Director’s Biography
David Gerlach, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Chairperson of the History Department at Saint Peter’s University. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Boston College and his master’s and doctoral degrees from The University of Pittsburgh. His book, The Economy of Ethnic Cleansing: The Transformation of the German-Czech Borderlands after World War II, published by Cambridge University Press in 2017 explores the economic aspects of ethnic cleansing. His current research examines the intersections between reparation claims and memory building as a result of World War II and the Holocaust.