Christopher R. Browning
Frank Porter Graham Professor of History
University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
Christopher Browning is the author of seven books on Nazi Germany and the
Holocaust: The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy,
September 1939-March 1942 (with contributions from Jürgen Matthäus), University of
Nebraska Press, 2004; Collected Memories: Holocaust History and Postwar Testimony,
University of Wisconsin Press, 2003; Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers,
Cambridge University Press, 2000; Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the
Final Solution in Poland, HarperCollins, 1992; The Path to Genocide, Cambridge
University Press, 1992; Fateful Months: Essays on the Emergence of the Final Solution,
Holmes & Meier, 1985; and The Final Solution and the German Foreign Office, Holmes
& Meier, 1978. Both Ordinary Men and The Origins of the Final Solution have received
the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category.
Christopher Browning received his Ph.D. from the University of WisconsinMadison. He taught at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington for 25 years,
before moving to the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill in 1999. He has
delivered the George Macauley Trevelyan Lectures in at Cambridge University (1999)
and the George Mosse Lectures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2002). He has
been an expert witness at various trials of accused Nazi criminals in Australia, Canada,
and the United Kingdom, as well as in the “Holocaust denial” trials of Ernst Zündel in
Toronto (1988) and Irving vs. Lipstadt in London (2000). In 2006 he was inducted into
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.