Anthony Dirk Moses

Professor Anthony Dirk Moses served as Professor of Modern History in the Discipline of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, at the University of Sydney from 2016 to 2020, following an earlier appointment there from 2000 to 2010. He earned a B.A. in history, government, and law from the University of Queensland in 1987, an M.Phil. in early modern European history from the University of St Andrews in 1990, an M.A. in modern European history from the University of Notre Dame in 1994, and a Ph.D. in modern European history from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000, with a thesis titled 'The Forty-fivers'. His academic career also includes the Chair of Global and Colonial History at the European University Institute in Florence from 2011 to 2015.

Moses specializes in the conceptual history of genocide, memory studies, and intellectual history, with a focus on colonial contexts and modern Europe. He convened the M.A. in Holocaust studies at the University of Sydney and has held editorial roles as senior editor of the Journal of Genocide Research since 2011, co-editor of the War and Genocide book series for Berghahn Books, and member of editorial boards for journals such as Patterns of Prejudice, Memory Studies, and Journal of Perpetrator Research. Key publications include German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (2007), which received the Clio-Online Historical Book of the Year prize; Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation and Subaltern Resistance in World History (2008), awarded the H-Soz-Kult Book Prize in the Non-European History category; Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History (2004, editor); The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies (2010, editor); The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression (2021); and Nach dem Genozid: Grundlage für eine neue Erinnerungskultur (2023). His work has influenced genocide studies through comparative analyses of settler colonialism, including in Australian history, and explorations of human rights memory. Moses has received fellowships from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam, and others including the WZB Center for Global Constitutionalism and Lichtenberg-Kolleg in Göttingen.

Professional Email: dirk.moses@sydney.edu.au