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Modern Germany; 20th Century Europe; Political, Social, and Gender History.
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Education:
- Brown University, Ph.D., 2000
- Washington University, St.Louis, M.A. (European Studies, 1992; History, 1993)
- University of Tübingen, Germany (1990-1991)
- University of Marburg, Germany (1988-1990)
Academic Employment
- Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego (2006-present)
- Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego (2000-2006)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (1999-2000)
Awards, Honors, and Professional Activities (selected):
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship (1/11/2007-4/30/2009)
- Co-Organizer (with Bob Moeller) of International Conference "Histories of the Aftermath: The European 'Postwar' in Comparative Perspective," UCSD, Feb.16-18, 2007.
- Vice Chair for Undergraduate Studies (2005-2007)
- Chair, European Studies Initiative, UC-San Diego (2004/05)
- University of California, San Diego Hellmann Fellowship (2004/05)
- Faculty Career Development Grant (2003/04)
- Instructional Improvement Grant (2003/04)
- Jürgen Heideking Fellowship, German Historical Institute-Thyssen Foundation (2002/03)
- University of California President's Fellowship in the Humanities (2002/03)
- Co-Organizer (with Mark Roseman and Hanna Schissler) of International Conference "From the Empire to the Federal Republic. Elites, Society, and Violence in Germany," Columbia University, March 2003
- Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize (German Historical Institute, Washington DC), 2000
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University), 1999
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Publications
Books
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Articles and Chapters
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Book Reviews
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Other Writings, Interviews
Books:
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Histories of the Aftermath: The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe
. Ed. with Robert Moeller (New York, Berghahn Books, 2010)
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Conflict, Catastrophe, and Continuity in Modern German History.
Ed. with Hanna Schissler and Mark Roseman, (New York: Berghahn Books, 2007)
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Homecomings. Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, paperback 2009).
Articles and Chapters:
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Discussion Forum "The History of Emotions", Organizer and Editor, in
German History 28/1
, 67-80.
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"Introduction: Histories of the Aftermath," in Biess and Moeller, ed.,
Histories of the Aftermath. The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe
(New York: Berghahn Books, 2010), 1-10.
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"Feelings in the Aftermath: Toward a History of Postwar Emotions" in Biess and Moeller, ed.,
Histories of the Aftermath. The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe
(New York: Berghahn Books, 2010), 30-48.
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En attendant ‘le desting auquel l'Allemagne est promis': la crainte du châtiment dans l'Allemagne de l'après guerre in
Le Retour a l'intime au sortir de la guerre.
Eds. Bruno Cabanes and Guilaume Piketty (Paris: Edition Tallandier, 2009), 181-198.
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"Jeder Hat eine Chance." Die Zivilschutzkampagnen der 1960er Jahre und die Angstgeschichte der Bundesrepublik, in
Die Politik der Angst im Kalten Krieg. Eds. Bernd Greiner und Dierk Walter
(Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2009)
, 61-93.
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"'Everybody Has a Chance'." Civil Defense
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Nuclear
Angst
, and the History of Emotions in Postwar Germany"
German History
27/2 (2009), 215-43.
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"Die Sensibilisierung des Subjekts: Angst und "neue Subjektivität" in den 1970er Jahren
Werkstatt Geschichte
49 (2008): 51-72.
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"Anxiété d'après-guerre : peurs et fantasmes de représailles l'Allemagne,"
Revue Ecrire L'Histoire: Emotions 2
(2008): 65-73.
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with Mark Roseman, "Introduction," in
Conflict, Catastrophe, and Continuity in Modern German History
. Ed. with Hanna Schissler and Mark Roseman, (New York: Berghahn Books, 2007)
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"The Search for Missing Soldiers: MIAs, POWs, and Ordinary Germans, 1943-45," in
Conflict, Catastrophe, and Continuity in Modern German History
. Ed. with Hanna Schissler and Mark Roseman, (New York: Berghahn Books, 2007)
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"Between Amnesty and Anti-Communism. The West German
Kameradenschinder
Trials 1948-1961," in
Crimes of War. Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century
, eds. Omer Bartov, Atina Grossmann, and Mary Nolan (New York: New Press, 2002), 138-160.
