Dr. Alexa Stiller

Dr. Alexa Stiller is Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary History at the Department of History at the University of Zurich. She has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York City, the University of Oxford, St. Antony's College, and ETH Zurich. She has received fellowships from the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Foundation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, and the German Historical Institutes in Washington D.C. and Warsaw.

Alexa Stiller's first monograph focuses on Nazi Germanization policy and mass violence in occupied Poland, France, and Slovenia. The award-winning book is entitled Völkische Politik. Practices of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Polish, French and Slovenian Annexed Territories, 1939-1945 (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2022). She has published extensively on the Nuremberg Trials (two different co-edited books in 2012 and 2013, and several articles). Her current research project (working title: Visions of Accountability. Global Transformation of Human Rights Activism, International Criminal Law Practices, and Humanitarian Interventions in the Post-Cold War Era) examines international responses to mass violence and war in former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Iraq, as well as the creation of the international criminal law regime in the 1990s.