Holocaust Research Institute

Our core staff include internationally recognised scholars Dan Stone, Simone Gigliotti, Robert Eaglestone, Barry Langford; previous members of staff include the late David Cesarani amongst others. The Institute promotes a highly active research culture; in the last two years alone, our staff have collectively published over 50 monographs, edited volumes and academic journal articles, as well as regularly contributing to conferences and both national and international media.

The Institute is proud to work with institutions such as The Wiener Holocaust Library, Yad Vashem, the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure on a regular basis.

Academic research and discussion are at the very heart of the Institute; we organise a variety of events including termly research workshops, postgraduate seminars and conferences. Our biennial ten-day residential Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilisation, open to doctoral students and early career researchers, is supported by the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University, USA, and Pears Foundation. The Institute also benefits from support from the Toni Schiff Memorial Fund, most notably its provision of a Schiff Visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies to deliver public lectures and workshops for students.

Furthermore, every January, we hold the David Cesarani Holocaust Memorial Lecture, an annual public lecture marking Holocaust Memorial Day and honouring our late colleague, who died in October 2015. Recent speakers have included Michael Rothberg, Rachel Seiffert, Shirli Gilbert and Lyndsey Stonebridge.

Members of the Institute hold advisory roles for various bodies in the governmental, cultural heritage and charity sectors, both nationally and internationally. Professor Stone chairs the academic advisory board for the redesigned Holocaust Galleries at Imperial War Museum, London; is a member of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust’s Experts Reference Group; and sits on the UK Oversight Committee of the Arolsen Archives (formerly the International Tracing Service). Professor Eaglestone is a member of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation Academic Advisory Board, whilst Dr Jinks is Chair of Trustees for the Armenian Institute. 

Our staff are frequently called upon to advise and contribute to the media, including the BBC, Channel 4, The Independent and The Guardian. Professor Eaglestone regularly writes articles and reviews for Times Higher Education, whilst Professor Stone is a frequent contributor to the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right’s blog. In 2019, Institute staff curated the Toni Schiff Documentary Strand at the UK Jewish Film Festival. In recent years, the Holocaust Research Institute has also hosted notable figures such as actor Sir Ben Kingsley and novelist Rachel Seiffert to discuss their life and works.

Royal Holloway is the only university in the UK to run an MA course solely dedicated to the field of Holocaust Studies. It is taught by members of several different Royal Holloway departments and offers a wide interdisciplinary approach to the subject. Our staff also supervise a large number of PhD students, currently working on topics as diverse as atrocity photography, microhistories of the Holocaust, representations of camps in literature and the involvement of Holocaust historians in the courtroom.

Our graduates have gone on to careers in a wide number of fields, such as academia, not-for-profit organisations, curation, education and the civil service. Many continue to publish books and journal articles, whilst others volunteer for organisations such as London's Jewish Museum, the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, the Holocaust Educational Trust and the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Please contact Dr Simone Gigliotti for all MA Holocaust Studies enquiries and Professor Dan Stone for doctoral programme enquiries.

We research in a range of disciplines, including all aspects of the history of Nazism, the persecution and mass murder of the Jews and other victims of Nazi racial-biological policies, as well as responses to Nazism; refugee studies; Holocaust-related literary and cultural studies, media studies and philosophy; and comparative genocide. We welcome graduates in any of these areas, especially students with interdisciplinary projects or with projects that engage with other genocides.

For a list of our publications please click here.

We were shocked and saddened by the death of Professor David Cesarani in October 2015, aged just 58. Professor Cesarani was an integral part of the Holocaust Research Institute and its activity, establishing connections with and obtaining sponsorship from organisations and institutions across the world.

Professor Cesarani was a pioneering historian and one of the world's leading experts on Jewish history, particularly regarding the history of the Holocaust. He wrote several books, including The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841-1991 (1991); Eichmann: His Life and Crimes (2004); and Major Farran's Hat: Murder, Scandal and Britain's War Against Jewish Terrorism (2009). His final work, Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949, was published in January 2016.

