Martin R. Menke
Woods College of Advancing Studies Saint Mary’s Hall South Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Education 1990-1996 Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. 1996 Ph.D. in Modern European History. Dissertation: Crisis Management in the German Center Party: An Analysis of Centrist Foreign Policy, 1918-1933. 1992 Doctoral Comprehensive Examination passed with distinction. 1992 Master of Arts. 1987-1990 Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts. 1990 Bachelor of Arts cum laude.
Honors 1996-1997 Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Boston College. 1996 Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston College. 1993 Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Boston College. 2014 Participant, Institute for Administrators in Catholic Higher Education, Boston College.
Offices 2016-2019 Member, Executive Committee, American Catholic Historical Association 2015-2020 Executive Secretary, New England Historical Association 2015-2017 Chair, Program Committee, American Catholic Historical Association 2014-2015 Member, Program Committee, American Catholic Historical Association 2011-2012 President, New England Historical Association 2010-2011 Vice-President, New England Historical Association
Administrative Experience – Boston College 2018-2019 Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Advising, Woods College of Advancing Studies
Administrative Experience -- Rivier University 2015-2018 Chair, University Curriculum Committee 2015-2016 Member, Search Committee, Vice President for Finance and Operations 2014 Chair, Search Committee, Computer Science 2014-2015 Member, Search Committee, Vice President for Academic Affairs 2014 - 2015 Chair, Search Committee, Criminal Justice/Homeland Security 2014 - 2015 Chair, Faculty Handbook Revision Committee 2007 - Coordinator, Department of History, Political Science and Criminal Justice. 1999 - 2014 Director, Secondary Social Studies Education (BA and MAT) 2006 - 2012 Director, Junior Year Seminars, core curriculum. 2010 - 2012 Member, Core Curriculum Revision Committee. 2005 - 2014 Member, Rank and Tenure Committee (three terms). 2004 - 2005 Chair, Formal ad Hoc Hearing Committee 2003 Director, Catholic Mission Program. 1998 - 1999 Member, Strategic Planning Steering Committee.
Teaching Experience 2009 - Rivier University, Nashua, New Hampshire. Professor of History. 2001-2009 Rivier College, Nashua, New Hampshire. Associate Professor of History. 1997-2001 Rivier College, Nashua, New Hampshire. Assistant Professor of History. 1997- Woods College of Advancing Studies, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Adjunct Faculty. 1997 Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts. Adjunct Faculty. 1996-1997 College of Arts and Sciences, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Visiting Assistant Professor. 1996 Wheaton College, Norton Massachusetts. Adjunct Faculty. 1994-1996 Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Teaching Fellow.
Publications Articles and other Substantive Publications 2018 “The Complexities of Ludwig Kaas: New Research on the Ermächtigungsgesetz,” in From Weimar to Hitler Studies on the Dissolution of Weimar Democracy and the Establishment of the Third Reich, 1932-1934, Eds. Hermann Beck and Larry Eugene Jones. Berghahn Books. 2016 “Multiple Caesars? Germany, Bavaria, and German Catholics in the Interwar Period.” Beyond the Borders of Baptism: Catholicity, Allegiances, and Lived Identities.” Ed. Michael L. Budde. Cascade Books. 2013 “The effect of the Lateran Accords and the Reichskonkordat on Jews: A Comparative View.” Proceedings of the Primo Levi Center (forthcoming). 2009 “Misunderstood Civic Duty: The German Center Party and the Enabling Act” Journal of Church and State 51(2009), 236-264. 2007 “Good Catholics – Good Germans” Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte 14(2006), 1-16. 2005 “’Thy Will Be Done: ’Nationalism and Faith in German Catholicism.” Catholic Historical Review, 91(2005), 300-320. 2001 Interactive Assets for Chapters 15, 29-33 in Divine, Breen, et al. America Past and Present: Flexchoice Edition. New York: Longman. 1994 with John L. Heineman, William E. Scaring, and James K. Bidwell, Discussion Guide and Historical Atlas for Readings in European History, ed. John L. Heineman. Dubuque: Kendall-Hunt, 1994.
