DSU to Present Holocaust Guest Lecturer Dr Joseph White April 23

DSU will honor the upcoming Holocaust Remembrance observance with a guest lecture by Dr. Joseph Robert White, a research assistant with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 23 in the Longwood Auditorium (room 113) in the Bank of America Building on campus.

 

During the event – which is free and open to the public – Dr. White will speak on the subject of “From the Arctic Circle to Timbuktu: The Camps and Ghettos of the Axis Powers and Collaborator States.”

 

Dr. White is a research assistant with the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, where he contributes to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos and is editing Volume 3 of The Camps and Ghettos of European Regimes aligned with Nazi Germany.

 

Dr. White has published articles on Nazi camps in Holocaust and Genocide Studies; Journal of Jewish Identities; PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators, as well as in Evoking Genocide: Researchers and Activists Describe the Works of Art and Media that Changed Their Lives.

 

He has also taught modern European history at a number of colleges and universities, including University of Maryland University College. He holds a Ph.D. in Modern European history from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and AB and MA degrees in history from Georgia State University.

 

The guest lecture is co-sponsored by the DSU Law Studies program and the Center for Advance Holocaust Studies (of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum).