Waitman Wade Beorn

Dr. Waitman Wade Beorn is an Associate Professor in History at Northumbria University in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. He specializes in Holocaust history, genocide studies, digital humanities, and modern German history. Previously, he served as Director of the Virginia Holocaust Museum and the Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.

• Focus areas: Spatial dynamics of genocide, digital reconstructions of Holocaust sites, public history engagement
• Current project: Visualizing Janowska – AHRC-funded digital architectural model of the Janowska concentration camp using historical sources

Dr. Beorn’s research has been published in leading journals such as Holocaust and Genocide Studies, German Studies Review, and Politics and Governance. His work has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright Foundation, and Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.

• Teaching areas: Holocaust History, Comparative Genocide, Antisemitism, Digital Methodology, Public Engagement
• Public outreach: Host of The Holocaust History Podcast, contributor to Washington Post, and media commentator for CNN, MSNBC, and BBC

His recent book Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv was a National Jewish Book Award finalist. He leads the Holocaust Geographies collaborative using GIS for genocide analysis and is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and UK Higher Education Academy.