Chad Gibbs

Chad Gibbs serves as director of the Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies and assistant professor of Jewish Studies at the College of Charleston.  He is a historian of the Holocaust, antisemitism, modern Germany, and the Second World War.  His current book project focuses on Jewish resistance at Treblinka.   Chad’s extensive work in oral histories at several archives contributes to teaching interests in the collection and analysis of survivor testimonies as well as the generational transmission of knowledge and trauma.  Academic life is Chad’s second career, having served nearly a decade in the US Army before he was medically retired due to combat wounds sustained in Iraq.