Robert van Pelt, University of Waterloo

Research

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prefabricated and demountable shelter building technology military medicine emergency management treatment of prisoners and refugees globalization Holocaust history the history of Auschwitz

Latest papers

Die Fotos des Höcker-Albums
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft eBooks · 2025 · senior author
Das Höcker-Album
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft eBooks · 2025 · senior author
Namenregister
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft eBooks · 2025 · senior author

All 47 publications

Latest funding

Impact Award: Connection
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$50,000
The Barrack-Hut in history
SSHRC · 2016 · Principal investigator
$75,503
The evidence room: Auschwitz and forensic architecture in the courtroom
SSHRC · 2015 · Principal investigator
$49,810

All 6 grants and awards

47 publications.

01

Die Fotos des Höcker-Albums

Christophe Busch, Stefan Hördler, Robert Jan van Pelt

Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft eBooks2025Senior author

DOI: 10.5771/9783534610792-188

02

Das Höcker-Album

Christophe Busch, Stefan Hördler, Robert Jan van Pelt

Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft eBooks2025Senior author

DOI: 10.5771/9783534610792

03

Namenregister

Christophe Busch, Stefan Hördler, Robert Jan van Pelt

Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft eBooks2025Senior author

DOI: 10.5771/9783534610792-336

04

Eine verkommene Welt – Die Vernichtungslager Auschwitz und Birkenau

Robert Jan van Pelt

Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft eBooks2025First author

DOI: 10.5771/9783534610792-72

05

Freizeit in Auschwitz – Zur Dechiffrierung fotografischer Quellen der SS

Christophe Busch, Stefan Hördler, Robert Jan van Pelt

Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft eBooks2025Senior author

DOI: 10.5771/9783534610792-10

06

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis

Christophe Busch, Stefan Hördler, Robert Jan van Pelt

Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft eBooks2025Senior author

DOI: 10.5771/9783534610792-1

07

From the last hut of Monowitz to the last hut of Belsen

Robert Jan van Pelt

Heritage Memory and Conflict2023First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.3897/hmc.3.97869

08

Review: Presenting Difficult Pasts Through Architecture: Converting National Socialist Sites to Documentation Centers, by Rumiko Handa

Robert Jan van Pelt

The Public Historian2021First author

DOI: 10.1525/tph.2021.43.4.153

09

Labour Service Barrack-Huts in Germany and the United States, 1933–45

Robert Jan van Pelt

V&R unipress eBooks2019First author

DOI: 10.14220/9783737008518.507

10

Auschwitz, Holocaust-Denial, and the Irving Trial

Robert Jan van Pelt

DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)2019First author

Impact Award: Connection

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Connection Award

Principal investigators: Van Pelt, Robert-Jan

Keywords: Holocaust history; the history of Auschwitz; forensic architecture; historiography; relativism; architectural history; German history; history of ideas; cultural history

$50,000

The Barrack-Hut in history

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Van Pelt, Robert-Jan

Keywords: prefabricated and demountable shelter; building technology; military medicine; emergency management; treatment of prisoners and refugees; globalization

$75,503

The evidence room: Auschwitz and forensic architecture in the courtroom

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Connection Grants

Principal investigators: van Pelt, Robert-Jan

Keywords: exhibition; architecture; forensic; Holocaust; Auschwitz

$49,810

The camp as lebensform - form of life - in Nazi Germany

Principal investigatorSSHRC2013Insight Grants

Principal investigators: van Pelt, Robert-Jan

Keywords: national community; education; belonging; optimization; exclusion; state of exception; enclave; youth camp; labour camp; training camp; forced-labour camp; internment camp; concentration camp; death camp; typology

$92,479

Constructing Auschwitz: from the topology of history to the typology of memory

Principal investigatorSSHRC2001Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: van Pelt, Robert-Jan

Keywords: holocaust; death camp; construction of memory; conflicts of memory; rituals of commemoration; forensic investigations; trials; education; historic preservation; media

$80,000

An atlas of Auschwitz, 1940 - 1990

Principal investigatorSSHRC1996Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Van Pelt, Robert-Jan

Keywords: Auschwitz; camp; construction; management; holocaust

$13,000

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: prefabricated and demountable shelter Dear Professor van Pelt, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Die Fotos des Höcker-Albums" (2025), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Impact Award: Connection" (2019), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]