Bibliography of genocide studies

This is a select annotated bibliography of scholarly English language books (including translations) and journal articles about the subject of genocide studies; for bibliographies of genocidal acts or events, please see the See also section for individual articles. A brief selection of English translations of primary sources is included for items related to the development of genocide studies. Book entries may have references to journal articles and reviews as annotations. Additional bibliographies can be found in many of the book-length works listed below; see Further Reading for several book and chapter-length bibliographies. The External links section contains entries for publicly available materials on the development of genocide studies.

Overview

Inclusion criteria This bibliography is about the subject of genocide studies; works about the history of acts of genocide are not included. Included works should either be published by an academic or notable publisher, or be authored by an independent notable subject matter expert and have reviews in significant independent scholarly journals. This bibliography specifically excludes self-published works; magazines and newspaper articles; works produced as propaganda; and works produced by non-academic government entities.

Formatting and citation style This bibliography uses APA style citations. Entries do not use templates; references to reviews and notes for entries do use citation templates. Where books which are only partially related to the subject of genocide are listed, the titles for chapters or sections should be indicated if possible, meaningful, and not excessive.

If a work has been translated into English, the translator should be included and a footnote with appropriate bibliographic information for the original language version should be included.

When listing book titles with alternative English spellings, the form used in the latest published version should be used and the version and relevant bibliographic information noted if it previously was published or reviewed under a different title.

General surveys

• Jones, Adam. (2016). Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction (3rd ed.). Routledge.
• Shelton D. (2005). Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. Thomson Gale.
• Totten, Samuel. Bartrop, Paul R, Jacobs, Steven L. (2008). Dictionary of Genocide. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press.
• Üngör, U. Ü. (Ed.). (2016). Genocide. Amsterdam University Press.

Topical works

• Bachman, J. (2019). The United States and Genocide. Routledge.
• Bachman, J. (Ed.). (2019). Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations. Routledge.
• Brantlinger, P. (2003). Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800–1930 (1st ed.). Cornell University Press.
• Campbell, B. (2015). The Geometry of Genocide: A Study in Pure Sociology. University of Virginia Press.
• Clarke, A. W. (2012). Rendition to Torture. Rutgers University Press.
• Der Matossian, Bedross (2023), ed. Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
• Feierstein, D., & Town, D.A. (2014). Defining the Concept of Genocide. In Genocide as Social Practice: Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentina's Military Juntas (pp. 11–38). Rutgers University Press.
• Ginzberg, Eitan (2020) "Genocide and the Hispanic-American Dilemma," Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: Vol. 14: Iss. 2: 122–152. [ Available at: Genocide and the Hispanic-American Dilemma
• Hennebel, Ludovic, and Thomas Hochmann (eds), Genocide Denials and the Law (2011),
• Hiebert, M. S. (2019). Constructing Genocide and Mass Violence: Society, Crisis, Identity. Routledge.
• Hinton, P.A.L. (Ed.). (2011). Transitional Justice: Global Mechanisms and Local Realities after Genocide and Mass Violence. Rutgers University Press.
• Hitchcock, R. (Ed.). (2011). Genocide of Indigenous Peoples: A Critical Bibliographic Review (1st ed.). Routledge.
• Horowitz, Irving Louis. (1980). Taking Lives: Genocide and State Power. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books.
• Kuper, Leo (1991). "When Denial Becomes Routine." Social Education 55(2):121–123.
• Kiernan, Ben. (2007). Blood and soil: A world history of genocide and extermination from Sparta to Darfur. Yale University Press. .
• Kühne, T. (2010). Belonging and Genocide. Yale University Press.
• Mayersen, D. (Ed.). (2016). The United Nations and Genocide. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Mcdonnell, Michael A. & Moses, A. Dirk (2005) "Raphael Lemkin as historian of genocide in the Americas", Journal of Genocide Research, 7:4, 501–529,
• Moses, A. Dirk (Ed.). (2008). Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History. Berghahn Books.
• Moses, A. Dirk, Joeden-Forgey, E. von, Feierstein, D., Frieze, D.-L., Nunpa, M., Richmond, W., Jones, A., Hinton, P.A.L., Travis, H., & Hegburg, K. (2013). Hidden Genocides: Power, Knowledge, Memory (A.L. Hinton, T.L. Pointe, & D. Irvin-Erickson, Eds.). Rutgers University Press.
• O'Brien, M. (2022). From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process Through a Human Rights Lens. Routledge.
• Ostler, Jeffrey. (2019). Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas. Yale University Press.
• Palmer, Alison (1998). "Colonial and modern genocide: explanations and categories", Ethnic and Racial Studies, 21:1, pp. 89–115
• Robben, Antonius C.G.M. and Alexander Laban Hinton (2023). Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity's Dark Side. Stanford: Stanford University Press. .
• Smith, R.W. (2014). Genocide Denial and Prevention. Genocide Studies International, 8(1), 102–109. JSTOR 26985995
• van Schaack, Beth (1997). "The Crime of Political Genocide: Repairing the Genocide Convention's Blind Spot". The Yale Law Journal. 106 (7): 2259–2291. . JSTOR 797169.
• Stannard, David (1992). American holocaust : the conquest of the new world. Oxford University Press, US.
• Stannard, David (1996). "Uniqueness as Denial: The Politics of Genocide Scholarship", published in Is the Holocaust Unique? edited by Alan S. Rosenbaum. Westview Press. Boulder, CO.
• Staub, E. (1992). The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence (Rev. ed.). Cambridge University Press.
• Thornton, Russell. (1987). American Indian holocaust and survival: a population history since 1492 (1st ed.). University of Oklahoma Press.
• Totten, S., Parsons, W. S., & Charny, I. W. (1994). Genocide in the twentieth century: Critical essays and eyewitness accounts. New York: Garland.
• Valentino, B.A. (2013). Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century. Cornell University Press.
• Weiss-Wendt, A., & Irvin-Erickson, D. (2018). A Rhetorical Crime: Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War. Rutgers University Press.
• Weitz, E.D. (2015). A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation (Rev. ed.). Princeton University Press.
• Williams, T. (2020). The Complexity of Evil: Perpetration and Genocide. Rutgers University Press.
• Wolfe, Patrick. (1999). Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology:the Politics and Poetics of an Ethnographic Event, London and New York.
• Wolfe, Patrick. (2008). "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native", Jnl. of Genocide Research, 8, 4, 2006; Development Dialogue, No. 50.
• Zimmerer, Jürgen. (2024) Colonialism and the Holocaust: Towards an Archaeology of Genocide. From Windhoek to Auschwitz?: Reflections on the Relationship between Colonialism and National Socialism, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, pp. 125–153.