Professor Cesarani also played a key role in Holocaust education and remembrance in the UK. He was a member of the Home Office Holocaust Memorial Day Strategic Group, which saw the creation of a national Holocaust Memorial Day. He wrote a number of educational resources for use in schools and teacher training, and made frequent appearances on television and radio. In 2005, Professor Cesarani was awarded an OBE for services to Holocaust education.

Our thoughts remain with his wife, Dawn, and his two children, Daniel and Hannah. He will be greatly missed by all of us at the Holocaust Research Institute. May he rest in peace.

Dan Stone is a historian of modern Europe with a particular interest in history of ideas. He studied at the University of Oxford where he was a Junior Research Fellow at New College (1996-1999) and a lecturer at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (1997-1999) and has been at Royal Holloway since 1999. Dan is chair of the academic advisory board for the redesigned Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museum, London; a member of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust’s Experts Reference Group, and a member of the UK oversight committee of the Arolsen Archives (formerly International Tracing Service).

Professor Stone is the author of some eighty scholarly articles and ten books, including: Responses to Nazism in Britain 1933-1939: Before War and Holocaust (Palgrave, 2003), Histories of the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 2010), Goodbye to All That? The Story of Europe since 1945 (Oxford University Press, 2014), The Liberation of the Camps: The End and Aftermath of the Holocaust (Yale University Press, 2015), Concentration Camps: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2019), and Fascism, Nazism and the Holocaust: Challenging Histories (Routledge, 2021). He is also the editor of eight books, including The Historiography of the Holocaust (Palgrave, 2004), The Holocaust and Historical Methodology (Berghahn, 2012) and The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History (Oxford University Press, 2012).

From 2016-2019, Professor Stone held a three-year Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship, working on a project on the International Tracing Service. The resulting monograph, Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after the Holocaust and World War II, will be published by OUP. He is also completing a book on the Holocaust for Penguin’s Pelican series and is co-editor (with Mark Roseman) of Volume 1 of the forthcoming Cambridge History of the Holocaust.

Research interests

• The history and historiography of the Holocaust
• Genocide studies
• History of race theory, eugenics and anthropology
• The cultural history of the right in Britain; theory of history.

Contact

Email d.stone@royalholloway.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1784 443310.

Simone Gigliotti is Senior Lecturer in Holocaust Studies. Before joining Royal Holloway, she was based in the History Programme at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (from 2004-2016). She has also held temporary positions at the University of Melbourne, and the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, and received fellowships from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. Having written on a broad range of topics, her prevalent focus remains unearthing and analysing the victim and survivor experience in oral, written, visual and geographical accounts, and exploring how these accounts often intersect with, and differ from, perpetrator, humanitarian, and other witnessing perspectives. Her research has included studies of Jewish transmigration in the Asia-Pacific and Caribbean regions, and more recently, studies of inter-faith humanitarian relief across South-East Asia in post-conflict settings. She is the co-editor of two recent publications, A Companion to the Holocaust (Wiley, 2020) and The Holocaust in the 21st Century: Relevance and Challenges in the Digital Age (Lessons & Legacies, Volume XIV, Northwestern University Press, 2021). She is currently finalising a monograph about visual representations of Jewish refugees and displaced persons from Nazi-era to post-war Europe (On the Trail of the Homeseeker: The Holocaust and the Cinema of the Displaced), and developing new research projects on the displacement cartographies of survivors of conflict, and the Holocaust's maritime history, geography, and relief networks. 

Research interests

• The Holocaust: history, geography, representation 
• Visual and object narratives (photography, film, art, immersive practice) 
• Jewish refugee, migration, and displacement histories 
• Testimony and witnessing 
• Spatial history and digital humanities
• Children as victims of war and genocide 
• Cultural genocide 

Contact

Email simone.gigliotti@royalholloway.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1784 414230.

