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 , 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,” 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 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.

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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.

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“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 Culture,” in Gideon Reuveni and Sarah Wobick-Segev eds., The Economy in Jewish history : New Perspectives on the Interrelationship between Ethnicity and Economic Life (New York: Berghahn Books, 2011), 135-56.

“Circulation and Representation: Jews, Department Stores, and Cosmopolitan Consumption in Germany, ca. 1880s-1930s,” European Review of History —Revue Europeénne d’histoire v. 17 (June 2010), 395–413 —and revised and republished in Godela Weiss-Sussex and Ulrike Zitzlsperger (eds.,) Das Berliner Warenhaus: Geschichte und Diskurs/The Berlin Department Store: History and Discourse (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013), 93-115.

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“An All Consuming History? New Works on Consumer Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany,” Central European History 42 (September 2009), 509-43.

“Consuming Pathologies: Kleptomania, Magazinitis, and the Problem of Female Consumption in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany,” in WerkstattGeschichte 42 (Summer 2006), 46-56.

“Historiographie de la Psychiatrie de Guerre,” in Jean-Jacques Becker ed., Histoire Culturelle de la Grande Guerre (Paris: Armand Colin, 2005), 217-230.

“An Economy of Memory: Psychiatrists, Veterans and Traumatic Narratives in Weimar Germany,” in Peter Fritzsche and Alon Confino eds., The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2002), 173-95. — Published in slightly revised form in Inka Mülder-Bach ed., Modernität und Trauma: Beiträge zum Zeitenbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges, (Vienna: Universitäts Verlag Wien, 2000), 79-103.

“From Traumatic Neurosis to Male Hysteria: The Decline and Fall of Hermann Oppenheim, 1889- 1919,” and co-written with Mark Micale, “Trauma: A Conceptual and Historiographical Introduction,” in Traumatic Pasts (see above), 140-171 and 1-27.

“Psychiatry and Casualties of War in Germany, 1914-1918,” Journal of Contemporary History 35 (January 2000), 13-28. Published in French translation as “Guerre, mémoire et la psychiatrie allemande,” in 14/18 Aujourd’hui, Numéro 3 (November 1999).

“Hysterical Cures: Hypnosis, Gender and Performance in and Weimar Germany,” History Workshop Journal 45 (March 1998), 79-101.

“‘Nieder mit der traumatischen Neurose, hoch die Hysterie’: zum Niedergang und Fall des Hermann Oppenheim, 1889-1919,” in Psychotherapie 2 (1997), 16-22.

“Rationalizing the Therapeutic Arsenal: German Neuropsychiatry in the First World War,” in Geoffrey Cocks and Manfred Berg eds., Medicine and Modernity: Public Health and Medical Care in 19th and 20th- Century Germany (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 121-48.

“‘Ein Sieg deutschen Willens’: Wille und Gemeinschaft in der deutschen Kriegspsychiatrie,” in Wolfgang Eckart and Christoph Gradmann eds., Die Medizin und der Erste Weltkrieg, (Pfaffenweiler: Centaurus-Verlag, 1996), 85-107.

Book Reviews • Helmut Berghoff, Jan Logemann, and Felix Römer (eds), The Consumer on the Home Front: Second World War Civilian Consumption in Comparative Perspective, submitted to H-Soz-Kult. • Tim Grady, A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War, forthcoming in Journal of Modern History. • Christoph Kreutzmüller, Final Sale in Berlin: the Destruction of Jewish Commercial Activity, 1930-1945, Canadian Journal of History 52 (Winter 2018), 551-3. • Linda Forgosh, Louis Bamberger: Department Store Innovator and Philanthropist, submitted to Jewish Historical Studies, January 10, 2018. • Michal Shapira, The War Inside: Psychoanalysis, Total War, and the Making of the Democratic Self in Postwar Britain, posted on H-Madness, May 26, 2017: https://historypsychiatry.com/2017/05/26/review-

