PHILIPP STELZEL CURRICULUM VITAE Department of History McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts Duquesne University 600 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15282 August 2021
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Associate Professor, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA 7/2020-present Assistant Professor, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA 8/2014-6/2020 Member, Core Group, A German-American Dialogue of the Next Generation American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, DC 2018-2019 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 8/2012 – 7/2014 Co-Chair, German Study Group, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 8/2012 – 7/2014 Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke University, Durham, NC 1/2011 – 5/2012 Visiting Lecturer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 8/2010 – 5/2012 Visiting Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 1/2011-5/2011
EDUCATION University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill 2004 – 2010 Adviser: Konrad H. Jarausch Ph.D. August 2010 Dissertation: “Rethinking Modern German History: Critical Social History as a Transatlantic Enterprise, 1945-1989,” Dissertation committee: Konrad H. Jarausch (adviser), Dirk Bönker, Christopher Browning, Karen Hagemann, Donald Reid International University Bremen, Germany 2003 – 2004
Columbia University, New York 2002 – 2003 Adviser: Volker R. Berghahn M.A. May 2003
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany 1998 – 2002
AWARDS AND HONORS Wimmer Foundation Research Grant, Duquesne University 2018 Wimmer Foundation Research Grant, Duquesne University 2017 Research Fellowship, Mercator Foundation, Duisburg-Essen University 2016 Three-month residential fellowship
1 Wimmer Foundation Research Grant, Duquesne University 2016 Wimmer Foundation Research Grant, Duquesne University 2015 Edmund Spevack Award for Transatlantic Studies 2012 Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies, University of Munich July 2012 Finalist, Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize 2011 Research Associate, Lasky Center, University of Munich August 2011 – present Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grant, American Historical Association 2010 Doctoral Fellowship, Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, Germany 2007 Eight-month fellowship for archival research in Germany Doctoral Fellowship, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC 2006 Four-month fellowship for archival research in the United States George Mowry Dissertation Fellowship, History Dept., UNC Chapel Hill 2006 Students’ Undergraduate Teaching Award, UNC Chapel Hill 2005 University-wide award, selected entirely by undergraduate students Fulbright Scholarship (German Fulbright Commission/ZEIT Foundation) 2002/03 For one year of graduate study at Columbia University DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship 2002/03 For one year of graduate study at Harvard University (declined) Friedrich Ebert Foundation Undergraduate Fellowship 2000-2003
PUBLICATIONS Books: History after Hitler: A Transatlantic Enterprise (Intellectual History of the Modern Age Series of University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
The Very Last Word: A Cocktail Guide for Academics (under contract with Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2022)
Peer-reviewed articles: “The Second-Generation Émigrés’ Impact on German Historiography” in Andreas Daum, Hartmut Lehman, and James J. Sheehan (eds.), The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians (Berghahn Books, New York/Oxford, 2016), 287-303. “Transnationalism and the History of Historiography: A Transatlantic Perspective,” History Compass 13:2 (2015), 78-87. “Working Toward a Common Goal? American Views on German Historiography and German-American Scholarly Relations during the 1960s,” Central European History 41:4 (2008), 639-671. “Fritz Fischer and the American Historical Profession: Tracing the Transatlantic Dimension of the Fischer-Kontroverse,” Storia della Storiografia 44:1 (2003), 67-84.
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Non-peer-reviewed articles: “Transatlantic Relations, the Liberal Democratic Order, and the Populist Challenge,” American Institute for Contemporary German Studies Policy Report 70 (2019), 7-13.
Book Reviews: Heidi Tworek, News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900- 1945, Orbis 62:3 (2019). Jan Eike Dunkhase, Werner Conze. Ein deutscher Historiker im 20. Jahrhundert, German Studies Review 3/2014. Christoph Cornelissen (ed.), Geschichtswissenschaft im Geist der Demokratie. Wolfgang J. Mommsen und seine Generation, Francia Recensio 2/2013. Bettina Hitzer/Thomas Welskopp (eds.), Die Bielefelder Sozialgeschichte: Klassische Texte zu einem geschichtswissenschaftlichen Programm und seinen Kontroversen, H-Soz-u-Kult (June 2011) Steffen Kailitz (ed.), Die Gegenwart der Vergangenheit. Der „Historikerstreit“ und die deutsche Geschichtspolitik, and Volker Kronenberg (ed.), Zeitgeschichte, Wissenschaft und Politik. Der „Historikerstreit“ – 20 Jahre danach, H-Soz-u-Kult (May 2009) Gerhard A. Ritter (ed.), Friedrich Meinecke: Akademischer Lehrer und emigrierte Schüler, H- German (October 2007) Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Notizen zur deutschen Geschichte, H-Soz-u-Kult (June 2007) Wolfgang Hardtwig/Erhard Schütz (eds.), Geschichte für Leser: Populäre Geschichtsschreibung in Deutschland, H-German (May 2007) Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Eine lebhafte Kampfsituation: Ein Gespräch mit Manfred Hettling und Cornelius Torp, Sehepunkte 7 (2007), No. 2 (February) Karl Dietrich Erdmann, Towards a Global Community of Historians: The International Historical Congresses and the International Committee of Historical Sciences, 1898-2000, H- German, March 2006. Mario Keßler, Arthur Rosenberg: Ein Historiker im Zeitalter der Katastrophen (1889 – 1943), H-German, July 2005. Klaus Große Kracht, Die zankende Zunft: Historische Kontroversen in Deutschland nach 1945, H-Soz-u-Kult, June 2005. Claudia Fröhlich and Horst-Alfred Heinrich (eds.), Geschichtspolitik: Wer sind ihre Akteure, wer ihre Rezipienten?, H-Soz-u-Kult, October 2004. Steffen Kailitz, Die politische Deutungskultur im Spiegel des „Historikerstreits“. What’s right? What’s left?, H-Soz-u-Kult, May 2002.
