Waitman Wade Beorn, Ph.D. Contact Information Corcoran Department of History University of Virginia, Nau Hall 155 Charlottesville, VA 22904 email: [email protected] web: http://waitmanwadebeorn.com/
EMPLOYMENT • Lecturer, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia, 2016- Present • Executive Director, Virginia Holocaust Museum, 2015- 2016 • Louis and Frances Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies & Assistant Professor of History, University of Nebraska- Omaha, 2012- 2015 • Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Loyola University New Orleans, 2011- 2012
EDUCATION • PhD, History, 2011, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC “Descent into Darkness: Local Participation of the Wehrmacht in the Holocaust in Belarus, 1941-2” Advisor: Christopher Browning • Master’s Degree, History, April 2007, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC • Bachelor of Science, History, June 2000, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS • UVA Bicentennial Grant (Supports exhibit designed by History of Museums Class), 2017 • Faculty Global Research with Undergrads (FGRU) Grant from the UVA Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation: “Behind the Wires: the Janowska Camp Project,” 2017 ($7,500) • Learning Technology Incubator (LTI) “Developing Effective Geo-Spatial Digital Pedagogy,” University of Virginia, 2017 ($10,000) • Honorable Mention, Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize for Best Book on Topic Related to the Holocaust, German Studies Association, 2015 • Finalist, Congress Award for the Best Academic Publication on Belarus-related Problems, International Congress of Belarusian Studies, 2015 • Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize for Best First book, Harvard University Press, 2014 • Visiting Scholar, Western Carolina University, 17-18 September 2015 • Sharon Abramson Research Grant for the Study of the Holocaust, Holocaust Education Foundation, 2014. • USH Shoah Archive Teaching Fellow, 2013-4 • Merit Pay awardee as voted by UNO History Department Faculty, 2012, 2013 • Scholar in Residence, Pritzker Military Library, 2011-12 • Finalist, 2011 SMH Coffman Dissertation Prize • Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowship, 2010-11 • Fulbright Fellowship, Germany, 2008-9 • Saul Kagan Claims Conference Fellowship for Advanced Shoah Studies, 2009-10 • Holocaust Education Foundation Research Grant, 2009 • National Science Foundation Grant “Collaborative Research - Holocaust Historical GIS,” Award # 0820501 (with Tim Cole, Simone Gigliotti, Alberto Giordano, Anna Holian, Paul Jaskot, Anne Knowles, Marc Masurovsky, and Erik Steiner), 2008-2011 • Deutscher Akedemischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Graduate Scholarship, 2008 (declined) • Fellow, Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellows Program, 2008 Beorn 2
• Participant, Archival Summer Seminar in Germany, German Historical Institute, 2008 • Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant for Research in European History, 2008 (awarded by the American Historical Association) • Society for Military History/ABC-CLIO Research Grant, 2008 • Organizer, “The Geography of the Holocaust: Challenges and Opportunities” panel at the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference, 2008 • Fellow, Summer Institute in Holocaust Studies, Northwestern University, 2006 • Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Grant, Goethe Institute, Freiburg, Germany, Summer 2007 • Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Academic Year Grant, 2006-2007 • Holocaust Education Foundation Fellowship, 2005-2006
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS Books Published • Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus, Harvard University Press, 2014. Awards: o Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize for best first book, Harvard Press, 2014 o Honorable Mention, Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize for Best Book on Topic Related to the Holocaust, German Studies Association, 2015 § Laudatio: “Dr. Beorn’s research draws on an impressive array of archival and testimonial material, acquired during visits to Eastern Europe. His extraordinary book not only explores, in great detail and through use of examples, how the killers’ complicity grew over time, but it also analyzes the widespread myth of the Jewish Bolshevik partisan, propagated in order to inspire and legitimize the killings. Throughout the book, Dr. Beorn integrates evidence and reflection with notable fluidity, never avoiding the thorniest issues.” o Finalist, Congress Award for the Best Academic Publication on Belarus-related Problems, International Congress of Belarusian Studies, 2015 • Polowanie na Żydów. Zbrodnie Wermachtu, Wydawnictwo RM, 2017. (Polish Translation of Marching into Darkness) • The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final Solution, (Bloomsbury Press, 2018)
Books in Preparation • Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv (in progress)
Book Chapters • “Killing on the Ground and in the Mind: The Spatialities of Genocide in Belarus” in Geographies of the Holocaust, ed. Anne Kelly Knowles, Tim Cole, and Alberto Giordano, Indiana University Press, 2014. • “Walking in the Footsteps of the Vanished: Using Physical Landscapes to Understand Wehrmacht Participation in Einsatzgruppen Killings in Belarus,” in Lessons and Legacies XI: Expanding Perspectives on the Holocaust in a Changing World, ed. Hilary Earl and Karl Schleunes, Northwestern University Press, 2015. • “Genocide in a Small Place: Wehrmacht Complicity in Killing the Jews of Krupki, 1941” in The Holocaust and Local History. Vallentine Mitchell Publishers, 2011.
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Book Chapters in Preparation or Pre-Publication • “Bodily Conquest: Sexual Violence in the Nazi East,” in Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe: New Debates and Perspectives, ed. by David Stahel and Alex Kay, Indiana University Press (forthcoming September 2018) • “Safe Simulations? Best Practices for Exercising History in the Classroom,” in Teaching Genocide: Insights and Advice from Secondary Teachers and Professors, ed. by Samuel Totten, Rowman Littlefield (forthcoming) • “All the Other Neighbors: Communal Genocide in Eastern Europe,” in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Holocaust, ed. by Hilary Earl and Simone Gigliotti, Wiley Blackwell Publishers (forthcoming). • “Understanding the Holocaust in the Context of the Second World War,” in Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust, ed. By Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt, University of Wisconsin Press (in preparation) • “Unraveling Janowska: Excavating an Understudied Camp Through Diverse Testimonies,” in Festschrift for Christopher Browning, ed. by Jürgen Matthäus and Mark Hornburg (in preparation)
Journal Articles • “Last Stop in Lwów: Janowska as a Hybrid Camp,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, ca. Spring 2019 • “New Paths, New Directions: Reflections on 40 Years of Holocaust Studies and the GSA,” German Studies Review, vol. 39, Nr. 3, October 2016, pp. 589-599 • "Perpetrators, Presidents, and Profiteers: Teaching Genocide Prevention and Response through Classroom Simulation, " Special Issue: Mass Atrocity Prevention, Politics and Governance 3, no. 4 (2015): 72-83 • “The Man Who Stood in his own Grave—Twice,” The Galitzianer, Vol 20, No. 4, December 2013 • “Genocide in a Small Place: Wehrmacht Complicity in Killing the Jews of Krupki, 1941” Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, Vol.16, No.1-2, Summer/Autumn 2010, pp.97-128 • “A Calculus of Complicity: The Wehrmacht, the Anti-Partisan War, and the Final Solution in White Russia, 1941-42,” Central European History, Vol. 44, Nr. 2, June 2011, pp. 308-337. • “Geographies of the Holocaust” (jointly with Tim Cole, Simone Gigliotti, Alberto Giordano, Anna Holian, Paul Jaskot, Anne Knowles, Marc Masurovsky, and Erik Steiner), The Geographical Review, vol. 99, Nr. 4, October 2009 • "Negotiating Murder: A Panzer Signal Company and the Destruction of the Jews of Peregruznoe, 1942," Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 23, Nr. 2, Fall 2009
Journal Articles in Preparation or Prepublication • “Drafting Testimony: Art, Space, and Evidence in Zeev Porath’s Janowska Drawings,” (in progress)
Digital Humanities Projects and Skillsets • The Holocaust in Lviv: An International Collaboration with the Center for the Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv (Ongoing) • The Drawings of Zeev Porath, MapScholar, 2016 http://viseyes.org/mapscholar/?1116 • The Prisoners of the Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lwow, GIS and 3D Modeling (in preparation) • Mapping Einsatzgruppen Killings, GIS (in preparation)
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• Arc GIS (novice level)
International Conference Presentations • “Spatial Approaches to the Janowska Camp and the Lviv Ghetto” European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Seminar: Advanced Holocaust Studies Today: Sources and Approaches, Lviv, Ukraine, 21 September 2017 (invited) • Plenary Speaker: “Crying out from the Depths:” The Wehrmacht’s Murder of Jews in Belarus,” International Congress of Belarussian Studies, 2 October 2015 (invited) • "Personal Holocausts: Germans, Jews, and Non-Jews in the Soviet Union, 1941-44." International Conference on World War II, Nazi Crimes, and the Holocaust in the USSR, Moscow, 9 December 2012 • “Local Participation of the Wehrmacht in the Murder of Jews in Belarus, 1941,” The Persecution and Murder of Jews: Grassroots Perspectives, International Institute for Holocaust Research 3rd Annual Summer Workshop for Holocaust Scholars, Yad Vashem, 7 July 2010