5 Paul Lerner michal-shapira-the-war-inside-psychoanalysis-total-war-and-the-making-of-the-democratic-self-in- post-war-britain-cambridge-2013. • Eli Zaretsky, Political Freud: A History, Times Literary Supplement (TLS), January 6, 2017, 31 • Marjorie Gehrhardt, The Men with Broken Faces: Gueles Cassées of the First World War, Times Literary Supplement (TLS), July 20, 2016. • Adam Mendelsohn, The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire, in Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture 50 (Summer-Autumn 2016), 194-5. • Egbert Klautke, The Mind of the Nation: Völkerpsychologie in Germany, 1851-1955, Canadian Journal of History/Annales Canadiennes d’Histoire, 51 (Spring-Summer 2016), 152-4. • James E. Strick, Wilhelm Reich, Biologist, in Times Literary Suppplement (TLS), December 4, 2015, p. 5. • Gemma Blackshaw and Sabine Wieber (eds), Journeys into Madness: Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in German Studies Review 38 (2015), 189-191. • Anthony D. Kauders, Der Freud Komplex: Eine Geschichte der Psychoanalyse in Deutschland in Times Literary Supplement (December 5, 2014), 22-3. • Peter Fritzsche, The Turbulent World of Franz Göll: An Ordinary Berliner Writes the Twentieth Century, in Journal of Modern History 84 (December 2012), 1014-15. • Daniel Pick, The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts in Times Literary Supplement (September 5, 2012). • Pamela E. Swett, S. Jonathan Wiesen and Jonathan R. Zatlin (eds), Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth-Century Germany, H-German (September 4, 2012) [https://www.h- net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=25570] • Sarah Abreyava Stein, Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), H-Judaic (July 7, 2011) [http://www.h- net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=32869]. •Gregory M. Thomas, Treating the Trauma of the Great War: Soldiers, Civilians, and Psychiatry in France, 1914-1940 in Journal of Modern History 83 (June 2011), 437-439. • Andrew Scull, Hysteria: The Biography in Medical History 54 (October 2010), 546-7. •Michael Cowan, Cult of the Will: Nervousness and German Modernity in Social History of Medicine 22, 3 (November 2009), 641-2. •Céline Kaiser and Marie-Luise Wünsche, eds. “Die Nervosität der Juden” und andere Leiden an der Zivilisation: Konstruktionen des Kollektiven und Konzepte individueller Krankheit im psychiatrischen Diskurs um 1900. Published on H-German (July 11, 2006) [http://h- net.msu.edu/cgibin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H- German&month=0607&week=b&msg=cCYAXHvCQ88RQ8MDAlxGzA&user=&pw=]. • Victoria de Grazia, Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through Twentieth-Century Europe in TLS (May 2006), 31. • Sabine Hanrath, Zwischen “Euthanasie” und Psychiatriereform: Anstaltspsychiatrie in Westfalen und Brandenburg — ein deutsch-deutscher Vergleich, 1946-1964 in Journal of Modern History 77 (September 2005), 853-855. • Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century and Andrew R. Heinze, Jews and the American Soul in TLS (March 4, 2005), 7-8. • Eric J. Engstrom, Clinical Psychiatry in Imperial Germany: A History of Psychiatric Practice Published on H-German (February 15, 2005) [http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H- German&month=0502&week=c&msg=C6sDQhAaoIeCf2JBd4vcWA&user=&pw=]. • Hans-Georg Hofer, Nervenschwäche und Krieg: Modernitätskritik und Krisenbewältigung in der österreichischen Psychiatrie (1880-1920) in Sehepunkte 4 (September 13, 2004), Nr. 9 [http://www.sehepunkte.historicum.net/2004/09/5173.html].

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• Anthony David, The Patron: A Life of Salman Schocken, 1877-1959 in Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 133 (12- 13 June 2004), 16. • Laurence Rickels, Nazi Psychoanalysis, 3 vols., in TLS (January 16, 2004), 8. • Michael Hau, The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany. A Social History, 1890-1930. Published on H- German (October 2003). [http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=133371066977034]. • Geoff Eley, Forging Democracy, in German Politics and Society 21 (Summer 2003), 121-5. • Ann Goldberg, Sex, Religion and the Making of Modern Madness in Journal of Modern History 74 (March 2002), 189-90. • Melinda Given Guttmann, The Enigma of Anna O. A Biography of Bertha Pappenheim in TLS (March 22, 2002), 6. • Bernd Walter, Psychiatrie und Gesellschaft in der Moderne in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 37 (Spring 2001), 192-4. • Ben Shephard, A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists, 1914-1994 in The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) (March 9, 2001), 3-4. • Georg Berger, Die Beratenden Psychiater des deutschen Heeres, 1939 bis 1945 in Medical History 44 (April 2000), 282-3. • Robert Proctor, The Nazi War on Cancer in The Times Higher Education Supplement (June 25, 1999), 25. • Geoffrey Cocks, Treating Mind and Body: Essays in the History of Science, Professions and Society under Extreme Conditions in German Studies Review 22 (June 1999), 312-13. • David Cesarani, ed., The Final Solution: Origins and Implementation in German Studies Review 22 (February 1999), 149-50. • The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi, vol. 2, 1914-1919, ed. Ernst Falzeder and Eva Brabant (English and German editions) in History of Psychiatry 8 (September 1997), 442-444. • Henry Friedlander, The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution in Medical History 41 (July 1997), 395-6. • Allan Young, The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Medical History 41 (April 1997), 253-4. • Anne Harrington, Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler in History of Psychiatry 8 (March 1997), 164-167. • Matthias M. Weber, Ernst Rüdin: Eine kritische Biographie in History of Psychiatry 8 (March 1997), 167-170.

