Director, Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (MAHG)
Assistant Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide
Ph.D., Clark University
M.A., Tel Aviv University
B.A., Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Raz Segal is Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Endowed Professor in
the Study of Modern Genocide at Stockton University, where he also serves as director
of the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (MAHG). He is also founder
and co-coordinator of the Refugee Studies Initiative at Stockton. Focusing on central
and southeast Europe, Dr. Segal is engaged in his work with the challenges of exploring
the Holocaust as an integral part of late modern processes of imperial collapse, the
formation and occasional de-formation of nation-states, and their devastating impact
on the societies they sought --- and still seek --- to break and remake. Dr. Segal
has held a Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Lady Davis
Fellowship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His publications include Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914-1945 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016; paperback 2020), and he was guest editor
of the special issue on Genocide: Mass Violence and Cultural Erasure of Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly, vol. 138 (June 2018) (Hebrew). Dr. Segal has also published book reviews, op-eds,
and larger articles on genocide, state violence, and memory politics in Hebrew and
English in Haaretz and +972 Magazine.
Areas of Expertise: Holocaust and Genocide Studies; modern European history (with a focus on central and
southeast Europe); Jewish history
Key publications:
- Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914-1945 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016; paperback 2020)
- Days of Ruin: The Jews of Munkács during the Holocaust (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem Publications, 2013; Hebrew, 2011)
- Guest Editor of a special issue on Genocide: Mass Violence and Cultural Erasure of Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly, vol. 138 (June 2018) (Hebrew), including the introductory essay: “Genocide: Mass
Violence in the Modern World”
- “Antisemitism as a Question in Holocaust Scholarship,” co-authored with Amos Goldberg
(Hebrew), Zion: A Quarterly for Research in Jewish History, special issue on “Antisemitism: Historical Concept, Public Discourse,” vol. 85 (1-4)
(2020), 325-344
- “Making Hungary Great Again: Mass Violence, State Building, and the Ironies of Global
Holocaust Memory,” in Agency and the Holocaust: Essays in Honor of Debórah Dwork (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), 181-197
- “The Modern State, the Question of Genocide, and Holocaust Scholarship,” Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 20 (1) (2018), 108-133 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14623528.2017.1412887
