[1] Between 2011 and 2017 Bergholz was Associate Director of the Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia University and held the History Department Chair Search Committee from 2012 to 2013 and 2015 to 2016, among other administrative positions.
He conducts research and writes on multi-ethnic communities of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia during the twentieth century, investigating local dynamics of intercommunal peace and discord.
[3] His latest book investigates the causes and dynamics of violence during 1941 in a multi-ethnic community that straddles the present-day border between Bosnia and Croatia, and their effects on local identities and social relations.
In his own words, he describes his research and writings as interdisciplinary, and methodology which employs mixed approaches, with analysis scale and perspective of local and small nature, focusing on life in the rural area.
It was translated to Bosnian and published by Buybook in 2018, under the title Nasilje kao generativna sila: identitet, nacionalizam i sjećanje u jednoj balkanskoj zajednici.