This course is designed to help students understand how the Holocaust has influenced research across the academy, with a particular focus on its historical and contemporary status in the social sciences. Additionally, the course will promote critical thinking about how scholars measure key subjects and variables, the consequences of these measures, and what the future of empirical Holocaust and Genocide research will look like. Topics covered include generalizability in the social sciences, advances in intergroup violence research, the Holocaust and international relations, Holocaust and genocide data, collective and competing victimhood, the psychology of hate, and path dependency post-Holocaust, among others.