Robert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London and works on contemporary literature and literary theory, contemporary philosophy and on Holocaust and Genocide studies. He was Deputy Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway 2000-2016. He is the author of seven books, including The Holocaust and the Postmodern (Oxford UP 2004), The Broken Voice: Reading Post-Holocaust Literature (Oxford UP, 2017) and editor or co-editor of ten further books including Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film (Palgrave 2008) and The Future of Trauma Theory (Routledge 2013). He is the Series Editor of Routledge Critical Thinkers. His work has been translated into seven languages, which has 41 volumes to date. He is a member of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation Academic Advisory Board and has advised DfE, OfQual, QCDA, and been a Literary Advisor to the British Council. He is on the Executive committee of the Forum for Philosophy. His national media appearances include ‘In Our Time’, ‘Great Lives’ and the ‘Today’ programme and he writes in the national and educational press. He is on REF Panel 27, and is a Fellow of the English Association, Higher Education Academy and an AHRC Peer Assessor. He is a National Teaching Fellow (awarded 2014).

Research interests

• Contemporary literature and literary theory
• Contemporary philosophy
• Holocaust and Genocide studies.

Contact

Email r.eaglestone@royalholloway.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1784 443746.

Barry Langford is a practicing professional screenwriter. His original short screenplay Torte Bluma was filmed in New York in summer 2004, with a cast including Stellan Skarsgaard and Simon McBurney, and premiered at the 2005 Edinburgh Film Festival. Torte Bluma was judged Best Drama at the 2005 Los Angeles International Short Film Festival and Best Film at the 2005 Palm Springs International Shorts Festival. Barry is the co-creator and co-author of the 6-part ITV drama series The Frankenstein Chronicles. His major publications are Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond (Edinburgh University Press, 2005) and Post-Classical Hollywood: Film Industry, Style and Ideology since 1945 (Edinburgh University Press, 2010). The essay collection Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film (co-edited with Robert Eaglestone) was published in 2007.

Recent and forthcoming work includes essays on Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and the Holocaust; "revisionist" Westerns; suburban sexualities; narrative reversal as redemption in Holocaust film; Chris Marker’s politics; urban apocalypse and the theory of Michel de Certeau; time and narrative in The Lord of the Rings; national identity in George Lucas’ American Graffiti; the political unconscious of TV sitcoms; contemporary Holocaust film; and the theorisation of screenwriting. Barry is currently preparing Darkness Visible, a study of Holocaust film.

Research interests

• Critical theory
• Representations of the Holocaust in film and television
• Theories of mass culture
• Urban studies
• Postmodernism
• Post-classical Hollywood
• Film genre, especially the Western, science fiction film, and war films.

Contact

Email b.langford@royalholloway.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1784 443833.

Before joining Royal Holloway, Becky Jinks worked at the University of East Anglia and the University of Exeter. Dr Jinks’ first study, Representing Genocide: The Holocaust as Paradigm? (Bloomsbury, 2016) critically compares representations of genocide in film, literature, photography and memorialisation in order to explore how the representation of the Holocaust has influenced and shaped – or otherwise – the representation of other genocides. More recent and forthcoming work focuses mostly on modern Europe and its borderlands, for example Becky is completing a study of humanitarian relief, gender, and photography after the Armenian genocide, and also currently working on a social history of humanitarianism in Europe immediately following the First World War. Future research projects include a study of urban violence during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.

Research interests

• The history and representation of genocide
• The history of humanitarianism
• Social history approaches
• Gender histories
• Photographs as sources for historians.

Contact

Email rebecca.jinks@royalholloway.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1784 443310.

Paris Chronakis is Lecturer in Modern Greek History at Royal Holloway, University of London, having previously taught at Brown University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. His work explores questions of transition from empire to nation-state bringing together the interrelated histories of Jewish, Muslim and Christian urban middle classes from the late Ottoman Empire to the Holocaust. In recent years, his research and publications have expanded to post-imperial urban identities, Balkan War refugees, Salonica in World War One, Greek interwar Zionism and anti-Zionism, the Holocaust of Sephardi Jewry and digital Holocaust Studies. Paris teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on the entangled histories of minorities and refugees in twentieth-century Europe, imperial and post-imperial borderlands and the history of the Modern Mediterranean. He was a member of the scientific committee developing the ‘Database of Greek Jewish Holocaust Survivors’ Testimonies’ and is currently serving on the editorial board of the Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique Moderne et Contemporain.