Seventeen book reviews for Literaturkritik.de (published by Philipps University, Marburg, Germany):
3 - on historiographical studies: Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Umbruch und Kontinuität, Hans- Ulrich Wehler, Historisches Denken am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts; Yehuda Bauer, Rethinking the Holocaust; Martin Sabrow, Das Diktat des Konsenses; Steffen Kailitz, Die politische Deutungskultur im Spiegel des „Historikerstreits“; Christoph Cornelissen, Gerhard Ritter; Nicolas Berg, Der Holocaust und die westdeutschen Historiker; Christoph Conrad/Sebastian Conrad (eds.), Die Nation schreiben; Martin Sabrow/Ralph Jessen/Klaus Große Kracht (eds.), Zeitgeschichte als Streitgeschichte; Stefan Berger, The Search for Normality. - on 20th century German history: Andreas Wirsching, Deutsche Geschichte im 20. Jahrhundert; Michael Burleigh, Die Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. - on Austrian history and politics: Evan Burr Bukey, Hitlers Österreich; Robert Menasse, Erklär mir Österreich.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED TALKS “The Myth of the Resentful Émigré” invited talk at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, February 27, 2020. “Émigré historians in the Postwar Transatlantic: Rewriting Modern German History,” presented at the conference Dynamics of Emigration, Epistemic Repercussions: Émigré Scholars and the Production of Historical Knowledge in the Age of Extremes, Institut für Soziale Bewegungen, Ruhr Universität Bochum, September 19, 2019. “Transatlantic Relations, the Liberal Democratic Order, and the Populist Challenge,” presentation at the Policy Briefing “Global Responsibility: Finding German-American Solutions to International Problems,” Berlin, June 18, 2019. “The Myth of the Resentful Émigré: George L. Mosse and the Transatlantic Community of Historians,” invited talk at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, April 8, 2019 Participant, “Global Responsibility: How Do Germany and the United States Engage with One Another to Address International Challenges,” Second Conference of the American Institute of Contemporary German Studies Conference “A Transatlantic Dialogue of the Next Generation,” Washington, DC, April 1-2, 2019 “History after Hitler: a Transatlantic Enterprise” (book presentation) Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, November 16, 2018 “History after Hitler: a Transatlantic Enterprise” (book presentation) Center for European and German Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, November 15, 2018 Participant, “Global Responsibility: How Do Germany and the United States Engage with One Another to Address International Challenges,” First Conference of the American Institute of Contemporary German Studies Conference “A Transatlantic Dialogue of the Next Generation,” Washington, DC, November 5-6, 2018 Participant, roundtable discussion “The Transatlantic Scholarly Community of German History: History, Present, Perspectives,” German Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, September 28, 2018
4 Invited panelist at the Bundestag election 2017 discussion, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, September 19, 2017. “Deutsche Geschichte als transatlantisches Projekt nach 1945,” presented at Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, July 6, 2016 “Prof. Dr. Fischer, or: How German Historians Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Their American Colleagues,” presented at Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt, May 30, 2016. Comment, Panel “Political Cultures and Political Institutions in the Berlin Republic: Legacies of the GDR, Weimar, and the Third Reich,” at the conference 1989 and its Long-Term Repercussions: Making Sense of the Berlin Republic, University of Pittsburgh, February 27, 2015 “Arguing about World War I: a Transatlantic Story,” presented at the Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Kansas City, MO, September 19, 2014. “World War I and the Politics of History in Germany,” invited talk at the panel discussion “Portrayal of the Great War,” Brandeis University, December 3, 2013. “German Historians Encounter the United States, 1950-1970,” presented at the Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Denver, CO, October 4, 2013. “A German Special Path: Critical Social History as a Transatlantic Enterprise, 1945-1989,” presented at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Institut für Soziale Bewegungen, July 1, 2013. “Prof. Dr. Fischer, or: How German Historians Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Their American Colleagues,” presented at the History Workshop, Boston College, October 26, 2012. “Arguing about Historische Sozialwissenschaft/Historical Social Science in a Transatlantic Perspective,” presented at the Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Milwaukee, WI, October 5, 2012. “Second Generation Émigré Historians: Their Impact on Historiography in West Germany” presented at the conference The Second Generation: German Émigré Historians in the Transatlantic World, 1945 to the Present, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, May 18, 2012. “Enlistment and pragmatic cooperation: West German historians and their American colleagues, 1945-1989” presented at the conference Academic Culture and International Relations, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich, May 12, 2012. “Arguing about World War I: A Transatlantic Story” invited talk at the Center for German and European Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, March 29, 2012. “Antagonists, Arbiters, and Allies: German Historians and Their American Colleagues, 1945- 1989” presented at the Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Louisville, KY, September 24, 2011 (presenter at and organizer of panel “German History and Its Contexts after 1945”). “Another Transatlantic Alliance? Conservative American and German Historians after 1945,” presented at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference, Alexandria, VA, June 24, 2011.
