Dr. Waitman Wade Beorn is an assistant professor in History at ϲ in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. Dr. Beorn was previously the Director of the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond, VA and the inaugural Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. His first book, (Harvard University Press) Dr. Beorn is also the author of(Bloomsbury Press, 2018) and has recently finished a book on the Janowska concentration camp outside of Lviv, Ukraine. That book will be released in August 2024 from Nebraska University Press.
He is currently on research leave thanks to an AHRC Research, Development, and Engagement Fellowship. This fellowship supports his work on a project entitled . This interdisciplinary project will build a digital reconstruction of the Janowska concentration camp based on historical sources as most of the site is gone today. Dr. Beorn is managing a team of architects and digital modellers to accomplish this and is partnered with the Holocaust Education Trust, the Wiener Holocaust Library, the Lviv Center for Urban History, the Duke Digital Art History and Visual Culture Lab, and the Holocaust Center North.
Dr. Beorn has published work inHolocaust and Genocide Studies,Central European History,German Studies Review,Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History,Politics and Governance,and theGeographical Reviewin addition to chapters in several edited volumes. He has been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright Foundation, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and Claims Conference fellowships. He is also active in the digital humanities.
As a public-facing scholar, Dr. Beorn has published pieces in theWashington Post, The New Republic,andThe Forward. He has also appeared onMSNBC, CNN,Richard French LiveonWRNN,Australian Broadcasting Corporation, andTRT. He is an active contributor to public history and engagement on Twitter as well. Dr. Beorn teaches courses in Holocaust History, Comparative Genocide, German history, Eastern European history, Antisemitism, Modern European history, Public history, and Digital history.
- Holocaust History
- Comparative Genocide
- Digital Humanities
- Geography and Mapping
- Public History
- Modern German History
- Extremism, White Supremacy, Antisemitism
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