A. Dirk Moses

Dirk Moses
Born	Anthony Dirk Moses 1967 (age 56–57) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Parents	Ingrid Moses John A. Moses
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Queensland University of St Andrews University of Notre Dame University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	The Forty-fivers (2000)
Doctoral advisor	Martin Jay
Academic work
Discipline	History genocide studies
Sub-discipline	History of colonialism history of genocide
Institutions	University of Freiburg University of Sydney European University Institute
Notable ideas	Racial century
Website	dirkmoses.com

Anthony Dirk Moses (born 1967) is an Australian historian. He is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sydney. Between 2011 and 2015, he was detached to the European University Institute as professor of Global and Colonial History. He is widely regarded as a leading expert on the history of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and on the history of colonialism, especially genocide in colonial contexts. He is known for coining the term racial century in reference to the period 1850–1950. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Genocide Research.

Moses received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history, government, and law at the University of Queensland in 1987, a Master of Philosophy degree in early modern European history at the University of St Andrews in 1989, a Master of Arts degree in modern European history at the University of Notre Dame in 1994, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in modern European history at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2000.

Moses is the son of the noted historian John A. Moses and of the former Chancellor of the University of Canberra Ingrid Moses.

Contributions

• German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (Cambridge, 2007)
• Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation and Subaltern Resistance in World History (Berghahn 2008/pbk 2009) (editor) This book, which won H-Soz-u-Kult Book Prize – Non-European History Category 2009
• Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies (2010 with Donald Bloxam)
• Colonial Counterinsurgency and Mass Violence: The Dutch Empire in Indonesia (2014 with Bart Luttikhuis)

External links

• Official website