GREGOR THUM University of Pittsburgh Department of History 3702 Wesley W. Posvar Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15260 [email protected]
CURRICULUM VITAE ( Mai 2017 )
EMPLOYMENT:
Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Department of History, 2014–present
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Department of History, 2012–2014
DAAD Visiting Associate Professor, University of Washington, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, 2010–2011
Junior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, School of History, Germany, 2008–2010
DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Department of History, 2003–2008
Research fellow, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, Germany, 2001–2002 (five months)
Lecturer (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Europa-Universität Viadrina, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, 1995–2001
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., summa cum laude, History, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, 2002
Doctoral thesis: „Die fremde Stadt. Breslau nach dem Bevölkerungsaustausch“ [An alien place. Wrocław after the population exchange]; advisors: Karl Schlögel and Klaus Zernack
M.A., History and Slavic Languages, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 1995
M.A. thesis: “Lev P. Karsavin und die Russische Revolution” [Lev P. Karsavin and the Russian Revolution]; advisors: Hans-Joachim Torke and Klaus Zernack
Languages: German (native), English (professional fluency), Polish (reading and conversation competence), Russian (reading and conversation competence), Ukrainian (reading competence); Italian (basic), Latin (basic).
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AWARDS:
“Ambassador of Wrocław,” honorary title awarded by the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza (2007)
Annual book prize, Polish monthly Odra (2006)
Georg Dehio Book Prize (2004)
VBKI European Special Prize for best dissertation on a European topic defended at one of the universities of Berlin and Brandenburg (2004)
Die fremde Stadt. Breslau 1945 ranked as the “most innovative/provocative history book of the year,” history journal Damals (2004)
Die fremde Stadt. Breslau 1945 listed among the ten best non-fiction books by Süddeutsche Zeitung, Buchjournal and Norddeutscher Rundfunk (2003 and 2004).
Die fremde Stadt. Breslau 1945 listed by the weekly DIE ZEIT among five especially recommended non-fiction books (2003)
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
Faculty Research Grant, European Union Center of Excellence, University of Pittsburg (2014)
Course Development Grant, European Union Center of Excellence, University of Pittsburgh (2013)
Research fellowship, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany (2008–2010)
Translation Award "Geisteswissenschaften International," an initiative of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Foreign Office, and the German Booksellers Association (2008)
On behalf of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF), Potsdam, development of the grant proposal “Europe in the Eastern Bloc. Changing Perceptions and Spaces of Communication.” The project was awarded a three-year grant from the Volkswagen Foundation (2004)
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
• Modern Central European history with a specialization on Germany, Poland, and their entangled histories • Forced migrations and their long-term consequences • Empire, nationalism, and ethnic conflict • European integration and identity building • The symbolic meaning of architecture and urban planning
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CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT:
“Mastering the East. The German “Frontier” from 1800 to the Present”: A book in progress on the history of the German border in the east. This book will shed shed light on the failing projects of German empire building and its impact on the relations between German- and non-German-speaking societies of Central and Eastern Europe (under advance contract with Princeton University Press).
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Die fremde Stadt. Breslau 1945, Berlin: Siedler, 2003
Paperback edition: Die fremde Stadt. Breslau nach 1945. München: Pantheon 2006
Translations:
Obce miasto. Wrocław 1945 i potem. Wrocław: Via Nova 2006
Uprooted. How Breslau Became Wrocław During the Century of Expulsions. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011
Reviews: American Historical Review (2012), Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales (2005), Badische Zeitung (2003), Berliner Zeitung (2003), Bohemia (2004), Borussia (2004), Choice (2012), Continuity and Change (2013), Damals (2004), Canadian Journal of History (2012), Central European History (2012), European History Quarterly (2013), European Review of History (2012), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (2003), Freiburger Universitätsblätter (2005), Gazeta Wyborcza (2007), German History (2012), Historische Zeitschrift (2004), Das Historisch-Politische Buch (2005), H- Net (2006), H-Net Habsburg (2012), H-Soz-Kult (2003 and 2005), Jahrbuch für deutsche und osteuropäische Volkskunde (2004), Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (2009), Journal of Contemporary History (2013), Journal of Modern History (2013), Junge Welt (2003), Nationalities Papers (2013), Neue Politische Literatur (2014), Neue Zürcher Zeitung (2003), Nordost-Archiv (2007), Odra (2007), Osteuropa (2004), The Polish Review (2013), Przegląd Polityczny (2004), Przegląd Zachodni (2005), Rocznik Wrocławski (2004), Schlesien heute (2005), The Sarmatian Review (2008), Sehepunkte (2004), Slavic Review (2006), rbi-aktuell (2004), Süddeutsche Zeitung (2003), Sobótka (2005), Südwestrundfunk (2003), Der Tagesspiegel (2004), Urban History (2012), Vingtième Siecle (2012), Die Welt (2003), Westdeutscher Rundfunk (2003), DIE ZEIT (2003), Zeitschrift für Geschichtsdidaktik (2004), Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung (2004)
Edited Books:
Stille Revolutionen: Die Neuformierung der Welt seit 1989 [Silent Revolutions: The Reshaping of the World since 1989], together with Katharina Kucher and Sören Urbansky. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus, 2013
Reviews: H-Soz-Kult (2013), Neue Zürcher Zeitung (2013), Wiener Zeitung (2013) Curriculum Vitae – Gregor Thum 4
Helpless Imperialists: Imperial Failure, Fear, and Radicalization, together with Maurus Reinkowski. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013
Reviews: American Historical Review (2014), H-Soz-Kult (2014)
Traumland Osten: Deutsche Bilder vom östlichen Europa im 20. Jahrhundert [Dreamland East: German Images of Eastern Europe in the 20th century], Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006
Reviews: Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales (2009), Bohemia (2006/07), H-Soz-Kult (2007), Kwartalnik Historyczny (2008), Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (2010), Neue Politische Literatur (2007), Südostfoschungen (2008), Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung (2007)
Chronik russischen Lebens in Deutschland, 1918–1941 [Chronicle of Russian Life in Germany], co- edited with Karl Schlögel, Katharina Kucher, and Bernhard Suchy, Berlin: Akademie, 1998
Journal articles and book chapters (* peer-reviewed):
"Die kulturelle Leere des Ostens. Legitimierung preußisch-deutscher Herrschaft im 19. Jahrhundert." In Umkämpfte Räume: Raumbilder, Ordnungswille, und Gewaltmobilisierung, edited by Ulrike Jureit, 263- 285. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2016.