Misc. Publications Co-editor with Veronika Fuechtner (and contributor to) “Babylon Berlin: Media, Spectacle, and History,” a Forum on the series Babylon Berlin. Central European History 53 (December 2020), 835-854.

“Jews: the Soul of Vienna?” in forum on Manfred Flügge and the 80th anniversary of the Anschluss, Contmporary Austrian Studies 28 (2019), 295-300.

“Kings of Retail: The Department Store and Jewish Economic Power in the Modern Period,” (in German) for Fritz Backhaus, Liliane Weissberg and Raphael Gross (eds.,) Juden. Geld — Eine Vorstellung (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2013), 204-218.

Entry on “Warenhäuser” for Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur vol. 6 (Stuttgart, J. B. Metzler, 2016).

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Participant in Forum: “The ‘German Question’ in the History of Science and the ‘Science Question’ in German History in German History 29 (December 2011), 628-639.

Invited to blog about my research at Myjewishlearning.com. Posted April 23, 2009. http://www.myjewishlearning.com/blog/history-community/from-the-academy-paul-lerner/

“Jewish Studies Meets Cultural Studies: New Approaches to the German Jewish Past,” Roundtable introduction in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 8 (March 2009), 41-46.

“Teutonic Tarassis,” a review symposium on my book, Hysterical Men, featuring three reviews and my response, Metascience 14 (2005), 313-330.

Entries on “Psychosomatic Medicine” and “Degeneration” in Colin Blakemore and Sheila Jennet eds., Oxford Companion to the Body (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 200 and 567-8.

“Healing and the Mind: Mind, Body and Spirit in Mental Medicine,” in Roy Porter ed., Medicine: A History of Healing. Ancient Traditions to Modern Practices (London: The Ivy Press, 1997), 144-167.

Paper Presentations “Visions of Weimar in Babylon Berlin,” Panel on Weimar Berlin as Utopian/Dystopian Space in the Hit German TV Series Babylon Berlin, Council for European Studies, Annual Conference, Online, June 24, 2021.

“Exiles on Main Street: German-Speaking Émigrés and American Consumer Culture during the Cold War, 1940s-1970s,” Invited Lecture, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University, October 17, 2019.

“Rethinking Jewishness in Dark Times: Lion Feuchtwanger and Arnold Zweig on Zionism, Jewish Pasts, and Jewish Futures,” for panel on Temporal Orders in Twentieth-Century Germany, German Studies Association Annual Conference, Portland, OR, October 5, 2019.

“Judaism on the Couch: Erich Fromm, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann and the Psychoanalysis of Jewish Ritual in 1920s Heidelberg,” presented at Der Kreis (German Studies graduate student workshop), University of California at Berkeley, April 25, 2018.

“Consuming Temples on Both Sides of the Atlantic: German-speaking Jews from the Department Store to the Mall,” Invited Lecture, Center for German & European Studies, University of California at Berkeley, invited talk, April 24, 2018.

“Selling Anti-Semitism: Images of Jews in German Retail and Commercial Culture in the 19th and 20th Centuries,” at An End to Anti-Semitism, conference organized by the University of Vienna, New York University, and Tel Aviv University, Vienna, Austria, February 2018.

“Vienna in Edina (MN): Austrian Modernism, Race, and Retail in the Postwar American Suburb,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 6, 2017.

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“Judaism on the Couch: Erich Fromm, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, and the Psychoanalysis of Jewish Ritual,” invited lecture, Bar Ilan University, Israel, Program in Herneneutics and Cultural Studies, June 27, 2017.

“Modernism in the Mall: Austrian Jewish Émigrés and Postwar American Suburban Space,” International Workshop on Space and Place in German Jewish History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 25, 2017.

“Consuming Temples: German Jews and Consumer Culture on Both Sides of the Atlantic,” invited talk, Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 20, 2017.

“Judaism on the Couch: Erich Fromm, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, and the Psychoanalysis of Jewish Ritual,” USC Casden Institute, Jewish Studies Faculty Seminar, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, February 23, 2017.

“The (Hidden) European Roots of American Consumer Culture: From the Ringstrasse to the Food Court,” panel on Jewish Consumer Cultures, Association for Jewish Studies annual meeting, San Diego, CA, December 19, 2016.

