Jeffrey Herf

Curriculum Vita September 2011 1. Personal Information

JEFFREY HERF, Department of History,

Current Rank: Professor; Unanimous department vote in favor of promotion of Full Professor , February 2001.

Educational Background

Ph.D. Brandeis University, Sociology, 1981 M.A. State University of New York at Buffalo, History, 1971 B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1969. Phi Betta Kappa.

II. Publications

A. Books

Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984). Paperback edition, 1986. Italian edition, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1988; Spanish edition, Fondo de Cultura Economica, Mexico City, 1990; Japanese edition, Iwanami Shoton, Tokyo, 1991; Greek edition, 1996; Portuguese edition in progress. Nominated for the Jabuti Prize in Portugal in 1994.

War By Other Means: Soviet Power, West German Resistance and the Battle of the Euromissiles (New York: The Free Press, 1991).

Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys, Harvard University Press, 1997. Recipient of American Historical Association’s George Louis Beer Prize for 1998; co-recipient in September 1996 as unpublished manuscript of Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History from the Institute of Contemporary History and the Wiener Library in London. German language edition published in September 1998 by Ullstein/Propylaen Verlag in Berlin as Zweierlei Erinnerung: Die NS-Vergangenheit im Geteilten Deutschland.

The Jewish Enemy’: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, May 2006). Recipient of the National Jewish Book Award for 2006 in the category of works on the Holocaust.

Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World, forthcoming, (New Haven: Yale University Press, November 2009); Paperback edition, November 2010). Recipient of the 2011 Sybil Halpern Milton prize of the German Studies Association for work on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust; and of the 2010 Washington Institute for Near East Policy Bronze Book Prize. Italian edition, Propaganda Nazista Per Il Mondo Arabo (Rome: Edizioni dell’ Altana, 2010). Forthcoming in France with Calmann-Levy, and in Japan with Iwanami Shotun.

Editor, Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in Historical Perspective (London: Taylor and Francis, 2006).

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B. Chapters in books (1995-2011)

"Der nationalsozialistische Technikdiskurs: Die deutschen Eigenheiten des reaktionären Modernismus," in Wolfgang Emmerich and Carl Wege, eds. Der Technikdiskurs in der Hitler-Stalin Ära (Stuttgart, Weimar: Verlag J. B. Metzler, 1995), pp.72-93..

"Late Victory of Lost Causes," in Jürgen C. Heß, Hartmut Lehmann and Volker Sellin, eds. Heidelberg 1945 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996).

"Divided Memory, Multiple Restorations: West German Political Reflections on the Nazi Past, 1945-1953," in Stephen Brockman and Frank Trommler, eds. Revisiting Zero Hour 1945: The Emergence of Postwar German Culture (Washington, D.C.: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, 1996), pp. 89-102.

"Multiple Restorations vs. the Solid South: Continuities and Discontinuities in Germany After 1945 and the American South After 1865," in Norbert Finzsch and Jürgen Martschukat, eds. Different Restorations: Reconstruction and Wiederaufbau in the United States and Germany, 1865, 1945-1989 (Providence and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1996), pp. 46-86.

"Reactionary Modernism Reconsidered: Modernity, the West, and the Nazis," in Zeev Sternhell, ed. The Intellectual Revolt Against Liberal Democracy (Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1996), pp. 131-158.

"Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys," Working Papers, Center for German and European Studies, University of California-Berkeley, February 1997.

"Reification as Apologia: Technology and Cultural Pessimism in Postwar West Germany," in Sissel Myklebust, ed., Technology and Democracy: Obstacles to Democratization--Productivism and Technocracy (Oslo: Center for Technology and Culture, 1997), pp. 85-96.

“Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys,” in Karl G. Kick, Stephan Weingarz and Ulrich Bartosch, eds. Wandel durch Beständigkeit: Studien zur deutschen und internationalen Politik (Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 1998), pp. 133-50.

‘Reactionary Modernism’ and After: Modernity and Nazi Germany Reconsidered,” in Doris Kaufmann, ed. Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft im Nationalsozialismus: Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven der Forschung (Gottingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2000), pp. 65-76

“Divided Memory in the Two Germanys: The Founding Generation,” forthcoming [in Hebrew] in Joseph Mali, ed. Wars, Revolutions and Generational Identity, (Tel Aviv: The Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies and Am Oved Publishers, 2001), pp. 55-83.

“Traditions of Memory and Belonging: The Holocaust and the Germans Since 1945,” in Ulf Hedetoft and Mette Hjort, eds., The Postnational Self: Belonging and Identity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), pp. 275-94.

“The Emergence and Legacies of Divided Memory: Germany and the Holocaust Since 1945,” in Jan Werner-Muller, ed., Memory and Power in Postwar Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 184-205.

"’Hegelianische Momente’: Gewinner und Verlierer in der ostdeutschen Erinnerung an Krieg, Diktatur und Holocaust"

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[Hegelian Moments: Winners and Losers in the Official Memory of War, Dictatorship and the Holocaust], in Christoph Cornellissen, Lutz Klinkhammer and Wolfgang Schwentker, eds. Diktaturen und Krieg im kollektiven Gedächtnis, (Frankfurt/Main, Germany: Fischer Verlag, 2003), 198-209

“Historische Erinnerung des Holocaust und die nationale Identität in Ost und West” in Wolfgang Bialas, ed. Die nationale Identität der Deutschen: Philosophische Imaginationen und historische Mentalitäten (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2002), pp. 281-297.

“If Hitler Invaded Hell: Distinguishing between Nazism and Communism during World War II, the Cold War and since the Fall of European Communism,” in Helmut Dubiel and Gabriel Motzkin, eds. The Lesser Evil: Moral Approaches to Genocide Practices (London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 182-195.

“How and Why Did Holocaust Memory Come to the United States? A Response to Peter Novick’s Challenge,” in Jeffrey M. Diefendorf, ed. Lessons and Legacies, Vol. VI: New Currents in Holocaust Research (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2004), pp. 457-474.

“‘Der Krieg und die Juden’: Nationalsozialistische Propaganda im Zweiten Weltkrieg,” [The War Against the Jews: Goebbels and the Public Offensive of the Propaganda Ministry” in Jörg Echternkamp, ed. Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, Band 9:2 Die Deutsche Kriegsgesellschaft, 1939 bis 1945 (Munich: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2005) [Germany and the Second World War: Vol. 9:2 The German Society in War, 1939 to 1945], the Militärgeschichtlichesforschungsamt, (Military History Research Office, Potsdam, Germany), pp. 159-202.

“Die neue totaliäre Herausforderung,” in Doron Rabinnovici, Ulrich Speck and Natan Sznaider, eds. Neuer Antisemitismus: Eine globale Debatte (Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2004), 191-210.

“Daniel Bell: An Intellectual and Personal Appreciation,” in Mark Lilla and Leon Wieseltier, eds., For Daniel Bell (2005), pp. 55-62.

“Le origini culturali e politiche de nazismo: un bilancio storiografico,” [“Ideological Origins of National Socialism”] in Marina Cattaruzza, Marcello Flores, Simon Levis Sullam, Enzo Traverso, eds., Storia della Shoah. La crisi dell'Europa, la distruzione degli ebrei e la memoria del Novecento, (Torino, Italy: UTET, 2005), pp. 295-322.

“Sombart’s Anti-Semitism,” in Mark Thompson, ed. Werner Sombart and "American Exceptionalism: Between Socialism and Cultural Pessimism (Münster, Berlin, Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 2006).

“Introduction” and “Convergence, The Classic Case: Nazi Germany, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism during World War II,” in Jeffrey Herf, ed. Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Historical Perspective: Convergence and Divergence (London: Taylor and Francis, 2006), pp. 1-19 and 50-70.

“Foreward” to Matthias Kuentzel, Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 (New York: Telos Press, 2007)vii-xvii.

"Post-Totalitarian Narratives in Germany: Reflections on Two Dictatorships after 1945 and 1989," Anatoly M. Khazanov and Stanley G. Payne, eds., Perpetrators, Accomplices and Victims in Twentieth Century Politics: Reckoning with the Past (London: Routledge, 2009), pp. 2-27.

"What is Old and What is New in the Terrorism of Islamic Fundamentalism," originally and then published in Partisan Review, Winter 2002, was reprinted in Murray Baumgarten, Peter Kenez and Bruce Thompson, eds., Varieties of

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Antisemitism: History, Ideology and Discourse, (University of Delaware Press, 2009) 370-376.

“Germany in Part V: Aftereffects,” in Peter Hayes and John Roth, eds., Oxford Handbook on Holocaust Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 635-649.

"Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World during World War II and the Holocaust: The Diffusion of Anti-Semitism beyond Europe,” invited contribution submitted in August 2010 and forthcoming in German Festschrift for Klaus Michael-Mallmann edited by Andrez Angrick, Martin Cuppers and Jürgen Matthaeus in 2011.

B. Articles in Refereed Journals (1995-2011)

“Not So Boring After All--Recent Trends in Political History of Twentieth Century Germany“,” in Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte XXVIII/1999, pp. 13-31.