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"Russenknechte" und "West-Agenten": Kriegsheimkehrer und die (De)legitimierung von Kriegsgefangenschaftserfahrungen in Ost- und Westdeutschland," in
Nachkrieg in Deutschland
, ed. Klaus Naumann (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2001), 59-89.
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"The Protracted War: Returning POWs and the Making of East and West German Citizens, 1945-1955",
Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 28
(Spring 2001), 155-169.
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"Männer des Wiederaufbaus, Wiederaufbau der Männer: Kriegsheimkehrer in Ost- und Westdeutschland," in
Heimat-Front. Militär und Geschlechterverhältnisse im Zeitalter der Weltkriege
, eds. Karen Hagemann und Stephanie Schüler-Springorum (Frankfurt: Campus, 2002), 345-365.
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[English translation] "Men of Reconstruction, the Reconstruction of Men. Returning POWs in East and West Germany," in Home/Front.
The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth Century Germany
, eds. Karen Hagemann and Stephanie Schüler-Springorum (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2002), 335-58.
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"Survivors of Totalitarianism: Returning POWs and the Reconstruction of Masculine Citizenship in West Germany, 1945-1955," in
The Miracle Years Revisited. A Cultural History of West Germany
, ed. Hanna Schissler (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), 57-82.
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"'Pioneers of a New Germany'. Returning POWs from the Soviet Union and the Making of East German Citizens, 1945-1950,"
Central European History
32 (1999): 143-180.
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"Vom Opfer zum Überlebenden des Totalitarismus: Westdeutsche Reaktionen auf die Rückkehr der Kriegsgefangenen aus der Sowjetunion, 1945-1955," in
Kriegsgefangenschaft im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Eine vergleichende Perspektive
, eds. Günter Bischof and Rüdiger Overmans (Ternitz-Pottschach: Verlag Gerhard Höller, 1998), 365-389.
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Book Reviews:
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Germany in 1945. From War to Peace
. By Richard Bessel (New York: Harper, 2009),
Journal of Modern History
, forthcoming.
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Review Essay "Die Konjunktur der Kriegskinder," Review of Lu Seegers, Jürgen Reulecke (ed), Die
"Generation der Kriegskinder." Historische Hintergründe und Deutungen
(Gießen: Psychosozial Verlag, 2009), H-Soz-Kult, Nov.29, 2009.
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Haunted City. Nuremberg and the Nazi Past
. By Neil Gregor (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008),
Journal of Modern History
, forthcoming.
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Between Mass Death and Individual Loss. The Place of the Dead in Twentieth Century Germany
. Ed by Alon Confino, Paul Betts, and Dirk Schumann (New York: Berghahn Books, 2008),
German History 27/3
(2009): 459-61
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Die deutsche Nachkriegsfotografie. Eine Mentalitätsgeschichte in Bildern
. By Jörn Glasenapp. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2008.
German History 27/2
(2009): 306-7.
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Black Market, Cold War: Everyday Life in Berlin, 1946-1949
. By Paul Steege. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007,
American Historical Review
. 114/1 (February 2009), 232-33
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The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany
. By Rita Chin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007,
Journal of Modern History
81 (June 2009): 485-86.
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After Hitler. Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1955
. By Konrad Jarausch (Translated by Brandon Hunziker).Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
German History
26(2): 331-33.
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Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940
. By Raffael Scheck. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, H-German, H-German, 2007.
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Review Essay
Gefangen im Grossen Krieg. Kriegsgefangenschaft in Deutschland, 1914-1921
. By Uta Hinz. Essen: Klartext, 2006 and
Kriegsgefangene im Europa das Ersten Weltkrieges
. Edited by Jochen Oltmer. Paderborn: Schönigh, 2006, Werkstatt Geschichte, 16/46 (2007): 98-101
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The War in the Empty Air. Victims, Perpetrators, and Postwar German
. By Dagmar Barnouw. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. H-German, March 7, 2006.
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In the House of the Hangman. The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943-1949
. By Jeffrey Olick. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2005.