"Die Ostgrenze des Reiches und ihr Verschwinden in Preußen." In Europa Vertikal. Zur Ost-West- Gliederung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, edited by Rita Aldenhoff-Hübinger, Catherine Gousseff and Thomas Serrier, 63-83. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2016.
"Das Ende der Utopien und die Vereinigung Europas," In Stille Revolutionen. Die Neuformierung der Welt seit 1989, edited by Katharina Kucher, Sören Urbansky and Gregor Thum, 21–32. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus, 2013.
* “Die polnischen Legionen in Saint-Domingue. Politik, Literatur, und die Verflüchtigung des historischen Geschehens,” In Heinrich von Kleists Novelle "Die Verlobung in St. Domingo". Literatur und Politik im globalen Kontext um 1800, edited by Reinhard Blänkner, 161–85. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2013.
* “Megalomania and Angst. The Nineteenth-Century Mythicization of Germany’s Eastern Borderlands,” In Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands, edited by Omer Bartov and Eric Weitz, 42–60. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.
* “Imperialists in Panic: The Evocation of Empire at Germany’s Eastern Frontier around 1900,” In Helpless Imperialists. Imperial Failure, Fear, and Radicalization, edited by Maurus Reinkowski and Gregor Thum, 137–62, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013.
* "'We Are Prussia Today.' Polish-German Variations on a Vanished State." In Germany, Poland and Postmemorial Relations. In Search of a Livable Past, edited by Kristin Kopp and Joanna Niżyńska, 259–79. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
“Preußen - das sind wir. Zur Wiederentdeckung der preußischen Kulturlandschaft in Deutschland und Polen”, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 59/3 (2010), 301–22. Curriculum Vitae – Gregor Thum 5
“Eine deutsche Frontier? Die deutsch-polnische Grenze und die Ideen von 1848,” In Grenze – Granica. Die deutsch-polnische Grenze im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, edited by Christian Pletzing and Karoline Gil, 19–38. München: Meidenbauer, 2010.
* “Wrocław’s Search for a New Historical Narrative: From Polonocentrism to Postmodernism,” In Cities after the Fall of Communism. Reshaping Cultural Landscapes and European Identity, edited by John Czaplicka, Nida Gelazis and Blair Ruble, 75–101. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
“Ex oriente lux - ex oriente furor. Einführung,” In Traumland Osten. Deutsche Bilder vom östlichen Europa im 20. Jahrhundert, edited by Gregor Thum. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006.
“Mythische Landschaften. Das Bild vom “Deutschen Osten” und die Zäsuren des 20. Jahrhunderts,” In Traumland Osten. Deutsche Bilder vom östlichen Europa im 20. Jahrhundert, edited by Gregor Thum. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006, 181–211.
“Wrocław and the Myth of the Multicultural Border City,” European Review, 13/2 (2005), 227–35.
“Rekonstruktion und Utopie. Breslaus Wiederaufbau als polnische Stadt,” In Schönheit und Typenprojektierung. DDR-Städtebau im internationalen Vergleich, edited by Christoph Bernhardt and Thomas Wolfes, 81–104. Erkner: IRS, 2005.
“Eine Stadt zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft. Ein Essay über Breslau,” Dialog 65 (2004), 86–88.
“Europa im Ostblock. Weiße Flecken in der Geschichte der europäischen Integration,” in: Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History 1/3 (2004), 379–95.
“Out of the Turmoil of Forced Migration. Wrocław’s Attempts to Live with a Broken Past,” Newsletter of the Center of West European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, November 2004.
* “Cleansed Memory: New Polish Wrocław and the Expulsion of the Germans,” In Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe, edited by Hunt Tooley and Stephen Vardy, 333–57. New York: Columbia University Press 2003.
“Das Kollektiv gegen das Chaos. Zur Bedeutung des Individuums in der Alleinheitsphilosophie Lev P. Karsavins,” In Individualitätskonzepte in der russischen Kultur, edited by Christa Ebert, 187–98. Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 2002.
