TAMARA MICHELLE ZWICK
Department of History University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Ave., SOC107, Tampa, FL 33620-8100 (813) 974-2373 [email protected]
CURRENT APPOINTMENT
University of South Florida, Department of History Assistant Professor, 2005-present
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA): Department of History, September, 2004: (Dissertation Title: “The Correspondence between Public and Private: Women, Kinship, and Bürgertum in Early Nineteenth-Century Hamburg”)
Doctoral Committee: David Sabean (Modern Germany, Chair) Saul Friedländer (Holocaust historiography, committee member) David Myers (Modern Jewish history, committee member) Carole Pateman (Feminist Political theory, committee member)
M.A. History, UCLA, 1995
B.A. History and Women’s Studies minor, 1990
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Modern German History; Holocaust History/Historiography; European Women's History; Feminist/Gender Theory; Social, Cultural and Intellectual Modern European History; Modern Jewish History
PUBLICATIONS
Published Work
Forthcoming, “The German Problem in the Letters of Caspar von Voght and Germaine de Staël.” In Jason P. Coy, Benjamin Marschke, Jared Poley, and Claudia Verhoeven, eds., in Kinship, Community, and Self: Cultural and Society Since the Renaissance (New York: Berghahn Books, 2013).
Forthcoming, “Zionism” in Michael T. Gibbons, ed., The Encyclopedia of Political Thought (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2013). [email protected]
“The Bat at the Ball: Bourgeois Culture as a Written Practice in the Letters of Magdalena Pauli to Johanna Sieveking, 1786-1824” in Challenging Separate Spheres: Female Bildung in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Germany, ed. by Marjanne E. Gooze (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007).
“Memory and the Mississippi: The Authority of Artifacts at Auschwitz- Birkenau,” UCLA Historical Journal 15, 1995: 93-107. (Special Issue: “The Postmodern Project in History.”)
Work-in-progress
Writing between the Lines: Women, Kinship, and Bürgertum in Early Nineteenth- Century Hamburg, under review.
“Neumühlen and the Landscape of Networks: Space and Identity in Late- Enlightenment Hamburg,” under review.
“Between a Wave and the Coronation of Gender: Ego and Aversion in Early Nineteenth-Century Correspondence,” under review.
“Fact and Fetish in the Context of Genocide,” under revision.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Invited International and National Conferences
Invited speaker, “The Private Party of a Public Circle: Neumühlen and the Landscape of Networks.” Spaces of the “Self” in Early Modern Culture: Circles of Sociability, Clark Library, Los Angeles, CA, October 26-27, 2007.
Invited speaker, “Space and Identity in Late-Enlightenment Hamburg.” Reading Hamburg: Anglo-American Perspectives, Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte, Hamburg, Germany, September 6-8, 2007.
Invited speaker, “Writing Networks: An Exchange of Letters Between Kin and Community in Early Nineteenth-Century Hamburg.” Kinship in Europe: The Long Run (1300-1900), Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, September 15-20, 2002.
Invited Faculty Symposium
Invited faculty presentation, Paragraph 175: Homosexuality and Pronatalism in Nazi Germany, at “Fears of Difference: The Diversity of Holocaust Experiences Film Series,” USF/Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society, November 8, 2009.
Invited faculty panelist, “The Status of the Fact,” Department of English and History Faculty Panel on the Intertwining of History and Literature, University of South Florida Humanities Institute, November 10, 2008.
Invited faculty speaker, “Freedom, Resistance and Transformation,” Conversational Symposium, University of South Florida College of Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Program of Humanities and Social Sciences and The John Scott Dailey Florida Institute of Government. Panel session on Art Spiegelman’s Maus, December 4, 2008.
Conferences
Under review, “Mutter Sieveking and the Fossilization of Old Ideas.” German Studies Association, Denver, CO, October 3-6, 2013.
