History Department Faculty
Devin Pendas
Professor
Devin Pendas
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall S341
Telephone: 617-552-6881
Email: devin.pendas.1@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., Carleton College
- M.A., University of Chicago
- Dipl么me 茅l茅mentaire, Institut Catholique de Paris
- Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Interests
German history; modern Europe; legal history; history of mass violence and war
Department
Biography
Professor Pendas' teaching interests include courses on German history, European legal history, the history of war and genocide, the history of war crimes trials, and the history of human rights. His research focuses on efforts to curb and punish mass political violence, including the history of human rights, war crimes trials, and the international law of armed conflict.
Professor Pendas is a faculty affiliate and co-chair of the Contemporary Europe Study Group at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He has received research fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service, the MacArthur Foundation through the Center for the Study of International Peace and Cooperation, the Center for Contemporary Historical Research in Potsdam, Germany, the U.S. Holocaust Museum, and the American Council of Learned Societies (Burkhardt Fellowship). He has been a guest professor at Meiji University in Tokyo and the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Cambridge History of the Holocaust, vol. 4, Aftermath, Outcomes, Repercussions, co-edited with Laura Jockusch (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Democracy, Nazi Trials and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Beyond the Racial State: New Perspectives on Nazi Germany, co-edited with Mark Roseman and Richard Wetzel (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Political Trials in Theory and History, co-edited with Jens Meierhenrich (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965: Genocide, History and the Limits of the Law (Cambridge University Press, 2006). German translation 2013.
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
鈥溾�楩inal Solution,鈥� Holocaust, Shoah, or Genocide: From Separate to Integrated Histories鈥� in Hilary Earl and Simone Gigliotti eds., The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Holocaust (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020): 21-44.
鈥淐riminals, Enemies, and the Politics of Transitional Justice鈥� in Austin Sarat et. al. eds., Criminals and Enemies (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019): 22-43.
鈥淲ar Crimes Trials in Theory and Practice from the Middle Ages to the Present鈥� in Jonathan Waterlow and Jacques Schumacher eds. War Crimes Trials and Investigations: A Multidisciplinary Introduction (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2018): 23-58.
鈥淎gainst War: Pacifism as Collaboration and as Resistance,鈥� in Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze eds., The Cambridge History of the Second World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015): 475-501.
鈥淎uschwitz Trials: The Jewish Dimension,鈥� with Laura Jockusch and Gabriel Finder, Yad Vashem Studies 41/2 (2013): 139-171.
鈥淎natomie eines Skandals: die Ermittlungen im Mordfall Dr. Hans Hannemann im Kontext der deutschen Nachkriegsjustiz,鈥� Kritische Justiz 46/3 (2013): 245-56.
鈥淭oward a New Politics? On the Recent Historiography of Human Rights鈥� Contemporary European History 21/1 (2012): 95-111.
鈥淩etroactive Law and Proactive Justice: Debating Crimes against Humanity in Germany, 1945-1950鈥� Central European History 43 (September 2010): 428-63.
鈥淎uf dem Weg zu einem globalen Rechtssystem? Die Menschenrechte und das Scheitern des legalistischen Paradigmas des Krieges鈥� in Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann ed., Moralpolitik. Geschichte der Menschenrechte im 20. Jahrhundert (G枚ttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2010), 226-55.
鈥淪eeking Justice, Finding Law: Nazi Trials in the Postwar Era, 1945-1989鈥� in The Journal of Modern History 81 (June 2009): 347-368.
鈥淓xplaining Nazism: Ethics, Beliefs, and Interests鈥� in Modern Intellectual History 5 (November 2008): 573-96.
鈥淭estimony鈥� in Benjamin Ziemann and Miriam Dobson eds., Reading Primary Sources (London: Routledge, 2008): 226-42. Second, revised edition, 2020.
鈥�Eichmann in Jerusalem, Arendt in Frankfurt: The Eichmann Trial, the Auschwitz Trial and the Banality of Justice,鈥� New German Critique 34 (Winter 2007): 77-109.
鈥溾�楾he Magical Scent of the Savage鈥�: Colonial Violence, the Crisis of Civilization and the Origins of the Legalist Paradigm of War,鈥� The md传媒国产剧 College International and Comparative Law Review 30 (Winter 2007): 29-53.