Research interests

• Modern Sephardi and Mediterranean Jewish History
• History of Refugees and Minorities in South-Eastern Europe
• Digital Holocaust Studies
• The Holocaust and its memory in Greece

Contact

Email paris.chronakis@rhul.ac.uk.

Dr William Pimlott is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Advanced Eastern European Studies at Royal Holloway working on the project "Global Jewish Studies in/as Holocaust Studies". He researches the intersection of modern Yiddish political cultures with Global Jewish history.

William’s current project investigates the global Yiddish press – focussing on the polycentric development of Jewish journalism, politics and aesthetics in the period 1890-1945. This work pays particular attention to the cultural, commercial and social aspects of the Yiddish press, alongside its attempts to deal with transnational phenomena such as the growth of antisemitism and the White Slave Trade. At Royal Holloway William will explore in greater depth global Jewish responses to the onset and development of the Holocaust. 

William is currently writing a monograph based on his doctoral research project: Yiddish in Britain: Immigration, Culture and Politics, 1896-1910. This project explored the flourishing Yiddish press and intellectual world of Britain c1900, recontextualising the history of Britain’s immigrant Jewish community within broader Jewish transnational movements. A research fellowship at Birkbeck College, University of London (2021-3) permitted the writing of two forthcoming articles: on the Yiddish press in South Africa, 1890-1920, and on Yiddish Social Science in Britain from the 1930s-1960s.

William has written for the London Review of Books, In Geveb and Jewish Currents and recently published an article in Shofar, with colleague Alex Grafen, on Leo Koenig and Yiddish Art History.

Research Interests:

• Yiddish Studies
• Yiddish Press
• Modern Jewish History
• Global History
• Colonialism and Race

Julie Fitzpatrick joined the Holocaust Research in 2022 as the administrator for a major donor-funded project, “Global Jewish Studies in/as Holocaust Studies”. In 2023 she took over the role of administrator for the HRI. She is a current PhD candidate at Royal Holloway, University of London, supervised by Professor Dan Stone. Her research explores the intersection between Holocaust studies, gender and the transdisciplinary approach of food history, specifically her thesis is a study on German Jewish women and their relationship to food cultures during the twentieth century. Both in History, she holds a BA from the University of Bristol and an MA from Royal Holloway. She has delivered papers at the Imperial War Museum for the British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies, the Institute of Historical Research for their Food Seminar Series and the German Historical Institute, London.

Research Interests:

• Gender Studies 
• Food History 
• Domestic Lives 
• Transnational Histories 
• Food Cultures in Diasporic Communities 
• Cultural History of German Jews 

Contact

Email holocaustri@rhul.ac.uk.

Professor Ganz studied English followed by postgraduate courses at the University of Bristol and the Directing Course at the National Film and TV School. He writes for film, TV, radio and theatre. His latest book, Robert De Niro At Work: from Screenplay to Screen Performance, co-authored with Steven Price, was published by Palgrave in 2020. Professor Ganz’s father, Peter Ganz, was a refugee from Mainz in Germany; his great-grandfather Felix Ganz was murdered in Auschwitz. Professor Ganz has written three radio plays about his family history, including The Gestapo Minutes (2013), nominated for Best Single Play in the BBC Audio Drama Awards. He has given public lectures about his family at public events in Germany including at the Finance Ministry and the Landesmuseum in Mainz and the Historical Museum in Frankfurt. Professor Ganz is now involved in a research project at the University of Mainz under the supervision of Professor Elizabeth Oy-Marra, The Reconstruction of the Art Collection of Felix Ganz (1869-1944), with researcher Nathalie Neumann (please read https://fokum-jams.org/index.php/jams/article/view/111; please watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhJHfTZ5rEs).