5 “Rethinking Modern German History: Critical Social History as a Transatlantic Enterprise, 1945-1989,” presented at the Institute for American Studies, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, July 16, 2010. „The “Bielefelder Schule”: a Case of Americanization of German Historiography?”, presented at the North Carolina German Studies Seminar, Chapel Hill, NC, February 21, 2010. „How ‚Americanized’ was the ‚Bielefeld School’”, presented at the Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, San Diego, CA, October 5, 2007 (presenter at and organizer of panel “German-American Historiography since the 1930s: Some New Views”) "Die deutsche Vergangenheit in der Historiographie nach 1945: ein transatlantisches Projekt?", delivered at the Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, June 5, 2007 "Die deutsche Vergangenheit in der Historiographie nach 1945: ein transatlantisches Projekt?", delivered at the Universität Trier, May 22, 2007 „Rethinking Modern German History after 1945: a Transatlantic Enterprise?”, delivered at the Universität Bielefeld, May 5, 2007 “Fritz Fischer and the American Historical Profession: Tracing the Transatlantic Dimension of the ‘Fischer-Kontroverse’,” presented at the Humboldt Colloquium, “National Scholarship and Transnational Experience: Politics, Identity, and Objectivity in the Humanities and Social Sciences,” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 7, 2006
COURSES TAUGHT Duquesne University: Shaping of the Modern World (lecture course, 20th century global history) Western Civilization II (lecture course) Germany, 1870-2015 (undergraduate seminar) The Global 1960s (undergraduate seminar) The Cold War (upper-level undergraduate/graduate seminar) 19th Century Europe (graduate seminar) 20th Century Europe (graduate seminar) Boston College: Globalization I (lecture course on global history, ca. 1200-1800) Globalization II (lecture course on global history, ca. 1800-2000) Duke University: 20th Century Europe (undergraduate seminar) Europe and the United States in the 20th Century (undergraduate senior research seminar) North Carolina State University: Germany since 1871 (undergraduate seminar) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: 20th Century Europe (lecture course)
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ADDITIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Assistant for “The World since 1945” (Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Spring 2008), “Western Civilization to 1650” (Spring 2005, Spring 2009), “History of the Holocaust” (Spring 2006), “20th Century Europe” (Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009) – taught three sections (50-55 students total) per semester, graded midterm and final exams as well as seminar papers, gave guest lectures. Languages across the Curriculum (LAC) Teaching Assistant for “20th Century Europe” (Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010) and “German Society and Culture after 1945” (Spring 2009, 2010) – courses taught in German (seminar style, 5-7 students per course), developed new syllabi for both courses.
PROFESSIONAL, UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE Director of Graduate Studies, History and Public History, Duquesne University 2019-present Member, Study Abroad and Exchange Committee, McAnulty College of Liberal Arts, Duquesne University 2018-present Faculty Mentor, Art/History Society, Duquesne University 2015-present Member, Search Committee, African History Search, Duquesne University 2015 Member, Search Committee, Imperial British History Search, Duquesne University 2014 Manuscript Referee, Central European History 2013 Member, Core Committee, History Department, Boston College 2013-2014 Assistant organizer, North Carolina German Studies Seminar 2008-2010 MA mentor, History Department, UNC Chapel Hill 2007-2009 Member of the Speakers’ Bureau, LGBTQ Center, UNC Chapel Hill 2007-2012
GRADUATE ADVISING Member, PhD Committee of Stephanie Makin, University of Pittsburgh 2014-2018
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION American Historical Association German Studies Association
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