Conference Presentations • Plenary Speaker: “The State of Perpetrator Studies,” (Lessons and Legacies XIV), 6 November 2016 (invited) • “Spaces of Life and Death: Mapping the Holocaust Experience in the Janowska Camp,” Creating Spatial Historical Knowledge: New Approaches, Opportunities and Epistemological Implications of Mapping History Digitally, German Historical Institute, 20-22 October 2016 (invited) • “Hostile Witnesses:” Are German post-war judicial statements “testimony?” (Lessons and Legacies XIII), November 2014 • Co-organizer with Wendy Lower and Stephen Tyas- Summer Research Workshop: Complicity and Collaboration: Definitions, Distinctions, and Debate, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 21 July- 1 August, 2014 • “An Argument for Local History- The Holocaust in Eastern Europe,” The Holocaust as History: A Symposium in Honor of Christopher Browning, May 2, 2014 (invited) • “Murderous Mindscapes: Toward a Spatial Understanding of Complicity in the Holocaust,” American Historical Association Annual Conference, January 8, 2013 • “Workshop: Placing the Holocaust: Researching and Teaching Geographies of the Holocaust” Lessons and Legacies XII, November 3, 2012 • “An Unholy Trinity: German Soldiers, Civilians, and Jews in White Russia, 1941-42,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Conference, 17-20 November 2011 • “All those we met were to be considered partisans”: Unternehmen Dreieck-Viereck and the German War against Partisans and Jews, 1942," German Studies Association Annual Conference, 23 September 2011 • “Sex behind the Lines: Relationships between the Occupiers and the Occupied in the Soviet Union, 1941-44,” Triangle Seminar Series on the History of the Military, War, and Society Workshop- The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: Race, Gender, and Property- the Experience of Occupation at the Local Level, 1 April 2011 • “Walking in the Footsteps of the Vanished: Using Physical Landscapes to Better Understand Wehrmacht Participation in Einsatzgruppen Killings in Belarus,” Lessons and Legacies XI, November 4-6, 2010 • “Hunting Jews in Szczuczyn: The Wehrmacht’s Internalization of Anti-Jewish Policy in Belarus, 1941,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, 10 October 2010. Also organized Panel #294: Perpetrators and Process: Military and Gestapo Violence, 1939-1945 • “Walking in the Footsteps of the Vanished: Using Physical Landscapes to Better Understand Wehrmacht Participation in Einsatzgruppen Killings in Belarus,” American Association of Geographers Annual Conference, 16 April 2010
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• “A Calculus of Complicity: The Wehrmacht, the Anti-Partisan War, and the Final Solution in White Russia, 1941-42,” Seventy Years On: New Perspectives on the Second World War, Calgary, 31 August-2 September 2009 • “The Geography of the Holocaust: challenges and opportunities (roundtable),” American Association of Geographers Annual Conference, 15 April 2008
Invited Scholarly Lectures • “Problematic Remembering: Lessons for America from the Holocaust,” at Learning from the Holocaust: Public Monuments, Museums, and Memory, a program of the Carolina Public Humanities at UNC-CH, 24 March 2018 • “Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp at the Center of the Holocaust in Galicia,” Center for the Urban History of East Central Europe, 6 March 2018 • “Visualizing the Lviv Ghetto,” Datapalooza 2017, University of Virginia Data Science Institute, 10 November 2017 • “"We knew then that the Jews would be shot:" The Wehrmacht's role in the Holocaust by Bullets," The Sidney & Nina Widell Annual Memorial Lecture, Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center, Milwaukee, WI, 26 March 2017 • “Documenting Crime and Drawing Pain: Reevaluating Art as Holocaust Testimony,” Department of Religious Studies, College of William and Mary, 28 February 2017, • “The Crimes of the Wehrmacht and the Alt-Right in American Reenacting,” Florida International University, 16 February 2017 • “Killing, Deaths, and Second Deaths,” Virginia Anthropology Society, 15 November 2016 • “Shades of Field Gray: Resistance to the Holocaust in the German Army,” Shoah Teaching Alternatives in Jewish Education, Museum of Jewish Heritage, NYC, 15 May 2016 • “A World Without Witnesses: The Passing of Holocaust Survivors…and How We Can