Waitman Beorn

Waitman Wade Beorn a Lecturer in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia and a consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He received his PhD and MA in Europea ...Show More

Waitman Wade Beorn a Lecturer in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia and a consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He received his PhD and MA in European History with a specialization in the Holocaust from the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. He has published two monographs: Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus (Harvard, 2014) and The Holocust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final Solution (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). Waitman was fortunate to become a member of the Holocaust Geographies Collective in 2007 as a graduate student. Collaboration with the group has deeply informed his own work and he contributed an essay to Geographies of the Holocaust (Indiana, 2015), edited by Anne Kelly Knowles, Tim Cole and Alberto Giordano. He is currently researching a monograph and digital history project focused on the Janowska concentration camp in Lviv. Waitman working with a team of scholars and students to use GIS, social network analysis, and 3D modeling to explore the Holocaust here at a variety of scales. The group's work can be explored on its website: Visualizing the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. Waitman has published in the Washington Post as well as in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Central European History, German Studies Review, among other publications. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and the Fulbright Foundation. Prior to teaching at the University of Virginia, Waitman was the Executive Director of the Virginia Holocaust Museum and the Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Waitman is a 2000 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and a veteran of the war in Iraq, 2003-2004. Hide