Encyclopedia Entries 2006 “Dietrich Bonhoeffer” Encyclopedia of Christian Politicians, ed. Roy Domenico and Mark Hanley, eds. Westport: Greenwood Press. 2006 “Joseph Wirth” Encyclopedia of Christian Politicians, ed. Roy Domenico and Mark Hanley, eds. Westport: Greenwood Press. 2006 “Carl Schmitt” Encyclopedia of Christian Politicians, ed. Roy Domenico and Mark Hanley, eds. Westport: Greenwood Press. 2006 “Jakob Kaiser” Encyclopedia of Christian Politicians, ed. Roy Domenico and Mark Hanley, eds. Greenwood Press. 2006 “Zentrumspartei”Encyclopedia of Christian Politicians, ed. Roy Domenico and Mark Hanley, eds. Westport: Greenwood Press. 1999 “Lothar Gall” Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing ed. Kelly Boyd. London: Fitzroy Dearborn. 1999 “Theodor Schieder” Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing ed. Kelly Boyd. London: Fitzroy Dearborn. 1999 “Hans Mommsen” Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing ed. Kelly Boyd. London: Fitzroy Dearborn. 1999 “Claudia Koonz” Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing ed. Kelly Boyd. London: Fitzroy Dearborn.
Book Reviews 2018 Review of Islam and Nazi Germany’s War by David Motadel in Political Theology (forthcoming). 2018 review of Bernard Lichtenberg: Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr of the Nazi Regime? by Brenda Gaydosh in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (forthcoming). 2016 Review of Galen: Wege und Irrwege der Forschung by Joachim Kuropka in Theologische Revue, 2017:1. 2015 Review of Wehrmacht Priests: Catholic Priests and the Nazi War of Annihilation by Lauren Faulkner Rossi, in Studies in Christian Jewish Relations 10(2015)1. 2015 Review of Otto Weiss, Kulturkatholizismus. Katholiken auf dem Weg in die deutsche Kultur, 1900-1933 in H-Soz-u-Kult.
Presentations
2017 “Weimar Catholics: Antisemites and Anti-Racists.” The Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education. Pacific Lutheran University (November). Invited talk. 2016 “The Complexity of Monsignor Ludwig Kaas as Chair of the German Center Party.” German Studies Association, San Diego, CA (October). 2015 “Totalitarian Affinities?” German Studies Association, Washington, D.C. (October). 2015 “The Catholic Center Party, the Bavarian People’s Party, and National Socialism during the late Weimar Period” American Catholic Historical Association, New York City, NY (January). 2014 “The German Center Party and the Brüning Chancellorship” German Studies Association, Kansas City, MO (September). 2014 “Weimar’s Windhorstbunde: Politically Active Catholic Youth Ahead of their Time” American Catholic Historical Association, Cincinnati, OH (April). 2014 “Growing Cynicism: The Holy See’s Negotiations with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, 1929-1934” Joint Conference of the American Society of Church History and the Ecclesiastical History Society, Oxford, UK (April). 2013 “The Dangers of Releasing Pressure: The Internal Fragmentation of the German Center Party, 1925-1930” New England Historical Association, Westfield, MA (April). 2013 “Destabilizing Stability: German Catholic Politics in the Latter 1920s.” American Catholic Historical Association, Easton, MA (April). 2013 “Bavarian Catholicism and German National Identity, 1918-1933.” World Catholicism Week, Chicago, IL (April). Invited talk. 2013 “Historical Genesis of Pacem in Terris.” 50th Anniversary of Pacem in Terris Conference, Rivier University, Nashua NH (March). 2012 “The German Bishops, the Nazis, and the Jews, 1930-1933” XIIth Lessons and Legacies Conference, Evanston, IL (November). 2011 “German Catholicism and Nazi Racism” James J. Kenneally Lecture, Stonehill College, Easton, MA (September) Invited talk. 2011 “German Catholics and National Identity in the Face of the Nazis” German History Society of the United Kingdom, London, England (September). 2011 “The Final Steps to the Enabling Act: The Tenuous Relationship between Msgr Ludwig Kaas and the Reichstag Deputies of the German Center Party, Spring 1933” Joint Conference of the American and Catholic Historical Associations, Toronto, Canada. (April). 2011 “Regional, National, and Religious Identities: Catholics in Germany, France, and Poland” World Catholicism Week, Chicago, IL (April). Invited Talk. 2010 “Underlying Values in Center Party Decision-Making III “ American Historical Association, San Diego, CA, (January). 2009 “Underlying Values in Center Party Decision-Making II” German Studies Association, Arlington, VA (October). 2008 “Underlying Values in Center Party Decision-Making” New England Historical Association, Beverly, MA (October). 