Still Hear Their Voices,” Brody Jewish Center, University of Virginia, 4 May 2016 • “A Hybrid Horror: The Janowska Camp and a New Categorization of Nazi Camps,” Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Virginia, 12 November 2015 • “Resistance and Oppression: Daily Life in The Janowska Camp,” Fall History Speaker, Newman University, 2 November 2015 • "A Deadly Hybrid: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Ukraine,” Western Carolina University, 18 September 2015 • “Publishing: Reaching a Wider Audience,” Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Brown Bag Lunch, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 30 July 2014 • “Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus,” Coe College, 21 March 2014 • “Heartbreaking Scenes:” The German Army and the Murder of Slonim Jewry, Mosse Brown Bag Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 28 February 2014 • “Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus,” University of Montana-Billings, 11 February 2014 • “Army of Darkness: Wehrmacht Complicity in the Holocaust in the Soviet Union,” Uhlman Family Seminar, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill, 13 April 2013 • “Killing Spaces: Understanding the Holocaust from a Spatial Perspective,” UNO Geography Colloquium, 14 January 2013 • “Killing Mindscapes: Position, Intention, and the Holocaust in the Soviet Union,” Middlebury College, 2-3 April 2012
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Invited Public Presentations • “Discussion of Nazi Anti-Gay Policy,” Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia performance of For a Look or a Touch, First Unitarian Universalist Church, Richmond, VA, 29 February 2016 • “Drawing Inhumanity: The Art of Zeev Porath and the Janowska Camp,” 5400 Club, Weinstein Jewish Community Center, Richmond, VA, 7 December 2015 • “The Past is Not past: Reflections on Historical and Future Genocide,” Emek Shalom Holocaust Memorial Cemetery Kristallnacht Commemoration Ceremony, Richmond, 8 November 2015 • ““Ruthlessly and mercilessly:” The German Army and the Holocaust,” Beth David Synagogue, Holocaust Education Week 2014 sponsored by UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, 6 November 2014 • “Hateful Organizations? The Case of the German Army in the Holocaust,” Why People Hate Lecture Series, First Lutheran Church, Omaha, NE, 19 March 2014 • “A Weapon of Mass Destruction: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus,” UNO Golden Circle, 7 February 2014 • “A Culture of Cruelty: What we can learn from the German Army and the Holocaust,” Boys Town, Omaha, NE, 17 January 2014 • “Marching into Darkness:” Book Lecture and Signing, Virginia Holocaust Museum, 18 December 2013 • “Auschwitz: A History of the Camp from Incarceration to Extermination,” KIOS FM, Omaha Public Radio, Noon Forum, 15 July 2013 • “Liberators,” in the Pritzker Military Library’s Citizen Soldier series, 28 March 2013 • “The General William P. Levine Project,” Pritzker Military Gala, 27 October 2012 • “Grounds for Murder—The Local Participation of The German Army in the Holocaust,” Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Vermont, 4 April 2012 • “The Third Company: A Lesson in Military Ethics and the Holocaust,” Coast Guard Academy Ethics Forum, 23 March 2012 • “Lessons from the Eastern Front: The Wehrmacht, the Holocaust, and Military Ethics,” Coast Guard Academy Ethics Forum, 25 March 2011 • “Lessons from the Holocaust: Engaging Today’s Military” with Gretchen Skidmore, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Days Of Remembrance Commemoration, 14 April 2010 • “Before Auschwitz: The Holocaust in the Soviet Union,” Yom Hashoah Keynote Speech, Congregation Beth-Israel, Fayetteville, NC, 11 April 2010
