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THE GRADUATE CENTER

Appointment of Dagmar Herzog as Distinguished Professor of History

RESOLVED, That the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York appoint Dr. Dagmar Herzog as Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center effective July 1, 2012, with compensation of $28,594 per annum in addition to her regular academic salary, subject to financial ability.

EXPLANATION: Professor Herzog joined the Graduate Center faculty in 2005. Prior to her Graduate Center appointment, she taught at Michigan State University and held fellowships at Harvard University and at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study.

Professor Herzog is internationally recognized for her scholarship in the fields of the history of religion, the history of the Holocaust, and the history of gender and sexuality. She is a prolific writer and researcher whose four books to date include Intimacy and Exclusion: Religious Politics in Pre-Revolutionary Baden (Princeton University Press, 1996); Sex After Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (Princeton University Press, 2005); Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics (Basic Books, 2008); and Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History (Cambridge University Press, 2011). She has two books in progress: With History in Mind: Psychoanalysis in a Postwar World and Reproductive Rights and Disability Rights in the European Union.

Professor Herzog earned her bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Duke University, where she was an Angier B. Duke Scholar, and completed her doctoral studies at Brown University. Her many awards include, most recently, a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship.

The Graduate Center and The City University of New York will be well served by Professor Herzog’s appointment as Distinguished Professor.