2008 “The Catholic Center Party and the Enabling Act: Taking the Historiographical Long View.” American Catholic Historical Association, South Bend, IN (April). 2006 “French Catholics and Polish Slavs: German Catholics and Their Neighbors.” American Catholic Historical Association, Worcester, MA (April). 2005 “The European Union: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.” New Hampshire Council for Social Studies Conference, Manchester, NH (November). 2005 “Thy Will Be Done: Tension between National and Religious Identity in 20th-Century German Catholicism.” German Studies Association, Milwaukee WI (October). 2005 “German Catholics and Nationalism during the Weimar Years.” American Catholic Historical Association, Dayton, OH (April). 2004 “Jakob Kaiser: A Catholic Nationalist?” New England Historical Association, Rutland, VT (October). 2004 “Nationalism and Faith in German History.” Church History Society, Harrisburg, PA (April). 2004 “Jakob Kaiser: German Nationalist and German Socialist?” American Catholic Historical Association, Miami, FL (April). 2003 “Erfüllungspolitik, the Rhineland, and the Catholic Origins of Stresemann’s Policies: A Reassessment.” American Catholic Historical Association, Scranton, PA (March). 2002 “Thy Will Be Done: Nationalism and Catholicism, 1918-1945” New England Historical Association, Providence, RI (October). 2001 “The Vistula is Not the Rhine: German Catholics and Their Polish and French Brethren.” German Studies Association, Arlington, VA (October). 2001 “The Role of Hochland and German Catholics’Perspectives on Nationalism, 1918-1933.” American Catholic Historical Association/Canadian Catholic Historical Association, Toronto, Canada (April). 2000 “A Christian Nationalism in the Resistance to National Socialism.” American Catholic Historical Association, Santa Fe, NM (April). 2000 “Adenauer’s Use of Christianity as a Means to Achieve European Unification: Rhetoric or Reality?” New England Historical Association, Medford, MA (April). 1999 “Religion as the Foundation for a ‘Better’ Nationalism: the German Center Party, 1918- 1933.” American Catholic Historical Association, Washington, D.C. (January). 1998 “Premature Idealism? Francophile Publications in Germany, 1918-1933.” Western Society for French History, Wakefield, MA (November). 1998 “The Failure of Political Crisis Management: The German Center Party’s Vote for the Enabling Act.” German Studies Association, Salt Lake City, UT (October). 1996 “Women Voters in the German Center Party: A Missed Opportunity.” New England Historical Association, Providence, RI (October). 1996 “Not All Catholics are the Same: The German Center Party’s Attitudes Towards France and Poland.” American Catholic Historical Association, Houston, TX (March). 1996 “Christian yet National: German Centrists’ Sense of Responsibility to Community and Individual in the Weimar Republic.” New England Historical Association, Amherst, MA (April). 1995 “Centrist Youth and Foreign Policy: Greater Germany and European Unification.” Annual University Graduate History Symposium, Chestnut Hill, MA (March).
Courses Taught US History I and II (face to face and online) Civilization in Western Perspective I and II West in the World I and II Historian’s Tools (introduction to methodology and historiography) 20th-Century Europe 20th-Century US US Foreign Policy God and Caesar (online) Modern Russia Hitler and the Third Reich Methods of Teaching Secondary Social Studies Graduate Colloquium in History and Government Integrating the Social Studies European Integration in the Context of Catholic Social Teaching and Global Perspective
College and University Service 2016-2019 Chair, University Curriculum Committee 2014-2016 Member, Faculty Senate 2011- Faculty Advisor, Women’s Soccer Team 2011-2013 Member, Rank and Tenure Committee 2012-2013 Member, Office of Global Engagement Implementation Committee 2007-2014 Member, Professional Educator Preparation Program Committee 2005-2007 Member, Rank and Tenure Committee 2004-2005 Chair, Ad hoc Hearing Committee 1999-2002 Member, Faculty Senate 1997-2014 Member, Secondary Education Committee 1997 - Faculty-Advisor, Rivier University Model United Nations
New Programs Developed BA in History MAT in Social Studies International Relations Global Studies International Politics and Economics
Study Excursions 1999 Greece 2000 Switzerland and Germany 2004 Italy
Personal U.S. citizen born in Berlin, Germany, fluent in German and English, working knowledge of French, reading knowledge of Italian.