Professor and Historian of the Holocaust
Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies,
Director, Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies,
College of Charleston
My name is Chad Gibbs, and I’m an Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Zucker Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies at the College of Charleston. My research and teaching work includes Holocaust studies, antisemitism, race, gender, oral history, war and society, and memory. My book Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance will appear in the George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas with University of Wisconsin Press in March 2026.
I am an Affiliated Researcher with the USC-Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research and I also volunteer as an interviewer with the USC Shoah Foundation. I received my PhD in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, my MA in History at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and my BA in History (PBK, scl) at the University of Wyoming.
Placing Women in the Revolt: Gender and the History and Memory of Resistance at Treblinka
The first work of any length to explore the actions of women in resistance at Treblinka.
Space in Holocaust Research
My chapter “Treblinka Geography: Nazi Building, Jewish Breaking, Historical Reconstructing” appears in the edited volume Space in Holocaust Research from editors Janine Fubel, Alexandra Klei, and Annika Wienert.
Holocaust Legacies and Oral History in the Classroom
My article on student participation in 2G/3G oral history interviewing is now available in the journal Eastern European Holocaust Studies online and open access. The article will appear in print in 2024 in a special issue on oral histories.
Post & Courier
Yom HaShoah Special Section 2024
Winner, South Carolina Press Association Best Special Section Award, 2024
I had the honor of working as scholar of record and writer for the 2024 Post & Courier Yom HaShoah Special Section. This year we focus on non-Jewish victims of Nazi genocide, taking a holistic look at the hatreds and crimes of the Third Reich.
The Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina Magazine
This issue features an article by one of my students and one of my own pieces.
Defying the Holocaust didn’t just mean uprising and revolt: Remembering Jews’ everyday resistance
The Conversation
Briv funem arkhiv: A Memoir in Four Acts: Moyshe Klaynman and Survival at Treblinka
Chad S.A. Gibbs and Matthew M. Greene
This short piece with In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies focuses on the musical-play-drama-memoir of Moyshe Klaynman and its unique features as a historical source on Treblinka.
Lessons from the Treblinka Archive: Transnational Collections and their Implications for Historical Research
My recent article is available in
The Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies
Holocaust Electronic Field Trip Documentary, NWWIIM, Treblinka, Poland, 2024
Vilnius Yiddish Institute Library,
Vilnius, Lithuania, 2017