Prevention

• Barkan, E., Goschler, C., & Waller, J. (Eds.). (2022). Historical Dialogue and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities. Routledge.
• Harff, B., & Gurr, T.R. (Eds.). (2018). Preventing Mass Atrocities: Policies and Practices. Routledge.

Conventions and Agreements

• Tams, Christian J.; Berster, Lars; Schiffbauer, Björn (2024). The Genocide Convention – Article-by-Article Commentary, 2nd ed.. C.H. Beck / Nomos / Hart Publishing,

Legal

• Gurmendi Dunkelberg, Alonso (2025): "How to Hide a Genocide: Modern/Colonial International Law and the Construction of Impunity", Journal of Genocide Research, DOI: 10.1080/14623528.2025.2454739.

Biographical

• Bartrop, Paul Robert (2012). A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good. ABC-CLIO.

White genocide conspiracy theory

Main article: White genocide conspiracy theory

• Dyck, K. (2019). "They'll Take Away Our Birthrights": How White-Power Musicians Instill Fear of White Extinction. In T. D. Boyce & W. M. Chunnu (Eds.), Historicizing Fear: Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering (pp. 73–87). University Press of Colorado.
• Kamali, S. (2021). White Genocide: Grievances of White Nationalists. In Homegrown Hate: Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists Are Waging War against the United States (1st ed., pp. 113–136). University of California Press.
• Temoney, K.E. (2020). Anatomizing White Rage: "Race is My Religion!" and "White Genocide." In S.C. Finley, B.M. Gray, & L.L. Martin (Eds.), The Religion of White Rage: Religious Fervor, White Workers and the Myth of Black Racial Progress (pp. 149–165). Edinburgh University Press.

Historiography and memory studies

• Murray, S. W. (Ed.). (2017). Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide. University of Calgary Press.
• Dudley, M.Q. (2017). "A Library Matter of Genocide: The Library of Congress and the Historiography of the Native American Holocaust". The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 8(2).
• Stone, Dan (2011). The historiography of genocide. Palgrave Macmillan.

Reference works

• Bartrop, Paul R.; Jacobs, Steven Leonard (eds.). (2014). Modern Genocide: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection [4 volumes]: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection. ABC-CLIO.
• Blackhawk, Ned. (2023) The Cambridge World History of Genocide. Edited by N. Blackhawk, B. Kiernan, B. Madley, and R. Taylor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (The Cambridge World History of Genocide).
• Bloxham, D., & Moses, A. Dirk. (2010). The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies. Oxford University Press.

Academic journals

• Genocide Studies International – associated with the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights at the Zoryan Institute
• Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal – associated with IAGS
• Holocaust and Genocide Studies – associated with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Journal of Genocide Research – associated with INoGS

Primary sources

Works below are items related to the development of Genocide studies.

• Key Writings of Raphael Lemkin on Genocide
• Raphael Lemkin papers, 1947–1959, New York Public Library Archives and Manuscripts.
• Raphael Lemkin Collection, The Center for Jewish History.
• Lemkin, R. (1946). Genocide. The American Scholar, 15(2), 227–230.
• Lemkin, R. (1949). Genocide: A Commentary on the Convention. The Yale Law Journal, 58(7), 1142–1160.

See also

• Bibliography of the Holocaust
• Bibliography of the Rwandan genocide
• Bibliography of the Armenian genocide

Further reading

• Tinnes, J. (2015). Bibliography: Genocide (since 1980) (Part 1). Perspectives on Terrorism, 9(2), 80–114.
• Tinnes, J. (2019). Bibliography: Genocide (since 1980) (Part 2). Perspectives on Terrorism, 13(1), 163–196.

External links

• Defining an Unimaginable Crime: The Story of Raphael Lemkin, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
• Bibliographies, Genocide Studies Program, Yale University.