A. Dirk Moses
Professor
Anne & Bernard Spitzer Chair in International Relations
Areas of Expertise/Research
- Genocide
- Human Rights
Building
NAC
Office
4/135
Phone
2126505223

A. Dirk Moses
Profile
A. Dirk Moses is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations at the City College of New York, CUNY. He is a scholar of genocide and international affairs, memory studies and modern Germany.
Raised in Brisbane, Australia, he was educated at the Universities of Queensland (B.A. 1987), St. Andrews (M.Phil. 1990), Notre Dame (M.A. 1994), and California, Berkeley (Ph.D. 2000). Before coming to City College, he was the Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from July 2000 to July 2022. Between 2000-2010 and 2016-2020, he taught at the . He held the Chair of Global and Colonial History at the , Florence, from 2011 to 2015.
Dirk has written extensively in the fields of genocide and memory studies. His latest book, , appeared in 2021. An updated and abridged German version was published in 2023 as .
Recent anthologies include (2025), (2024), (2023), and (2022).
He has held fellowships at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; at the in Washington, D.C; and at the in Potsdam as an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow.
Dirk has been senior editor of the since 2011, and co-edits the War and Genocide book series for . He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal , , , and the . He also serves on advisory board of the , the , and the project.
Education
PhD University of California at Berkeley, 2000.
MA University of Notre Dame, 1994.
MPhil University of St. Andrews,1990.
BA University of Queensland, 1987.
Courses Taught
PSC 25900 Human Rights and Human Wrongs
PSC 31266 Genocide in Global Perspective
PSC 35800 Humanitarian Intervention
PSC 31167 Colonialism and Violence
Publications
MONOGRAPHS
(Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2023).
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Russian translation forthcoming.
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007 /
paperback 2009). Winner of the H-Soz-u-Kult prize for 2008, category of Contemporary History.
ANTHOLOGIES
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, January 2025). Edited with Jennifer Barrett and Avril Alba.
(Abingdon: Routledge, 2024). Contributing editor with Diana Dumitru.
(Abingdon: Routledge, 2023).
Edited with Kornelia Ko艅czal.
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022). Contributing editor with Donald Bloxham.
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Contributing editor with Marco Duranti and Roland Burke.
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). Edited with Giorgos Antoniou.
(Abingdon: Routledge, 2018).
Edited with Lasse Heerten.
(Abingdon: Routledge, 2014). Edited with Bart Luttikhuis.
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). Contributing editor with Donald Bloxham.
, six vols. (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010). Contributing editor.
(New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009). Contributing co-editor.
(New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008/paperback 2009). Contributing Editor. Winner of the H-Soz-u-Kult '' prize for 2009, category of
Extra-European History. Russian translation forthcoming.
(London: Routledge, 2007/paperback 2008). Contributing editor with Dan Stone.
(New York: Berghahn Books, 2004 /paperback 2005). Contributing editor.