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JOE PERRY
CONTACT INFORMATION Department of History, Georgia State University 25 Park Place, Atlanta, GA 30303 404/413-6374; [email protected]
ACADEMIC POSITIONS Associate Professor, Department of History, Georgia State University, 2008-present. Assistant Professor, Department of History, Georgia State University, 2001-2008. Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000-01.
EDUCATION Ph.D., Modern European History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2001. Major Field: Modern European History. Minor Fields: Comparative Gender and Women’s History; Cultural and Intellectual History; Imperialism and Post-Colonial Theory. M.A. in European History, Boston University, 1989. B.A. in European History, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1986.
SCHOLARSHIP Book Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010/Paperback reissue, 2014). Explores competing appropriations of Germany’s most popular holiday and argues that cultures of domesticity, emotion, and private life played a central role in the construction of communities and national identities.
Reviewed in: Times Literary Supplement; American Historical Review; Journal of Modern History; German History; Central European History; Journal of Church History; Journal of Interdisciplinary History; Western Folklore; Library Journal; Christian Review; Journal of Folklore Research; Lone Star Book Review; Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians.
Textbooks A History of Western Society, various formats, co-author with John McKay, Clare Crowston, and Mary Wiesner-Hanks (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 12th ed. 2017). A History of Western Society for the AP Course, co-author with John McKay, Clare Crowston, and Mary Wiesner-Hanks (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 12th ed. 2017). A History of Western Society: Value Edition co-author with John McKay, Clare Crowston, and Mary Wiesner-Hanks (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2nd ed. 2017; 1st ed. 2013). A History of Western Society, various formats, co-author with John McKay, Clare Crowston, and Mary Wiesner-Hanks (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 11th ed. 2013). Understanding Western Society: A History, various formats, co-author with John McKay, John Buckler, Bennett Hill, Clare Crowston, and Mary Wiesner-Hanks (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, second ed. 2014; first ed. 2012). A History of Western Society, various formats, co-author with John McKay, John Buckler, Bennett Hill, Clare Crowston, and Mary Wiesner-Hanks (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 10th ed. 2010).
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Articles and Book Chapters “Berlin Love Parade 1996 and the Techno Scene: Building (a) Cultural Capital,” under review (revised and resubmitted), German Studies Review. “Von ‘Raving Society’ zur Spassgesellschaft: Der Verdoppelte Aufbruch der Berliner Love Parade und der deutschen Technoszene” (From the ‘Raving Society’ to the Fun Society: The Double Breakthrough of the Berlin Love Parade and the German Techno Scene), accepted for publication in Zeiten des Aufbruchs: Popmusik als Mittel sozialer Wandels seit den 1960er Jahren, eds. Dominik Schrage, Holger Schwetter, and Anne-Kathrin Hoklas (Wiesbaden: Springer Verlag für Sozialwissenschaft, forthcoming 2018). “Colonising the Christmas Mood in Nazi Germany,” in Life and Times in Nazi German, ed. Lisa Pine (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016): 263-289. “The Madonna of Stalingrad: Mastering the (Christmas) Past and West German National Identity after World War II,” Jahrbuch für Politik und Geschichte, Bd. 5 (2014): 223-243 (reprint of 2002 article). “On the Importance of Local Pasts: An 'Outside View' of Memory Work in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein,” in Das Gedächtnis von Stadt und Region: Geschichtsbilder in Norddeutschland, ed. Janina Fuge, Rainer Hering, Harald Schmid (Hamburg: Forschungsstelle für Zeitgschichte in Hamburg/Dölling & Golitz, 2010): 138-148. “Healthy for Family Life: Television, Masculinity, and Domestic Modernity during West Germany's Miracle Years,” German History (December 2007): 560-595; invited submission to special issue on “Modernity, Domesticity and Technology.” “Consumer Citizenship in the Interwar Era: Gender, Race, and the State in Global-Historical Perspective,” Journal of Women's History (Winter 2006): 157-172. “The Nazification of Christmas: Politics and Popular Celebration in the Third Reich,” Central European History (December 2005): 572-605. “Exhibition Review: 1945--Der Krieg und seine Folgen: Kriegsende und Erinnerungspolitik in Deutschland [1945--The War and its Results: War’s End and Memory Politics in Germany,” Exhibition at the German History Museum, 28 April to 28 August 2005, H-Net German, posted July 2005. “The Madonna of Stalingrad: Mastering the (Christmas) Past and West German National Identity after World War II,” Radical History Review (Spring 2002): 7-27. “Mastering the (Christmas) Past: Manhood, Memory, and the German ‘War Christmas,’” Thematica: Historical Research and Review (Spring 1995): 57-76.