“Las Regiones Occidentales Polacas. Experimento social y arquitectura de las identidades,” together with José M. Faraldo, Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea 22 (2000), 325–46.
“Bollwerk Breslau. Vom ‚Deutschen Osten’ zu Polens ‚Wiedergewonnenen Gebieten’,” In Preußens Osten - Polens Westen. Das Zerbrechen einer Nachbarschaft, edited by Helga Schultz, 227–52. Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 2001.
“Breslau und die ‚Stunde Null’. Kontinuität und Diskontinuität einer mitteleuropäischen Stadtgeschichte,” In Dzieje Śląska w XX w. w świetle badań młodych historyków z Polski, Czech i Niemiec, edited by Krzysztof Ruchniewicz, 200–25. Wrocław: Gajt,1998.
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Encyclopedia entries:
Niemieckie posłannictwo na Wschodzie, Interakcje. Leksykon komunikowania polsko-niemieckiego (http://inspiracje-demo.lightcode.eu/articles/show/22), edited by Jacek Grȩbobowicz, 2014
“Vertreibung,” Enykoplädie des Europäischen Ostens (http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/eeo.), edited by Universität Klagenfurt, Institut für Geschichte, 2006.
“Breslau,” Enzyklopädie des Europäischen Ostens, Ostens (http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/eeo.), edited by Universität Klagenfurt, Institut für Geschichte, 2006.
“Preußen,” “Vertriebene,” “Ostgrenze,” “Westgebiete,” In Alphabet der polnischen Wunder, edited by Stefanie Peter, Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 2007.
Public History:
“Germany Is No Stranger to Refugee Crises,” Zócalo Public Square (online), 21 October 2015
“Stalingrad an der Oder,” DIE ZEIT (Zeitläufe), 3 Mar 2005.
Book reviews:
Kulczycki, John J. Belonging to the Nation: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1939-1951. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016 (American Historical Review, forthcoming)
Bavaj, Riccardo and Martina Steber, eds. Germany and the West: The History of a Modern Concept. New York, Oxford: Berghahn, 2015 (H-Soz-Kult, 2017)
Steven Maddox. Saving Stalin's Imperial City: Historic Preservation in Leningrad, 1930–1950. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015 (Journal of Modern History, 89 (2017)).
Klaus Garber. Das alte Breslau. Kulturgeschichte einer geistigen Metropole. Köln: Böhlau, 2014 (Střed/Centre. Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies of Central Europe in 19th and 20th Centuries, 7 (2015)).
William Jay Risch. The Ukrainian West. Culture and Fate of Soviet Empire in Soviet Lviv. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012 (Austrian History Yearbook, 45 (2014)).
Helga Hirsch. Gehen oder Bleiben? Juden in Schlesien und Pommern, 1945–1947. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2011 (Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropaforschung, 63 (2014)).
Winson Chu. The German Minority in Interwar Poland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012 (American Historical Review, 118 (2013)).
Michael Meng. Shattered Spaces. Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011 (Central European History, 46 (2013)). Curriculum Vitae – Gregor Thum 7
Christoph Mick. Kriegserfahrungen in einer multiethnischen Stadt: Lemberg 1914–1947. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 2010 (Slavic Review, 71 (2012)).
Pertti Ahonen, Gustavo Corni, Jerzy Kochanowski, Rainer Schulze, Tamás Stark, and Barbara Stelzl- Marx. People on the Move. Forced Population Movements in Europe in the Second World War and Its Aftermath. Oxford, New York: Berg, 2008; David Curp. A Clean Sweep. The Politics of Ethnic Cleansing in Western Poland, 1945-1960. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006; Benjamin Frommer, National Cleansing: Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in Czechoslovakia. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004; Benjamin Lieberman. Terrible Fate: Ethnic Cleansing in the Making of Modern Europe. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006 (Contemporary European History 19 (2010)).
Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius. The German Myth of the East: 1800 to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009 (H-Soz-Kult, 2009).
Corinna R. Unger. Ostforschung in Westdeutschland. Die Erforschung des europäischen Ostens und die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1945-1975. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2007; Christian Lotz. Die Deutung des Verlustes. Erinnerungspolitische Kontroversen im geteilten Deutschland um Flucht, Vertreibung, und die Ostgebiete (1948-1972). Köln: Böhlau, 2007 (Central European History 42 (2009)).
Per Brodersen. Die Stadt im Westen. Wie Königsberg Kaliningrad wurde. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008 (H-Soz-Kult, 2008).
Pieter M. Judson. Guardians of the Nation. Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2007 (Historische Zeitschrift, 287 (2008)).
Wolfgang Wippermann. Die Deutschen und der Osten. Feindbild und Traumland. Darmstadt: Primus, 2007 (Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropaforschung, 56 (2007)).
Eva Plach. The Clash of Moral Nations. Cultural Politics in Piłsudski’s Poland, 1926-1935. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006 (The Sarmatian Review, XXVII, No. 3, 2007).
Peter Bachmaier (ed.). Nationalstaat oder Multikulturelle Gesellschaft? Die Minderheitenpolitik in Mittel-, Ost- und Südosteuropa im Bereich des Bildungswesens 1945-2002. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang 2003 (Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 54 (2006)).