“The Invisible Circle: An Exchange of Letters between Caspar Voght and Germaine de Staël during the Era of Revolution.” The International Federation for Research in Women’s History (in conjunction with the 21st International Congress of Historical Sciences), Aletta: Institute for Women’s History, Amsterdam, August 22-28, 2010.
“Staging the Self at the ‘Open Table’ of Neumühlen.” German Studies Association, Washington, D.C., October 8-11, 2009.
“The Unfortunate Ambition of Germaine de Staël according to Caspar Voght, 1808-1811.” German Studies Association, San Diego, CA, October 4-7, 2007.
“Correspondence as Ritual: Making Communities in Nineteenth-Century Hamburg.” German Studies Association, Washington D.C., October 7-10, 2004.
“The Bat at the Ball: [Welt]/bürgertum as a Written Practice in the Letters of Magdalena Pauli to Johanna Sieveking, 1786-1824.” Tales Told By Women: German Women’s Writings of the 18th and 19th Centuries, University of Georgia, Athens, May 31-June 2, 2002.
“Ego and Aversion in Exile.” Literature and History in the Age of European Revolution, 1789-1848: Panel II: Identities & Alterities, Yale University, May 6, 2000.
“‘Amour-propre’ in the Correspondence Between Caspar von Voght and Germaine de Staël.” Thinking Gender: The 10th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference, UCLA, March 10, 2000.
“Historical Memory and Water as Metaphor.” Crossing the Boundaries VII: Fluids, SUNY Binghamton, March 26-28, 1999.
“Caspar Voght’s ‘aversion de femmes tourmentées d’avoir une existance historique’,” Colloquium Paper, Oberseminar, Professor Arno Hertzig, Universität Hamburg, September 26, 1998.
“Die Korrespondenz zwischen dem Öffentlichen und dem Privaten: Frauen, Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen und Bürgertum im Hamburg des frühen neunzehnten Jahrhunderts,” Colloquium Paper, Doktorandkreis, Professor Barbara Vogel, Universität Hamburg, January 7, 1998.
Panel Organizer/Chair
Panel Chair, German Studies Association, Oakland, CA, October 7-10, 2010.
Panel Chair, German Studies Association, Washington, D.C., October 8-11, 2009.
Panel Chair, Annual Phi Alpha Theta Regional (History) Conference, St. Leo, April 18, 2009.
Panel Chair, “Anything but Safe: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender,” English Graduate Student Association Graduate Conference, March 8, 2009.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
International/National Awards
Fellow, Seventeenth Annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, June 17-29, 2012, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Fellow, 2011 Curt C. and Else Silberman Endowed Seminar for University Faculty, “Teaching the Holocaust: An Integrated Approach,” Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, June 6-17, 2011, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D. C.
Dissertation Year Research Fellowship, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Equivalent of Fulbright for German Historical Studies. 1997-1998
DAAD Grant Extension, Fall 1998
DAAD, Summer language course at Goethe Institute, Summer 1996
Research Assistantship Grant (GSR), UC Berkeley Center for German and European Studies, 1994-1995
University of South Florida Awards
New Researcher Grant, University of South Florida, Spring 2006
Chair of Werner von Rosenstiel Fund in German History, University of South Florida. Annual endowment to support research and teaching in German history
Start-up Award, University of South Florida, History Department, 2005
University of California at Los Angeles Awards
Mary Wollstonecraft Dissertation Award, Center for the Study of Women, UCLA, June 2005
Henry J. Bruman Fellowship, UCLA Department of History, 2002, 1999, 1996- 1997
Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA Department of History, 2000-2001
Pre-Dissertation Year Writing Grant, UCLA Department of History, 1999-2000
Teaching Assistantship, UCLA Departmental Award, January 1999-June 1999 and September 1995-June 1996
Summer Research Fellowship, UCLA, Summer 1998
German Center, Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, UCLA, Summer 1996
