Tomaz Jardim

Professor Faculty of Arts Department of History Toronto, Ontario tjardim@torontomu.ca Office: (416) 979-5000 ext. 552132

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Europe: Modern Germany Holocaust World Wars

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Dr. Tomaz Jardim is a historian of modern Europe who joined the Department of History in 2011. Prior to his arrival at Toronto Metropolitan University, he taught at Concordia University and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. Dr. Jardim has taught courses on the World Wars, modern Germany, the Holocaust, Europe in the 20th century, and surveys of Western civilization. His research areas include the Third Reich, the Holocaust, and in particular, war crimes trials. His first book, The Mauthausen Trial: American Military Justice in Germany (Harvard University Press, 2012), explores the role of U.S. military commission courts in punishing concentration camp perpetrators. Dr. Jardim’s second book, Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the "Bitch of Buchenwald" (Harvard University Press, 2023), explores how gendered perceptions of violence and culpability drove Koch's zealous prosecution at a time when male Nazi perpetrators guilty of greater crimes often escaped punishment or received lighter sentences.

Ilse Koch on Trial won the 2024 Hans Rosenberg Book Prize, while The Mauthausen Trial received the 2013 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize.

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