Omer Bartov is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of History and Professor of German Studies at Brown University. He serves as Co-Chair to the vertex of Genocide, Holocaust and Disaster Studies and is a member of the Board of Governors at the Council for Global Cooperation.

Bartov was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1989 to 1992. In 1984, he was a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University’s Davis Center for Historical Studies. From 1992 to 2000, Bartov taught at Rutgers University, where he held the Raoul Wallenberg Professorship in Human Rights. At Rutgers, Bartov was also a Senior Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. Bartov joined the faculty of Brown University in 2000. He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.

Bartov is a noted historian of the genocide and the Holocaust studies. He is considered one of the world’s leading authorities to research on the Jewish life in Galicia (western Ukraine). His publications, include The Eastern Front, 1941–1945: German Troops and the Barbarization of Warfare (2001), Hitler’s Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich (1992), Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity (2002), Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (2007, 2015) and Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018). His new book, Genocide, The Holocaust, and Israel-Palestine, is upcoming in 2023. In addition to being a historian, Bartov is also a littérateur. His novel, The Butterfly and The Axe is published in 2023. 

He received several awards and fellowships, namely Fraenkel Prize (1995), John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2003-2004), National Jewish Book Award (2018) among others. Bartov obtained his BA in History from University of Tel Aviv (1979) and a D.Phil in History from St Antony’s College, University of Oxford (1983).