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June 3, 2021 P AUL L ERNER Department of History University of Southern California 1723 South Bedford Street 3502 S. Trousdale Parkway Los Angeles, CA 90035 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0034 Tel. (323) 244-3104 Tel. (213) 740-1653 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Employment Professor, Department of History, USC (November 2015 – present), Associate Professor (2003 - 2015), Assistant Professor, (1997 - 2003) Director, MaX Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies (September 2011 - present) Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History (June 2015 – August 2017, July 2018-present) Education Columbia University, Department of History Ph.D. May 1996; MPhil, May 1992; MA, October 1990 The University of Chicago BA in History, June 1988: History Department Honors, General College Honors Grants, Fellowships, and Awards • Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences (ASHSS) Program, Early Sabbatical, Spring Semester 2022 • Funded Participant in “Displacement, Migration, and the Holocaust,” the Curt C. and Else Silberman Seminar for Faculty at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC., June 3-14, 2019 • Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies, Grant for Summer Research in Vienna, June- July 2018. • Short-term Fellowship, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, March 2015. • American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Fellowship, Academic Year 2011-2012. • Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences (ASHSS) Grant, USC, 2011-2012. • Supplemental Research Fellowship, AleXander von Humboldt Foundation, taken as Visiting Scholar, Institute for Modern Jewish History and Culture, University of Leipzig, March - May, 2012. • University of Southern California, College Commons Program, funding for a series of events in academic year 2009-2010 on “At the Edge of Empire: Spaces, Borders and Boundaries in Modern Central Europe.” • Charles W. and Sally Rothfield Fellow, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Fall Semester 2008 Paul Lerner • Research Fellowship, AleXander von Humboldt Foundation. Visiting Fellow at the Moses- Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies, University of Potsdam, Germany, Spring Semester 2005 and Spring Semester 2006. • Outstanding Faculty Award, USC, Phi Kappa Phi, Spring 2005 • General Education Teaching Award, USC, Fall 2002 • Post-doctoral Fellowship, BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University, August 2000-June 2001 • James H. Zumberge Research Grant, University of Southern California, July 1999-June 2000 • National Endowment for the Humanities, Grant to participate in the Summer Institute, “Memory, History and Dictatorship: The Legacy of World War II in France, Germany, and Italy,” Paris and Caen, June 21- July 29, 1999 • Forum for the History of the Human Sciences, Dissertation Prize, 1998 • Friends of the German Historical Institute, Biannual Best Dissertation Award, 1997 • Wellcome Trust/University College London, Post-doctoral Research Fellowship at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, March 1996 -August 1997 • Social Science Research Council Berlin Program, Post-doctoral Fellowship, 1996-97, (Declined) • Historial de la Grande Guerre (Research Center for the study of the First World War), Péronne, France, Dissertation Grant, Summer 1995 • National Endowment for the Humanities, Dissertation Writing Grant, July 1994-June 1995 • Whiting Dissertation Writing Grant, 1994-1995, (Declined) • Columbia University, Hofstadter Fellowship (1989-90, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1993-94) • German Academic EXchange Service (DAAD) Annual Grant for Dissertation Research, Visiting Fellow at the Institute for the History of Medicine, Free University Berlin, October 1992-August 1993 • German Academic EXchange Service (DAAD) Summer Grant, at University of California at Berkeley, July-August, 1990 Works-in-Progress “EXiles on Main Street: Central European Émigrés and American Consumer Culture in the Cold War” book project in progress. Edited with Anne Schenderlein and Uwe Spiekermann, Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and America. Forthcoming in late 2021 in Worlds of Consumption Series with Palgrave Macmillan. Manuscript in copyediting. State of the Field essay on American Jewish Consumer Culture, solicited by Journal of American Jewish History. “Vienna in Hollywood,” co-organizing symposium for December 2021 at the Academy of Motion Picture Museum and USC with the Academy Museum, USC Libraries, and the Austrian Consulate of Los Angeles. Gratns received from the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies and MaX Kade Foundation. Essay with Veronika Fuechtner, “Caligari before Kracauer: Trauma, Memory, and Psychoanalysis in Babylon Berlin,” for volume on Babylon Berlin, edited by Hester Baer and Jill Suzanne Smith. 