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Anthony Dirk Moses (born 1967 in Brisbane) is an Australian historian. He is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sydney. Between 2011 and 2015, he was detached to the European University Institute as professor of Global and Colonial History. He is widely regarded as a leading expert on the history of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and on the history of colonialism, especially genocide in colonial contexts. He is known for coining the term "the racial century" in reference to the period 1850–1950. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Genocide Research.
He received his BA in History, Government, and Law at the University of Queensland in 1987, an M Phil in Early Modern European History at the University of St. Andrews in 1989, an MA in Modern European History at Notre Dame University in 1994, and a PhD in Modern European History at the University of California, Berkeley in 2000.
He is the son of the noted historian John A. Moses and of the former Chancellor of the University of Canberra Ingrid Moses.