“Legacies of Divide Memory for German Debates about the Holocaust in the 1990s,” German Politics and Society, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Fall 1999), pp. 9-34.

“Abstraction, Specificity and the Holocaust: Recent Disputes over Memory in Germany,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, London, Vol. XXII, No. 2 (November, 2000), pp. 20-35. (Invited review article).

"George Mosse's Recasting of European Intellectual and Cultural History,” German Politics and Society 18, 4 (Winter 2000), pp. 18-29.

“The Historian as Provocateur: George Mosse’s Accomplishment and Legacy,” forthcoming in Yad Vashem Studies, XXIX, 2001, pp. 7-26. .

“The Holocaust and the Competition of Memories in Germany, 1945-1999,” in Dan Michman, ed. Remembering the Holocaust in Germany, 1945-2000: German Strategies and Jewish Responses (New York: Peter Lang, 2002), pp. 9- 30.

“The Nazi Extermination Camps and the Ally to the East: Could the Soviet Armed Forces Have Stopped or Slowed the Final Solution?,” in Kritika, 4 4 (Fall, 2003), pp. 913-30.

“The Jewish War: Goebbels and the Anti-Semitic Campaigns of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry,” Genocide Studies, No. 19, 2005, pp. 26-50.

“Rethinking Origin, Event and the War Against the Jews: Nazi Propaganda about the Jewish Enemy During World War II and the Holocaust” “Israel, (published by The Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel, University of Tel Aviv), No. 10 (December 2006).

“Convergence: The Classic Case Nazi Germany, Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism During World War Two,” Journal of Israeli History, Vol. 25, No. 1 (March, 2006), pp. 61-82.

“Contra Fichte: History, Memory, Chronology and Victimization in Postwar Germany,” Zeitgeschichte (Vienna, Austria) Vol. 33, No. 2 (March/April, 2006), pp. 87-98.

“A Comparative Perspective on Antisemitism, Radical Antisemitism in the Holocaust and American White Racism”

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The Journal of Genocide Research Vol. 9, No. 4, December 2007, pp. 575-600

"An Age of Murder: Ideology and Terror in Germany," Telos, No. 144 (Fall 2008), pp. 8-38.

“Nazi Germany's Propaganda Aimed at Arabs and Muslims During World War II and the Holocaust: Old Themes, New Archival Findings,” Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 709-736.

"Comment by Jeffrey Herf," (Reply to essay by John Guse) in History and Technology, Vol. 26, No. 1 (March 2010), pp. 33-37

"Hitlers Dschihad: NS-Rundfunkpropaganda für Nordafrika und den Nahen Osten,” Vierteljahrshefte fuer Zeitgeschichte, (2010), No. 2, pp. 259-286.

“1968 and the Terrorist Aftermath in West Germany,” in Vladimir Tismaneanu, ed. Promises of 1968: Crisis, Illusion, Utopia (Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2011), pp. 371-386

“‘Themen und Ursprünge des Nationalsozialisische, Arabischsprachige Propaganda während den Zweiten Weltkrieges und das Holocaust,” invited contribution to Geschichte und Gesellschaft (History and Society). Submitted in October 2010. Forthcoming in fall 2011.

“The Exceptionalism of May 8, 1945: German Responses to Defeat following World War II and the Holocaust” delivered at the conference “Surviving Defeat” at the National Defense University on April 16, 2010 in Washington, DC. Revised and submitted for publication in edited volume, December 5, 2010.

Review Essay (1)

“The Rise of National Socialism in Germany,” review of Peter Fritzsche, Germans into Nazis; Dan P. Silverman, Hitler’s Economy: Nazi Work Creation Programs, 1933-1936; Roderick Stackelberg, Hitler’s Germany: Origins, Interpretations, Legacies; Conan Fischer, ed., The Rise of National Socialism and the Working Classes; and Saul Friedlander, Nazi German and the Jews, Vol. 1: The Era of Persecution, 1933-1939 in Contemporary European History, Vol. 10, Part 3 (November 2001), pp. 513-522.

Book Reviews (2000-2010)

Anne Sa’adah, Germany’s Second Chance: Trust, Justice and Democratization Central European History, Vol. 34, No. 4, 2001, pp. 602-06.

Anson Rabinbach, In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals between Enlightenment and Apocalypse, in Michigan Germanic Studies, Vol. XXIV, No. 1, Spring 1998, pp. 101-107 (The volume was published in February, 2000.)

“Unjustifiable Means,” Stephane Courtois, et. al. The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, in The Washington Post Book World, (January 23, 2000), p. 9.

Angela Stent, Between Russia and Germany: Unification, The Soviet Collapse and the New Europe, (February 7, 2000) The New Republic, pp. 43-45.

Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life, Partisan Review, summer 2000.

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Alexander Stephan, Communazis: FBI Surveillance of German Refugee Writers, The New Republic (February 12, 2001), pp. 45-49.

Dan Diner, Beyond the Conceivable: Studies on Germany, Nazism and the Holocaust (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000), The New Republic(August 5 and 12, 2002), pp. 34-37.

Norbert Frei, Adenauer’s Germany and the Nazi Past (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002) (March 10, 2003), pp. 33-36.

Kees Gispen, Poems in Steel: National Socialism and the Politics of Inventing from Weimar to Bonn, American Historical Review, Vol. 108, no. 2 (April 2003), pp. 596-597

John Connelly, Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945- 1956 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002) in Central European History, Vol. 36, No. 1 (2003), pp. 164-68.

Robert G. Moeller, War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001) Central European History, Vol. 36, No. 2 (2003), pp. 318-321.

Barbara Beßlich, Wege in den Kulturkrieg: Zivilisationskritik in Deutschland 1890-1914 (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2000); and Uwe Puschner, Die völkische Bewegung im wilhelminischen Kaiserreich: Sprache, Rasse, Religion (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2001), The Journal of Modern History Volume 76, Number 1, (March 2004), pp. 221-25.

Constantin Goschler, Schuld und Schulden: Die Politik der Wiedergutmachung für NS-Verfolgte seit 1945 (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2005), to be completed by March 2006 The Journal of Modern History for subsequent publication.

Saul Friedlander, “The Whole Horror,” review of The Years of Exterminaion: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945, in The New Republic (September 10, 2007), Vol. 237, No. 5, pp. 51-55.

“It Will Not Go Away,” review of Robert Wistrich, A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad (New York: Random House, , in The New Republic daily online book review, the Book (February 4, 2010), http://www.tnr.com/book/review/it-will-not-go-away

“The Wise Man,” review of Walter Laqueur, Best of Times, Worst of Times: Memoirs of a Political Education, in The New Republic daily online book review, the Book (May 24, 2010), http://www.tnr.com/book/review/the-wise-man

“Not in Moderation,” review of Gilbert Achcar, “The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives“ (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010) in “the Book” online book review of The New Republic, November 1, 2010, at: http://www.tnr.com/book/review/not-in-moderation

Klaus Michael Mallmann and Martin Cüppers, Nazi Palestine: The Plans for the Extermination of the Jews in Palestine, trans. Krista Smith, (New York: Enigma Books, 2010) forthcoming in The Journal of Israeli History, spring 2011.

Sean McMeekin, The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), forthcoming in The Journal of Modern History, 2011.

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III. Professional Awards, Honors and Fellowships: 1978-Present

Recipient of the German Studies Association 2011 Sybil Halpern Milton prize for work on Nazi German and the Holocaust for Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World.

University of Maryland, RASA Fellowship, awarded fall 2011 for semester research leave in spring 2012.

Recipient of Bronze Prize for 2010 awarded by Washington Institute for Near East Policy for Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World.

Visiting Fellow, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna, Austria, June 2010.

Recipient, National Jewish Book Award for 2006 in the category of work on the Holocaust for The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust (Harvard University Press, 2006).

Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin, Fall Semester, 2007.

September 2004 to January 2005, Visiting Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. Completed draft of (new title, same work) “The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust.”

January-August 2004, Visiting Scholar, Research Center, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. for work on “‘The Jewish War: Nazi Propaganda in World War Two.”

Spring Semester, 2004, Recipient of General Research Board (GRB) Grant to support costs of publication of color images in “The Jewish War: Nazi Propaganda in World War Two”

March-June 2000, Invited Visiting Scholar, Yitzak Rabin Center for Israel Studies, Tel Aviv, Israel.

January, 1999 Winner of American Historical Association’s George Louis Beer Prize for 1998 for Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys (Harvard University Press, 1997).

Summer 1999, Visiting Fellow, Max Planck Institüt für Geschichte, Göttingen, Germany

Invited to serve as lecturer in National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Seminar on “War, Dictatorship and Memory,” Caens, France, July 1999.

Senior Fellow, Center for European Integration Studies, University of Bonn, July 1998.

Fraenkel Prize, 1996 awarded by the Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library, London for manuscript of Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys

Member, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, School of Historical Studies, 1994- 1995.

German Marshall Fund Fellowship, 1993-94 to work on politics and memory in the two Germanys, 1945-1989.

