Chad S.A. Gibbs

Chad S.A. 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. His first book "Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance" will appear with University of Wisconsin Press in April 2026.

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.