Biographies of Contributors
- Biographies of Contributors
Tom Lawson is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Winchester. He is the author of The Church of England and the Holocaust: Christianity, Memory and Nazism (2006). He is also the co-editor of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History. He is currently working on a new study of Holocaust historiography and on an unrelated project on the idea of Europe after the Great War.
Michael R. Marrus is Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies and the former dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto. He has been a visiting fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and he has taught as a visiting professor at UCLA and the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is the author of, among other books, The Politics of Assimilation: French Jews at the Time of the Dreyfus Affair; Vichy France and the Jews (with Robert Paxton); The Unwanted: European Refugees in the Twentieth Century; The Holocaust in History; Mr. Sam: The Life and Times of Samuel Bronfman; and The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1945–46. Professor Marrus was a member of the International Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission to examine the role of the Vatican during the Holocaust, and is currently a member of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Michael Phayer is Professor Emeritus at Marquette University. He is the author of The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930–1965 (2000); his Pius XII, the Holocaust, and the Cold War is to be published in Fall 2007. In 2000–2001 he held a Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. More recently (2006–2007) he was Ida E. King Distinguished Holocaust Lecturer at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
LeRoy Walters is the Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., Professor of Christian Ethics at the Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. He is also a Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown. He is coauthor of The Ethics of Human Gene Therapy, co-editor of the Bibliography of Bioethics (thirty-three volumes to date), and co-editor of Contemporary Issues in Bioethics. During the past five years, Professor Walters has focused his research and teaching primarily on the ethical dimensions of the Holocaust, including the National Socialists’ “euthanasia” program. He has devoted particular attention to the writings and actions of Paul Braune and Dietrich Bonhoeffer and to the failure of most Christians to resist the Nazi regime’s murderous campaign against the Jewish people. [End Page 572]