“Judaism on the Couch: Erich Fromm, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, and the Psychoanalysis of Jewish Ritual,” Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, The University of Pennsylvania, March 16, 2016.

“The Two Siegfrieds: Psychoanalysis, Film, and Jewishness in Interwar Austria,” paper for the Seminar on Jews and the Study of Popular Culture, German Studies Association, Annual Conference, Washington, DC, October 3, 2015.

“Rethinking Jewishness in Dark Times: Feuchtwanger and Arnold Zweig on Jewish Nationalism and Zionism,” Biannual Conference of the International Feuchtwanger Society, Los Angeles, September 18, 2015. (Conference Co-organizer)

“Salman Schocken: Zionism and Consumer Modernity in Saxony,” Jewish Consumer Cultures in 19th and 20th Century Europe and America, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, May 8, 2015.

Invited talk on “Representing Trauma: World War I,” The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, February 22, 2015.

“Siegfried Bernfeld’s Traumatized Children: The Kidnerheim Baumgarten, 1919-1920,” paper presented at Seminar on Trauma and War in the Twentieth Century at German Studies Association, Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO, September 19, 2014.

“Zionism and Modernism: the Collaboration between Salman Schocken and Erich Mendelsohn,” at “International Conference on Salman Schocken: Archaeology of a German-Jewish Life and his Contexts,” October 7-9, 2013, State Archeology Museum, Chemnitz, Germany.

“’Why This Architecture?’” Modernism, Product Display and the Jewish Question in Kaufhaus Schocken,” Panel on Jewishness on Display: Contested Motifs in Weimar Film, Literature, and

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Architecture (Panel Organizer), German Studies Association, Annual Conference, Denver, CO, October 5, 2013.

“The Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880-1940,” invited talk, Sady and Ludwig Kahn Lecture in German Jewish Studies, UCLA, May 9, 2013.

“The Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880-1940,” invited talk, Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, April 5, 2013, Los Angeles

“The Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880-1940,” Hebrew Union College Faculty Seminar, March 13, 2103, Los Angeles.

“The Shop Girl Meets the Department Store King: (Jewish) Masculinity, Sexuality and Early Mass Consumption in Germany,” Panel on “Restrained, Regulated or Rampant? The History of Masculinities and Sexuality in 20th Century Germany,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Milwaukee, October 6, 2012.

“Consumption and Destruction. The Jewish Department Store as a Site of Violence in Early 20th Centuy Germany,” Invited Talk, University of Graz, Center for Jewish Studies, May 15, 2012, Graz, Austria.

“The Consuming Temple: Jews, Dearptment Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880-1940,” Keynote Address, Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Leipzig University, Semi-Annual Retreat Conference, May 10, 2012, Neudietendorf, Germany.

“Consumption and Destruction. The Jewish Department Store as a Site of Violence in Early 20th Centuy Germany,” Seminar on “Sites of Anti-Semitic Violence in Interwar Central Europe,” Tel Aviv University, December 27, 2011, Tel Aviv, Israel.

“The Shop Girl Meets the Department Store King: (Jewish) Masculinity, Sexuality and Early Mass Consumption in Germany,” Workshop on “Jews in German Popular Culture,” USC, October 16-17, 2011. Presented paper, hosted and co-organized workshop.

“Circulation and Representation: The Jewish Department Store and Cosmopolitan Consumption in Germany,” Symposium on Modern Jewish History, Invited talk at Chicago Center for Jewish Studies, University of Chicago, May 19, 2010.

“In Search of Cosmopolitan Consumption: Jews and Department Stores in Berlin,” Conference on “Tales of Commerce and Imagination: The Berlin Department Store, 1896-1938/Das Berliner Warenhaus, University of London, Institute of German & Romance Studies, March 17 – 18, 2010.

“Between Zwickau and Jerusalem: Salman Schocken, Modern Consumption and the Search for Jewish Culture,” Panel on “Buying and Selling in the Metropolis: Sites and Styles of Jewish Consumer Culture in Modern Germany” Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, December 16, 2009, Los Angeles. (Panel organizer.)

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“Consumer Culture and Anti-Semitism under the Nazis,” Invited talk, History of Nazi Germany Seminar, Tel Aviv University, Israel, June 10, 2009.

“Circulation and Representation: the “Jewish Department Store” and Cosmopolitan Consumption in Germany, ca. 1880s-1930s,” Ruth Meltzer Seminar, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, December 3, 2008.

“When the Department Stores Burn: Consumption and Violence in Twentieth-Century Germany,” Panel on “Sites and Spaces of Consumption in Twentieth-Century Germany,” German Studies Association, Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, October 2007. (Panel organizer)

“Circulation and Representation: the “Jewish Department Store” and Cosmopolitan Consumption in Germany, ca. 1880s-1930s,” Conference on “Jewish Cosmopolitanism from Early Modern Times through the Postmodern Era,” Central European University, Budapest, May 27-9, 2007.