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Fulbright Award to teach in "Sommersemester" (April-July) 1994 at the University of Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br., Federal Republic of Germany.

Research Associate, and Bradley Foundation Fellow, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., 1991-1993.

Visiting Scholar, Institut fur Zeithistorische Studien Potsdam, and the Max Planck Gesellschaft, Federal Republic of Germany, June-July, 1993.

Volkswagen Research Fellowship, German Historical Institute; and American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, DC., 1991-1992.

Visiting Research Associate, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, Austria, May-July, 1991,

Research Associate, and Bradley Foundation Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 1989-90.

Bradley Foundation Fellowship for independent research at the John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy, University of Chicago, 1988-89.

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Study and Research for project on "National Identity, Western Security and the Disjunction of Realms in West Germany, 1969-1983," 1985-86,

Harvard University Award for Distinction in Teaching, March 1986,

Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship in European Society and Western Security, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1983-84.

German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship for Doctoral Research, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt-am-Main, Federal Republic of Germany, 1978-79.

German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship for Language Study, Goethe Institute, Federal Republic of Germany, Summer, 1975 and 1978.

Teaching Experience

2001-present, University of Maryland, College Park, Full Professor, Department of History.

2000-2001, University of Maryland, College Park, Associate Professor, Department of History

1996-97, Ohio University, Associate Professor, Department of History

1997-2000, Ohio University, Full Professor, Department of History

1995-96, Mount Holyoke College, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of History

1990-91, Emory University, Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science. Lecture courses on international politics from the Peace of Westphalia to the present, and on Germany and world politics, 1848-present. Seminar on theory of international relations.

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Spring 1990, Brandeis University, Visiting Professor, Department of History. Lecture course on nations and nationalism since 1500, and seminar on left and right in twentieth-century Europe.

1987-88, Naval War College, Strategy Department, Professor of Strategy. Team-taught "Strategy and Policy" lecture and seminar course on history of war and peace from Ancient Greece. Lectures on 19th and 20th century Germany.

1986-87, College of the Holy Cross, Assistant Professor of Political Science. Lecture courses on International Relations, and Comparative Politics of Western Europe; seminar on authoritarian and totalitarian regimes.

1981-85, Harvard University, Lecturer in the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies. Lectures and seminars on 18th- 20th century European social and political theory; development of the international system in Europe, 1815-present; intellectuals and politics in twentieth century Europe; reason and nature in Enlightenment thought.

IV. Invited Academic Papers and Lectures Conference papers/lectures: 1994-2010

“‘Themen und Ursprünge des Nationalsozialisische, Arabischsprachige Propaganda während den Zweiten Weltkrieges und das Holocaust,“ and at the Fritz Bauer Institute, J.W.F. Goethe Universität Frankfurt/Main, June 14, 2011; June 7, 2010 in the Neue Synagoge , Centrum Judaicum, Oranienburger Straße 28 bis 30, sponsored by the Koordinierungsrat deutscher Nicht-Regierungsorganisationen gegen Antisemitismus (Coordinating Council of German Non-Governmental Organizations against Anti-Semitism). Both lectures delivered in German.

“Nazi Propaganda and Policy Toward North Africa and the Middle East During World War II and the Holocaust: New Research about Old Questions,” The Thirteenth George G. Windell Memorial Lecture in European History at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Sponsored by the Department of History, University of New Orleans and the National World War II Museum, January 27, 2011.

"Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World: Its Creation, Contents and Some of Its Consequences" Rutgers University, co-sponsored by the Departments of History and the School of Journalism and Media Studies, February 17, 2011.

“‘Nazi Propaganda to the Arab World during World War II and the Holocaust and Its Aftereffects,” The Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, March 4, 2011.

“Nazi Propaganda in Germany and to the Middle East During World War II and the Holocaust,” Burton C. Einspruch Holocaust Lecture Series at the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas, Dallas on March 6, 2011.

“‘Nazi Propaganda to the Arab World during World War II and the Holocaust: And Its Aftereffects,” delivered at an International Conference on “Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Denial,” Trinity College Dublin, November 18-19, 2010.

“Divided Memory Revisited: “The Nazi Past in West Germany and in Postwar Palestine” delivered at conference on “Remembrance, History and Justice: Coming to Terms with Traumatic Pasts in Democratic Societies,” Romanian Embassy and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, November 11-12, 2010.

”Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World During World War II and the Holocaust: It’s Creation, Contents and Some of Its Consequences.” the Raul Hilberg Memorial Lecture at the University of Vermont, November 1, 2010.

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Commentator on papers on “New Research on Transformations of the New Left from the 1960s to the 1980s,” at the German Studies Association Annual Meetings, Oakland, California, October 7-10, 2010.

“Respondent to Comments on Roundtable on Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World at the German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Oakland California, October 7-10, 2010.

“Nazi Propaganda to the Arab World During World War II and the Emergence of Islamism,” presented at “Plenary Session: Radical Islam and Genocidal Anti-Semitism,” at the conference on “Global Anti-Semitism: A Crisis of Modernity,” sponsored by the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism” at Yale University, August 23-25, 2010.

"Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World and Its Aftermath," (in German_Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (International Research Center in the Cultural Sciences), Vienna, Austria, June 14, 2010.

Lectures (in German) about Nazi Propaganda to the Middle East during World War II and the Holocaust at the Berlin Jewish Community Center, Berlin, Germany (June 6, 2010); Simon Dubnow Center for Jewish History at the University of Leipzig, Germany (June 8, 2010); Department of History, University of Jena, Germany (June 9, 2010).

“Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World and Its Aftermath,” for presentation at an "International Workshop on Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism 1933-1945: Reappraisals and New Directions," University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Israel, May 24-26, 2010.

“Reactionary Modernism Reconsidered,” delivered at “Conflict and Crisis in 20th Century Europe: A Conference in Honor of Anson Rabinbach” at the Deutsches Haus, Columbia University, New York, May 1, 2010.

“German Responses to Defeat following World War II and the Holocaust” delivered at the conference on “Surviving Defeat” at the National Defense University, Washington, D.C., April 16, 2010 in Washington, DC.

“Reactionary Modernism” and Political Islam: Reflections on Old and New Forms of Totalitarianism,” presented to the Interagency Strategic Communication Network at the United States State Department, Washington, DC, March 19, 2010.

“Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World,” YIVO/Center for Jewish History, New York, March 4, 2010.

“Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World,” lecture to the Workshop on Technology, Society and Culture in the Department of History, University of Delaware, February 23, 2010.

Discussant of Robert Wistrich’s A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to Global Jihad at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, January 5, 2010. Available as video podcast at: http://wilsoncenter.org/ondemand/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.play&mediaid=2E2B4205-DFC8-E5EC- 58D174764685F219

“Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World,” Book launch at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, December 1, 2009.

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”The Theory and Practice of Terrorism in West Germany: The RAF as a Chapter in the History of Communism and Anti-Semitism, delivered on panel on “The Idea of Violence from 1968 to the German Autumn,” October 9, 2009, Annual Meetings of the German Studies Association, October 8-11, 2009, Washington, DC.

“Discussion of Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World,” City University of New York, December,11, 2009.

“‘The Jews Kindled this War in the Interest of Zionism’: Nazi Germany’s Propaganda in the Middle East,” Tobias Lecture in the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison on October 15, 2009, and delivered on the panel on “Contemporary Antisemitism: The European and Islamic Legacies” at the Fifteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies at Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, on August 3, 2009.

“Success Was an Orphan: Reflections on the Battle of the Euromissiles,” at the conference, “Zweiter Kalter Krieg und Friedensbewgung: Der NATO-Doppelbeschlussin deutsch-deutscher und internationaler Perspektive, “ March 26-28, 2009, Berlin, organized by the Institute für Zeitgeschichte-Berlin and the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC.

“Nazi Germany Propaganda Aimed at Arabs and Muslims During World War II and the Holocaust: Old Themes, New Archival Findings,“ International History Seminar, Georgetown University, February 27, 2009.

ABroadcasting Anti-Semitism to the Arab World: Nazi Propaganda During the Holocaust,@ Vidal Sasson Vidal Sassoon Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism, Hebrew University, Jerusalem June 3, 2008. “Nazi Germany’s Arabic Language Propaganda Campaign During World War II and the Holocaust: Old Themes, New Archival Findings,” delivered on panel on “German y’s Efforts to Influence the Arab and Muslim World Before and During the Nazi Period,” at the 31st Annual Meetings of the German Studies Association, October 4, 2008 St. Paul, MN, October 2-8, 2008.

“Displacement, Abstraction and Historical Specificity: Comments on the Frankfurt School’s Critical Theory,” for delivery at the interdisciplinary conference on “The Weimar Moment: Liberalism, Political Theology and Law,” Sponsored by the Law School, Department of History and the Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 24-26, 2008.

“A Reply to Gerhard Weinberg’s ‘Another Look at Hitler and the Beginning of the Holocaust’” delivered on panel on panel on Weinberg’s work at the “Lessons and Legacies” conference at Northwestern University, October 31, 2008.

