Geoffrey Megargee graduated from St. Lawrence University with a BA in 1981. Following stints as an army officer and in the business world, he attended San Jose State University, where he received an MA in European History, and Ohio State University, where he earned his PhD in Military History in 1998. He is now a Senior Applied Research Scholar with the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where his primary role is to serve as the General Editor for the Museum's Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945. He has also been a Presidential Counselor for the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.