Prof. Dr. Jonathan Wiesen

Professor and Chair

Department of History

University of Alabama at Birmingham

1401 University Blvd.

US

AL 35233 Birmingham UAB

jwiesen@uab.edu

https://www.uab.edu/cas/history/people/faculty/jonathan-wiesen

205.934.8701

Forschung und Projekte

Derzeitige Position(en)

Professor history and Chair of the History Department, University of Alabama at Birmimngham

Aktuelle(s) Projekt(e)

-Book length study on German views of anti-Black violence in the USA
-article on Nazi views of Abraham Lincoln
-textbook on Nazi Germany for Bloomsbury Press

Frühere Position(en)

Professor and Chair, Department of History, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Veröffentlichungen

Monographien (und Dissertation)

West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945-1955 (Chapel Hill, 2001)

Creating the Nazi Marketplace: Commerce and Consumption in the Third Reich (Cambridge, 2011).

Artikel

“Forum, A Reusable Past: Explaining the Prominence of the Third Reich in Current U.S. Discourse,” participant in published roundtable (forthcoming in Central European History, 2022)

“American Lynching in the Nazi Imagination: Race and Extra-Legal Violence in
1930s Germany,” German History, vol. 36, no. 1 (February 2018): 38-50 [winner of Hans Rosenberg Article Prize, Central European History Society, 2020]. Reprinted in Race in Modern Germany: A Special Collection from German History, 2010-2020: 38-59.

“Surveillance and German Studies” [with Andrew Zimmerman], Introduction to Wiesen and Zimmerman, eds. Special issue on “Surveillance and German Studies.” German Studies Review 38:2 (May 2015): 263-69.

“Beyond National Socialism?” [with Geoff Eley], German Studies Review 35: 3 (October 2012): 474-79.

“Service Above Self? Rotary Clubs, National Socialism, and Transnational Memory in the 1960s and 1970s,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 23, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 1-25

“Morality and Memory: Reflections on Business Ethics and National Socialism,” Journal of Holocaust Education 10, no. 3 (Winter 2001): 60-82 [note: published in fall, 2002, as journal was running behind schedule]

“Coming to Terms with the Worker: West German Industry, Labour Relations, and Idea of America, 1949-1960,” Journal of Contemporary History 36:4 (October 2001): 561-80 [reprinted in John C. Wood and Michael C. Wood, eds., George Elton Mayo: Critical Evaluations in Business and Management (Abingdon: Routledge, 2004/2006): 445-64]

“German Industry and the Third Reich: Fifty Years of Forgetting and Remembering,” Dimensions: A Journal of Holocaust Studies, 13, no. 2 (December 1999): 3-8

"Overcoming Nazism: Big Business, Public Relations, and the Politics of Memory, 1945-1955," Central European History 29, no. 2 (June 1996): 201-26

Herausgeberschaften und Editionen

Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth Century Germany (Durham, 2007)

Forschungsinteressen und Arbeitsgebiete

Ideas of Vermassung/the Masses in popular culture