Place of birth: Zurich

Education: MA, History, Social Anthropology, Study of Religions, University of Zurich 2004; PhD, project on German colonial wars in Africa, University of Bern

Career: Dominik Schaller is a Research Fellow at the Karman Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Bern in Switzerland and Lecturer at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in Germany. He is co-editor of the Journal of Genocide Research (see url below) and Executive Secretary of the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS). He is also an Associate Editor of the Electronic Encyclopedia of Mass Violence and a member of the editorial team of the historical journal Sozial.Geschichte. In 1999 he founded a working group for genocide studies at the University of Zurich and led it until 2004

Publications include: Der Voelkermord an den Armeniern und die Shoah (co-editor) 2002, Enteignet – Vertrieben – Ermordet. Beiträge zur Genozidforschung (co-author) 2004, Raphael Lemkin: The “Founder of the United Nations’ Genocide Convention” as a Historian of Mass Violence (contributing co-editor); numerous book chapters and articles on genocide and colonialism in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Karman Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Bern, Falkenplatz 16, 3012 Bern, Switzerland; Tel: +41 (0)31 631-54-78; Fax: +41 (0)31 631-39-49; Email: dominik.j.schaller@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de ; Website: http://www.karmancenter.unibe.ch/ ; Website: http://www.inogs.com/ ; Website: http://www.massviolence.org/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14623528.asp/ .