Paul R. Bartrop
Paul R. Bartrop (born November 3, 1955) is an Australian-born historian of the Holocaust and genocide. He is the 2011-2012 Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
The son of Donald Anthony Bartrop (1918-1974) and Barbara Bartrop, nee Page (b. 1920), he attended Melbourne's La Trobe University as an undergraduate (BA Hons, 1977; MA, 1982), and received his PhD at Monash University in 1989. Across a varied academic career, he has taught at Monash University, the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Deakin University, and the University of South Australia. In 1997 he joined Melbourne's Bialik College, where he pioneered a Year 10 elective, Comparative Genocide Studies. It is perhaps the only full-year high school course on comparative genocide anywhere in the world. At Bialik, Bartrop was the Head of the History Department since 2005, and taught subjects in History, Comparative Genocide Studies, Jewish Studies (including Holocaust Studies), International Studies, and Religion and Society. Between 1998 and 2010 Bartrop was an Honorary Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Education (and its predecessor schools) at Deakin University, appointed for his contributions to Jewish History and Genocide Studies. He has been a Scholar-in-Residence at the Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust, Tolerance and Humanitarian Values at Northern Arizona University, and a Visiting Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Bartrop earlier served as President of the Australian Association of Jewish Studies, and was named an Honorary Life Member of the Jewish Museum of Australia in 1990. In 2008 he was conferred with the title "Friend of the Armenian Community" by the Armenian National Committee (Melbourne Chapter), and in 2011 received a Distinguished Service Award from Melbourne's Assyrian Community for his work in genocide awareness.
In July 2010 Bartrop was named as a member of the International Council of the Austrian Service Abroad.
[edit] Publications
- A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-Clio, in press)
- Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide (co-author with Steven Leonard Jacobs) (London: Routledge, 2010)
- The Genocide Studies Reader (co-editor with Samuel Totten) (New York: Routledge, 2009)
- A Dictionary of Genocide (co-author with Samuel Totten and Steven Leonard Jacobs) (2 volumes) (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007)
- Teaching about the Holocaust: Essays by College and University Teachers (with Samuel Totten and Steven Leonard. Jacobs) (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004)
- Bolt from the Blue: Australia, Britain and the Chanak Crisis (Sydney: Halstead Press, 2002)
- Surviving the Camps: Unity in Adversity during the Holocaust (Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 2000)
- False Havens: The British Empire and the Holocaust (Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 1995)
- Australia and the Holocaust 1933-45 (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 1994)
- The Dunera Affair: A Documentary Resource Book (Melbourne: Jewish Museum of Australia/Schwartz and Wilkinson, 1990)
- Scores, Crowds and Records: Statistics on the Victorian Football League, 1946-83 (Sydney: History Project Incorporated, 1984)
