Prof. Stefan Ihrig

Professor Stefan Ihrig is a historian with specializations in German, Romanian, and Turkish/Ottoman history. He is especially interested in modern European history and such topics as entangled histories, violence, genocide, and media history. He joined the University of Haifa in 2016 as a Professor in the Department of General History and at the Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES). Since March 2020, he serves as director of the HCGES. He is co-editor of the Journal of Holocaust Research.

 Select Publications 

Stephan Ihrig, with Christian Weiß and Roberta Carnevale, Europa am Bosporus (er-)finden? (Peter Lang, 2005)

Stephan Ihrig, Wer sind die Moldawier? Rumaenismus versus Moldowanismus in Historiographie und Schulbuechern der Republik Moldova, 1991-2006 (Ibiden, 2008)

Stephan Ihrig, Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2014)

Stephan Ihrig, The Armenian Genocide and the World (Jerusalem: Van Leer Institute, 2016) - special issue of the Journal of Levantine Studies.

Stephan Ihrig, Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler (Harvard University Press, 2016)