“Consuming Powers: The Jewish Department Store in German Politics and Society,” Southern California Workshop on German Studies, Wende Museum, Culver City, CA, November 10, 2006.

“Consuming Powers: The Jewish Department Store in German Politics and Culture,” Conference on “Jewish Longings and Belongings in Modern European Consumer Culture,” Institute for Jewish Studies, University College London, June 20-22, 2006.

“When the Department Stores Burn: Consumption and Violence in Twentieth-Century Germany,” Workshop on “Body, Technology and Society in Prewar Germany,” Minerva Institute for German History at Tel Aviv University, May 28, 2006.

“A Very Un-Jewish Century,” Council of European Studies Annual Conference, Panel on The Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine, Chicago, IL, March 31, 2006.

“Der hysterische Mann,” [The Hysterical Man] Invited Lecture in Lecture Series on the History of Hysteria, Schloßpark Psychiatric Clinic, Berlin, February 22, 2006.

“The Jewish Department Store in German Politics and Culture: Anti-Semitism and Konsumkritik since the Kaiserreich,” Colloquium on the History of Anti-Semitism and Persecution, Center for Research into Anti-Semitism (ZfA), Technical University Berlin, February 8, 2006.

“Shopping and Its Discontents: Consumer Alltag in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany,” Panel on “Psychology and Ideology of the Everyday,” German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, October 2, 2005.

“Kleptomania, Magazinitis, and the Pathologies of Female Consumption in Wilhelmine & Weimar Germany,” Berlin Forum for the History of Psychoanalysis, Berlin, May 10, 2005.

“Shopping and Its Discontents: The Jewish Department Store in German Politics and Culture,” Workshop on “Jewish History Encounters Economy,” University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 15- 17, 2005.

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“Pathological Modernity? Psychiatry and Social Problems in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth- Century Germany,” German Historical Institute, invited lecture in lecture series on the history of science and technology in Germany, December 9, 2004.

“Inventing the Kleptomaniac: The Pathologies of Female Consumption in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany,” Panel on “Historicizing the Retail Realm: Gender, Consumption, and Urban Landscape in Argentina, Germany, and Mexico,” Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, November 18, 2004.

“Inventing the Kleptomaniac: The Pathologies of Female Consumption in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany,” Panel on “Jews and the Boundaries of Normality in Early Twentieth-Century Germany and Austria,” German Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, September 20, 2003.

“Consumer Society and the ‘Jewish Department Store’ in Germany, ca. 1900-1933, “Buenos Aires, Berlin and Bethpage, (NY): Perspectives on Modern Consumer Culture and Jewish Identity,” Panel at the Association for Jewish Studies, Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, December 16, 2002.

“Trauma and Gender,” Mini-Symposium on War and Gender, Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, November 1, 2002.

“War Psychiatry and Its Historiography,” at “The Great War and Cultural History,” Symposium commemorating the 10 year anniversary of the founding of the Historial de la Grande Guerre. Perónne, France, July 5-7, 2002.

“Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930,” Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical Center, New York, June 5, 2002, invited talk.

“Twentieth-Century Perspectives,” at Conference on “Mad-people, Doctors, Politics. Perspectives on German-speaking Psychiatry in the Nineteenth century,” Humboldt University of Berlin, October 7-8, 2001.

“Trauma: a Useful Category of Historical Analysis,” Roundtable on “German Modernities,” German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, October 5, 2001.

“Hysterical Men: War, Memory, Trauma,” Mid-East Regional Faculty Seminar in German History, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, May 5, 2001.

“Pension War: Nervous Veterans and Germany Memory after World War I,” Conference on “Doctors and the Memory of Catastrophe,” University of Southampton, UK, April 14-17, 2000

“Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, Trauma,” Southern California Workshop on German and European History, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, April 7, 2000.

“Life against Medicine: Military Psychiary, Revolution, and National Identity after World War I,” at “Dilemmas of East Central Europe: Nationalism, Totalitarianism and the Search for Identity,” Symposium in honor of István Deák, Columbia University, New York, March 24-5, 2000.

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“Dictatorship of the Psychopaths: Psychiatrists and Hysterics through Defeat, Revolution, and Inflation, 1918 – 1924,” Panel on “The Politics of Deviance: Psychiatry and Society from the Kaiserreich to the Third Reich,” German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 7-10 October, 1999.

