David M. Crowe (Elon University), “The Evolution of the Nazi Policy towards the Roma throughout Europe
during the Holocaust” (Wednesday, June 24, 2015, 6 p.m., Sala de consiliu, School of Foreign Languages and
Literatures / University of Bucharest, 7-13 Pitar Moş street, Bucharest)
Bio: Dr. David M. Crowe is a Professor of History at Elon University and a Professor of Legal History at the Elon
University School of Law. He is the recipient of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies’ 2010 Richard Stites
Senior Scholar Award and Elon University’s Distinguished Scholar Award. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the
Harriman Institute at Columbia University and has taught at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. He
has also been a Fellow at the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is President Emeritus of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) at
Columbia University and currently serves on ASN’s Advisory Board. He was a member of the Education
Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. from 1990 to 2004 and also
served as chairman of the North Carolina Council on the Holocaust.
He is currently on the editorial boards of Nationalities Papers, Ethnopolitics, and First World War Studies.
Dr. Crowe’s most recent work is Germany and China: Transnational Encounters since the 18 th Century with Joanne
Cho. He published War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice: A Global History in 2013. He published Crimes of State,
Past and Present: Government-Sponsored Atrocities and International Legal Responses in 2010, and is currently
editing ‘May Justice be Done!’: The Soviet Search for Justice during and after ‘The Great Patriotic War.’ He is also
working on a biography of Raphael Lemkin.
His The Holocaust: Roots, History, and Aftermath (2008) was selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title
for 2008, and will be published in a Chinese edition in 2015. His 2004 Oskar Schindler: The Untold Account of His
Life, Wartime Activities, and the True Story Behind The List (2004), was featured in The New York Times. It was
also a selection of the History Book Club, and has been translated into German, Dutch, and Polish.
In 2007, he published the Second, Revised Edition of his A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia. It
was also a selection of the History Book Club and has been translated into Japanese and Ukrainian. Dr. Crowe was
awarded the V. Stanley Vardys Presidents' Prize for Books on Baltic Studies by the Association for the
Advancement of Baltic Studies for his The Baltic States and the Great Powers: Foreign Relations, 1938-1940
(1993).
He also co-edited The Gypsies of Eastern Europe (1991/1992) and Kazakstan: History, Ethnicity, and Society, a
special edition of Nationalities Papers (1998).
Dr. Crowe’s other publications include Roma and Forced Migration: An Annotated Bibliography, Second Edition
(1998) and World War I & Europe in Crisis (1990). He has published scores of book chapters, articles, and reviews
on international law, China, Russia, the
Roma, the Holocaust, Jewish history, and Central and East European history in Teaching the Holocaust;
Encyclopedia of European Social History; History Behind the Headlines; The Gorbachev Encyclopedia; The
Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History; Encyclopedia of World Culture: USSR; Research Guide to
European Historical Biography; Great Leaders - Great Tyrants; Books in Russia and the Soviet Union: Past and
Present; Crisis & Reaction: The Hero in Jewish History; Soviet and Post-Soviet Review; East European Quarterly;
Lituanus; American Jewish History; Universitas; Nationalities Papers; Journal of Baltic Studies; Russian Review;
Russian History/Histoire Russe; Soviet Union/Union Sovietique; Slavic Review; Canadian Review of Studies in
Nationalism; Canadian-American Slavic Studies; American Historical Review; American Archivist; AACAR
Bulletin; Macedonian Studies; Slovakia; Romani Studies; Edges; Jahrbüchern für Geschichte Osteuropas;
Holocaust and Genocide Studies; Osteuropa: Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsfragen des Ostens; Austrian History
Yearbook; Encyclopedia Judaica; World Fascism; International Encyclopedia of Peace, The Cambridge Dictionary
of Jewish History, and Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922.
Dr. Crowe has testified before the United States Congress' Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and
the New York City Council's Subcommittee on Immigration. He has also appeared on CNN International, BBC
radio, and numerous television and radio programs throughout North America, Europe, and Israel. Dr. Crowe has
served as an expert witness in scores of court cases in the United States and Canada involving the Roma, Russians,
and other ethnic groups.
His works have been featured in articles in The New York Times, the Jerusalem Post, The Evening Standard,
Jüdische Allgemeine, Wprost, Focus, The Washington Post, Pravo, and other newspapers and magazines throughout
Europe, North America, and Israel.