“Against the Innocence of the Moment: 1968 and the Terrorist Aftermath in West Germany,” delivered at the Conference on “Promises of 1968: Crisis, Illusion, and Utopia,” November 6-7, The Romanian Embassy and the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., November 6-7, 2008.

“Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust in Germany and in the Middle East,” 17th Arkansas Holocaust Education Conference, November 7, 2008.

“Was bedeutet Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit in der ‘Berliner Republik’ in 2007” (What does coming to terms with the past mean in the Berlin Republic in 2007,” Römerberggespräche (Römerberg Conversations), Frankfurt-am-Main, November 16, 2007.

“The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust in Germany and the Middle East,” American Academy in Berlin, October 11, 2007.

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I also delivered variations of this lecture at:

Royal Holloway College, University of London, October 23, 2007.

Second Annual Holocaust Memorial Lecture, Trinity College, Dublin, October 24, 2007.

Seminar für Vergleichende Geschicte Europa’s, Friedrich Meinecke Institut, Frei Universität, Berlin, (Seminar for Comparative History of Europe, Free University of Berlin), October 29, 2007

Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft und Philosophie, Universität Bielefeld, (Faculty of Historical Scholarship and Philosopy, Univerersity of Bielefeld), November 5, 2007.

Colloquium zur Zeitgeschichte, Prof. Dr. Paul Nolte, Friedrich Meinecke Instiutüt, Frei Universität Berlin, Historisches Seminar, Frei Universität, Berlin, November 8, 2007.

Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung and Historisches Seminar, Universität Bonn, (Center for European Integration Research, and Historical Seminar, University of Bonn, November 15, 2007.

"An Age of Murder: Ideology and Terror in Germany, 1969-1991," Opening Lecture in Series on "The German Fall, 1977," September 27, 2007, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC.

“The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust,” delivered as the annual Lazeroff Lecture at Ohio University, Athens, April 13, 2007.

Comments on a panel on “The Transatlantic Debate over the Use of Force and the Role of International Institutions” at a conference on “The State of the Atlantic Alliance,” at the Baker Conference at Ohio University’s Contemporary History Institute, March 30, 2007.

“The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust,” delivered The Reynold Koppel Lecture at the 27th Annual Conference on the Holocaust, “Collaboration, Indifference, Resistance: Responses to the Holocaust and Genocide,” Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Gordinier Conference Center, March 25, 2007.

“A Different Zeitgeist, 2007 vs. 1992,” comments on panel on “Politics, Religion and the War on Terror,” at the annual Telos conference, New York University, January 13, 2007.

“The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust,” Faculty Lecture Series, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park, October 4, 2006.

“The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust,” Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, March 22, 2007.

"Common and Distinctive Features of the West German Case: Memory, Justice and Silence during Allied Occupation and Emergent Democracy," April 28-30 at conference on “Reckoning with the Past: Perpetrators, Accomplices and Victims in Post-Totalitarian Narratives and Politics” Department of History and the Mosse Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 28-30, 2006.

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"Beyond Demagoguery: Paranoia, Projection and Murderous Antisemitism in Hitler's Germany, 1939-1945," for presentation at conference on “Statesmen & Demagogues: Democratic Leadership In Political Thought, A Conference On Democratic, Constitutional and Revolutionary Leadership,” An Interdisciplinary Conference in the Department of Political Science, Yale University, March 31-April 1, 2006.

“Bemerkungen zur Rückkehr der Geschichte,” (Comments on the panel on the “Return of History”) at the conference on “Was heißt und zu welchem Ende studiert man Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts” (What is the meaning of and to what end do we study the history of the 20th century?) At the Jena Center for 20th Century History, University of Jena, January 21, 2006.

“Der Jüdische Feind: Nazi Propaganda während den Zweiten Weltkrieg und den Holocaust” delivered in German at the Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung of the Technical University of Berlin (January 16, 2006), in the series lecture series "Krieg und Frieden" (War and Peace) an der Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt an der Oder (January 17, 2006) and at the Universität Jena on January 18, 2006.

“‘The Jewish Enemy’: The Visual Aspect of Nazi Ideology and Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust” on panel on “Legitimating Mass Murder: Nazi Ideology and Propaganda during the Second World War and the Holocaust” at the 2005 Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 1, 2006.

“Dilemmas of Democratization, Memory and Justice: Comparative Reflections on West Germany after the Holocaust.and the United States after the Civil War,” on the panel on “Germany, Holocaust Memory, and the Idea of Historical Justice,” at the conference on “Repairing the Past: Confronting the Legacies of Slavery, Genocide, and Caste,” Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, 7th Annual International Conference, October 27, 28, and 29, 2005 at Yale University.

“The Jewish Enemy”: Nazi Wartime Propaganda and Its Diffusion to the Middle East,” at the conference on " War , Holocaust, State: Sixty Years since the end of World War II", June 14-16,2005, University of Tel Aviv.

"'The Jewish Enemy': Nazi Wartime Propaganda and Its Diffusion to the Middle East," to be delivered at a conference on “War, Holocaust, State: Sixty Years since the End of World War II,” June 15-16, 2005, at Tel Aviv University, in Israel. The conference is organized by the Nevzlin Research Program in Contemporary Jewish Civilization, at Tel Aviv University’s Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel, and the Shazar Center for Jewish History in Jerusalem.

“The Use and Abuse of History in Berlin and Washington Since September 11, 2001:A Plea for a New Era of Candor" at conference on “Culture, Collective Memory and Foreign Policy in the Post-9-11 World,” February 20-21, 2005 Georgetown University.

“Nazi Propaganda and Incitement During the Holocaust: Historical Notes and Contemporary Implications,” delivered at symposium on “Propaganda and Terrorism: Policy Options for the War of Ideas,” sponsored by The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and the Committee on the Present Danger, January 13, 2005, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC.

“Historians, Evidence and Truth” Commencement Address, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park, December 19, 2004,

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“Aftereffects, Echoes and Lessons: How Relevant is Europe’s Mid-Twentieth Century Today?” conference on “Germany after the Dictatorships: Totalitarianism and Its Consequences,” Stanford University, November 19-20, 2004.

"Images and Narratives of Anti-Semitism: Nazi Propaganda in World War Two" presented to the University of Maryland’s Center for Historical Studies series on “Historians and the Visual” on November 15, 2004.”

“What Did the Nazi Regime Say About Zionism? Comments on Much Discussed and Little Examined Propagannda,” the Eighth Biennial Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust,” at Brown University, November 7, 2004.

“The War and the Jews: Nazi Propaganda in World War II” work in progress seminar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., October 26, 2004.

Chair, Panel on Twentieth Century Totalitarianism at conference on “Tyranny, Ancient and Modern,” organized by the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, May 14-15, 2004.

“Convergence--The Classic Case: Nazi Germany, Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism During World War Two,” at an international conference on “Convergence and Divergence: Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in Historical Perspective,” Brandeis University, March 24-25, 2004.

“‘The Jewish War’: Nazi Propaganda in World War Two,” German Study Group, Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, March 23, 2004.

“‘The Jewish War’: Nazi Propaganda in World War Two,” Seminar in European Intellectual History, Graduate Center, City University of New York, March 11, 2004.

“‘The Jewish War’: Nazi Propaganda in World War Two,” Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History, University of Leipzig, Germany, January 27, 2004.

“Europe’s Mid-Twentieth Century and the War in Iraq,” January 26, 2004, Berlin, Germany on panel on “The New World Order: From Unilateralism to Cosmopolitanism” sponsored by the Berlin office of Harvard University’s Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies; forthcoming, in Working Papers of the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies of Harvard University.

Commentator on panel on “Patrolling Borders, Ascribing Identities: Population Reclassification in World War II-Era Europe,” at the Annual Meetings of the American Historical Association, Saturday, 9:30-11:30, Washington, D.C. January 10, 2004, Washington, D.C.

Comment in session on “Theodor Adorno in America” and on Detlev Claussen’s Theodor Adorno: Ein Letztes Genie, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., December 9, 2003.

“Contra Fichte: History, Memory, Chronology and Victimization in Postwar Germany,” Conference on Gedächtnis Zwischen Erfahrung und Repräsentation: Was bleibt von der verstörenden Kraft der Erinnerung?,” [Memory between Experience and Representation: What remains of the disruptive power of memory?] December 12-13, 2003, Vienna, Austria. Sponsored by the Österreischische Akademie der Wissenschaften; IFK, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften; and the Kommission für Kulturwissenschaften und Theatergeschichte Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. [Austria Academy of Sciences; International Research Center in the Cultural Sciences; Commission for Cultural Scholarship and Theatre History of the Austrian Academy of Science].

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“‘The Jewish War’: Goebbels and the Anti-Semitic Offensives of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, 1939-1945,” Keynote address at conference at Dartmouth College on “Nazi Berlin,” October 30, 2003, Hannover, New Hampshire.

