New Human Rights Studies professor named
A specialist in modern European history has accepted the James M. Stanford Professorship in Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia University.
Max Bergholz is currently at the University of Toronto. He has interests in comparative nationalism and Soviet history. His PhD dissertation, “None of Us Dared Say Anything: Mass Killing in a Bosnian Community during World War Two and the Postwar Culture of Silence,” was very well received.
Bergholz brings to his work fluency in Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian and a record of success in using a multitude of documents discovered during his research in obscure archives. His next book, Intimate Genocide: The Dynamics of Mass Murder in a Local Community in Croatia in 1941, explores locally driven mass violence in a multi-ethnic community.
“I look forward to working with Max Bergholz,” says Frank Chalk, co-director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS). “I am confident that with Dr. Bergholz’s appointment, MIGS will continue to develop and grow for many years to come and that the vigour of MIGS’ program of research, teaching and publication will reach new heights.”
Bergholz will take up the position in September 2011. The tenure-track professorship is cross-listed between Concordia’s Department of History and MIGS.
The Professorship in Genocide and Human Rights Studies is made possible through the generosity of James M. Stanford of Calgary, Alberta.
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• Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights