David Tollerton is Associate Professor in Memory Studies and Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

He works particularly on debates in public Holocaust memory, and his most recent book is Holocaust Memory and Britain’s Religious-Secular Landscape: Politics, Sacrality, and Diversity (Routledge 2020). He has also recently co-edited a special 2024 issue of Holocaust Studies on the intersections of genocide and ecocide, contributing his own (open-access) article “‘Never Right to Make Comparisons’? Holocaust Memory, Climate Crisis, and the Debate Over Appropriate Discourse.”

David was during 2023-24 President of the British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies, and previously served as Secretary of the British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies. He is currently co-chair of the ‘Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide’ unit at the American Academy of Religion.

David’s other major research interest is emerging public memorialisation of the COVID-19 pandemic in Britain, and a monograph on this topic will be published in 2025.

Email: d.c.tollerton@exeter.ac.uk