Selected Book Reviews • Review of Genocide in the Carpathians War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914-1945, Raz Segal, Austrian History Yearbook, 2018 • Review of The Making of an SS killer: the life of Colonel Alfred Filbert, 1905-1990, Alex J. Kay, German History, 2016 • Review of Slave Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps, Marc Buggeln, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, v. 30 Nr. 2, Fall 2016. P. 360-362. • Review of Fegelein's Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare: The SS Cavalry Brigade in the Soviet Union, Henning Pieper, German History, v. 33, Nr. 5, 2015. • Review of Smolensk under the Nazis: Everyday Life in Occupied Russia, Laurie Cohen, European History Quarterly, v. 45, Nr. 1, 2015 • Review of The Holocaust in the East: Local Perpetrators and Soviet Responses, eds. Fox, Holquist, Martin. Central European History. v. 47, Nr. 4, 2014, p. 878-880 • Review of The Holocaust and Historical Methodology, Dan Stone (ed), Global War Studies, v. 11, no. 2, 2014
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• Review of Terror in the Balkans: German Armies and Partisan Warfare, Ben Shepherd, German Studies Review, 2014, Vol. 37, Nr. 2, p. 458-460 • Review of USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, Vol., II, Martin Dean and Geoff Megargee (eds), Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2014, Vol. 28, Nr. 2 • Review of Bismarck: A Life, Jonathan Steinberg, Michigan War Studies Review, 28 March 2014 • Review of The Explorer’s Roadmap to National Socialism: Sven Hedin, Geography and the Path to Genocide, Sarah K. Danielsson, History: Reviews of New Books, v. 42, 4, 2014, p. 133-4 • Review of Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941: Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization, Alex J. Kay, Jeff Rutherford, and David Stahel (eds), Journal of Contemporary History, 49, no. 2, 2014 • Review of Das “Grossdeutsche Reich” und die Juden. Nationalsozialistische Verfolgung in den “angegliederten” Gebieten. Wolf Gruner and Jörg Osterloh (ed.), German Studies Review 36, no. 3 (2013): 725-726 • Review of The Diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia, Wendy Lower, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2012, Vol. 26, Nr. 3 • Review of The Holocaust in the Soviet Union, Yitzhak Arad, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2010, Vol. 24, Nr.
Encyclopedia Entries and Textbook Work • United States Holocaust Museum Online Encyclopedia (2016- Present) o Article 48 o Gestapo o July 20th Plot o Lebensraum o Waffen-SS o Lidice o German Military and The o Pearl Harbor Holocaust o Neville Chamberlain o Wilhelm Keitel o The Weimar Republic o German Military Oaths o Sonderkommando o German Armed Forces High o Erwin Rommel Command o Great Depression o Nazi Imperialism o German Industry and The o Erich Ludendorff Holocaust o Topf and Sons • “Brandt, Karl” in Human Medical Experimentation: From Smallpox Vaccines to Secret Government Programs, edited by Frances R. Frankenburg. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2017. • Multimedia Course Reader (Primary Sources) for CenGage Publishing (forthcoming) • “Hitler” and “Holocaust Denial,” encyclopedia entries in Mason, Patrick L., ed. The Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, 2nd Ed. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2013. • “Barbarossa Decree,” “Brandt, Karl,” “Death Squads,” “Extermination Centers,” Jedwabne, massacre in” in Mikaberidze, Alexander, ed. Atrocities, Massacres, and War Crimes: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Guest Blogs • “Organizational Cultures and the Conditions for Atrocity,” Harvard University Press Blog, 11 December 2013 • “Our Mothers, Our Fathers…learned their lesson?” Assessing Atrocity, 16 Jul 2013,
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TEACHING Lecturer, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia, 2016- Present • ISSS 3382: History of Genocide • ISSS 3383: The Dark Side of the Twentieth Century • HIST 1501: Killing in the Courtroom- Mass Atrocities, War Crimes, and the Law • HIST 3542: The Second World War • HIEU 3559: Modern European History: 1789-1918 • HIEU 3692: The Holocaust • HIEU 2002: Western Civilization • HIEU 3559: A History of Antisemitism • HIST 3559: Curating the Past: The History of the Museum • HIEU 3559: The Holocaust in Film
New Courses Developed and added to Department Catalog • HIEU 3380: History of Antisemitism • HIEU 3604: The Holocaust on Film • HIST 3300: Curating the Past- A History of Museums
Guest Lecturer, U.S. Service Academy Program of the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation, Museum of Jewish Heritage, NYC, 2008- Present