Blog Posts “How the Nazis Co-Opted Christmas,” The Conversation, 22 December 2015 (https://theconversation.com/how-the-nazis-co-opted-christmas-52186). The initial post received over 100,000 hits and was re-posted (sometimes under different titles) in 2015 by Newsweek, The Washington Post, New Republic, Business Insider, History News Network, Buenos Aries Herald, Heritage Daily, and other news and history sites; reposted in 2016 by Smithsonian.com, The Question, and other sites; reposted in 2017 by Salon and other sites. “Christmas: A Revolutionary Holiday? “Age of Revolutions, 22 December 2015 (http://ageofrevolutions.com/2015/12/22/christmas-a-revolutionary-holiday/).
Newspaper Articles “Fröhliche Weihnachten! Merry Christmas! Christmas Traditions in Germany and America,” The German Citizen (Buffalo NY), October-November 2013, 7.
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Dissertation “The Private Life of the Nation: Christmas and the Invention of Modern Germany,” (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 2001) Peter Fritzsche, Chair.
Book Reviews War of Words: Culture and the Mass Media in the Making of the Cold War in Europe, eds. Judith Devlin and Christoph Hendrik Müller (2013), Central European History, March 2015, 143-145. Screen Nazis: Cinema, History, and Democracy, Sabine Hake (2012), Central European History, June 2014, 469-471. Globalisation and the Nation in Imperial Germany, Sebastian Conrad (2010), Journal of World History, September 2012, 729-731. Kultur in finsteren Zeiten: Nazifaschismus, Innere Emigration, Exil, Jost Hermand (2010), Journal of Modern History, June 2012, 521-523. The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany, Kay Schiller and Christopher Young (2010), Central European History, December 2011, 779-781. Joseph Goebbels: Life and Death, Toby Thacker (2009), German History, March 2011, 165-67. Work and Play: The Production and Consumption of Toys in Germany, 1870-1914, David D. Hamlin (2007), Social History, February 2011, 93-94. Die Kanzler und die Medien: Acht Porträts von Adenauer bis Merkel [The Chancellors and the Media: Eight Portraits from Adenauer to Merkel], Lars Rosumek (2007), H-Net German, posted February 2011 < http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=32226>. Revenge of the Domestic: Women, the Family, and Communism in the German Democratic Republic, Donna Harsch (2007), German Studies Review, February 2008, 85-86. Konsens und Krise: Eine Gechichte der westdeutschen Medien Öffentlichkeit 1945-1973 [Consensus and Crisis: A History of the West German Media Public Sphere], Christina von Hodenberg (2006), H-Net German, posted September 2007 < http://www.h-net.org/reviews/ showrev.php?id=13623>. Enzylopädie Erster Weltkrieg [Encyclopedia of the First World War],Gerhard Hirshfeld et. al., eds. (2003), German Studies Review, February 2006, 184-185. Hör Zu! Eduard Rhein und die Rundfunkprogrammzeitschriften 1931-1965 [Tune In! Eduard Rhein and Germany's Broadcasting Program Magazines, 1931-1965], Lu Seegers (2001), Social History, May 2004, 272. Der große Krieg der Sprachen. Untersuchungen zur historischen Semantik in Deutschland und England zur Zeit des Ersten Weltkriegs, [The Great War of Words: Investigations of Historical Semantics in Germany and England during the First World War], Aribert Reimann (2000), German History, January 2003, 139-141. Festive Culture in Germany and Europe from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century, ed. Karin Friedrich (2000), German Studies Review, February 2003, 372-373. Merry Christmas! Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday, Karal Ann Marling (2000), Journal of Social History, December 2002, 231-233. Conceptions of Postwar German Masculinity, ed. Roy Jerome (2001), German Quarterly, Fall 2002, 466-467.
Conference Session Reviews “Session Review: Das Gedächtnis von Stadt und Region [Collective Memory in City and Region],” German Studies Association Annual Conference, St. Paul, October 2008, H-Net German, posted December 2008. Perry-CV-p. 4
“Session Review: Radio for a Post-War Society,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, San Diego, October 2007, H-Net German, posted December 2007.
