Omer Bartov

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Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of History and Professor of German Studies at Brown University. Bartov was born in Israel and attended Tel Aviv University and St. Antony's College, Oxford. Bartov, a 1989 to 1992 Junior Harvard fellow [1] and 2002 Guggenheim fellow, is one of the world's leading authorities on the subject of genocide.^[1]^[2] The Forward calls Bartov, “One of the foremost scholars of Jewish life in Galicia.” ^[3]

[edit] Books

The Eastern Front, 1941-1945
Hitler's Army Murder in Our Midst
Mirrors of Destruction
Germany's War and the Holocaust, Cornell University Press
The "Jew" in Cinema, Indiana University Press, 2005
Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine

[edit] Awards

Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California,
Berlin Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Berlin, Spring semester 2007
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005–
Guest of the Director Fellowship, International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK), Vienna, Austria (June 2004)
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2003-2004)
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow, Harvard University (2002-2003)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers (1996-97)
Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History from the Institute for Contemporary History and Wiener Library, London, for the book Murder in Our Midst (1995)
Raoul Wallenberg Professor in Human Rights and Senior Fellow, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University (1992-94)
Directeur d'etudes, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France (1990)
Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University (1989-92)
French Government Scholarship at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France (1988)
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Germany and France (1985-86, 1987, 1990, 1994)
French Government Scholarship at the FIAP Language School in Paris, France (1985)
Visiting Fellow, Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University (1984)
Rothschild Foundation Scholarship in support of studies at Oxford University (1981-82)
Research Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), for work in German archives (1981)
Research Fellowship, German Historical Institute, London, for work in German archives (1980)
President's Fellowship, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, in support of tuition at Oxford University (1980-83)
Fulbright Fellowship for studies as a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University (1979)
DAAD Scholarship at the Goethe Institute in Murnau, Bavaria, Germany (1979)
Certificate of Exceptional Merit from the Rector of Tel-Aviv University, Israel (1978)