Dr. Doris Bergen

Biography

Doris L. Bergen is the Chancellor Rose Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on issues of religion, gender, and ethnicity in the context of the Holocaust and World War II, examining cases of extreme violence. She has authored several significant works, including 'Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement and the Third Reich' (1996) and 'War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust' (2003). Additionally, she edited 'Sword of the Lord: Military Chaplains in the Twenty-First Century' (2004) and 'Lessons and Legacies VIII' (2008). Professor Bergen has been awarded grants and fellowships from various renowned institutions, including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, DAAD, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She has taught at multiple universities across Europe and North America, including Warsaw, Pristina, Tuzla, Notre Dame, and Vermont. Her current projects involve a book on Germany's military chaplains during the Nazi era and a study of the definitions of Germanness as revealed by the Volksdeutschen and ethnic Germans in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust.

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