Gabor T. Rittersporn, Jan C. Behrends and Malte Rolf (ed.). Sphären von Öffentlichkeit in Gesellschaften sowjetischen Typs. Zwischen parteistaatlicher Selbstinszenierung und kirchlichen Gegenwelten. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2002 (Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 53 (2005)).
Eduard Mühle (ed.). Germany and the European East in the Twentieth Century. Oxford, New York: Berg, 2003 (Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 53 (2005)).
Włodzimierz Borodziej and Hans Lemberg (eds.). ‘Unsere Heimat ist uns ein fremdes Land geworden...’ Die Deutschen östlich von Oder und Neisse 1945-1950. Dokumente aus polnischen Archiven. 4 Vols. Marburg: Herder-Institut, 2000-2004 (Berliner Zeitung, 18.07.2005).
Włodzimierz Borodziej and Hans Lemberg (Hgg.) ‘Unsere Heimat ist uns ein fremdes Land geworden...’ Die Deutschen östlich von Oder und Neisse 1945-1950. Dokumente aus polnischen Archiven. Vol. 2 (Zentralpolen, Wojewodschaft Schlesien (Oberschlesien)), Quellen zur Geschichte und Landeskunde. Marburg: Herder-Institut, 2003 (Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, 2005). Curriculum Vitae – Gregor Thum 8
Peter Oliver Loew. Danzig und seine Vergangenheit 1793-1997. Die Geschichtskultur einer Stadt zwischen Deutschland und Polen. Osnabrück: fibre, 2003 (Süddeutsche Zeitung, 9 Jul 2004).
Roswitha Schieb. Literarischer Reiseführer Breslau. Potsdam: Deutsches Kulturforum östliches Europa, 2004 (Osteuropa. Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsfragen des östlichen Europa, 2004).
Agnes Tóth. Migrationen in Ungarn, 1945-1948. Vertreibung der Ungarndeutschen, Binnen- wanderungen und slowakisch-ungarischer Bevölkerungsaustausch. München: Oldenbourg, 2001 (Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 51 (2003)).
Alfred J. Rieber (ed.), Forced Migration in Central and Eastern Europe, 1939-1950. London: Frank Class, 2000 (Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 51 (2003)).
Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg, Renate Stoessinger and Robert Traba (eds.). Vertreibung aus dem Osten. Deutsche und Polen erinnern sich. Olsztyn: Borussia, 2000 (Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 51 (2003)).
Włodzimierz Borodziej and Hans Lemberg (eds.). Die Deutschen östlich von Oder und Neisse 1945– 1950. Dokumente aus polnischen Archiven, Marburg: Herder-Institut 2000 (Zeitschrift für Geschichts- wissenschaft, 51 (2002)).
Norman Davies and Roger Moorehouse. Die Blume Europas. Breslau - Wrocław - Vratislavia. Die Geschichte einer mitteleuropäischen Stadt. München: Droemer Knaur 2002 (Literaturen, 7–8/2002).
Andreas R. Hofmann, Die Nachkriegszeit in Schlesien. Gesellschafts- und Bevölkerungspolitik in den polnischen Siedlungsgebieten 1945-1948, Köln: Böhlau, 2000 (Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa- Forschung, 50 (2001)).
Rudolf Jaworski, Christian Lübke and Michael G. Müller, Eine kleine Geschichte Polens. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 2000, (POLHIST, 2001)
Jan Harasimowicz (ed.). Encyklopedia Wrocławia. Wrocław: Wyd. Dolnośląskie 2000 (Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 50 (2001)).
Philipp Ther. Deutsche und polnische Vertriebene: Gesellschaft und Vertriebenenpolitik in der SBZ/DDR und in Polen 1945–1956. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1998 (Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 48 (2000))
Ewa Kobylińska and Andreas Lawaty (eds.). Erinnern, vergessen, verdrängen. Polnische und deutsche Erfahrungen. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998 (Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 48 (2000)).
Hartmut Kühn. Das Jahrzehnt der Solidarność. Die politische Geschichte Polens 1980–1990. Berlin: BasisDruck 1999 (Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, 48 (2000)).
Norman Davies. Im Herzen Europas. Geschichte Polens. Mit einem Geleitwort von Bronisław Geremek, München: C.H. Beck, 2000; Salomon W. Slowes. Der Weg nach Katyn. Bericht eines polnischen Offiziers. Herausgegeben und mit einem für die deutsche Ausgabe aktualisierten Vorwort von Wladysław T. Bartoszewski, Hamburg: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 2000; Thomas Urban. Von Krakau bis Danzig. Eine Reise durch die deutsch-polnische Geschichte, München: C.H. Beck, 2000 (Literaturen, 10/2000). Curriculum Vitae – Gregor Thum 9
Marek Krajewski. Śmierć w Breslau, Wrocław: Wyd. Dolnośląskie, 2000 (Märkische Oderzeitung, 16 Oct 2000).
Klaus-Dieter Müller, Konstantin Nikisch and Günther Wagenlehner (eds.). Die Tragödie der Gefangenschaft in Deutschland und in der Sowjetunion 1941–1956, Köln: Böhlau 1998 (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 15 Dec 1999).
Sabine Grabowski. Deutscher und polnischer Nationalismus. Der deutsche Ostmarken-Verein und die polnische Straż, 1894-1914, Marburg: Herder-Institut,1998 (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 19 Oct 1999).