“His Master’s Voice: Goebbels, World War II and the Jews,” to semi-annual meeting of Washington area historians, Washington, D.C., October 25, 2003.

“His Master’s Voice: Goebbels, World War II and the Jews” on panel on “Radio and Newsreel Propaganda in Nazi Germany” at Annual Meetings of the German Studies Association in New Orleans, September 18-21, 2003.

Commentator on panel on “International Reactions to the Holocaust Since the 1960s,” at the German Studies Association Annual Meetings, September 18-21, 2003 in New Orleans, LA.

Comment on Panel on “Zeitgeschichte (Contemporary History) After the Holocaust,” Oct. at the German Studies Association Annual Meetings, San Diego, Oct. 3-6, 2002.

“Narrating the Nazi Era: Goebbels, World War II and the Jews,” at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, October 17, 2002.

“The Soviet Union Armed Forces and the Holocaust: Open Questions About Intentions, Capabilities and Possibilities for Intervention” at the Lessons and Legacies Conference at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis, November 1-4, 2002.

"Political Implications of 'Coming to Terms with the Past' in West Germany and East Germany since 1961 and in Unified Germany since 1990,” at a conference on “After Eichmann: Collective Identity and the Holocaust Since 1961,” April 8-10, 2002 at the AHRB Parkes Centre (University of Southampton) and the Imperial War Museum in London, April 8-10, 2002.

“Rethinking ‘The War Against the Jews’: Goebbels, World War II and the Final Solution,” Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies and Department of History, University of Maryland, December 5, 2001.

“War, Holocaust and Divided Memory in Germany: Change and Continuity Regarding the Legacies of World War II,” delivered at conference on “World War II and Its Legacy,” at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A & M University, November 12-13, 2001.

“Sideshow and Main Event: Vergangenheitsbewältigung in 1950s East Berlin and post-1967 Frankfurt/Main,” delivered at colloquium on Uwe Johnson’s Jahrestage at Princeton University, October 19-20, 2001.

“Anti-Semitism as Hatred and Explanation: Goebbels’ Major Public Statements.” German Studies Association annual meetings, October 5-7, 2001, Washington, DC.

“What is old and what is new about the terrorism of Islamic fundamentalism?,” on panel on “Does Terror Have a History,” Center for Historical Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, October 8, 2001.

Commentator on panel on “Jews in the Early German Democratic Republic: Tolerance, Repression, and Memory,” at the German Studies Association annual meetings, October 5-7, 2001, Washington, DC.

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Commentator on panel on “Germany after 1945: Legacies of Nazism” at the “CASPIC” MacArthur Schlar’s conference on “Challenging State Sovereignty and Identity” at the University of Chicago, 2000-2001, April 27-28, 2001.

Commentator on a panel at conference on coming to terms with the past in West Germany in the 1960s, April 19-21, 2002 at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

“If Hitler invaded Hell...: Distinguishing between Nazism and Communism During the Second World War, the Cold War and Since the Fall of European Communism,” at the conference on “The Lesser Evil: The Moral Comparison between Nazism and Communism and its Postwar Implications” at the Remarque Center of New York University, April 1-3, 2001.

“What Did German Politicians Say About the Holocaust? Public Memory in East, West and Unified Germany Since 1945," invited lecture at Illinois Wesleyan University, March 15, 2001.

Commentator on Panel on “The Memory of Nazism in Postwar Western Popular Culture”; Chair, Panel on “The Intersection of Personal and Collective Historical Narratives in Twentieth-Century Germany,” both at the Annual Meetings of the American Historical Association, January 5-7, 2001, Boston, Mass.

“How and Why Did Holocaust Memory Come to the United States? A Response to Peter Novick’s Challenge” delivered at the conference on “Lessons and Legacies VI: The Presence of the Holocaust,” an International Conference on the Holocaust, November 17-20, 2000 at Northwestern University, sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation and the Departments of History and German, and the Crown Program of Jewish Studies, Northwestern University.

Commentator, Panel on “Totalitarianism and Its Limits: Case Studies and Theoretical Reflections,” Chair, Panel on “German University Professors in the Third Reich,” both Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, October 5-8, 2000, Houston, Texas.

Comments on Panel on “Totalitarianism in Comparative Perspective,” delivered at the German Studies Association Annual Meetings, Houston, Texas, October 5-8, 2000.

“Die Erinnerung an dem Holocaust in Ostdeutschland, Westdeutschland und vereinigtes Deutschland” delivered at a conference on “Ein Jahrzehnt wiedervereinigtes Deutschland: Historische Koordinaten, Analysen und Perspektiven,” 21-23 June 2000, Forschungsverband SED Staat, Free University of Berlin, Germany.

“Divided Memory: The Memory of the Holocaust in the Political Cultures of the Two Germanys, 1945-1989," Storchlitz Institute for Holocaust Studies of the University of Haifa, May 14, 2000; Seminar on Leadership, The Yitzak Rabin Center for Israel Studies, Tel Aviv, May 18, 2000; Institute for German History, University of Tel Aviv, May 23, 2000; Department of History and Institute of German Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, May 28, 2000.

I accepted invitations to deliver the following papers at conferences in Leipzig, Germany and Jerusalem, Israel. However, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the escalation of violence in the Middle East, I reluctantly decided to withdraw from conference participation. The talks and conferences are the following:

“Nationalism and Universalism in East German Antifascism,“ for a conference on

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Jewish Questions – Communist Answers?“ at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig, Germany, November 10-13, 2001.

“Nazism in the Context of Europe’s Twentieth Century” at a conference on "Reflections on Europe's Century of Discontent: Confronting Fascism, Nazism and Communism,” at

the Institute for European Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on March 10-12, 2002.

“Der hegelianische Kern des Ostdeutschen Antischismus: Helden und Opfer, Gewinner und Verlierer in der amtlichen Erinnerung an Krieg, Diktatur und Holocaust” at an interdisciplinary conference on “Diktaturen und Krieg im kollektiven Gedächtnis,” März 22-25, 2000 at the Werner Reimers Stiftung in Bad Homburg, Germany.

“Narcissism, Zero-Sums and Universalism: Memory of the Holocaust in Divided and Unified Germany,” at conference on “The Memory of the Holocaust in Germany,” Bar-Ilan University, Israel, December 21-22, 1999.

“The Holocaust in German Political Culture and Historiography,” at conference on “Holocaust Research and Holocaust Studies in the 21st Century,” at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, December 13-15, 1999.

“Democracy and Confronting the Past: Early West German Dilemmas Revisited,” at conference on “From the Bonn to the Berlin Republic: Fifty Years of German Democracy,” Committee for European Studies, Princeton University, December 9-12, 1999.

“Historische Erinnerung des Holocaust und die nationale Identität in Ost und West” at conference on “Die nationale Identität der Deutschen: Philosophische Imaginationen und historische Realität deutscher Mentalität,” (The National Identity of the Germans: Philosophical Imagination and Historical Reality of German Mentalities), at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut (Institute for Cultural Studies) Essen, Germany, November 17-19, 1999.

“Memory of the Holocaust in Divided and Unified Germany,” on panel on “Cultural Differences in Dealing with a Two-Fold Past” at an international and interdisciplinary conference on “The German ‘Wende’ and the Transformation of Europe: A Ten Year Retrospective” at European Union Center at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, October 21-23, 1999

“Anti-Fascism, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism: The East German Government’s Response to the Holocaust,” for panel on East Germany and the Holocaust, and commentator for panel on “Comrades and Criminals: the Politics of War Crimes in Postwar Germany,” both at the German Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, October 7- 10, 1999

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“Anti-Fascism, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism: The East German Government’s Response to the Holocaust,” for panel on East Germany and the Holocaust, and commentator for panel on “Comrades and Criminals: The Politics of War Crimes in Postwar Germany,” both at the German Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, October 7- 10, 1999.

“George Mosse’s Recasting of European Intellectual and Cultural History,”at conference on the legacy of George Mosse at the Minda da Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 1, 1999.

“Die Erinnerung an dem Holocaust in der DDR,”Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, July 8, 1999.

“Werner Sombart’s Anti-Semitism,” at conference on Sombart and American Exceptionalism at the Universität Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, July 8-9, 1999.

“Memory, Belonging and the Nation in West Germany, East Germany and Unified Since 1989-1990,” at conference on “Reimagining Belonging: Self and Community in an Era of Nationalism and Postnationality,” Center for International Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark, May 6-8, 1999.

“Legacies of Divided Memory and the Debate over the Berlin Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe,” at conference on “Jews, Germany and the Future of Memory,” Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, April 15- 18, 1999.

“Dictatorship, Democracy and Memory in the Two Germanys,” Yitzak Rabin Center Conference on “Generations, War and Memory,” March 9-10, 1999, Israel.

“Reactionary Modernism and After: Nazism and Modernity Reconsidered: ” at the Max Planck Gesellschaft conference on “Die Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft im Nationalsozialismus,” Berlin, March 10-13, 1999.

“Zweierlei Erinnerung: Die NS Vergangenheit im geteilten Deutschland,” at conference commemorating the 60th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Lubeck, Germany, November 9-11, 1998.

