Dr. Aidan Forth, Associate Professor of History, published his new book Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement (University of Toronto Press) in summer 2024

Dr. Forth will host a reading and discussion of his book on September 17th at 2 p.m. in room 7-276.  Cake and coffee will be served.  All are welcome!

Based on a decade of research and teaching, the book examines histories of mass confinement from a global and comparative perspective. From workhouses, penal colonies, and slave plantations in the 19th century to the POW, civilian internment, and concentration camps of WWI and WWII, and from the infamous gulag and Nazi konzentrationslager of totalitarian empires to the migrant detention cells and refugee shelters of today, camps are as diverse as they are ubiquitous. Covering two centuries and every inhabited continent, Camps offers a sweeping, transnational synthesis.

For a discount code to purchase the book and to read early praise for Dr. Forth’s work, check out this flyer.


From the Department of Humanities