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.

Works listed here are cited in the notes or bibliographies of scholarly sources. Each is published by an academic or major press, written by a recognized expert, or substantially reviewed in scholarly journals; borderline cases are omitted. A selection of primary sources are included. Many of the books below carry their own bibliographies; see the Further reading section for other bibliographies, and the External links section for historical sites, academic sites, and museums.

Citations follow APA style. Book have citations to academic journal or mainstream published reviews when available. For books only partly about the subject, relevant chapter or section titles are provided when useful and available. Translators of the original-language edition are included when possible. In cases where a title or name has appeared with more than one English spelling, the most recent published form is used and a footnote documents any earlier title under which the work appeared.

General surveys

Jones, Adam. (2016). Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction (3rd ed.). 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, CN: Greenwood 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: University of Nebraska Press. 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. [ Available at: Genocide and the Hispanic-American Dilemma

Hennebel, Ludovic, and Thomas Hochmann (eds), Genocide Denials and the Law (2011), 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, NJ: 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. .

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. 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. .

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, CO. Staub, E. (1992). The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence (Rev. ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Stoett, Peter. (1995). "This Age of Genocide: Conceptual and Institutional Implications." International Journal, L:3, 594-618. 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 (Rev. ed.). 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.

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 ed.. C.H. Beck / Nomos / Hart Publishing,

Legal Gurmendi Dunkelberg, Alonso (2025): "How to Hide a Genocide: Modern/Colonial International Law and the Construction of Impunity", Journal of Genocide Research, DOI: 10.1080/14623528.2025.2454739.

Biographical

Bartrop, Paul Robert (2012). A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good. ABC-CLIO.

Gender and sexual violence

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. 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 – associated with the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights at the Zoryan Institute Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal – associated with IAGS Holocaust and Genocide Studies – associated with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Journal of Genocide Research – associated with INoGS

Primary sources Works below are items related to the development of Genocide studies. Key Writings of Raphael Lemkin on Genocide Raphael Lemkin papers, 1947–1959, New York Public Library Archives and Manuscripts. Raphael Lemkin Collection, The Center for Jewish History. Lemkin, R. (1946). Genocide. The American Scholar, 15(2), 227–230. Lemkin, R. (1949). Genocide: A Commentary on the Convention. The Yale Law Journal, 58(7), 1142–1160.

See also Bibliography of the Holocaust Bibliography of the Rwandan genocide Bibliography of the Armenian genocide

References Notes

Citations

Further reading Tinnes, J. (2015). Bibliography: Genocide (since 1980) (Part 1). Perspectives on Terrorism, 9(2), 80–114. Tinnes, J. (2019). Bibliography: Genocide (since 1980) (Part 2). Perspectives on Terrorism, 13(1), 163–196.

External links Defining an Unimaginable Crime: The Story of Raphael Lemkin, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Bibliographies, Genocide Studies Program, Yale University.