A. Dirk Moses is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of Political Science at the City College of New York, CUNY. Raised in Brisbane, Australia, he was educated at the Universities of Queensland (B.A. 1987), St. Andrews (M.Phil. 1990), Notre Dame (M.A. 1994), and California, Berkeley (Ph.D. 2000). Before coming to City, he was the  Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from July 2000 to July 2022. From 2000-2010 and 2016-2020, he taught at the University of Sydney. Between 2011 and 2015, he held the Chair of Global and Colonial History at the European University Institute, Florence. His first book, German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (2007), was awarded the H-Soz-Kult ‘'Historical Book of the Year'’ prize for contemporary history. Dirk has also written extensively about genocide and global history. Recent anthologies include Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide: The Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967–1970 (2018), The Holocaust in Greece (2018), and Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics  (2020). Dirk's latest book, The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression, appeared in February 2021.