“An Economy of Memory: Veterans, Psychiatrists, and Narratives of Trauma after World War I,” Workshop on “The Work of Memory in German History,” University of Illinois, Urbana- Champagne, December 6, 1998.

“Psychiatry and Casualties of War in Germany,” Symposium on “Le Choc Traumatique et L’histoire Culturelle de la Grande Guerre” [Shell Shock and the Cultural History of the Great War] Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne, France, July 4-5, 1998.

“Traumatic Neurosis: War, Modernity, and Economy,” Conference on “Trauma und Modernität, 1900-1930” Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK), University of Vienna, June 18-20, 1998.

“From Traumatic Neurosis to Male Hysteria: Hermann Oppenheim’s Decline and Fall,” Invited talk, Hannah Seminar for the History of Medicine, University of Toronto, November 27, 1997.

“Hysterical Men: War, Memory, and German Mental Medicine,” Symposium of the Friends of the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., November 14, 1997.

“Disordered Memories: Veterans, Trauma, and German Psychiatry after World War I,” German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, September 22, 1997. (panel: “Rethinking Defeat: Constructions of War Experience in and Society.”)

“Hysterical Men: War, Memory, and German Mental Medicine, 1914-1926,” Invited Talk, Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Freie Universität Berlin, June 26, 1997.

“From Traumatic Neurosis to Male Hysteria: The Decline and Fall of Hermann Oppenheim,” Institut Universitaire d’histoire de la Médicin et de la Santé Publique, History of Psychiatry Seminar, Lausanne, Switzerland, May 27, 1997, invited talk.

“Hysterical Men: War, Trauma, and German Psychiatry around World War I,” German Seminar, Institute for Historical Research, University of London, April 24, 1997.

“Psychiatric Perspectives on Trauma, Germany 1880-1920,” Symposium on “Making Sense out of Chaos: Psychiatric Aspects of War, Crisis and Other Trauma,” Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, February 21, 1997.

“The Nervous Collapse: Psychiatrists and Patients in Germany after World War I,” History of Science and Medicine Seminar, Wellcome Institute, London, December 4, 1996.

“Hysterical Men: War Neurosis and German Mental Medicine, 1914-1926,” European History Seminar, Department of Modern History, Trinity College Dublin, November 7, 1996, invited talk.

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“Science and Magic in the Therapeutic Arsenal: Treating Shell Shock in World War I Germany,” Seminar on the History of Psychiatry, Psychology and Allied Sciences, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, October 23, 1996, invited talk.

“From Traumatic Neurosis to Male Hysteria: The Decline and Fall of Hermann Oppenheim,” Third Triennial Conference of the European Association for the History of Psychiatry, Munich, September 13, 1996.

“From Traumatic Neurosis to Male Hysteria: The Decline and Fall of Hermann Oppenheim,” at “Traumatic Pasts: Conference on the History of Psychiatry and Trauma in the Modern Age,” University of Manchester (UK) Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, March 30, 1996. (Co-organizer, respondent and presenter.)

“Constructing Trauma: German Neurology and Psychiatry in the Late Nineteenth Century,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, October 27, 1995. (panel: “Disease and Identity.”)

“Irrational Minds/Rationalized Bodies: Psychiatry and Industry in World War I,” German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, September 24, 1995 (panel: “War, Rationalization and the Male Body.”)

“Hysterical Men: War, Neurosis, and German Psychiatry,” Invited talk Cornell University Medical Center, History of Psychiatry Section, New York, March 29, 1995.

“Mobilizing Minds: German Psychiatry Goes to War,” Dissertation Roundtable, Institute on Western Europe, Columbia University, February 14, 1995.

“Ein Sieg deutschen Willens: Wille und Gemeinschaft in der deutschen Kriegspsychiatrie,” Conference on “Medicine and the First World War,” sponsored by the Institute for the History of Medicine of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, October 7, 1994, Oberflockenbach, Germany.

“Rationalizing the Therapeutic Arsenal: German Psychiatry in War,” Colloquium on “German Medicine in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Politics, Ethics and Law, ”German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, December 3, 1993.

“Hysterical Men: War, Neurosis, and German Mental Medicine, 1890-1920,” Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Freien Universität Berlin (Institute for the History of Medicine, Free University), Berlin, July 29, 1993.

Papers Commented on/Panels Chaired Chair and Commentator on “Jews and Visual Culture in Weimar Germany: Illustration, Photography, Architecture,” Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, Online, December 15, 2020.

Chair and Commentator on “At-Homeness, Real and Imagined: Migration and Jewish ‘Spaces’ of Belonging,” Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, December 16, 2019.

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Chair of Panel on “Law and Rights” at “German History in a Fractious World,” West Coast Germanists Workshop, USC, April 6-7, 2019.