Panel discussion (Podiumsdiskussion) of Zweierlei Erinnerung (German translation of Divided Memory) with German scholars (conducted in German) at the Urania, a public forum for intellectual-scholarly debate, November 12, 1998, Berlin, Germany.

“Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys,” Department of Political Science, Brandeis University, October 22, 1998.

“Demokratisierung, Erinnerung, und Gerechtigkeit in Nachkriegsdeutschland,” (in German) Historisches Seminar, (Department of History) University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, July 2, 1998.

“The Emergence and Legacies of Divided Memory: Germany and the Holocaust since 1945,” conference on "Memory and Power in Postwar Europe," June 26-27, 1998, All Souls College, Oxford University, Oxford, England.

Commentator on Panel on "Rethinking East and West after 1989: Unified Germany," at conference on "Memory and National Identity in Contemporary Europe: The Legacies of Nazism and Communism," April 3-4, 1998 at the Remarque Institute, New York University.

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"Cultural Politics and the Memory of the Holocaust: Heuss and His Successors," at workshop on "The Cultural Legitimacy of the Federal Republic: A Critical Look at Fifty Years of Kulturstaat," March 27, 1998 at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, D.C.

"Legacies of Divided Memory for German Debates About the Holocaust in the 1990s," at conference on "Dilemmas of Commemoration: German Debates About the Holocaust in the 1990s," March 19-20, 1998 at the Center for German and European Studies, University of California-Berkeley.

Lecture and discussion about Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, D.C., January 22, 1998

Lecture on Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (Decmeber 4, 1997)

Lectures delivered in German on Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte, Hamburg, Germany (December 8, 1997); Stiftung Topographie des Terror (December 10, 1997), Berlin, Germany.

Summary of Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys presented to Midwest meeting of German historians, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 8-9, 1997.

"German Engineers in the Era of Nazism, World War II and the Holocaust," McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, October 17, 1997

"Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys," Leo Baeck Institute, New York, October 30, 1997.

Commentator on panel on "Immigrants, Violence and Ausländerpolitik in Unified Germany," German Studies Association Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., September 26, 1997, Washington, D.C.

"Modernity, Aesthetics and Anti-Semitism: Reactionary Modernism Reconsidered," Department of History and Archeology, University of Crete, Greece, May 30, 1997.

"Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys," Center for Excellence in German and European Studies, University of California-Berkeley, February 27, 1997; Department of History, Stanford University, February 28, 1997; Center for European Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, April 4, 1997. "Reification and Apologetics: Technology and Cultural Pessimism in Postwar West Germany," at conference on Technology and Democracy at the Center for Technology and Culture at the University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, January 17-19, 1997.

"Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys" Fraenkel Prize Lecture at the Institute of Contemporary History and the Wiener Library in London, December 16, 1996.

"Geteilte Erinnerung: Die nationalsozialistischen Vergangenheit in den beiden deutschen Staaten" delivered in German at the following universities and research institutes in December, 1996: Historisches Seminar, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, December 2, 1996; Historisches Seminar, Universitat Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, December 4, 1996; Max Planck Institute fur Geschichte Göttingen, and Historisches Seminar, Universität Göttingen, December 5, 1996; Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (Center for Research in Contemporary History in Potsdam), Germany, December 6, 1996; Institüt für Zeitgeschichte,

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(Institute for Contemporary History), Munich, Germany, December 10, 1996; Institute für Neuere Geschichte (Institut for Modern History), University of Munich, December 11, 1996); Seminar für Wissenschaftliche Politik, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, December 12, 1996).

"Purging 'Cosmopolitanism': East German Communism and the Jewish Question, 1945-1961," at conference on "Lessons and Legacies IV: Religion, Gender, Genocide," sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation and the University of Notre Dame, November 2-4, 1996, South Bend, Indiana.

"Divided Memory: The Nazi Past and the Cold War in the Two Germanys," Contemporary History Institute, Ohio University, October 4, 1996.

"Terms of Assimilation: East German Communists During and After the Anti-Cosmopolitan Purge," Princeton University, April 19, 1996.

"Purging Cosmopolitanism: East German Communism and 'the Jewish Question, 1945-1961," Five College Symposium in Social History and German Studies, Hampshire College, April 9, 1996.

"Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys," Rutgers University, Camden, January 24, 1996.

"Eichmann in Jerusalem or Eichmann in Vienna: Comment on Richard Bernstein on Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question," at conference on "Hannah Arendt Between the Europe and the United States, University of Pennsylvania, December 8-9, 1995.

"Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys," Department of History, and Deutsches Haus, Columbia University, New York, October 19, 1995; Committee on European Studies, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, October 26, 1995; Department of Political Science, Emory University, October 27, 1995.

"Breaks and Continuities in the Radical Conservative Impulse: Evidence from Memories of Nazism in the Two Germanys, 1945-1989," Conference on "Radical Conservatism in Europe--yesterday, today, tomorrow," Lund University, Lund, Sweden, June 8-10, 1995.

"Multiple Restorations and Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys--the Early Years," American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, D.C., May 12, 1995.

"Remembering and Forgetting Nazism and World War II in East and West Germany, 1945-1995," Amherst College, May 8, 1995.

"Myths and Realities of East German Anti-fascism," Department of Political Science, New York University, May 4, 1995.

"Purging Cosmopolitans: East German Communism and the Jewish Question, 1945-1961," History Department Seminar, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, March 3, 1995; and European Studies Luncheon Seminar, History Department, Princeton University, March 20, 1995.

"East German Communists and the Jewish Question: the Case of Paul Merker," Faculty Seminar, Adelphi University, Garden City, Long Island, November 9, 1994; History Department Seminar, New York University, November 18, 1994.

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"The Repression of the Jewish Question in East Germany," Luncheon Series of the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, November 17, 1994.

"German Communism, the Discourse of Antifascist Resistance, and the Jewish Catastrophe," Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, September 13, 1994.

"Ostdeutschen Kommunisten und die jüdische Frage: Der Fall Paul Merker," Historisches Seminar, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, June 14, 1994; Seminar für Wissenschaftliche Politik, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br, Germany, June 20, 1994; Woodrow Wilson Center Conference on Germany, Nuclear Weapons and the Cold War, 1945-1962, Potsdam, Germany, July 3, 1994.

"German Communism, the Discourse of Antifascist Resistance, and the Jewish Catastrophe," Doktorandenkolloquium of Prof. Dr. Heinrich August Winkler, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany, July 4, 1994.

"East German Communists and the Jewish Question: The Paul Merker Case and Its Consequences," Fourth Annual Alois Mertes Memorial Lecture, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., May 31, 1994.

"East German Communists and the Jewish Question: The Case of Paul Merker," Sponsored by the Committee on Jewish Culture and Society, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, March 3, 1994.

"Weimar Germany and Russia Today," Comments on 'Weimar on the Volga Panel," Sponsored by the Russian and East European Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, January 26, 1994. "East German Communism, the Political Culture of 'Anti-Fascism,' and the Jewish Question: The Case of Paul Merker," Annual Meetings of the American Historical Association, San Francisco, January 1994.

Essays of Historical and Political Commentary (2002-2008)

“What is Old and What is New about the Terrorism of Islamic Fundamentalism,” Partisan Review, Winter 2002, LXIX, No. 1, pp. 25-32.

“Postwar Germany and Iraq: Similarities and Differences,” August, 2003, History News Network, online.

“Liberal Legacies, Europe’s Totalitarian Era and the Iraq War: Historical Conjunctures and Comparisons ,” in Thomas Cushman, ed. A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq, (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005), pp. 39-56.

“Revolte gegen die Moderne,” in special issue of Internationale Politik (the German counterpart to Foreign Affairs), Terror: Der neue Totalitarismus Vol. 60, No. 11 (November 2005), pp. 6-13.

“Wo sind die Antifaschisten?” [Where are the anti-fascists?], Welt am Sonntag (December 2, 2007), Forum, p. 12.

“Unpleasant Truths: What a new German movie can teach America about confronting its history with domestic radicals,” The New Republic online, December 30, 2008.

"The Totalitarian Present: Why the West Consistently Underplays the Power of Bad Ideas," /The American Interest , Vol. V, No. 1 (September-October, 2009), pp. 31-36.

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“The only credible threat Obama can leverage against Iran,“ The New Republic online, October 13, 2009.

“Killing in the Name of...A progressive foreign policy will require more focus on Islamic radicalism,” The New Republic online, April 8, 2010, http://www.tnr.com/article/world/killing-the-name

“Fresh Air in Central Europe,” The New Republic online, August 25, 2011, http://www.tnr.com/blog/foreign- policy/77228/fresh-air-in-central-europe

“Time for a Reset: American policy and radical Islam,” The New Republic online, February 5, 2011, http://www.tnr.com/article/world/82881/egypt-islam-islamism-obama-protest

“Berlin Ghosts: Why Germany was against the Libya intervention,” The New Republic online, March 24, 2011, http://www.tnr.com/article/world/85702/germany-libya-intervention-qaddafi-merkel

“Scapegoat: The Muslim Brotherhood’s Anti-semitism is not just bad for Israel. It’s bad for Egypt,” The New Republic online, May 12, 2011, http://www.tnr.com/article/world/88104/muslim-brotherhood-anti-semitism-israel-egypt

“Why Did Yale Close, Then Open, a Center for Studying Anti-Semitism?,” The New Republic online, July 5, 2011, http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/91257/yale-anti-semitism-center

VI. Service

Member, Board of Editors, Central European History, 2000-present

Member, Board of Editors, Journal of Israeli History.

