max Bergholz

Max Bergholz is Associate Professor of history at Concordia University in Montreal.  Trained as a historian of the Balkans and Eastern Europe, his research interests include the microdynamics of nationalism, mass violence, and historical memory.  His fieldwork focuses on Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia, where he researches in central and provincial archives and conducts interviews in small towns and villages.  His current book investigates the causes and dynamics of violence during 1941 in a multi-ethnic community that straddles the present-day border between Bosnia and Croatia, and their effects on local identities and social relations.