Dr Ben H Shepherd
Reader, History
Department of Social SciencesBen Shepherd is a Reader in History specialising in German history, particularly the German military under National Socialism. He also works in Holocaust education.
Dr Shepherd received his PhD in German History from the University of Birmingham in 2000. He began a lectureship in History at Glasgow Caledonian University in 2002 and became a Reader in 2009. He was the Fred Alexander Visiting Fellow at the University of Western Australia in 2016. He also co-convenes Resistance Network (RESNET), running online workshops involving European academics and practitioners affiliated to museums focussing on European resistance during the Second World War.
He has written two monographs for Harvard University Press on German and Austrian military history 1914-1945, focusing on anti-partisan warfare. His 2016 trade book with Yale University Press, Hitler’s Soldiers: The German Army in the Third Reich, was favourably reviewed in the national and international press. He is currently writing a companion volume, Himmler’s Soldiers: A History of the Waffen-SS. In Holocaust education, he is developing resources on the theme of perpetrators and protectors.