Donald Bloxham

{{Short description|British historian}}

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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.{{cite web |url=http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/history/staff/dbloxham.htm |title=University of Edinburgh, Bloxham |publisher=Shc.ed.ac.uk |date=2011-10-13 |accessdate=2012-08-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928144552/http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/history/staff/dbloxham.htm |archivedate=28 September 2011 |df=dmy-all }}

He completed his undergraduate studies at Keele and postgraduate studies at Southampton, where he received a PhD in history.{{Cite web |title=Dr. Donald Bloxham — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |url=https://www.ushmm.org/research/about-the-mandel-center/all-fellows-and-scholars/donald-bloxham-2007 |access-date=2022-06-25 |website=www.ushmm.org}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://us.macmillan.com/theholocaust-1 |title=The Holocaust. Critical Historical Approaches. Donald Bloxham and Tony Kushner |publisher=Us.macmillan.com |date=2009-12-04 |accessdate=2012-08-24}}{{Cite web |title=About our staff |url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/about-us/staff-profiles |access-date=2022-06-25 |website=The University of Edinburgh |language=en}}

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