Discussant on Panel on German Electoral Politics and the EU, UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, October 19, 2017.

Commentator on “Leftist Refugees in the United States and Mexico: Exiles in the Enemy’s World?” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 5, 2017.

Chair of, “The Show Must Go On: Jews in German and Austrian Popular Culture, 1900-2014,” Panel at German Studies Association Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO, September 19, 2014.

Commentator on “Postwar Emotions: Shame, Fear and Outrage after World War II,” Panel at German Studies Association Annual Conference, Denver, CO, October 6, 2013.

Commentator on John Connolly’s From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965, Book talk, Center for European and Eurasian Studies, UCLA, February 14, 2013.

Chair of the Panel, “Sex and Death in Twentieth-Century Germany,” German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, October 6, 2012.

Chair of the Panel, “Berthold Viertel” at To Stay or Not To Stay: German-Speaking Exiles in Southern California, 5th Biannual Conference of the International Feuchtwanger Society, USC, September 15, 2011.

Chair of the Panel, “Globalizing South African Jewish History,” Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, December 21, 2009.

Commentator on the Panel “Self Fashioning” at Conference on “Jews and Empire”, UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, December 7, 2009.

Moderator and organizer of panel on “Spaces, Borders and Boundaries in Central Europe and Beyond,” USC, November 5, 2009, part of College Commons series on “The Edge of Empire.”

Commentator on the panel “Eating and Drinking Things” at Germans’ Things: Material Culture and Daily Life in East and West, 1949-2009, Los Angeles, October 1, 2009.

Discussant on Todd Presner’s Muscular Judaism: The Jewish Body and the Politics of Regeneration, Book Talk Series, UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, May 7, 2009.

Commentator on Panel on “Consumer Cultures”, Gruss Colloquium on The Economic Dimensions of Jewish Life, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, April 27-29, 2009. [Did not attend due to illness, but submitted comments which were read by panel chair.]

Chair of Panel on “Jews and Other Europeans,” Conference on Religious Tolerance and Intolerance from the Inquisition to the Present, USC Shoah Foundation Institute and Early Modern Studies Institute, Los Angeles, April 3, 2008.

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Commentator on Panel on “Weimar Paradoxes: Gender, Jews and the New Visuality,” German Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, October 6, 2007.

Chair of Panel on “Cultural Studies Methodologies and Modern German Jewish History,” at Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, December 19, 2006.

Commentator on Panel on “Soldiers and Students at the End of the Nineteenth Century,” at Jewish Masculinities in Germany,” San Diego, CA, December 11-13, 2005.

Commentator on “Visions of ‘Normality’ in Weimar and the Third Reich,” at German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, October 7-10, 2004.

Chair of “Courtship, Kinship, and the Fate of Loved Ones through German Family Letters, 1786- 1946,” at German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, October 7-10, 2004.

Commented on “Advertising and the Racial Community,” at “Selling Modernity: Advertising and Public Relations in Modern German History,” McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, November 6-8, 2003.

Respondent to Marion Kaplan, “Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany,” Twenty-third annual Nemer Lecture in Jewish Studies, University of Southern California, October 9, 2003.

Commentator on “Violence, Bodies Publics,” at “Rethinking Weimar: An Interdisciplinary Conference,” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 19-22, 2002.

Commentator on “Racial Science, Radical Theology and Raunchy Pop Culture: Cultural Constructions of Jews and Race in Germany, 1870-1945,” German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC., October 4, 2001.

Moderator: “From Untermensch to Superman: the Jewish Body in Fin-de-Siécle Europe,” at Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, December 18, 2000.

Commentator on “The Anxiety of Hypnosis: Approaches to the Hypnoid State in France, 1860- 1914,” at Western Society for French History Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, November 10, 2000.

Commentator at “The Military, War and the Gender Order in the Twentieth Century,” Technical University of Berlin, Center for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies), October 15-16, 1999.

Commentator on “The Culture of Hypnosis”, at the German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, October 10, 1999.

Respondent at “Narrative, Science and History: the Case History in Chinese Medicine,” UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, Los Angeles, January 24, 1998.

Respondent to Sander Gilman, “Freud, Race and Gender.” Seventeenth Annual Nemer Lecture in Jewish Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, November 5, 1997.

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Other Speaking Appearances: Performer in Breach of Protocols: Revisiting Zion’s Edlers, An Academic Performance, Assoication for Jewish Studies, December 15, 2020, Online.

Panelist on roundtable discussion Visions of Weimar in Babylon Berlin, German Studies Association Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, September 29, 2018.