Jakub Tyszkiewicz. Sto wielkich dni Wrocławia. Wystawa Ziem Odzyskanych we Wrocławiu a propaganda polityczna ziem zachodnich i północnych w latach 1945–1948, Wrocław: Aboretum, 1997 (Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, 47 (1999)).
Tadeusz Białecki. Zmiany w nazewnictwie geograficznym Szczecina po 1945 roku, Szczecin: Wyd. Nauk. Uniwersytetu Szczecinskiego, 1995 (Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 48 (1999)).
Klaus Bachmann and Jerzy Kranz (eds.). Verlorene Heimat. Die Vertreibungsdebatte in Polen, Bonn: Bouvier, 1998 (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 22 Dec 1998).
Michael G. Esch. ‘Gesunde Verhältnisse‘. Deutsche und polnische Bevölkerungspolitik in Ostmitteleuropa 1939–1950. Marburg: Herder-Insitut, 1998 (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 19 Jul 1999).
Elżbieta Kaszuba. Między propagandą i rzeczywistości. Ludność Wrocławia w latach 1945–1947. Warszawa: PWN, 1997 (Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 48 (1999)).
Manfred Zeidler. Kriegsende im Osten. Die Rote Armee und die Besetzung Deutschlands östlich von Oder und Neiße 1944/45, München: Oldenbourg, 1996 (Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 47 (1998)).
Stettin / Szczecin 1945–1946. Dokumente - Erinnerungen. Dokumenty - Wspomnienia. Rostock: Hinstorff 1994 (Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 47 (1998)).
Conference reports:
"The improbable synthesis: Spatial, analytical and narrative frames of historical writing", Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, July 2009 (H-Soz-Kult, 18 Aug 2009).
CONFERENCES:
Co-organizer (together with Maurus Reinkowski, Freiburg) of the international conference "Helpless Imperialists. Imperial Failure, Radicalization, and Violence between High Imperialism and Decolonization." Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, January 2010.
Co-organizer of the international workshop “Where is Europe?”, University of Pittsburgh, Department of History, April 2004. Curriculum Vitae – Gregor Thum 10
Co-organizer of the international conference "Im Jahrhundert der Flüchtlinge. Umsiedlung und Vertreibung im Gedächtnis der europäischen Völker" [The Century of Refugees. Resettlement and Expulsion in the Memory of Europe's Nations], Europa-Universität Frankfurt (Oder), May 1999.
CONFERENCE PAPERS & INVITED LECTURES:
“A Society of Refugees: Poland's Western Territories afer 1945”, Workshop “Refugee Crises, 1945– 2000: Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison”, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C., April 2017
“Polen Kolonial oder wie die Schwarze Madonna nach Haiti kam”, Aleksander Brückner Zentrum, University of Halle-Wittenberg, November 8, 2016
“The Postcolonial Rediscovery of the German “Drang nach Osten” and the Reality of Westward Migration in Central and Eastern Europe,” University of California Berkeley, History Department, May 2014
“Der ‘Deutsche Osten’ und der Drang nach Westen,” Lecture at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, Munich, Germany, March 2014
"Die deutsche Ostgrenze zwischen Stabilisierung und Dynamisierung," Conference "Vertical Europe. Borders and Limits in the East-West Divisions of Europe in the19th and 20th centuries," organized by the Centre Marc Bloch in cooperation with the Frankreich-Zentrum of the Freie Universität Berlin, June 2013.
“Wroclaw multikulturell. Zwischen Stadtmarketing und Europäisierung von unten,“ Lecture at the Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas an der Universität Leipzig (GWZO), June 2012.
"The Loss of Ambiguity: The Federal Republic of Germany and the Disappearance of the 'German East'," International Conference "The Nation and its 'Repatriates',” German Historical Institute, Paris, March 2012.
"Modernization and Traditionalism: The Reconstruction of Cities During Poland's Socialist Transformation, 1945–1960," Workshop "Sovietization—Peripheral Visions," Harriman Institute, Columbia University, February 2012.
"Europeanizing Cleansed Spaces? The Rediscovery of Ethnic Heterogeneity in late 20th-century East Central Europe," ASEEES, Washington, November 2011.
"Wrocław's multiplying narratives. The cultural appropriation of urban spaces after the end of Polonocentrism," 8th International Conference on History and Culture in North Eastern Europe: Between Reconstruction and Modernization: Public Debates about Historic City Centers in the 20th and 21th Centuries, Tallinn, September 2011.
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"Die polnischen Legionen auf Saint-Domingue. Literatur, Politik und die Verflüchtigung des historischen Geschehens," international conference "Heinrich von Kleists Novelle Die Verlobung von Saint Domingue. Literatur und Politik im globalen Kontext um 1800." Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), July 2011.
"The German Center Against Expulsions and the Europeanization of Memory," University of Washington, Germanics Department, March 2011.
"The German Center Against Expulsions and the Europeanization of Memory," University of Pittsburgh, Department of History, January 2011.
“Hier oder nirgends ist Amerika. Die Vison eine deutschen Frontier im östlichen Europa,” Universität Freiburg, November 2009.
“Die deutsche Frontier und der Konflikt mit den Polen,” Deutsches Polen-Institut, Darmstadt, September 2009.
