Edward Westermann
Theodore Zev and Alice R. Weiss HEF Chair in Holocaust Studies, Visiting Professor
Curriculum Vitae
- edward.westermann@northwestern.edu
- 847-467-3032
- Harris 217
- Office Hours: Mondays 2:00-3:15pm, Wednesdays 2:00-3:15pm and by appointment
Interests
Geographic Field(s): Modern European History: Central/Eastern Europe
Thematic Field(s): War and Empire in History
Principal Research Interest(s): Holocaust Studies, Nazi Germany, Military History, Genocide Studies
Biography
Edward B. Westermann received his doctorate from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and is a Regents Professor Emeritus of History and a Piper Professor of 2023 at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. He has published extensively on the Holocaust and military history, and he is the author of Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and Conquest (Oklahoma, 2016), and Hitler’s Police Battalions: Enforcing Racial War in the East (Kansas, 2005). He is a former Fulbright Fellow at the Free University of Berlin, a three-time fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service, a Fellow of Keene State College’s Genocide Studies and Prevention Program, and a J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Fellow at the USHMM. His latest book, Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany appeared with Cornell University Press in 2021 and received the 2023 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research. In spring 2026, he will be a Visting Professor at Northwestern University as the Theodore Zev and Alice R. Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Chair in Holocaust Studies.