Assistant Professor of History, University of Nebraska-Omaha Instrumental in developing a Holocaust and Genocide Studies Minor at UNO
Undergraduate • HIST 4720: History of the Holocaust (Graduate/Undergraduate) • HIST 4910/8916: Comparative Genocide (Graduate/Undergraduate) • HIST 2990: History of Eastern Europe • HIST 3930: Historical Methodology- A History of Violence in Europe, 1500-2000 • HIST 2580: Modern Germany • HIST 1010: World Civilizations II, 1500 to Present
Graduate • HIST 9100: Readings in the Holocaust • HIST 9100: Readings in German History
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Loyola University New Orleans, 2011- 2012 • History of the Jews in Europe • Modern European History, 1914-1945 • World Civilization to 1500 • World Civilization 1500-Present
STUDENT PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC PLACEMENTS • Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2) • University of Wisconsin-Madison PhD Program, Mosse Scholarship
RADIO, NEWSPAPER, TELEVISION
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• “Lecturer creates interactive map of Nazi ghetto, concentration camp” Cavalier Daily, 2 November 2017 • “Digital map helps historians get granular with Holocaust Research”, UVA Today, 17 October 2017 • Quoted in New York Magazine, 3 September 2017 • “A Short History of Torches and Intimidation,” Forbes, 15 August 2017 • “UVa lecturer: Lee Park chant has Nazi roots,” Daily Progress, 20 May 2017 • “Speaker to shed light on lesser known aspect of Holocaust,” Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, 2 March 2017 • Interviewee for documentary film “Hitler: The Biography”, Arrow Media, 2015 • Book Interview: New Books in History, New Books Network Podcast, 10 January 2014 • Interviewee and Consultant, “Remembered Voices” Documentary, Nebraska Public Television, 2012- 2013 • “Beorn searches for answers in the lives and geographies of the Holocaust,” A&S: A Newsletter of the College and Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Dec 2013 • “Gift enables professor to discuss the evil that men do” University of Nebraska Foundation Newsletter, 26 March 2013 • “Exclusive: Marines Nazi-Flag Whistleblower Comes Forward,” Mother Jones, 11 February 2011
CONSULTING • Consultant and Writer/Researcher for Online Content, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2016- Present. • Consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for its Professional and Military Ethical Development Program, 2007-Present. • Advisory Board Member, Paths of Survival and Resettlement: Holocaust Survivors in Northern New Jersey, 1945-1954, The Gross Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies- Ramapo College of New Jersey • Tour Leader: The Holocaust- Poland and the Death Camps, The Cultural Experience • Co-author, “Ordinary Soldiers: A Case Study in Ethics, Law, and Leadership for Tomorrow’s Officers,” an ROTC Teaching module with David Frey, Jody Prescott, Jennifer Ciardelli, and Gretchen Skidmore • Consultant, “The Shooting of Jews in Ukraine: Holocaust by Bullets” exhibit, Museum of Jewish Heritage, NYC, November 24, 2008- March 15, 2009.
SERVICE • Executive Director, Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust Education Fund Board, 2012-2015 • Advisory Council, Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish Studies, UNO, 2012-2015 • Co-Organizer, European Studies Conference, UNO, 2012-2015
PEER REVIEWER (Articles, Books, and Monographs) • American Historical Review • Holocaust and Genocide Studies • Oxford University Press • German Studies Review • German History • Central European History • Journal of Contemporary History
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• International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research • Bloomsbury Academic Press • History: Reviews of New Books
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS • American Historical Association • Association of Slavic and Eastern European Studies • German Studies Association • Gesher Galicia
LANGUAGE COMPETENCY French German Russian (beginner, for reading) Polish (beginner, for reading)
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