Employment
Academic CV | Current Institution Davidson College, NC, USA Department Department of History Current position Assistant Professor Former positions held 2005-07, Assistant Professor, Grinnell College, IA, USA Current projects I am currently working on a comparative analysis of how American and West German protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s confronted mass crimes, appropriated definitions of genocide, and sought to remake their society’s memory cultures.
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Publications
Scholarly Interests
Areas of Research | Monographs The Language of Nazi Genocide: Linguistic Violence and the Struggle of Germans of Jewish Ancestry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) Important Articles “Die Praxis der Bestimmung Rassischer Abstammung: Staatliche Sippenforschung, Rassistischer Diskurs und Gewalt im NS-Deutschland der Vorkriegszeit.” Zeitgeschichte 35 (2007)
“Linguistic Violence and Discursive Contestation Preceding the Holocaust.” In The Holocaust in International Perspective. Ed. Dagmar Herzog. Evanston, 2006
“Determining ‘People of German Blood,’ ‘Jews,’ and ‘Mischlinge.’ The Reich Kinship Office and the Competing Discourses and Powers of Nazism, 1941-1943.” Contemporary European History 15 (2006)
“‘German Jews,’ ‘National Jews,’ ‘Jewish Volk’ or ‘Racial Jews’? The Constitution and Contestation of ‘Jewishness’ in Newspapers of Nazi Germany, 1933-1938.” Central European History 35 (2002) Time Period 1920 bis 1929
1930 bis 1939
1940 bis 1949
1960 bis 1969
1970 bis 1979
Regional Focus Bundesrepublik Deutschland bis 1990 und Westzonen
Geschichte der USA
Area of specialization Historische Komparatistik, vergleichende Geschichte
Geschichte der Medien, Kommunikation und Öffentlichkeit
Kultur und Mentalitätsgeschichte
Identität, Repräsentationen, Fremd und Außenwahrnehmungen
Sprach und Begriffsgeschichte, Prosopographie, Etymologie
Holocaust, Shoa, Verfolgung und Ermordung von Juden
Weltgeschichte, Globalisierung, Transnationale Geschichte
Erinnerung, Gedächtnis, Gedenken
Jüdische Geschichte
Further areas of interest 1960s protest movements, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
(10/28/2009)
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