Panelist on roundtable discussion on the Eightieth Anniversary of the Anschluss: Manfred Flügge’s Stadt ohne Seele: Wien 1938, German Studies Association Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, September 29, 2018.

Moderator and Panelist on “Understanding the German Elections and What Comes Next,” Center for European and Eurasian Studies, UCLA, October 19, 2017.

Book talk on The Consuming Temple, Temple Beth Am, Los Angeles, CA, April 11, 2016

“Casden Conversation,” in conversation with Hasia Diner on Jewish Peddlers and Their Discovery of a New World, January 24, 2016, USC.

Introduction of the film “Europa, Europa,” Goethe Institut of Los Angeles, April 22, 2015.

Invited talk on “Freud: Rabbi of Pyschoanalysis?” Valley Beth Shalom Congregation, Encino, CA, January 8, 2014.

Guest speaker at German Academic Information Network, August 13, 2013, Culver City, CA.

Panelist on “Testimony and Interpretation,” USC Shoah Foundation Institute Conference on the Future of Memory, Los Angeles, January 4, 2012.

What Matters to Me and Why. Invited by Student Committee to Speak in Lecture Series, USC, April 2, 2008.

“Nazi Prophecies,” first aired on History Channel, October 10 2005. Part of a series of programs called Decoding The Past.

BBC Russian Service, radio interview on Yuri Slezkine’s The Jewish Century, April 2005.

“The Most,” The History Channel, first televised February 23, 2001. Interviewed for a segment on Hitler’s treason trial.

“Health Matters: The History of World Medicine — The Mind,” BBC World Service. Interviewed on the history of psychiatry, first aired January 1, 2001.

“Histories Mysteries: Hitler’s Perfect Children,” The History Channel, first televised December 13, 2000. Discussed the Lebensborn program and medicine, race and population policy in Nazi Germany.

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“The Most,” The History Channel, first televised November 30, 2000. Commented on a segment on the Berlin Airlift.

Roundtable discussion on Jews in Germany today, with members of the German Bundestag, representatives of the American Jewish Committee and scholars of German-American and German- Jewish issues, Los Angeles, Villa Aurora, March 3, 2000.

“Inside Politics,” CNN, aired September 22, 1999. A comment on Patrick Buchanan’s, A Republic, Not an Empire.

Professional Associations/Activities International Feuchtwanger Society, Member (2013 to Present) Editorial Board Member, Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry, Cornell University Press (2004 to 2010) American Historical Association, Member (September 1993 to present) Association for Jewish Studies, Member (1999 – present) History of Science Society, Member (September 1995 to September 1997) Cornell University Medical Center, History of Psychiatry Section, Member (December 1994 to March 1996) German Studies Association (September 1997 to present) German Seminar, Institute for Historical Research, University of London (April 1996 – June 1997) Western Society for French History (1999-2001) Southern California German Studies Workshop, Founder and Director (1999-Present)

Referee articles for: Journal of Modern History; German History; History of Psychiatry; Medical History; Body & Society; Social History of Medicine, The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, The European Review of History, Rethinking History, Journal of Contemporary History, History and Memory, Modern Intellectual History, Central European History, and Journal of Modern Architecture

Referee grant applications for the Wellcome Trust, the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), Agence National de la Recherche (French National Research Agency),Foundation for Jewish Culture.

Referee manuscripts for Cornell University Press, Oxford University Press, the University of California Press, University of Michigan Press, University of North Carolina Press, Cambridge University Press, and Berghahn Books.

Chair, Nemer Lecture Committee, USC. Annual Lecture in Jewish Studies held for campus and community.

Advisory Board Member, Thematic Options Program, USC, 2010-present

Member of Advisory Board for Germans’ Things: Material Culture and Daily Life in East and West 1949-2009, Conference Co-sponsored by the German Historical Institute and the Wende Museum, Los Angeles, October 1-3, 2009.

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Member of Planning Committee on “Gender in German-Jewish History.” Co-organizer of workshop on “Jewish Masculinities,” UC San Diego, December 11-13, 2005 and of future workshops on this theme.

Prize Commitees: Fritz Stern Prize for best dissertation in Germany History (Summer 2013), Hans Rosenberg Prize, Conference Group on Central European History, for best article in Central European History of 2007-08 (Summer – Fall 2009), Forum for the History of the Human Sciences, Dissertation Prize, Summer and Fall, 2002.

USC Campus Representative, Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2014 – present)

Founding Member and Director of Southern California Workshop on German History/German Studies, a faculty research seminar that meets each semester in the Los Angeles area.

University of Tuzla, Bosnia - Herzegovina: Summer University. Taught course on “Trauma in History and Theory” (Summer 1998)

List of courses taught and graduate student committees available upon request.

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