Dirk Moses

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 University of Sydney. He held the Chair of Global and Colonial History at the European University Institute, Florence, from 2011 to 2015.

Dirk has written extensively in the fields of genocide and memory studies. His latest book, The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression, appeared in 2021. An updated and abridged German version was published in 2023 as Nach dem Genozid: Grundlage für eine neue Erinnerungskultur.

Recent anthologies include The Holocaust Museum and Human Rights: Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials (2025), The Russian Invasion of Ukraine Victims Perpetrators Justice and the Question of Genocide (2024), Patriotic History and the (Re)Nationalization of Memory (2023), and Genocide: Key Themes (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 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC; and at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam as an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow.

Dirk has been senior editor of the Journal of Genocide Research since 2011, and co-edits the War and Genocide book series for Berghahn Books. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of African Military History, Journal of Perpetrator Research, Patterns of Prejudice, Memory Studies, and the Journal of Mass Violence Research. He also serves on advisory board of the UCD Centre for War Studies, the Memory Studies Association, and the RePast project.