Dr Christopher Dillon

Academic qualifications

BA History, University of Exeter, 1996
MA History, University of Sussex, 1999
PhD History, University of London, 2010

Teaching

First year
HT51017A Concepts and Methods in History
HT51020A Dictators, War, and Revolution

Third year
HT53019A/HT53020A Weimar Germany: Culture and Society 1918-1933 (Special Subject)

Administration

Years 2 & 3 Tutor

Grants & awards

• Full AHRC Doctoral Funding (2006-2009)
• German History Society Research Bursary (2011-2012)

Research interests

Modern German History, especially Weimar and Nazi Germany. I was a member of the Birkbeck College/AHRC research project “Before the Holocaust: Pre-war Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany”. My doctoral thesis (and forthcoming monograph) focuses on the pre-war SS personnel of Dachau concentration camp and takes a diverse methodological approach embracing generation, social psychology, racism, regionality, and masculinities.

Selected publications

Books

• Dachau and the SS: An Academy of Violence (Forthcoming, Oxford University Press).

Articles

• ‘“We’ll meet again in Dachau”. The Early Dachau SS and the Narrative of Civil War’, Journal of Contemporary History, Vo. 45 (3), July 2010, pp. 535-554.
• ‘The Dachau SS and the Locality 1933-1939’, in Christiane Heß, Julia Hörath, Dominique Schröder and Kim Wünschmann (eds), Kontinuitäten und Brüche: Neue Perspektiven auf die Geschichte der NS-Konzentrationslager (Berlin, 2011), pp. 49-65.

Book Reviews

I have reviewed books for numerous peer-reviewed journals including Holocaust Studies, The Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, European History Quarterly, Beiträge zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus, and Sehepunkte.

Selected Recent Conference Papers

• ‘The Dachau SS and the Locality’ at the International Conference “Before the Holocaust: Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany 1933-1939”, Birkbeck College, July 2008.
• ‘The Dachau SS and Masculinity’ at the International Workshop ‘Masculinities in Interwar Europe’, German Historical Institute London, June 2010.
• ‘Concentration Camp Personnel and Historiography’ at the Modern European History Workshop, Cambridge University (Downing College), November 2010.
• ‘The Dachau SS and the Volksgemeinschaft’ at the Eleventh Biennial Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust, Boca Raton, Florida, November 2010.
• ‘From the “Inner” to “Outer” Front: Concentration Camp Personnel and Operation Barbarossa’, Exeter University Centre for The Study of War, State and Society, May 2011.