Research interests

• Holocaust narratives
• Immersive narrative
• Second generation stories
• Dramatisation of family histories
• Intertextuality and performance
• Speaking and silence about the Holocaust

Contact

Email adam.ganz@rhul.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1784 443147

Laura Sjoberg is British Academy Global Professor of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway University of London, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. She specializes in gender, international relations, and international security, with work on war theory and women’s political violence. Her work has been published in more than four dozen journals of politics, international relations, gender studies, geography, and law. She is author or editor of fifteen books, including, most recently, with Jessica Peet, Gender and Civilian Victimization (Routledge, 2019) and with J. Samuel Barkin, International Relations' Last Synthesis (Oxford, 2019).

Research interests

• Civilian victimisation in World War II
• Female perpetrators of war crimes during the Holocaust
• Gender, feminism, and sexuality in global politics and international security
• Women’s violence in global politics
• Gender and war theorising
• Gender and war ethics/just war theorising
• Disciplinary sociology and political methodology

Contact

Email laura.sjoberg@rhul.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1784 276802.

Professor Rubinstein was educated at the University of Copenhagen and at the University of Cambridge, where she wrote her PhD on legal advocacy in Classical Athens. She joined the Department of Classics at Royal Holloway in 1995, where she teaches Greek legal and social history as well as rhetoric ancient and modern. Professor Rubinstein is a specialist in legal history and classical rhetoric, with publications ranging from inheritance law to advocacy, criminal justice, and international relations. In recent years, her research has focused on civil wars and their legal aftermath (including amnesties), as well as on the plight of displaced populations and on the reception of refugees by other communities. She is particularly interested in the influence of the classical rhetorical tradition on the rhetorical strategies and oratory performed before the International Military Tribunal in Nürnberg.

Research interests

• Ancient Greek legal, constitutional, and social history
• Refugee crises ancient and modern
• Classical Greek rhetoric and its modern reception (with particular focus on the IMT in Nürnberg)
• Civil war, reconciliation, and amnesty in Ancient Greece and 20th century Europe

Contact

Email l.rubinstein@rhul.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1784 443191.

Dr Christos Kremmydas teaches Greek political and social history and the history of rhetoric. He has published extensively in the areas of Greek rhetoric and oratory, the history of Greek law, and papyrology. He is researching narratives in forensic settings and this has drawn him to the oratorical performances of the Nürnberg Trials.  

Research interests: 

• Ancient Greek political and social history
• Ancient Greek rhetoric and oratory
• Oratory in the modern world

Links to Pure and Academia.edu pages:

Pure:   https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/christos-kremmydas

Academia: https://royalholloway.academia.edu/ChristosKremmydas

Email: christos.kremmydas@rhul.ac.uk  

Department of History

Research interests

• Visual culture
• representations of atrocity
• the use of photography
• reception theory
• history education
• the history of Holocaust education.

Contact

Email jacqueline.teale.2009@live.rhul.ac.uk.

Department of History

Research interests

• Diasporas
• Mediterranean port cities
• Representations of philanthropic elites
• Politics in the Eastern Mediterranean
• History of the Holocaust

Contact

Email Georgios.Argiantopoulos.2019@live.rhul.ac.uk

Department of History

Research interests

• Microhistories of the Holocaust
• Alltagsgeschichte of the Holocaust
• Cultural History of the German Bourgeoisie (Jewish and non-Jewish), c.1871 – 1945
• Family History
• Conservatism and National Socialism

Contact

Email sandra.lipner.2020@live.rhul.ac.uk

Research Interests

• Displaced Persons and post-war humanitarianism
• The Roma Genocide
• Memory of the Holocaust
• Holocaust education
• Refugee studies

Contact

Email  roxzann-rio.boswell.moore.2019@live.rhul.ac.uk

Research Interests

• The Holocaust
• Nazi Persecution of Minorities
• Nazi Food Politics

Contact

Email lewis.champion.2021@live.rhul.ac.uk

Research Interests

• Food History
• Gender
• Domestic Lives
• Transnational Histories
• Food Cultures in Diasporic Communities
• Cultural History of German Jews

