A. Dirk Moses

A. Dirk Moses
A. Dirk Moses
Born	Anthony Dirk Moses; 1967 (age 56–57); Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Parents	Ingrid Moses; John A. Moses;
Academic background
Education	University of Queensland; University of St Andrews; University of Notre Dame; University of California, Berkeley;
Thesis	The Forty-fivers (2000)
Doctoral advisor	Martin Jay
Academic work
Discipline	History; genocide studies;
Sub-discipline	History of colonialism; history of genocide;
Institutions	University of Freiburg; University of Sydney; European University Institute;
Notable works	The Problems of Genocide
Notable ideas	Racial century; German catechism
Website	dirkmoses.com

Anthony Dirk Moses (born 1967) is an Australian scholar who researches various aspects of genocide. In 2022 he became the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of Political Science at the City College of New York, after having been the Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a leading scholar of genocide, especially in colonial contexts, as well as of the political development of the concept itself. He is known for coining the term racial century in reference to the period 1850–1950. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Genocide Research.

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