Prof Donald Bloxham

One of my broad areas of research interest is the perpetration, punishment and representation/memory of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. I have written in depth on the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide and the post-Second World War war crimes trials, and on the comparative study of genocide. I am also interested more generally in political violence as broadly interpreted, and am currently concluding a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship which has focused on that topic – a study of political violence across the world since 1945.

The other broad area of research interest is the nature of history itself. So far this has resulted in two volumes, one concerned with the very point of studying the past and the other with the role of moral judgements in the writing of history.