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Paul R. Bartrop (born November 3, 1955) is an Australian historian ofthe Holocaust andgenocide. From August 2012 until December 2020 he was Professor of History and Director of theCenter for Judaic, Holocaust and Genocide Studies atFlorida Gulf Coast University,Fort Myers,Florida.^[1] Between 2020 and 2021 he was an honorary Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Canberra (the Australian Defence Force Academy). In April 2021 he became Professor Emeritus of History at Florida Gulf Coast University, and in 2022 he became an honorary Principal Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne. During the academic year of 2011-2012 he was the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies atRichard Stockton College of New Jersey.^[2]

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Bartrop is descended from a British convict sent toVan Diemen's Land in the early 1820s, James Bartrop, and his wife Elizabeth Wright Bartrop. He is the son of Donald Anthony Bartrop (1918-1974) and Barbara Eileen Bartrop, née Page (1920-2013). He attendedMelbourne'sLa Trobe University (BA Hons, 1977; MA, 1982), and received his PhD fromMonash University in 1989, with a dissertation entitledIndifference and Inconvenience: Australian Government Policy toward Refugees from Nazism, 1933-1939. Across a varied academic career, he has taught atMonash University, theGippsland Institute of Advanced Education (aCollege of Advanced Education in the Australian tertiary education system, nowFederation University), theRoyal Melbourne Institute of Technology,Deakin University, and theUniversity of South Australia. In 1997 he joined the teaching faculty at Melbourne'sBialik College, where he pioneered a Year 10 elective, Comparative Genocide Studies. At the time it was probably the only full-yearhigh school course on comparative genocide anywhere in the world. At Bialik, Bartrop was the Head of the History Department (2005-2011), and taught subjects in History, Comparative Genocide Studies, Jewish Studies (including Holocaust Studies), International Studies, and Religion and Society.

Between 1998 and 2010 Bartrop was an Honorary Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Education (and its predecessor schools) at Deakin University, appointed for his contributions to Jewish History and Genocide Studies. In 1996 he was a visiting professor in the Honors College atVirginia Commonwealth University, and in 2002 was Scholar-in-Residence at theMartin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust, Tolerance and Humanitarian Values atNorthern Arizona University,Flagstaff.

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In 1990 he was named an Honorary Life Member of theJewish Museum of Australia, and between 1991 and 1993 he served as president of theAustralian Association for Jewish Studies, having earlier been that organization's Vice-President. In 2008 he was conferred with the title "Friend of the Armenian Community" by theArmenian National Committee (Melbourne Chapter), and in 2011 received a Distinguished Service Award from Melbourne's Assyrian Community for his work in genocide awareness. In July 2010 Bartrop was named as a member of theInternational Council of theAustrian Service Abroad. In 2013 he was elected as vice-president of theMidwest Jewish Studies Association in the United States, a position he held until his retirement in 2020.

In December 2022 Paul Bartrop was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) in the United Kingdom.

• The Routledge History of the First World War (ed.) (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2024)
• The Holocaust in 100 Histories (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024)
• The Holocaust: Country by Country (co-author with Eve E. Grimm) (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024)
• Sources for Studying the Holocaust: A Guide (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2023)
• The Holocaust and Australia: Refugees, Rejection, and Memory (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022)
• The Holocaust: The Essential Reference Guide (co-author with Eve E. Grimm) (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2022)
• Cambodian Genocide: The Essential Reference Guide (ed.) (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2022)
• The Routledge History of the Second World War (ed.) (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2021)
• Children of the Holocaust (co-author with Eve E. Grimm) (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2020)
• Heroines of Vichy France: Rescuing French Jews during the Holocaust (Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2019)
• The Holocaust: The Basics (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2019)
• TheEvian Conference of 1938 and the Jewish Refugee Crisis (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
• The Holocaust: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection (co-editor with Michael Dickerman) (4 volumes) (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2017)^[3]
• Resisting the Holocaust: Upstanders, Partisans, and Survivors (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2016)^[4]
• Bosnian Genocide: The Essential Reference Guide (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2016)
• Modern Genocide: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection (co-editor withSteven Leonard Jacobs) (4 volumes) (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2015)^[5]
• Genocide: The Basics (London and New York: Routledge, 2015)
• Encountering Genocide: Personal Accounts from Victims, Perpetrators, and Witnesses (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2014)
• A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2012)^[6]
• Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide (co-author with Steven Leonard Jacobs) (London and New York: Routledge, 2010)^[7]
• The Genocide Studies Reader (co-editor with Samuel Totten) (New York: Routledge, 2009)
• A Dictionary of Genocide (co-author with Samuel Totten and Steven Leonard Jacobs) (2 volumes) (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007)
• Teaching about the Holocaust: Essays by College and University Teachers (withSamuel Totten and Steven Leonard. Jacobs) (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004)^[8]
• Bolt from the Blue: Australia, Britain and the Chanak Crisis (Sydney: Halstead Press, 2002)
• Surviving the Camps: Unity in Adversity during the Holocaust (Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 2000)
• False Havens: The British Empire and the Holocaust (Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 1995)^[9]
• Australia and the Holocaust 1933-45 (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 1994)^[10]
• The Dunera Affair: A Documentary Resource Book (Melbourne:Jewish Museum of Australia/Schwartz and Wilkinson, 1990)^[11]
• Scores, Crowds and Records: Statistics on the Victorian Football League, 1946-83 (Sydney: History Project Incorporated, 1984)

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