Contact

Email Julie.Fitzpatrick.2019@live.rhul.ac.uk

Research Interests

• The portrayal of the Holocaust in films
• Treatment of the disabled in Nazi Germany
• Female violence in the Holocaust
• Genocide through forced and coerced sterilisation 
• How the Holocaust is taught in schools

Contact

Email claire.topsom.2020@live.rhul.ac.uk

Department of English

Research interests

• Holocaust literature
• Contemporary detention camp literature
• Victims, perpetrators, bystanders, deniers
• Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt

Contact

Email: cathy.dondelinger.2020@live.rhul.ac.uk

Department of English

Research interests

• The literature of Charlotte Delbo
• Holocaust literature and Holocaust studies
• Memory, trauma and affect studies
• Fashion and the cultural history of clothing, 1945–85
• Women's experiences of French Communist Party and the French Resistance
• Romainville, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Rajsko, Ravensbrück

Contact

Email: kate.ferry-swainson.2018@live.rhul.ac.uk

Research Interests

• The literary oeuvres of Imre Kertész, Vladimir Nabokov and Scott Heim  
• Holocaust literature and Holocaust studies 
• Memory studies  
• Representations of trauma in modern and contemporary literature  
• Nostalgia: Representations of loss and longing  
• Freud: Repetition Compulsion, the Return of the Repressed and the Uncanny  

contact

Email hanna.milesjewell.2021@live.rhul.ac.uk

Research Interests

• The experience of trans-generational trauma and its digestion in poetry 
• The poetics of non-linear temporality: conceptual enactment and repetition in trauma enactment 
• Dream-like telling and condensed metaphor: the creation of transitional space and anthropological response in the reader 
• The poetics of childlike perspectives on space, size and proportion: distortion and recovery of a ‘Position without magnitude’ 

Contact

Email susanne.lansman.2017@live.rhul.ac.uk

Research interests

• Protestants of Jewish Descent
• St George’s German Lutheran Church,
• Dr Julius Rieger
• Role of Women in 1930s Refugee Organisations

Contact

Email anette.jager-kirkwood.2018@live.rhul.ac.uk.

Research interests 

• European feminist thought and literature: narratology/écriture féminine  
• Critical Theory/inter-textual reading: anachronisms and translation 
• Visual creative practice/ post-structuralism/ Intertextuality 
• Landscapes of Memory/timescapes/post-trauma
• Talmudic study/Judaic responses  

Contact

Email Rebecca.Harris.2022@live.rhul.ac.uk

Research Interests

• Transnational networks and relationships
• Modern Southeast Asia
• Diasporic connections
• Humanitarianism networks 

Email Xian.Jee.2017@live.rhul.ac.uk

Research Interests

• American Holocaust and Historical Memory
• Holocaust Media and Memory in the Digital Age
• History on Film

Contact

Email Rosalind.Hulse.2015@live.rhul.ac.uk

Research interests:

• Colonial violence in Africa especially the Congo Free State.
• Representations of violence in: photography; African testimonies, and contemporary newspapers
• Environmental genocide.
• The British Humanitarian reform movement in the early twentieth century.
• Tropical medicine in early twentieth century Africa Trade connections between Liverpool and West Africa.

