Peter Hayes (historian)

Peter Hayes
Peter Hayes
	Hayes at the St. Louis County Library, December 2017
Nationality	American
Education	AB (1968), government, Bowdoin College; BA (1971), MA (1976), PPE, Balliol College, Oxford; MA (1974), MPhil (1976), PhD (1982), history, Yale University;
Known for	Holocaust research
Notable work	Industry and Ideology: IG Farben in the Nazi Era (1987)
Website	peterfhayes.com

Peter F. Hayes (born 1946) is professor emeritus of history at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, and chair of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Specializing in the Holocaust, genocide and the history of modern Germany, Hayes is the author or editor of 10 books, including Industry and Ideology: IG Farben in the Nazi Era (1987), a prize-winning study of the IG Farben corporation. He has been described as the leading scholar of the historiography of industry in Nazi Germany.