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 edition). 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 Conn: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313346415
 * Üngör, U. Ü. (Ed.). (2016). Genocide. Amsterdam University 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, NE: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-1-4962-2510-8
 * 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. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.14.2.1666 Available at: Genocide and the Hispanic-American Dilemma
 * Hennebel, Ludovic, and Thomas Hochmann (eds), Genocide Denials and the Law (2011), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199738922.001.0001
 * 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 N.J: 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. ISBN 978-0300144253.
 * 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. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvgc629z
 * 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. ISBN 978-1-503-63427-5.
 * Smith, R. W. (2014). Genocide Denial and Prevention. Genocide Studies International, 8(1), 102–109.
 * van Schaack, Beth (1997). "The Crime of Political Genocide: Repairing the Genocide Convention's Blind Spot". The Yale Law Journal. 106 (7): 2259–2291. ..
 * 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, Colorado. ISBN 9780429037009
 * 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 (Revised edition). 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.
 * 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. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvgc629z
 * 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. ISBN 978-1-503-63427-5.
 * Smith, R. W. (2014). Genocide Denial and Prevention. Genocide Studies International, 8(1), 102–109.
 * van Schaack, Beth (1997). "The Crime of Political Genocide: Repairing the Genocide Convention's Blind Spot". The Yale Law Journal. 106 (7): 2259–2291. ..
 * 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, Colorado. ISBN 9780429037009
 * 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 (Revised edition). 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.
 * 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 (Revised edition). 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.
 * 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 edition. C.H. Beck / Nomos / Hart Publishing, ISBN 978-3-406-81272-9
 * Tams, Christian J.; Berster, Lars; Schiffbauer, Björn (2024). The Genocide Convention – Article-by-Article Commentary, 2nd edition. C.H. Beck / Nomos / Hart Publishing, ISBN 978-3-406-81272-9

Biographical

 * Bartrop, Paul Robert (2012). A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-38678-7
 * Bartrop, Paul Robert (2012). A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-38678-7

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. ISBN 978-1-61069-364-6
 * 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;
 * Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
 * Holocaust and Genocide Studies
 * Journal of Genocide Research