Wrote reviewers reports for Harvard University Press, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, University of California Press, Duke University Press, University of Nebraska Press, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Press, Ohio University Press, and Berghahn Press.

Tenure reviews: University of Toronto; University of Nebraska; Vanderbilt University; University of North Texas, State University of New York at Binghamton, Michigan State University.

Evaluator for fellowship applications: American Academy in Berlin, 2008-2010; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2007-2010; American Council for Learned Societies, 2010.

Member: American Historical Association; Conference Group on Central European History; and the German Studies Association

Member, History Department Salary Committee, 2006-2008; Chair of the Salary Committee in 2008.

Vice-Chair, Collegiate Council, 2006-07

Convener, European Caucus, 2006-07

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Member, Executive Committee, Department of History, 2010-2012, and 2005-2007.

Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee for Thomas Zeller (Summer-fall 2006)

Member, Committee Producing Report on the Future of the Department, October, 2006 to March 2007.

Commentator on Susannah Heschel’s paper “From Jesus to Shylock: Christian Supersessionism and ‘The Merchant of Venice.” in the Center for Historical Studies series on Religion in History: The Power of Belief, February 26, 2007.

V. Teaching at the University of Maryland, College Park

Undergraduate

My courses in this period include 400 level courses on Nazi Germany, Ideas and Politics in Twentieth Europe, Europe Since 1939, Twentieth Century Germany, History 113, Europe Since from the Renaissance and Reformation to the Revolutions of 1989-90, and Twentieth Century Europe (History 240).

Graduate

Since arriving at the University of Maryland in fall 2000, I have advised nine doctoral dissertations to completion.

I have taught the Field Seminar in 20th Century Europe (History 729) as well as a Research Seminar in 20th Century Europe (History 848) in addition to working with following graduate students at various phases of their work.

I have advised or am advising the following doctoral dissertations.

In spring 2003, Keith Alexander successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “From Red to Green in the Island City: The Alternative Liste West German and the Evolution of the West German Left, 1945-1990.”

In 2005, Michael Peterson successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in 2005. In 2009 Cambridge University Press published a revised version with the title Missiles for the Fatherland: Peenemunde, National Socialism and the V-2 Missile. He is employed as a historian in the Defense Intelligence Agency of the United States Government.

In September 2007, Christina Morina’s successfully defended her doctoral dissertation: "Legacies of Stalingrad. Memory and Representation of the War on the Eastern Front in the Political Cultures of both German States: A Study of the Intersection of War, Memory and Politics, 1943-1973." In Fall 2007, she was offered and accepted a position as a Wissenschaftliche Assistant (roughly equivalent to a non-tenured Assistant Professor at the University of Jena, in Germany. In September 2011, Cambridge University Press will publish a revision of the dissertation under the title, Legacies of Stalingrad: Remembering the Eastern Front in Germany Since 1945.

In October 2008, Nicholas Schlosser, successfully defended his dissertation, “The Berlin Radio War: Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin and the Shaping of Political Culture in Divided Germany, 1945-1961.” He is a professor of history at the Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia.

In November 2008, Andrew Kellett successfully defended his dissertation, “Fathers and Sons: American Blues and British Rock ‘n’ Roll, 1960-1975.” He is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Hartford Community College, in Maryland.

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In November 2009, Stephen Scala defended his doctoral dissertation “Understanding the Class Enemy: Foreign Policy Expertise in East Germany.” He is working as a historian in the Defense Intelligence Agency of the United States Government.

Jyoti Mohan defended her dissertation “Constructing India: French Representation of India in the Nineteenth Century” in November 2009.

Melissa Kravetz defended her doctoral dissertation “Creating a Space in the Medical Profession: Female Physicians, Maternalism, and Eugenics Work in Weimar and Nazi Germany” in spring 2011.

Mirna Zakic defended her doctoral dissertation, “The Furthest Watch on the Rhine: Ethnic Germans, National Socialist Ideology, and the German Occupation of the Serbian Banat, 1941-1944" in May 2011. She has received an appointment as Assistant Professor of Modern European history at Ohio University in Athens.

Paul Schmitt defended his doctoral dissertation, “From Colonies to Client-States: The Origins of France’s Postcolonial Relationship with Sub-Saharan Africa, 1940-1969” in spring 2011. Dr. Schmitt, who also has a law degree, will be clerking for a United States Federal Judge.

Sheldon Goldberg is doing research on his dissertation on the disarmament of Germany after World War II and the rearmement the Federal Republic of Germany after 1949 and should finish in 2011.

Jeremy Best spent 2009-10 doing archival work in Germany on his dissertation on “Ambiguous Agents of Empire: German Missionaries and Imperial Politics, 1860-1919.” I expect him to finish in fall 2011.

My doctoral students Robert Hutchinson and Christopher Donohue took and passed their doctoral oral and written examinations in spring 2011.

Articles from 1977 to 1994

"East German Communists and the Jewish Question: The Case of Paul Merker," Fourth Annual Alois Mertes Memorial Lecture, 1994 German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., Occasional Paper No. 11.

"Der Geheimprozeß," Die Zeit, Dossier section, domestic edition, (October 7, 1994), overseas edition (October 14, 1994), pp. 7-8.

"East German Communists and the Jewish Question: The Case of Paul Merker," Journal of Contemporary History 29, 4 (October 1994), pp. 627-62.

"Dokumentation: Antisemitismus in der SED: Geheime Dokumente zum Fall Paul Merker aus SED- und MfS- Archiven," Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte (Oktober 1994), pp. 1-32.

"German Communism, the Discourse of Antifascism, and the Jewish Catastrophe," forthcoming in John Boyer and Michael Geyer, eds. Resistance Against the Third Reich: 1933-1990 (University of Chicago Press, 1994).

"Belated Pessimism: Technology and Twentieth Century German Conservative Intellectuals," in Yaron Ezrahi, Everett Mendelsohn and Howard Segal, eds., Technology, Pessimism and Postmodernism (Klewer Academic Publishers, 1994), pp. 115-36.

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"Multiple Restorations: German Political Traditions and the Interpretation of Nazism, 1945-1946," Central European History 26, no. 1 (1993), pp. 21-55.

"Un nouvel examen du modernisme reactionnaire: les nazis, la modernite et l'Occident," in Zeev Sternhell, ed. L'Eternel Retour: Contre la democratie l'ideologie de la decadence (Paris: Presses De La Fondation Nationale Des Sciences Politique, 1994), pp. 161-95.

"How the Culture Wars Matter: Liberal Historiography, German History and the Jewish Catastrophe," in Cary Nelson and Michael Berube, eds., The Crisis in Higher Education (Routledge, 1994).

"Die Nachrüstungskrise als Testfall für westdeutsche Demokratie," Vierteljahrshefte fur Zeitgeschichte 20, 1 (1992): 1-28.

"Reaktionare Modernisten und Berlin: Die Ablehnung der kosmopolitischen Metropolis," in Peter Alter, ed. Im Banne der Metropole (Munich: Oldenbourg, 1993).

"Asymmetric Strategic Interaction: Democracy, Dictatorship, an the Euromissile Dispute in West Germany," Journal of Strategic Studies (Summer 1990).

"Center, Periphery and Dissensus: West German Intellectuals and the Euromissiles," in Liah Greenfeld, ed., Center: Ideas and Institutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988).

"War, Peace and the Intellectuals: The Peace Movement in West Germany," International Security 10, 4 (Spring 1986): 172-200.

"Reactionary Modernism," in Charles S. Maier, Stanley Hoffmann, and Andrew Gould, eds. The Rise of the Nazi Regime: Historical Reassessments (Boulder: Westview Press, 1986).

"Neutralism and the Moral Order in West Germany," in Walter Laqueur and Robert Hunter, eds., European Peace Movements and the Future of the Atlantic Alliance (New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1985).

"The Engineer as Ideologue: Technology and the Cultural Politics of Engineers in Weimar and the Third Reich," Journal of Contemporary History 10 (1985).

"Reactionary Modernism: Some Ideological Origins of the Primacy of Politics in the Third Reich," Theory and Society 10 (1981).

"Translator's Introduction" to Alfred Schmidt's History and Structure (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981).

"The 'Holocaust' Reception in West Germany: Left, Right and Center," New German Critique 19 (Winter, 1980).

"Technology, Reification and Romanticism," New German Critique 12 (Fall, 1977).