Translation Christian Gerlach, “German Economic Interests, Occupation Policy, and the Murder of the Jews in Belorussia, 1941-1943,” National Socialist Extermination Policies, ed. Herbert Ulrich (New York: Berghahn Books, 2000).
Current Research Projects The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Love Parade. This book project examines the history of Europe’s largest music festival, the youth culture surrounding rave music, and urban development in Berlin in the 1990s and 2000s.
Broadcast Communities: Television and Consumer Citizens in West Germany, 1953-1970. Explores the emergence and consolidation of German television and its role in shaping notions of citizenship West Germany.
Truckin’ — How the Big Rigs Changed America. Oriented towards a popular readership, this book will recount the history of the trucking industry and the role of trucking in popular culture in the United States from 1900 to the present.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD) Re-Invitation Programme Scholarship, 2017. Georgia State University, Dept. of History Summer Research Grant, 2002; 2004; 2008; 2016. Georgia State University, Research Initiation Grant, 2005; 2014-15. University of Illinois, Post-Doctoral Research and Teaching Fellowship, 2000-2001. University of Illinois, University Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 1999-2000. German Academic Exchange Service, Annual Research Scholarship, 1996-1997 (renewed). American Historical Association, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grant, 1996. German Historical Institute, Transatlantic Cooperative Research Grant, 1997. German Historical Institute, Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar Grant, 1996. University of Illinois, University Fellowship, 1995-1996. Nelle M. Signor Fellowship in International Relations, University of Illinois, 1996. Council For European Studies, Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1995. German Academic Exchange Service, Intensive Language Program Scholarship, 1995. German Academic Exchange Service, Berkeley Seminar in German Studies Scholarship, 1994. University of Illinois, University Fellowship, 1992-1993. Boston University, University Fellowship, 1987-1988.
PRESENTATIONS Professional Meetings Comment on the session “Media Politics in Contemporary Germany,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, October 2017. Comment on the session “German Imperialism,” Seventh Annual Conference on Power and Struggle, University of Alabama Graduate History Society, Tuscaloosa AL, October 2015. Perry-CV-p. 5
“Is the ‘Unmasterable Past’ Finally Mastered? Memory Politics at the German Historical Museum Sixty Years after World War II,” Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Atlanta GA, April 2014. Moderator on the session “Jewish Transferräume in Eastern Austria in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Denver, CO, October 2013. “What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Television?” American Historical Association Annual Conference, Chicago IL, January 2012. Comment on the session “Migrations (6): Migration and the Media,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Louisville KY, September 2011. Moderator on the session “Migrations (7): Return Migrations,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Louisville KY, September 2011. “Nazi Piety: The Christmas Campaign of the Winterhilfswerk,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Oakland CA, October 2010. Comment on the session “Money in the German Speaking Lands (2): Reconstruction and Rebuilding,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Oakland CA, October 2010. Comment on the session “The Politics of Advertising,” Annual Business History Conference, Athens, GA, March 2010. “Broadcast Communities: Television and the Family Audience in 1950s West Germany,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York, January 2009. “Taking the Measure of Mankind: How Opinion Research Remade Public Conceptions of Private Life in Postwar West Germany,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, St. Paul, October 2008. Comment on the session “Das Gedächtnis von Stadt und Region [Collective Memory in City and Region],” German Studies Association Annual Conference, St. Paul, October 2008. “Public Opinion Research and the ‘New Capitalist Man’ in 1950s West Germany,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, San Diego, October 2007. Comment on the session “Radio for a Post-War Society,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, San Diego, October 2007. “Familie Schölermann Denkt Modern: West Germany’s First Television Family and the Trials of Domestic Modernity,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Pittsburg, September 2006. “The National Spirit of the German Home: Celebrating Christmas in the Third Reich,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Milwaukee, October 2005. Comment on the panel “New Approaches to Modern Memory,” Florida Conference of Historians, Jacksonville, February 2003. “Domesticating Manhood: Gendered Aspects of the ‘TV Debate’ and the West German Economic Miracle, 1953-1963,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 2003. “Healthy for Family Life: Television, Gender, and Consumerist Modernity in West Germany's Economic Miracle,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, San Diego, October 2002. Comment on the panel “Migration and Immigration in Twentieth-Century Germany.” Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Chicago, November 2001. “Christmas in Enemy Territory: Soldiers' Ritual and the Front Community in World War I,” German Studies Association, Washington D.C., October 2001. “Mastering the (Christmas) Past: Manhood, Militarism, and the Madonna of Stalingrad.” International Conference in European Studies: Manifestations of National Identity in Modern Europe, University of Minnesota, May 2001. Perry-CV-p. 6
Comment on the panel “Writing the Gendered Nation.” Second Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History, University of Illinois, March 2001. “Scripting a National Holiday: Christmas in Imperial Germany, 1870-1914.” Third Annual Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display, Bowling Green State University Center for Popular Culture Studies, May 1999. “Shaping the National Community: The Myth of the German ‘War Christmas’ of 1914.” Second Annual Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display, Bowling Green State University Center for Popular Culture Studies, May 1998. “‘Unfrieden auf Erden’ or ‘Brücke zur Gemeinschaft’? Storm Troopers and the Nazification of Christmas, 1921-1938.” With Sven Reichardt, German Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington DC, September 1997. “No Christmas without National Socialism! Propaganda, Popular Participation, and the Nazification of German Christmas.” First Annual Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display, Bowling Green State University Center for Popular Culture Studies, May 1997. “Mastering the (Christmas) Past: German War Christmas and Postwar Memory,” Fourth Annual Midwest Graduate Conference in German Studies; Goethe Institute, Chicago, May 1995. “Masculinity and the 'TV-Debate' in 1950s West Germany,” Fourth Annual Midwest Graduate Conference in German Studies; Goethe Institute, Chicago, May 1995.
By Invitation “Two, Three, Many Chronologies? Berlin Love Parade, 1996,” Underground Adventures: Temporal Experimentation in Postwar Countercultures, sponsored by European History Research Centre, Warwick University, Berlin, March 2017. “Vergangenheitsbewältigung: Sites of Memory in Contemporary Germany,” Weber School Winter Session Course on German Cultures of Memory, January 2017. “The Crisis of Liberation From Nazi Occupation in Belgium, September 1944: An Introduction to Jan Smolders, Harvest of War: A Flemish Novel,” Consul of Belgium Residency, Atlanta Georgia, November 2016. “Christmas in Germany: Scripting a National Holiday,” Book Presentation/Reading for Jules Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts, Auburn University, Auburn AL December 2013. “The Discrete Charm of the Sentimental: Christmas in Germany,” Zum Fest (On Celebration), Interdisciplinary Conference, Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany, December 2012. “German Christmas: Family, Faith, Fatherland,” Book Presentation/Reading for Wide Angle Lunches/Charleston Library Society, Charleston S.C., December 2012. Panel Discussant for screening of The Round Up (France, 2010), 2011 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, Atlanta GA, February 2011. “Forgotten History in Perry, et. al., A History of Western Society,” Recovering Forgotten History Conference, Seventh Meeting, Warsaw, Poland, December 2009. “Opinion Research and the New Capitalist Man in West Germany, 1945-1970,” workshop on Gender and the Long Postwar: Reconsiderations of the United States and the Two Germanys, 1945-1989, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C., May 2008. “The Ghosts of Christmas Past: Germany’s Favorite Holiday in the Post-World War II Decades,” German Studies Roundtable, Emory University Department of History/Department of German Studies, February 2008. “Complicity and Memory in Everyday Life: The Film Shop on Main Street and Memories of the Holocaust in 1960s Czechoslovakia,” Emory University Center for Russian and East European Studies, Atlanta, November 2002. Perry-CV-p. 7
“Modern Technology for Modern People: Television and West Germany’s ‘Leveled-Out Petite- Bourgeois Middle-Class Society,” Georgia State University Department of History Faculty Colloquium, Atlanta GA, October 2002. “German and Other European Perspectives on War with Iraq,” Georgia State University Public Colloquium on Perspectives on War With Iraq, September 2002. “Christmas, Consumer Society, and Cultural Identity in Modern Germany,” Phi Alpha Theta Brown Bag Lecture Series, Georgia State University, December 2001. “Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will and the Nazi Propaganda Spectacle.” Women's History Month Celebration; University of Illinois, April 1994.
