Dr Waitman Beorn

Associate Professor

Department: Social Sciences

Dr. Waitman Wade Beorn is an associate professor in History at Northumbria University in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.听 Dr. Beorn was previously the Director of the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond, VA and the inaugural Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.听 His first book, 听(Harvard University Press) Dr. Beorn is also the author of听(Bloomsbury Press, 2018) and has recently finished a book on the Janowska concentration camp outside of Lviv, Ukraine. That book was released in August 2024 from Nebraska University Press.听听Between the Wires was recognised as a in the United States.

He is currently on research leave thanks to an AHRC Research, Development, and Engagement Fellowship.听 This fellowship supports his work on a project entitled .听 This interdisciplinary project will build a digital reconstruction of the Janowska concentration camp based on historical sources as most of the site is gone today.听 Dr. Beorn is managing a team of architects and digital modellers to accomplish this and is partnered with the Holocaust Education Trust, the Wiener Holocaust Library, the Lviv Center for Urban History, the Duke Digital Art History and Visual Culture Lab, and the Holocaust Center North.

听Dr. Beorn has published work in听Holocaust and Genocide Studies,听Central European History,听German Studies Review,听Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History,听Politics and Governance,听and the听Geographical Review听in addition to chapters in several edited volumes.听 He has been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright Foundation, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and Claims Conference fellowships. He is also active in the digital humanities. 听

As a public-facing scholar, Dr. Beorn has published pieces in the听Washington Post, The New Republic,听and听The Forward.听 He has also appeared on听MSNBC, CNN,听Richard French Live听on听WRNN,听Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and听TRT. He is an active contributor to public history and engagement on Twitter as well. Dr. Beorn teaches courses in Holocaust History, Comparative Genocide, German history, Eastern European history, Antisemitism, Modern European history, Public history, and Digital history.听