Max Bergholz

Max Bergholz is a professor of history at Concordia University in Montreal. His interests include microhistorical approaches to the history of modern Europe, with a particular focus on the local dynamics of nationalism, intercommunal violence, and historical memory. His first book, Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community (Cornell University Press, 2016), 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.  He is currently researching and writing a book entitled Our Truths: Violence and the Challenge of a Common Humanity Telling Human, which investigates how three distinct governments and their local supporters in the Croatian town of Glina attempted – between 1945 and the present day – to confront the memory of that town’s violent past during 1941.