Chad Gibbs

Chad Gibbs is an assistant professor and director of the Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies at the College of Charleston. He is a historian of the Holocaust, antisemitism, modern Germany, and war and society. Chad’s current project focuses on Jewish resistance at Treblinka. Chad's work has been supported by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Fortunoff Video Archive, the George L. Mosse Program in History, and the USC Shoah Foundation, where he remains an Affiliated Researcher. His extensive work in oral histories at several archives contributes teaching and scholarly interests in the collection and analysis of survivor testimonies as well as the generational transmission of knowledge and trauma.

Before academic life, Chad served eight years in the US Army including combat deployment to Iraq. He was wounded there in 2006 and medically retired in 2009. He received his PhD in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his MA from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. and his BA from the University of Wyoming.