Wolf Gruner

WOLF GRUNER (PhD in History, 1994, Technical University Berlin) holds the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and is Professor of History at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles/USA since 2008. At USC he led the interdisciplinary research cluster “Resistance to Genocide” 2010-2014 and is now the Founding Director of the new Center for Advanced Genocide Research at the USC Shoah Foundation. He has also taught at the Technical University Berlin and as a visiting Professor at Webster University St. Louis and Vienna. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, Yad Vashem, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Women's Christian University Tokyo and the Selma Stern Zentrum Berlin Brandenburg. He has worked as a researcher at the Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung (Technical University Berlin) and the Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin.

He is the author of ten books on the Holocaust, most recently: The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia. Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses), New York: Berghahn 2019. Its original German edition (wallstein 2016) received several international prizes.

Other books include:"Jewish Forced Labor under the Nazis. Economic Needs and Nazi Racial Aims", with Cambridge University Press (2006); "Widerstand in der Rosenstrasse. Die Fabrikaktion und die Verfolgung der ,Mischehen' 1943 (Resistance in the Rosenstrasse)" (2005) and the document collection "Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden" (Persecution and Destruction of the European Jewry). Vol. 1, Deutsches Reich 1933-1937 (2008, English edition as: Persecution and Murder of the European Jews 2019). He coedited: The Greater German Reich and the Jews. Nazi Persecution policies in the annexed territories 1935-1945, New York: Berghahn 2015. Its original German edition (Campus 2012) received the award for most outstanding German studies in humanities and social sciences in 2012. In 2015, Gruner published in Spanish the study „Los Parias de la Patria“. El mito de la liberación de los indígenas en la República de Bolivia 1825-1890”, with Edition Plural, Bolivia.

His research interests include Holocaust, gnocides, mass violence, racism and the state discrimination against indigenous populations, especially in Latin America (18-20th century).