John K. Roth

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John King Roth[1] is an American-based author, editor, and the Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College (CMC) in Claremont, California.[2] Roth taught at CMC from 1966 through 2006, where he was the founding director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, which is now the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights. Best known for his contributions to Holocaust and genocide studies, he is the author or editor of more than fifty books. In 1988, he was named the U.S. National Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.[3]

Early life

Roth was born in Grand Haven, Michigan, on September 3, 1940. He received his B.A. from Pomona College in 1962, graduating magna cum laude and with honors in philosophy and membership in Phi Beta Kappa. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy at Yale University.[1]

Career

After graduating from

Oslo, Norway, from 1995 to 1996. He served as the Robert and Carolyn Frederick Distinguished Visiting Professor of Ethics at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana
from 2007 to 2008.

Roth's expertise in Holocaust and genocide studies, as well as in philosophy, ethics, American studies, and religious studies, has been advanced by postdoctoral appointments as a Graves Fellow in the Humanities, a Fulbright Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and a Fellow of the National Humanities Institute at Yale University. He used a Demonstration Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop two model interdisciplinary courses: “Perspectives on the American Dream” and “The Holocaust.” With Professor Kenji Yoshida of Doshisha University, Roth received the first Faculty Pairing Grant awarded by the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission. In 2001, he held the Koerner Visiting Fellowship for the Study of the Holocaust at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in England. From 2004 to 2005, Roth was the Ina Levine Invitational Scholar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Roth was a member of the

Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the museum, but he was criticized by national conservative media for some of his past writings, which were characterized as insufficiently supportive of Israel. The academic community largely rallied to his defense and the museum's council voted overwhelmingly to reaffirm his selection, condemning the criticism as "character assassination", but he withdrew from the position.[4]

Roth is a former chair of the California Council for the Humanities and trustee of Humanities Washington, both affiliates of the

Paragon House and the Stephen S. Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust Studies, published by the University of Washington Press
.

Selected works

  • Advancing Holocaust Studies (Routledge, 2021).
  • Ethics During and After the Holocaust: In the Shadow of Birkenau (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
  • The Failures of Ethics: Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities (Oxford University Press, 2015)
  • Losing Trust in the World: Holocaust Scholars Confront Torture (University of Washington Press, 2017)
  • The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies (Oxford University Press, 2010)
  • Teaching about Rape in War and Genocide (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
  • Sources of Holocaust Insight: Learning and Teaching about the Genocide (Cascade/Wipf and Stock, 2020)

Awards

Honorary Degrees

References

  1. ^ a b "Roth, John King". encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  2. ^ "Emeriti Faculty & Administration". Claremont McKenna College. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  3. ^ "Fellow Professor John Roth". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
  4. ^ "Scholar Resigns Holocaust Museum Post Amid Dispute". Los Angeles Times. 1998-07-06. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
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