Conference Travel Grant, UCLA, June 2001, June 2000, and June 1999
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of South Florida
Department of History Assistant Professor, 2005-present
Modern Europe II (Fall and Spring, 2005-present) Gender and Historical Analysis: Women and Modern Europe, Graduate/Undergraduate Seminar (Fall 2008; Fall 2009; Spring 2012; Fall 2012) History of Modern European Women and Gender Relations, 18th Century to the Present, (Spring 2008; Spring 2009; Spring 2012) “Coming to Terms with the Past:” History and Memory in Germany Graduate/Undergraduate Seminar (Fall 2005, Fall 2007, Spring 2011) The German Question: Nation and Identity in Modern Germany (Spring 2006 and 2007; Fall 2010; Fall 2012)
James Madison University
Department of History Visiting Assistant Professor, 2004-2005
Global History: 1650 to the Present (Fall and Spring 2004-2005) Modern European Women’s History (Fall and Spring 2004-2005)
University of California at Los Angeles
Department of Women’s Studies Teaching Fellow, Spring 2002
Introduction to Women’s Studies: Feminist Perspectives on Women & Society
Department of History Teaching Associate Winter 1999-Spring 1999, and Fall 1995-Spring 1996
Modern Western Civilization: 1750 to the Present, Spring 1999 Medieval/Early Modern Western Civilization, Winter 1999 Modern Western Civilization: 1750 to the Present, Spring 1996 Ancient Western Civilization, Winter 1996 Ancient Indian History, Fall 1995
Department of History Graduate Assistant War and Diplomacy – Europe, Fall 1996 Women and Judaism, Spring 1994 (Near Eastern Studies Department)
SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Institutional Service
Faculty Development Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Florida (USF), Fall 2012-Spring 2014.
Courtesy Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies, USF, April 16-August 6, 2017.
Judge, “Think Transatlantic” Essay Contest, Department of World Languages, USF, November 12, 2012.
Program organizer, Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah), Grace Allen Room, USF, April 18, 2012.
Faculty member, SHUM (School of Humanities) Ethnicity, Gender, and Culture Interdisciplinary Cluster, USF, Fall 2012-present.
Faculty member, SHUM (School of Humanities) Globalization, Migration, and Citizenship Interdisciplinary Cluster, USF, Fall 2012-present.
Written commentary on Mary Reid Kelley exhibit (wall text), “Stagecraft: Brian Bress, Deville Cohen, Kate Gilmore, Mary Reid Kelley,” Contemporary Art Museum, USF, June 10-September 10, 2011.
Search Committee, Department of History, Visiting Searches in Modern European history, Early Modern European history, and Post-45 US history, USF, Spring-Summer, 2011.
Affiliated Faculty, Women’s and Gender Studies Department, USF, Fall 2010- present.
Speakers Committee, Department of History, USF, 2009-present.
Reviewer, Internal Awards Grant Program, USF Division of Sponsored Research, Spring 2009.
Committee member, Faculty Advisory Committee to the Institute for Research in Art/Graphicstudio and the Contemporary Art Museum (I.R.A.), USF, Fall 2008- present.
Chair, Summer Funding Committee, Department of History, USF, 2007-2009.
Co-Chair, Library Allocations Committee, Department of History, USF, 2005- 2007; 2012-present.
Other Professional or Community Service
Judge, National History Day Competition, Wiregrass Ranch High School, March 5, 2009.
Faculty Internship, Tampa Prep, research mentorship project for high school seniors, Spring/Summer 2008.
Invited talk, “Storm Clouds Ahead: The Depression at Home and the Rise of Fascism Abroad,” Academia Hernando, Nativity Lutheran Church in Weeki Wachi, Florida, November 19, 2007.
Panelist, “Fellowships and Grants Workshop,” UCLA, April 22, 1997.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Historical Association German Studies Association Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Arbeitsstelle für Hamburgische Geschichte American Association of University Women
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