Ethics and International Affairs
, 20/1 (Spring 2006): 135-38.
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A Church Divided. German Protestants Confront the Nazi Past
. By Matthew D. Hockenos. Bloomington and Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2004. Central European History 39/1 (March 2006): 173-75.
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Writing World History, 1800-2000
. Edited by Benedikt Stuchley and Eckhardt Fuchs. London: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Neue Politische Literatur
49 (2004): 487-89.
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Review Essay "Between Society and Culture: New Approaches to the History of 20th Century Germany,"
The Work of Memory. New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture
. Edited by Alon Confino and Peter Fritzsche. Chicago and Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002 and
Pain and Prosperity. Reconsidering Twentieth-Century German History.
Edited by Paul Betts and Greg Eghigian .Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003, Social History 32/1 (February 2007): 74-79.
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Hysterical Men. War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003). German Politics and Society 22/4 (2004): 167-71.
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Shell Shock. Traumatic Neurosis and the British Soldiers of the First World War.
By Peter Leese. New York: Plagrave Macmillian, 2002. War in History 12/2 (2005): 354-56.
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GIs and Fräuleins. The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany
. By Maria Höhn. Chapel Hill. University of North Carolina Press, 2002,
Social History
31/2 (May 2006): 91-93.
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The Secret Police and the Revolution. The Fall of the German Democratic Republic.
By Edward N. Peterson. Westport, Ct: Praeger. 2002,
Central European History
37 (2004): 181-82.
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Genocide on Trial. War Crimes and the Formation of Holocaust History and Memory
by Donald Bloxham. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions
3/2 (2002): 122-24
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The War Come Home. Disabled Veterans in Germany and Britain, 1918-1939
by Deborah Cohen. Berkeley: University of California Press,
Germans Politics and Society
20 (Fall 2002): 112-15.
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The Spirit of 1914. Militarism, Myth, and Mobilization in Germany
by Jeffrey Verhey. London: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
German Politics and Society
19 (Fall 2001): 133-37
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Berlin
by David Clay Large,
San Diego Union Tribune
, November 26, 2000.
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Auf dem Weg zum sozialitischen Dorf? Zum Wander der dörflichen Lebenswelt in der DDR und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1952-1959
. By Antonia Maria Humm. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1999,
Journal of Modern History
73 (September 2001): 706-08.
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Heimkehr 1948. Geschichte und Schicksal deutscher Kriegsgefangener.
Edited by Annette Kaminsky. Munich: CH Beck, 1998;
Neue Politische Literatur
46 (2001): 344-45.
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Divided Memory. The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys
. By Jeffrey Herf. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997;
German Politics & Society
17 (1999): 144-51.
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Ehrenmänner. Das Duell in der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft
. By Ute Frevert. München: CH Beck 1991 and
Dueling. The Cult of Honor in Fin-de-Siècle Germany
. By Kevin McAleer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994; Società e Soria (77) 1998: 695-700.
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Visions of Modernity. American Business and the Modernization of Germany
. By Mary Nolan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994;
The Journal of Economic History
(54) 1995: 532-534.
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American Policy and the Reconstruction of West Germany, 1945-1955
. Edited by Jeffry M. Diefendorf, Axel Frohn, Hermann-Josef Rupieper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993;
The Journal of Economic History
(53) 1994: 965-66.
Other Writings, Interviews:
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"German Angst?"
Psychologie Heute 2
(2009): 28-34.
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"Die Deutschen und ihre Krisen, Newspaper Interview,
Stern.de
, 9 March 2009
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"Die Furcht ist ein Meister aus Deutschland," Newspaper interview,
WAZ Der Westen
, 27 February 2009
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"Hat uns der Zweite Weltkrieg traumatisiert," Radio interview (together with Bernd Weisbrod),
DeutschlandRadio Kultur
, 13 December 2007.
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TV-Interview, Morningstar Entertainment, for Documentary on the Second World War. December 2004
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"Die Rückkehr der Kriegsgefangenen: Heimkehr nach Ost- und Westdeutschland, 1945- 1955" DAMALS.
Das Magazin für Geschichte und Kultur,
8/2003, 32-37.
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