Paul Morrow is a NOMIS–eikones Fellow at eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel (Switzerland; beginning Jan. 2026) and a visiting research fellow in the School of Philosophy and Humanities Institute at University College Dublin (Ireland).

Morrow received his BA from Miami University (Oxford, US) in 2008, graduating with honors in philosophy and economics. He undertook an internship at the Pentagon before joining the PhD program in philosophy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, US. In 2012, he was the recipient of a predoctoral fellowship at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Completing his PhD in 2014, Morrow served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia, US, (2014–2017) and as a visiting assistant professor in the Human Rights Center at the University of Dayton, US, (2019–2024). He moved to University College Dublin in August 2024.

Research Focus

Morrow’s research focuses on normative questions related to war and peace. His first book, Unconscionable Crimes (MIT Press, 2020) used testimonial and archival sources to illustrate the influence of legal, moral and social norms on individuals and groups during war and genocide. His second book, Seeing Atrocities (Oxford University Press, 2025) explains how images can tell us things about mass violence that cannot be conveyed by words alone.

Morrow’s current project focuses on the visual propaganda developed and deployed by members of the late 19th century peace movement. His book project, Curating War and Peace: Modelling War at the World’s First Peace Museum, centers on Polish–Jewish author and philanthropist Jan Bloch and his 1902 creation of the International Museum of War and Peace in Lucerne, Switzerland. Uncovering surprisingly modern arguments staged at this museum, his project holds lessons for peace activists and advocates today.

Feature image: Photos courtesy of Paul Morrow