  2. ^ "A. Dirk Moses". The City College of New York. 25 July 2022. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  3. ^ "A. Dirk Moses Faculty Page". UNC History Department. Archived from the original on 5 August 2020. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  4. ^ Moses, A. Dirk (2021). The problems of genocide : permanent security and the language of transgression. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-316-21730-6. OCLC 1159607278.
  5. ^ Anne Fuchs, Jonathan James Long, W.G. Sebald and the Writing of History, p. 110, Königshausen & Neumann, 2007. The term is used in an essay Moses published in 2002: “Conceptual Blockages and Definitional Dilemmas in the Racial Century: Genocide of Indigenous Peoples and the Holocaust,” Patterns of Prejudice, 36:4 (2002), 7-36. Extracted in Berel Lang and Simone Gigliotti, eds., The Holocaust: A Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), 449-63.