{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/template-faculty01\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2018-12-04T15:59:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T15:59:22","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-cox\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Discipline: <\/strong>Modern European and World History<\/div>\n<p><strong>Areas of expertise: <\/strong>The Holocaust;\u00a0comparative genocide; racism, fascism\u00a0and imperialism; working-class &amp; labor history; resistance<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Cox&#8217;s first book (<i>Circles of Resistance: Jewish, Leftist, and Youth Dissidence in Nazi Germany<\/i>) was published in 2009, and his <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #993366;text-decoration: underline\"><a style=\"color: #993366;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/John-M.-Cox\/e\/B0028OI92C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>To Kill a People: Genocide in the Twentieth Century<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/span> was published in February 2016 by Oxford University Press. John earned his Ph.D. in History at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2006 and came to UNC Charlotte in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>His current research projects analyze anti-Nazi resistance within Buchenwald and the post-war memory and political uses of that resistance; Jewish participation in the fight against Franco in Spain; and the relationship of capitalism to genocide. Dr. Cox is also co-editing a major genocide-studies reader (<em>The Routledge Handbook of Genocide Studies)\u00a0<\/em>with Adam Jones, to be published in 2019 or 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Cox directs the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalstudies.uncc.edu\/center-holocaust-genocide-human-rights-studies\"><b>Center for Holocaust, Genocide &amp; Human Rights (HGHR) Studies<\/b> <\/a>and administers our minor in HGHR Studies.<\/p>\n<p>His Academia.edu site: <a href=\"https:\/\/uncc.academia.edu\/JCox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\"><u>https:\/\/uncc.academia.edu\/JCox<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. J&#8217;s\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/johncox.typepad.com\/dr_js_page\/\">Blog page.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discipline: Modern European and World History Areas of expertise: The Holocaust;\u00a0comparative genocide; racism, fascism\u00a0and imperialism; working-class &amp; labor history; resistance Dr. Cox&#8217;s first book (Circles of Resistance: Jewish, Leftist, and Youth Dissidence in Nazi Germany) was published in 2009, and his To Kill a People: Genocide in the Twentieth Century was published in February 2016 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3jdw9-5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}