Reviews 1977 to 1994

Peter S. Fisher, Fantasy and Politics: Visions of the Future in the Weimar Republic, in German Politics and Society 28 (Spring 1993): 79-81.

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Raymond H. Dominick III, The Environmental Movement in Germany: Prophets and Pioneers, 1871-1971, in Science 260 (May 28, 1993): 1353-1354.

Raymond Boudon, L'Ideologie: L'origine des idees recues in Contemporary Sociology, 18, 2 (March 1989): 291-95. Jurgen Habermas, ed. Observations on the Spiritual Situation of the Age, in American Journal of Sociology (Spring 1985).

David Held, Introduction to Critical Theory, in Telos 52 (Summer, 1982).

Fred Weinstein, The Dynamics of Nazism: Leadership, Ideology and the Holocaust, in Contemporary Sociology (March, 1982).

Manfred Stanley, The Technological Conscience, in American Journal of Sociology (January, 1982).

Michael Lowy, Pour une Sociologie des Intellectuelles Revolutionnaires, in Telos 37 (Fall, 1978).

Agnes Heller et. al., The Humanization of Socialism: Writings of the Budapest School, in Telos 35 (Summer, 1978).

Perry Anderson, “Science and Class or Philosophy and Revolution: Perry Anderson on Western Marxism,” Socialist Revolution Vol. 7, No. 5 (September-October, 1977), pp. 129-144.

Translations

History and Structure: Questions Concerning a Marxist Theory of History, translation of Alfred Schmidt's Geschichte und Struktur: Fragen einer marxistischen Historik (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981).

"Conversation between Hans Gerth and Mathias Greffath," in Arthur Vidich, Joseph Bensman, and Nobuko Gerth, eds. Politics, Character and Culture: Perspectives from Hans Gerth (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982).

Academic Honors and Fellowships up to 1994

German Marshall Fund Fellowship, 1993-94 to work on politics and memory in the two Germanys, 1945-1989.

Fulbright Award to teach in "Sommersemester" (April-July) 1994 at the University of Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br., Federal Republic of Germany.

Research Associate, and Bradley Foundation Fellow, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., 1991-1993.

Visiting Scholar, Institut fur Zeithistorische Studien Potsdam, and the Max Planck Gesellschaft, Federal Republic of Germany, June-July, 1993.

Volkswagen Research Fellowship, German Historical Institute; and American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, DC., 1991-1992.

Visiting Research Associate, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, Austria, May-July, 1991,

Research Associate, and Bradley Foundation Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 1989-90.

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Bradley Foundation Fellowship for independent research at the John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy, University of Chicago, 1988-89.

Harvard University Award for Distinction in Teaching, March 1986,

Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship in European Society and Western Security, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1983-84.

German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship for Doctoral Research, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt-am-Main, Federal Republic of Germany, 1978-79.

German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship for Language Study, Goethe Institute, Federal Republic of Germany, Summer, 1975 and 1978.

Conference Papers and Talks up to 1994

"Multiple Restorations: German Political Leaders and the Interpretation of Nazism, 1945-1961," Center for European Studies, Harvard University, October 14, 1993.

"Vielfältige Restaurationen: Deutsche politische Traditionen und die Interpretation des Nationalsozialismus," Forschungsschwerpunkt für Zeithistorische Studien, Potsdam, Germany, July 13, 1993.

"The Limits of Reactionary Modernism: Reflections on the Meaning of the 'West,' Modernity, and their Rejection in Weimar and the Third Reich," at conference on "Der Technikdiskurs in der Hitler-Stalin Ära," Universität Bremen, Bremen, Federal Republic of Germany, June 10-12, 1993.

Commentator, Panel on Theodor Heuss and Alfred Weber at conference on "The Spirit of Heidelberg and the Future of Germany in 1945," Internationale Wissenschaftsforum at Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany, May 5-8, 1993.

"Multiple Restorations vs. the 'Solid South': Continuities and Discontinuities in Germany after 1945 and in the American South after 1865," Third Annual Krefeld Symposium, Krefeld, Federal Republic of Germany, May 20-23, 1993 on "Reconstruction and 'Wiederaufbau' in Germany and the United States in Comparative Perspective: 1865, 1945, 1990."

"Multiple Restorations: German Political Leaders Interpret Nazism, 1945-46," Conference on German Unification, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, April, 23, 1993.

"How the Culture Wars Matter: Liberal Historiography, German History and the Jewish Catastrophe," at conference on "Higher Education in Crisis," University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, April 10, 1993.

"Participant in Discussion of the Westernization of Germany's Political Culture: The Contribution of Political Science," Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Washington, D.C., September 23, 1992.

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"Politics and Memory in the Two Germanys, 1945-1955," German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., May 14, 1992.

"Political Culture, Power Politics, and the Euromissile Dispute in West Germany, 1963-1983," Washington Area Group of German Historians, April 25, 1992.

"Technology, and the German Intellectual Right in the 20th Century: The Apolitical Tradition and Its Eclipse," Conference on Technological Pessimism, Modern Societies, and Their Environments," at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv, Israel, January 5-9, 1992.

"Freiheit und Macht an amerikanischen Universitäten," Mitteilungen des Hochschulverbandes, 3 (June 1992): 145- 150; first delivered as a lecture to the 42. Hochschulverbandstag of the Deutscher Hochschulverband, Erfurt, Federal Republic of Germany, May, 1992.

"How Democracy Survived: Political Culture, Power Politics, and the Euromissile Dispute in West Germany, 1977- 1983," American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, D.C, November, 1991; and Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, May 23, 1991.

"Multiple Memories: 'Munich,' 'Auschwitz' and the Euromissile Dispute," Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, June 6, 1991.

"Reactionary Modernism Reconsidered: The Significance and Insignificance of the Problem of Modernity in Nazi Germany," Conference on the Intellectual Assault on Liberal Democracy, 1870-1945, at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, June 24-28, 1990, Jerusalem, Israel. Also delivered at the Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, Austria, May 14, 1991.

"West German Conservatism," conference on the Federal Republic of Germany at Forty, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT, October 26, 1989.

"When Intellectuals Find Their Publics: The West German Experience, 1969-1983," History Department Colloquium, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, March 1989.

"Politics and the Nazi Past: The Jenninger Affair in Context," American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, D.C., February, 1989.

"From Militant Democracy to Semi-Neutralism: The Left as Bulwark and Lever in West Germany," Colloqium of the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, November 1988.

"Scholarly and Political Legacies of May 1968," comments at "May 68" Conference, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, October, 1988.

"Reactionary Modernists and Berlin: The Rejection of the Cosmopolitan Metropolis," conference on "The Spell of the Metropolis: Berlin and London in the 1920s," German Historical Institute of London Conference in West Berlin, May 5-7, 1988.

"West German 'Semi-Neutralism': Boundary Erosion, Cultural and Political," Panel on West German National Identity, Council for European Studies, October 30, 1987, Washington, D.C.

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"Reactionary Modernism and German Inwardness," Conference on the Tragedy of Inwardness, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, October 8, 1987.

"Reactionary Modernism and the Salience of Ideology in Nazi Germany," Mellon Seminar on Technology and Culture, University of Pennsylvania, September 25, 1986.

"Helmut Schmidt and the Double-Track Decision," National Security Seminar, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, November 1985.

"The Center Left Could Not Hold: Moral Order and National Identity in West Germany," Salzburg Seminar, Salzburg, Austria, January 12-22, 1984.

"Reactionary Modernism: Some Comments on Nazism and Technology," Center for European Studies Historical Colloquium on the Rise of Nazism, Harvard University, March, 1983.

"Technology and the Traditions of German Engineers," International Sociological Association Meetings, Mexico City, 1982.

"Technology and the Cultural Politics of Engineers in the Third Reich," Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, 1982.

"Coming to Terms with the Past in West Germany," Center for European Studies, Harvard University, November 1981.

"What Does Coming to Terms with the Past Mean?" Second Annual New England Workshop on German Affairs, Boston, Mass., May 1981.

"Reactionary Modernism: Some Ideological Origins of the Primacy of Politics in Nazi Germany," Annual Meeting, Council for European Studies, 1980.

Teaching Experience up to 1994

1996-1997, Ohio University, Associate Professor, Department of History

1997-2000, Ohio University, Full Professor, Department of History

1995-96, Mount Holyoke College, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of History.

Spring 1990, Brandeis University, Visiting Professor, Department of History. Lecture course on nations and nationalism since 1500, and seminar on left and right in twentieth-century Europe.

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Political Essays up to 1983-1990

“A European Germany,” The Atlanta Constitution (October 2, 1990) “West German Political Culture,” The National Interest, No. 17 (Fall 1989) “Phillip Jenninger and the Dangers of Speaking Clearly,” Partisan Review (Spring 1989) “The New Left: Reflections and Reconsiderations” in John H. Bunzel, ed. Political Passages: Journeys of Change Through Two Decades, 1868-1988 (New York: The Free Press, 1988) “Illusions of Neutralism in Western Europe,” Partisan Review (Spring, 1983)