Book Manuscript:

Genocide’s Shadow: Holocaust Memory at the End of Empire (under preparation)

Genocide’s Shadow is a global history of Holocaust memory. It follows a constellation of European leftists and global South activists as they responded to the wars, genocides, and revolutions following European imperial collapse, focusing on their deployment of Holocaust memory. It argues that during the 1950s and 1960s the memory of the Holocaust was constitutive of a global anti-imperial vernacular. While activists condemned French colonial violence in Algeria or US neo-imperialism in Vietnam, they frequently invoked the specter of the Third Reich. Founded upon eighteenth months of archival research and drawing upon materials found in France, the Netherlands, Germany, Bangladesh, and Nigeria, Genocide’s Shadow is the first book to contextualize the rise of Holocaust memory in the politics and political mobilization of the decolonization years. While historians have noted the use of Holocaust references for liberal internationalist and Israeli nationalist purposes, Genocide’s Shadow recovers an alternative regime of Holocaust memory, one in which the memory of the Jewish genocide supported critiques of racism and violence and buttressed various revolutionary efforts.

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

• “‘An Asiatic Deed’: The Cambodian Genocide and West German Right, or a Study in an Illiberal Variant of Multidirectional Memory,” Journal of Genocide Research (2024)

• “‘A Jurisprudence for the Future’: Anticolonial Lawyering during the Vietnam War Years,” Journal of the History of International Law, (2024): 1-33

• “Global History and Decolonization: A Moment of Possibility, a Call for Integration,” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 14, no. 1 (2023): 39-47

• “Legible Testimonies: Raphael Lemkin, the Victim’s Voice, and Writing the Global History of Genocide,” Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal 13, no. 1 (2019): 2-63

Book Chapters:

• “Holocaust Research and Genocide Studies: Facing the Problem of Integration,” in Handbook of Genocide Studies, edited by David Simon and Leora Kahn (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023)

• “Africa’s Auschwitz: the Holocaust and Biafra’s State-Building Efforts,” in Outside Looking In: The World Universalizes the Holocaust, edited by Norman J.W. Goda and Edward Kissi, under review at Berghahn Books