Email address: Dawn.Saunders.2021@live.rhul.ac.uk

Research Interests

• American Holocaust and Historical Memory
• Holocaust Media and Memory in the Digital Age
• History on Film

Contact

Email Rosalind.Hulse.2015@live.rhul.ac.uk

Supervised by Professor Dan Stone

• Jan Lambertz, ‘Early Postwar Holocaust Knowledge and Jewish Missing Persons’ (2018)
• Eldad Ben Aharon, ‘The Geopolitics of Genocide in the Middle East and the Second Cold War: Israeli-Turkish American Relations and the Contested Memories of the Armenian Genocide, 1978-1988’ (2019)
• Robert Sherwood, ‘A Comprehensive Study into the United Kingdom War Crimes Investigation Teams in Relation to World War II’ (2019)
• Benjamin Bland, ‘Subcultural Fascism(s) and Their Reflections in Music Culture, c. 1975-1999’ (2019)
• Imogen Dalziel, ‘Authority, Authenticity and Audience: The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum’s Adaptation to the Digital Museum’ (2020)
• Maddy White, ‘A Contextual Analysis of Holocaust Oral Testimony in Britain and Canada’ (2020)
• Amber Pierce, ‘Assessing the Evolving Relationship between the Prosecutor and the Historian from the 1945-46 Nuremberg Trials to Irving vs. Penguin Books & Lipstadt’ (2021)
• Stephanie Hesz-Wood, ‘Appropriation & Memory: A Spatial History of Drancy’ (2022).
• Emily Smith, ‘World Jewish Relief: A Community Endeavour Shaped by a Generation of Refugees’ (2023).

For more information, please see Professor Stone’s Pure page.

Supervised by Professor Bob Eaglestone

• James Bulgin, ‘The Holocaust and the Cultural Apocalyptic Imagination of the Cold War’ (2023).

1 November 2000 

Professor David Cesarani

‘Why Have I Got News for You Now: The Holocaust and the Contemporary News Media’

26 November 2001

Professor Dinah Porat

‘Is There a Tomorrow Without Yesterday? Jewish History between Zionism and Diaspora’

29 October 2002

Professor Geoffrey Hartman

‘Holocaust and Hope’

15 November 2003

Professor Sander Gilman

‘On the Needs to Write about the Shoah: Looking at the Work of Jurek Beckec, Germany’s Survivor and Author’

27 February 2004

Professor Peter Longerich

‘Innocence, Normality and Absurdity: Confronting Germany’s Nazi Past’

24 November 2005

Professor Michael Marrus

‘Custody: The Vatican and Jewish Children after the Holocaust’

5 February 2007

Dr Kitty Hart-Moxon

‘My Holocaust – A Lifetime Experience’

24 October 2007

Professor Jeffrey Herf

‘The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda in Germany and the Middle East during World War Two and the Holocaust’

17 March 2009

Professor Sue Vice

‘False Testimony’

24 January 2011

Professor Dan Michman

‘The Reasons Behind the Emergence of Ghettos During the Shoah: Trying to Solve the Enigma’

30 January 2012

Luke Holland

‘Final Account – Third Reich Testimonies: Interviewing Former Nazis and their Accomplices’

28 January 2013

Professor Jan Tomasz Gross

‘On the Periphery of the Holocaust in Poland: Killings and Plunder of Jews by their Neighbours’

14 January 2014

Professor Wendy Lower

‘“I wanted to prove myself to the men”: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields’

3 February 2015

Michael Haas

‘The Restitution of Stolen Music’

26 January 2016

Paul Salmons

‘Why Do We Continue to Ignore the Holocaust?’

23 February 2017

Professor Michael Rothberg

‘Inheritance Trouble: Migration and Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Germany’

30 January 2018

Professor Tony Kushner and Dr Aimee Bunting

‘Co-presents to the Holocaust: The British in Auschwitz and Belsen’

29 January 2019

Rachel Seiffert

‘Lest We Forget’

27 January 2020

Professor Shirli Gilbert

‘The Holocaust, Apartheid and Dilemmas of Jewish Victimhood’

25 January 2021

Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge

‘Love in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt in Gurs and New York’

24 January 2022

James Bulgin

‘Re-presenting the Holocaust at the Imperial War Museum’

23 January 2023

Professor Amos Goldberg

‘A Fool or a Prophet: Rubinstein the Warsaw Ghetto Jester’

29 January 2024

Dame Stephanie Shirley

‘My Family in Exile’

27 January 2025

Professor Bryan Cheyette

‘Frantz Fanon: The Racialised Body and Beyond’