Workshops Comment on “Class and Hierarchy: What's Left?” session at the Third Annual Southeast German Studies Workshop, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA, March 2010. “Inventing the New Capitalist Man in 1950s West Germany: Opinion Research and the Importance of Free Choice,” GSU Department of History Brown Bag Paper, September 2009. “Es Weihnachtet Sehr: Sensory Communities in Modern Germany,” Second Annual Southeast German Studies Workshop, University of South Carolina, Columbia S.C., March 2009. “Deconstructing 'Freedom of Choice': Consumer Citizenship in West Germany,” First Annual Southeast German Studies Workshop, University of South Carolina, Columbia, March 2008. “Where Are the Men? What Are They Doing? Gendering Leisure Time in Post-War West Germany,” Fourth Midwest German History Workshop, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 2000. “Memory and Ritual in German History,” Third Midwest German History Workshop, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 1999. “A Critique of David Ellis, ‘There Are More Things In Heaven And Earth,’” Modern European History Workshop, University of Chicago, December 1998. “Television, Consumer Society, and the Construction of German Masculine Identities in West Germany, 1952-1960,” Women's History Seminar, Technical University of Berlin, Germany, December 1997. “Front Christmas 1914-1918: A Community of Longing,” Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History, German Historical Institute, Bochum, Germany, April 1996.
TEACHING Dissertations and Theses Directed/Completed Sigrid Stanton, “The Far Away Elsewhere: Exploring Soviet Youth Culture and Escapism in Soviet Science Fiction Film and Electronic Music,” MA Thesis, 2017. Casey Cater, “Regenerating Dixie: Electric Energy and the Making of the Modern South,” Dissertation, 2016. Lauren Nass, “The Authority of Modernity: West German Aid to Africa, 1950-1970,” MA Thesis, 2013. Ruth Dewhurst, “Lutheranism, Pietism, and Nationalism in the German States, 1790-1870,” MA Thesis, 2013. Honorable Mention: John M. Matthews Distinguished Thesis Annual Award. Helen Greeson, “Gendering the Republic and the Nation: Political Poster Art of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939,” MA Thesis, 2012. Jon Schmitt, “With Vietnam We Are Bound as Brothers: Theorizing Socialism, Internationalism, and the Politics of Public Agency among Vietnamese Contract Workers in the German Democratic Republic,” MA Thesis, 2012. Winner: John M. Matthews Distinguished Thesis Annual Award. Perry-CV-p. 8
Cari di Palma, “Writing Her Way Back to the Old South: History, Memory, and Mildred Lewis Rutherford’s Battle Against the Social Consequences of Industrialization in the New South Period,” MA Thesis, 2012. Grace Dubinson (co-directed with Matt Lasner), “Slowly, Surely, One Plat, One Binder at a Time: Choking Out Jim Crow and the Development of Azurest Syndicate Incorporated,” MA Thesis, 2012. Jamie Dorch, “Käthe Kollwitz and Maternal Feminism in the Weimar Republic,” MA Thesis, 2006. Kevin Larson, “Victimization, Memory, and Commemoration: Germany’s Continued Search for a ‘Masterable Past,’” MA Thesis, 2006. Brian Miller, “Contested Integration: Berlin's Jewish Museum,” MA Thesis, 2005. Chris Huffman, “The Waffen-SS Soldier in World War II: Fanaticism, Everyday Life, and the New Military History,” Dissertation, 2005. Kevin Goldberg, “Journeys of Heritage and Tradition: Tourism and Memory in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1989,” M.A. Thesis, 2004.
Dissertation and Thesis Direction/In Process Ruth Dewhurst, “Remembering Luther: Forging German Nationalism,” Dissertation. Adam Liddle, “Moving through Modernity: Railway Stations in Berlin, 1870-2006,” Dissertation. Sandra Pollard, “Girl Guides in Czechslovakia: The Hidden Politics of Scouting,” Dissertation. Amber Martinez, “Holocaust Memory in the Atlanta Metro Region,” Dissertation.