2 Paul Lerner Co-organizer with Frances Tanzer on EXile and Performance, Seminar at the 2021 German Studies Association annual meeting (online and in Indianapolis, IN) and ongoing international research network. Books The Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and The Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880-1940. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, cloth, 2015. • Dorothy Rosenberg Prize in the History of the Jewish Diaspora, American Historical Association, 2016. Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry: cloth, 2003, paper 2008. • Cheiron Prize for the best book in the history of the human sciences, 2005-6. Edited Books Feuchtanger and Judaism: History, Imagination, Exile. Edited with Frank Stern. New York: Peter Lang, paper & epub, 2019. Jewish Masculinities: German Jews, Gender, and History. Edited with Benjamin Baader and Sharon Gillerman. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, cloth & paper, July 2012. Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930. Edited with Mark S. Micale. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine. New York, cloth, 2001, paper, 2011. • Japanese translation, Misuzu Press, August 2017. Special Journal Issues Edited, with Joes Segal, “Alternative Realities: Utopian Thought in Times of Political Rupture,” Bulletin Supplement of the German Historical Institute 14 (September 2019). Co-authored introduction. Edited, with Jeffrey Fear, “Behind the Screens: Immigrants, Émigrés, and EXiles in Mid-Twentieth- Century Los Angeles,” Special Issue of Jewish Culture and History (2016) vol. 17, nos. 1 & 2. Co- authored introduction. Conferences Organized “German History in a Fractious World,” co-organizer and host of Second Annual West Coast Germanists' Workshop, USC, April 6-7, 2019. “Alternative Realities: Utopian Thought in Times of Political Rupture.” Sponsored by the USC MaX Kade Institute, the Wende Museum, and the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam. Co-organized with Joes Segal. Funded by grants from the German Historical Institute, and the German Academic EXchange Service (DAAD). Held at USC and the Wende Museum, April 16-17, 2018. “Feuchtwanger and Judaism,” with the International Feuchtwanger Society and the USC Libraries, co-organized with Frank Stern, Michaela Ullmann and Marje Schuetze-Coburn, USC, September 17- 19, 2015. 3 Paul Lerner “Los Angeles as a Site of German-American Crossings.” Sponsored by the USC MaX Kade Institute, the University of Glasgow, Centre for Business History, and the German Historical Institute. Co- organized with Jeffrey Fear. Suppored by a grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, USC, February 2014. “Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America,” with the German Historical Institute. Co-organized with Anne Schenderlein and Uwe Spiekermann, Washington, DC., May 7-9, 2015. “Workshop on Jews and Popular Culture in Germany,” Sponsored by the USC MaX Kade Institute, October 16-17, 2011. “Jewish Masculinities in Germany: Second International Workshop on Gender in German-Jewish History,” organized with Benjamin Maria Baader, Sharon Gillerman, Deborah Hertz, and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum. Supported by the German Academic EXchange Service (DAAD), University of California at San Diego, December 11-13, 2005. “Traumatic Pasts: Psychological Trauma in the Modern Age,” co-organized with Mark S. Micale. Supported by the Wellcome Trust and the British Academy. Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Manchester, March 29-30, 1996. Articles “Consuming Temples on Both Sides of the Atlantic: German-Speaking Jews from the Department Store to the Mall,” forthcoming in Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and America (see above). “German Jews between Freud, MarX, and Halakha: Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Erich Fromm, and the Psychoanalysis of Jewish Ritual in 1920s Heidelberg,” Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 64, 1 (2019) “Rethinking Jewishness in Dark Times: Feuchtwanger and Arnold Zweig on Judaism, Zionism, and History,” in Feuchtwanger and Judaism (see above). “Kaufhaus Schocken and the Jewish Question: Zionism, Architecture, and Modern Commercial Culture,” in Doreen Mölders, Antje Borrmann, and Sabine Wolfram eds., Konsum und Gestalt: Leben und Werk von Salman Schocken und Erich Mendelsohn vor 1933 und im Exil (Berlin: Hentrich & Hentrich, 2016). “Consuming Powers: The ‘Jewish Department Store’ in German Politics and