Donald Bloxham FRHistS is a Professor of Modern History, specialising in genocide, war crimes and other mass atrocities studies. He is the editor of the Journal of Holocaust Education.^[1]

He completed his undergraduate studies at Keele and postgraduate studies at Southampton, where he received PhD in history.^[2] He worked as Research Director of the London-based Holocaust Educational Trust. He is Richard Pares Professor of European History at the University of Edinburgh, having previously been lecturer of Twentieth Century History at the university.^[3][4]

From 2007 to 2008, he was J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.^[2]

• 2006 Philip Leverhulme Prize
• 2007 Edinburgh University Chancellor's Award
• 2007 Raphael Lemkin Award by the International Association of Genocide Scholars

• Genocide on Trial: War Crimes Trials and the Formation of Holocaust History and Memory (Oxford University Press, 2001)
• The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (Oxford University Press, 2005)^[5]
• The Holocaust: Critical Historical Approaches (Manchester University Press, 2005)
• Genocide, The World Wars, and the Unweaving of Europe: essays by Donald Bloxham (Vallentine, Mitchell and Co., 2008)
• The Final Solution: A Genocide (Oxford University Press, 2009)
• The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies (editor, with A. Dirk Moses) (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
• Political Violence in Europe's Long Twentieth Century (editor, with Robert Gerwarth) (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
• Why History? A History (Oxford University Press, 2020)
• History and Morality (Oxford University Press, 2020)