Waitman Wade Beorn is an American historian and former US cavalry officer who specializes in Holocaust studies, focusing on the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. He is currently an Assistant Professor in History at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne.[1][2] Beorn previously served as the Louis and Frances Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Nebraska Omaha. From 2015 to 2016, he was the executive director of the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond, Virginia.
Waitman Wade Beorn was born in Richmond, Virginia. He attended St. Christopher's School there before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduating from the institution in 2000. Beorn was subsequently commissioned into the 1st Squadron of the United States Army's 10th Cavalry Regiment at the rank of second lieutenant, being stationed at Fort Hood in Texas as part of the 4th Infantry Division. He was deployed to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, serving there from 2003 to 2004, before being later discharged. After leaving the army, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earning a Doctor of Philosophy in history in 2011.[citation needed]
Dr. Beorn's first book, Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus, explored the local participation of the German Army in the Holocaust, It looked at a series of case studies of units in the Generalbezirk Weißruthenien during World War II. It argued for a progression of ever-increasing complicity by the Wehrmacht in genocide. His second book, The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final Solution, is a general survey of the Holocaust in the East. His third book is on the Janowska concentration camp. Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv will be released from Nebraska University Press in 2024.
Beorn is a founding member of the Holocaust Geographies Collaborative, an interdisciplinary group of scholars interested in exploring how a spatial and digital approach can better inform our understanding of the Holocaust.[3] He is a digital humanist who integrates mapping, modeling, and social network analyses into his work. His current project isVisualizing Janowska: Creating a Digital Architectural Model of a Nazi Concentration Camp.
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