Kunnskapsbasen
Holocaust og andre folkemord
Livssyn og religion
Aksjonen mot norske jøder
besøksadresse:
Villa Grande
Huk Aveny 56
postadresse:
Postboks 1168 Blindern
0318 Oslo
telefon: 22 84 21 00
e-post: post@hlsenteret.no
Matthew Kott
Forsker
Forskningsprosjekt:
Norske frivillige i Waffen SS
Forskningsområder / Research interests:
- socio-political history of Latvia and the wider the Baltic Sea Region in the twentieth century;
- history of Nazi Germany and the USSR;
- the intellectual, social, and political roots of communist and fascist movements in the Baltic and the Nordic countries;
- migrations and diasporas, particularly in northern Europe;
- the Roma and Traveller communities in northern Europe;
- theories of civil society and totalitarianism
Utvalgte publikasjoner / Selected publications:
- "Antropologen Gaston Backman och den uppsaliensiska rasbiologins spridning i tid och rum", in: Helmut Müssener and Per Jegebäck (eds.), Rasen och vetenskapen, Uppsala Multiethnic Papers 51, UUHGS Publications 3 (Uppsala: Centrum för multietnisk forskning; Programmet för studier kring Förintelsen och folkmord, 2009), pp. 59-82.
- (with Bernt Rougthvedt) "Kongsvinger: Politiutdannelse eller opplæring i folkemord?", Fortid 2009, no. 2, pp. 6-14. [WWW]
- "What Does the Holocaust in the Baltic States Have to Do with the SS' Plans for Occupied Norway?", in: Dzintars Erglis (ed.), Holokausta petniecibas problemas Latvija / Problems of the Holocaust Research in Latvia, Symposium of the Commission of the Historians of Latvia vol. 23 (Riga: Latvijas vestures instituta apgads, 2008), pp. 139-161. [WWW]
- "Soviet Genocide in Latvia: Stalin's Great Terror (1937-38) as Antecedent and Other Aspects of the Recent Historiography", Latvijas Okupacijas Muzeja Gadagramata / Yearbook of the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia 2007, pp. 42-54.
- (with Harald Runblom) "Estnische und lettische Flüchtlinge in Schweden seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg", in: Klaus J. Bade et al. (eds.), Enzyklopädie Migration in Europa: Vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart (Munich &c.: Ferdinand Schöningh; Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2007), pp. 553-5. An English-language edition is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
- "Towards an Uncivil Society: Reactions to Soviet and Nazi Occupation and the Demise of Civil Society in Riga, 1939-1949", D.Phil. thesis (University of Oxford, 2006).
- "The Portrayal of Soviet Atrocities in the Nazi-controlled Latvian-language Press and the First Wave of Antisemitic Violence in Riga, July-August 1941" in David Gaunt, Paul A. Levine, and Laura Palosuo (eds.), Collaboration and Resistance during the Holocaust: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (Bern &c.: Peter Lang, 2004), pp. 127-60.
- (with Heinrihs Strods) "The File on Operation Priboi: A Re-Assessment of the Mass Deportations of 1949", Journal of Baltic Studies 33, no. 1 (2002), pp. 1-36; no. 2 (2002), p. 241. [WWW]
Debattartikler / Debate articles:
- "Har vi ingenting lärt oss?", SVT Debatt, 24 Feb. 2010 [WWW]
- "Forskare måste tänka nytt kring romer", Tvärsnitt 4 (2009), pp. 20-21. [WWW]
- (with Bernt Rougthvedt and Terje Emberland) "Side om side med massemordere", Bergens Tidende, 12 May 2009. [WWW]
- (with Odd-Bjørn Fure and Rolf Hobson) "Hva skjedde med frontkjemperne i Øst?", Aftenposten (Oslo), 3 Sept. 2005. [WWW]
- "'Latviesu operacija': noziegums, bet vai genocids?" (The "Latvian Operation": A crime, but was it genocide?), Diena (Riga), 8 Dec. 2004. [WWW]
- "Pilsoniskas sabiedribas bojaeja Latvija" (The demise of civil society in Latvia), Diena (Riga), 20 Nov. 2004. [WWW]
Bokanmeldelser / Book reviews:
- Die "Endlösung" in Riga: Ausbeutung und Vernichtung, by Andrej Angrick and Peter Klein, Holocaust and Genocide Studies 23, no. 2 (2009), pp. 308-11. [WWW]
- The Vanished World of the Lithuanian Jews, ed. by Alvydas Nikzenaitis, Stefan Schreiner, and Darius Staliunas, in Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History 13, no. 2-3 (2007), pp. 185-8.
- Latvia in World War II by Valdis O. Lumans, in Journal of Baltic Studies 38, no. 3 (2007), pp. 377-9.[WWW]
- Estonia 1940-1945: Reports of the Estonian International Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against Humanity, in Holocaust and Genocide Studies 21, no. 3 (2007), pp. 321-3. [WWW]
- Utopias of Nation: Local Mass Killing in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1941-42 by Tomislav Dulic, in Nordisk Østforum 2006, no. 1, pp. 82-5.