"Die Beherrschung des Ostens. Die deutsche Frontier von 1800 bis zur Gegenwart." Universität Bielefeld, History Department, July 2009.
"Die Beherrschung des Ostens. Die deutsche Frontier von 1800 bis zur Gegenwart." Eberhardt-Karls- Universität Tübingen, History Department, July 2009.
“The Eastern Frontier in 19th century Germany,” Stanford University, History Department, March 2009.
"Megalomania and Angst. The 19th-century Mythicization of Germany’s Eastern Borderlands," Workshop "Russia's West, Germany's East", Stanford University, Center for European Studies, March 2009.
“The German “Frontier” and its Origins in the Liberal Revolution of 1848,” panel “Colonial Fantasies and Nationalist Conquest on the Eastern (European) Frontier, 1848-1914” at the Annual Conference of the American Historical Association, New York, January 2009.
"Die Beherrschung des Ostens. Die deutsche Frontier von 1800 bis zur Gegenwart." Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, November 2008.
“Eine deutsche Frontier? Deutsche Visionen für Europas Osten und ihr globaler Kontext,” Department of East European History, Ludwigs-Maximilian-Universität München, October 2008.
“Die deutsche ‘frontier’ und ihre Ursprünge in der Revolution von 1848,” panel “Europas Osten als Objekt kolonialer Phantasien? Imperiale Denkmuster in Mitteleuropa zwischen 1848 und 1918,” Deutscher Historikertag, Dresden, October 2008.
“After Ethnic Cleansing: Recreating the Hybrids of the German-Polish Borderland”, Conference “Interzone EU: Crossroads of Migration,” University of Pittsburgh, February 2008.
“Angst, Megalomania, and the “German East” in the 19th century”, University of Pittsburgh, History Department, October 2007.
“German lands beyond the nation-state. Conceptionalizing the “German East” in the 19th century,” Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, San Diego, October 2007. Curriculum Vitae – Gregor Thum 12
“Postwar Exorcism: De-Colonizing a Pseudo-Colonial 'German East',” International Conference “Germany’s Colonialism in International Perspective,” San Francisco State University, September 2007.
“Powiedzieć sobie wszystko? Wege im Umgang mit schwierigen Themen der deutsch-polnischen Geschichte,” German Historical Institute, Warsaw, May 2007.
“The Rediscovery of Prussia: Searching for the Local Past in Poland and Germany,” Conference “Polish- German Post/Memory: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics.” Indiana University, Bloomington, April 2007.
“Why studying Europe?” Keynote speech at the Undergraduate Research Symposium “Europe - East and West,” University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, April 2007.
“Germany and its Near East. Polish-German Interactions,” Transatlantic Summer Institute (University of Minnesota / Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam), Berlin, July 2006.
“Mythische Landschaft. Das Bild vom Deutschen Osten,” Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) (Germany), July 2005.
“Traumland Ost. Deutsche Wahrnehmungen des östlichen Europa,” Eberhard-Karl-University, Tübingen (Germany), July 2005
“Die fremde Stadt. Breslau 1945,” Frankfurter Sozialschule, Sunday Matinee Wiesbaden (Germany), July 2005.
“From Breslau to Wrocław - Reinventing a city after war, border shift and forced migration,” Vanderbilt University, Nashville, March 2005.
“Europeanness as Way Out of a Dilemma? Wrocław’s Search for a New Historical Narrative,” Conference “Cities after the fall. European integration and urban history,” Minda de Gunzburg Center of European Studies, Harvard Unversity, March 2005.
“Gemeinsame Zukunft - trennende Vergangenheit?”, Symposium of the Bosch Foundation „Zukunft hat Geschichte“ (The future has a history), Berlin, November 2004.
“Mythische Landschaften. Das Bild vom Deutschen Osten,” Deutscher Historikertag in Kiel, panel “Europas Osten in der Wahrnehmung der Deutschen," September 2004
“Fighting the Foreignness. The Reconstruction of Wrocław’s Old Town after 1945,” University of Texas, Austin, April 2004.
“Lost Landscapes. Literary and Visual Representation of Former East German Territories after World War II,” 37th Annual Comparative Literature Symposium at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, March 2004.
“Vom Piastenkult zum Multikulturalismus. Gedächtnispolitik im polnischen Breslau,” Conference at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, April 2003.
“Breslaus Wiederaufbau nach 1945 und die Umkodierung der Stadt,” Conference on „DDR-Städtebau im Vergleich“ at the Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung, Erkner, October 2001. Curriculum Vitae – Gregor Thum 13
“Breslau wird polnisch. Die Entwicklung einer lokalen Identität nach der Vertreibung der Deutschen,” Conference (Historische Osteuropaforschung) at the Johann-Gottfried-Herder Institut, Marburg, February 2001.
“Cleansed Memory. New Polish Wrocław and the Expulsion of the Germans after World War II,” Conference on Ethnic Cleansing in 20th-Century Europe, 34th Annual History Forum, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, November 2000.
“Wiederaufbau Breslaus als polnische Stadt nach 1945,” Colloquium at the Universität Jena, Historisches Institut, January 2000.
“Wiederaufbau und Polonisierung Breslaus nach 1945,” Colloquium at the Universität Tübingen, Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte, Tübingen, December 1999.
“Rückkehr an die Oder - Polens Westgebiete nach 1945,” Urania Streitgespräche, Frankfurt (Oder), December 1999.
“Umsiedlung und Vertreibung als europäische Erfahrung,” Conference on „Vertreibung und Umsiedlungen in Mittel- und Osteuropa. Beiträge zur aktuellen Diskussion“ at the Ostsee- Akademie Travemünde, October 1999.
“Frontstadt Breslau. Vom Deutschen Osten zum Polnischen Westen,” Conference on German-Polish Relations at the Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza, Poznan, May 1999.
“Der Wiederaufbau Breslaus nach 1945,” Conference on the History of Silesia in the 20th century, Instytut Historyczny of the Uniwersytet Wrocławski and Johann Gottfried Herder Institut Marburg, Krzyżowa, Poland, May 1997.
“Das Individuum in der Alleinheitsphilosophie Lev P. Karsavins. Ausdruck russischen Denkens oder Reaktion gegen die Moderne?” Conference on “Individualistätskonzepte in Russland” at the Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder, June 1996.
Curriculum Vitae – Gregor Thum 14
DISCUSSANT, COMMENTATOR, MODERATOR:
Discussant, A Diversity of (European) Identities? From Subnational to the Supranational, University of Pittsburgh, March 2017
Commentator, Politics, Knowledge, and Scientific Expertise in Poland, 1918-1939, Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, San Antonio, November 2014
Commentator, Polish-German Seminar, German Studies Association, Kansas City, September 2014
Moderator, Workshop "European Cultural Dis/Unification," University of Pittsburgh, February 2014
Commentator of Russell A. Berman’s paper “Figuring out Europe: Nation, State and the European Union in the German Public Sphere,” University of Pittsburgh, Humanities Center, March 2013.
Commentator at the conference “Cultural Landscapes. Transatlantische Perspektiven auf Wirkungen und Auswirkungen,” Bundesinstitut für die Geschichte und Kultur der Deutschen im östlichen Europa (BKGE), June 2012.
Commentator at the 7th Graduate Student Conference on the European Union, University of Pittsburgh, March 2012.
Discussant at the roundtable "How the World Has Changed Since 9/11", Town Hall Center for Civic Life, Seattle, in cooperation with the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, October 2011.
Commentator at the book roundtable on Annemarie Sammartino's book The Impossible Border, Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Louisville, September 2011.
Commentator at the workshop “Marketing the Market: The Representations of Economic Change in East Central Europe 1989–1993” by Rudolf Kučera, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, July 2010.
Discussant at the conference “Rebuilding European Cities: Reconstruction Policy since 1945”, Hamburg, September 2009.
Discussant at the panel “Architecture and Memory in a Post-Soviet World,” 5th Annual REES/GOSECA Graduate Student Conference “Generation Removed? Assessing Nostalgia, Memory and Legacy in Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia,” University of Pittsburgh, February, 2008.
Co-organizer and moderator of the roundtable “Humboldt Goes Harvard. American Templates for German University Reforms?” Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, San Diego, October 2007.
Moderator of the panel “Germany-Poland, Border Studies 3: Culture of the Other,” Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, San Diego, October 2007.
Moderator and discussant at the international conference “Europa in kommunistischen Zeiten. Zeitzeugen - Mythos - Erinnerung” (Europe in Communist Times. Witnesses, Myth, Remembering), Potsdam, May 2007. Curriculum Vitae – Gregor Thum 15
Moderator at the panel “Alternative Visions of ‘Europe’ in Central Europe,” 13th annual conference of the German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, September 2006.
Discussant and panel chair at the Graduate Student Conference of The European Union Center of Excellence titled “The Challenge for Europe: Governance, Economics and Multiculturalism,” University of Pittsburgh, March 2006.
Moderator at the roundtable “Justifying the Present with the Past. Historiography, Monuments and Architectural Reconstruction in Postsocialist Europe,” Third Annual REES/GOSECA Graduate Student Conference, University of Pittsburgh, February 2006.
Discussant and panel chair at the Conference “Memory, History and Identity in Bessarabia and Beyond,” University of Pittsburgh, October 2005.
Discussant at the panel “Europe in the Socialist Block and its Aftermaths. Imaginations and Streams of Social Communication,” VII World Congress of ICCEES, Berlin, July 2005.
Panel chair and commentator at the Second Annual Graduate Student Conference, hosted by the Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia, University of Pittsburgh, February 2005.
Discussant at the Transeurope Lecture Series “Perspectives on the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Fourteen Years Later,” University of Pittsburgh, November 2003.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
American Historical Association (AHA) Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) German Studies Association (GSA) Polish Studies Association
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Chair of the Advisory Board, Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa [Federal Institute for the Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe], Oldenburg, Germany, 2014–2017 (regular member 2009–2014)
Reviewer: Association for Jewish Studies Review, City & Society, East European Politics and Society, History Compass, Journal of Modern European History, Nationalities Papers, Slavic Review;
Berghahn Publishers, Cornell University Press, Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (University of Freiburg, Germany), European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany; Polish-US Fulbright Commission Curriculum Vitae – Gregor Thum 16
Member of the Graduate Fellowship Selection Committee (2007–2008) and the Undergraduate Fellowship Selection Committee (2006–2007), DAAD (New York), History and Social Sciences, 2007/2008
UNIVERSITY SERVICE:
University of Pittsburgh:
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History (2014–2017) Graduate Committee, Deptartment of History (2012/2013)
Faculty Advisory Board, European Studies Center (2013–present) Faculty Advisory Board, Center for Russian & East European Studies (2014–2017) Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee, Dept. of History (2005–2006; 2012–2013)
Member of the Search Committee, REES Postdoc Fellow (2015-16) Member of the Search Committee, Eurasian History, Dept. of History (2014/2015) Chair of the Search Committee, DAAD Visiting Professor, Dept. of History (2012/2013) Member of the Search Committee, DAAD Visiting Professor, Dept. of History (2007/2008)
Faculty Judge, Undergraduate Research Symposium, Center for West European Studies and Center of Russian and East European Studies (2005)
Europa-Universtität Viadrina:
Member of the Departmental Council, Department of Social and Cultural Studies (1997-1999)
GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE ADVISING:
Undergraduate Advising:
• Matt Hershey ("Transformation and Catharsis. Parallel Experiences of German Nationalism during the First World War"), Brackenridge Summer Fellowship, Bachelor of Philosophy (2012-- 2013) (advisor) • Aleks Pomiećko ("The Polish Communist Party"), Honors thesis (co-adivsor) (2012) • Sarah DiMaria ("Joseph Roth and the Question of Violence"), Brackenridge Summer Fellowship (2012)
Curriculum Vitae – Gregor Thum 17
Graduate advising (current):
• Chair of the PhD Committee of Artan Hoxha, University of Pittsburgh (2015–present)
• Chair of the PhD Committee of Adam Brode, University of Pittsburgh (2012–present)
• Chair of the PhD Committee of Stephanie Makin, University of Pittsburgh (2012–present)
• Chair of the MA Committee of Barry Bookheimer, University of Pittsburgh (2015–present)
• Co-Chair of MA Committee of David B., University of Pittsburgh (2015–present)
• Member of the PhD Committee of Bethany Wade, University of Pittsburgh (2016–present)
• Member of the PhD Committee of Alissa Bellotti, Carnegie Mellon University (2013–present)
Graduate advising (completed):
• Chair of the PhD Committee of Victoria Harms ("Destined or Doomed? Hungarian Dissidents and their Western Friends, 1973-1998"), University of Pittsburgh (2012–2015) • Co-Chair of the PhD Committee of Katherine Sorrels ("Austrian Jews and the Idea of Europe. Reformulating Multinationalism as a Response to the Disintegration of the Habsburg Empire, 1880-1939”), University of Pittsburgh (2006-2009). • Member of the PhD Committee of Andrew Behrendt (“Travelers of an Empire that Was: Tourism, Movie-Going, and the Formation of Post-Imperial Identities in Austria and Hungary, 1918-1944”), University of Pittsburgh (2014–2015) • Member of the PhD Committee of Madalina Veres (“Constructing Imperial Spaces: Habsburg Cartography in the Age of Enlightenment”), University of Pittsburgh (2015) • Member of the PhD Committee of Samantha Lomb (“Speaking Out: Popular Dimensions of Stalinist Authoritarianism”), University of Pittsburgh (2012–2014) • Member of the PhD Committee of Brian Shaev (“Estrangement and Reconciliation: French Socialists, German Social Democrats and the Origins of European Integration, 1948-1957”), University of Pittsburgh (2012–2014) • Member of the PhD Committee of Susan Corbesero (“The Anniversaries of the October Revolution, 1918-1927: Politics and Imagery”), University of Pittsburgh (2005–2006)
• Member of the MA Committee of Samantha Quinn, University of Pittsburgh (2004-2006)
TEACHING:
International: Curriculum Vitae – Gregor Thum 18
Co-chair of the Transatlantic Summer Academy “Germany and the East,” in cooperation with Eric Weitz (Center of German and European Studies at the University of Minnesota) and Thomas Lindenberger (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam), in Berlin, July 20 – August 3, 2006. The workshop brought together 20 graduate students from Europe, North America and Asia.
Chair and co-organizer of the International Summer Academy of the ZEIT foundation, Hamburg, “History Takes Place - European Sites of Memory” in Wrocław (Poland), July 15–24, 2005. This trilingual workshop (English-Polish-German) was attended by 20 graduate students from Europe and North America and involved leading scholars in the field.
University of Pittsburgh:
Graduate courses:
• Historiography • Readings in European History, 1850 to the Present • European Orientalisms: Between Romantic Dreams and Colonial Plans, 1750-1950 (team- taught with Neal Galpern) • Modernization, Modernity, Modernism in the ‘Other Europe’ (team-taught with Irina Livezeanu)
Undergraduate courses: • History Introductory Seminar: What Was Communism? (HIST 1001) • The ‘Idea of Europe.’ Concepts behind European Integration, 1914 to the Present (HIST 1102) • Mass Violence in the Twentieth Century: Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in Central Europe (HIST 1048) • Retribution, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation in Postwar Europe (HIST 1049) • Comparative European History: State and Nation in Central Europe (HIST 1108) • Modern Germany (HIST 1131) • Contemporary Germany (HIST 1132) • Berlin: History of a European Metropolis (HIST 1135, Honors College) • Modern Polish History (HIST 1220) • Europe since 1945 (HIST 1385)