Graduate Courses Taught Interpretative Methods and Social Theory in History (Methods/Theory Seminar) Graduate Research Seminar (Thesis and Dissertation Chapter Writing) Europe in the World after the Second World War (Research/Reading Seminar) The First World War (Research/Reading Seminar) History of the Senses and Emotions in Global Perspective (Research/Reading Seminar) The Consumer Revolution in Twentieth Century Europe (Research/Reading Seminar) The Mass Media in Twentieth-Century Europe (Reading Seminar) Memory Landscapes-Study Abroad Course: Historic Preservation in Berlin and Central Germany German History as Cultural Studies (Research/Reading Seminar) Problems in Modern German History (Reading Seminar) Issues and Interpretations in European History (Reading Seminar) Introduction to Graduate Studies (Proseminar) Undergraduate Courses Taught Survey of World History, 1500 to the Present Survey of Western Civilization, 1660 to the Present Introduction to Historical Studies (Gateway Course for History Majors) Modern Germany since 1890 European Intellectual History II: From Marx to Postmodernism The Holocaust: A Survey The Holocaust: Issues and Interpretations The Holocaust and Film World War I: Causes, Course, Consequences World War I and the New Military History (Maymester Intensive Course) History and Memory (Senior “Capstone” Seminar) American Masculinities/Local Men (Senior “Capstone” Seminar) Nationalism and the Body Politic (Senior “Capstone” Seminar) Perry-CV-p. 9
Teaching Awards Teaching Critical Thinking Through Writing Course Development Award, Georgia State University, 2007. Writing Across the Curriculum Course Development Award, Georgia State University, 2003, 04. All Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Illinois, 1999. Liberal Arts and Sciences College Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Illinois, 1999. Women's Studies Teaching Fellowship, Women's Studies Program, University of Illinois, 1999. William Widenor Teaching Fellowship, Department of History, University of Illinois, 1998. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois, 1997-1998.
Presentations on Teaching, Pedagogy, and Professional Issues “A History of Western Civilization and the AP Modern European History Course,” Secondary School Sales Staff Workshop, Bedford, Freeman, and Worth Publishers Sales Staff Meeting, January 2017. “Teaching with On-Line Document Assignments: World War I Propaganda Posters,” Bedford, Freeman, and Worth Publishers Sales Staff Meeting, August 2013. “Working with Faculty as Writing Across the Curriculum Consultant,” Writing Across the Curriculum Faculty Workshop, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, May 2016; August 2015; August 2013; August 2012; August 2011. “Nested Assignments for Writing Across the Curriculum Courses,” Writing Across the Curriculum Faculty Workshop, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, May 2013; May 2012; May 2011. “Diverse Professional Tracks and Outcomes in History Graduate Education,” Georgia Statewide Preservation Conference: Preservation: Professionalism and Practice, Roswell GA, April 2012. “The Nation Around the Tannenbaum: Teaching Patters of Continuity and Change/German Christmas as Case Study,” Webinar for Secondary School Advanced Placement European History Teachers, organized by Bedford/St. Martin's Press, December 2011. “Key Moments in A History of Western Society: The Twentieth Century,” By Invitation, Bedford, Freeman, and Worth Publishers Annual Sales Meeting, Huntington Beach, CA, January 2011. “New Narratives for Teaching Post-World War II European History,” By Invitation, Sixth Annual Augsburg Seminar for AP European History, Department of History, Augsburg College, Minneapolis MN, July 2010. “How to Apply to Graduate School,” Phi Alpha Theta Workshop, Dept. of History, Georgia State University, April 2009. “Organizing a Professional CV,” AGSUH Workshop, Dept. of History, Georgia State University, March 2009. “How to Apply to Graduate School,” Phi Alpha Theta Workshop, Dept. of History, Georgia State University, February 2005. “Grading Techniques for Student Writing.” Annual Department Workshop for Teaching Assistants, Department of History, University of Illinois, February 2001. “Doing Local History: A Teaching Tool for Community Development,” Conference on History at the Grassroots: Local History and Its Audiences, Eastern Illinois University, October 2000. Organized Undergraduate Student Panel on “Nationalism and Masculinity in Champaign County.” Conference on History at the Grassroots: Local History and Its Audiences, Eastern Illinois University, October 2000. “Coping with Increased Writing Loads: Grading Techniques for Intensive Writing Courses.” Faculty Workshop on Writing Across the Curriculum, University of Illinois, May 1994. Perry-CV-p. 10
Guest Lectures “World War One and the End of the Long Nineteenth Century,” World History Since 1550 Survey Course, GSU, October 2006. “The Politics of Space: Berlin’s Architectural Landscape,” Georgia State University Global Cities Course, November 2002; November 2004; November 2005; November 2006.
SERVICE
National Professional Organizations •Program Committee for 20th and 21st History, German Studies Association Annual Conference, 2018. •Jury Member, Central European History Hans Rosenberg Article Prize, 2013. •Co-Founder and Steering Committee Member, Southern Regional German Studies Workshop, 2006-2012; Chair, 2009-2011.
Interviews •With Christina Maza, about the “War on Christmas,” quoted in “How Trump and the Nazis Stole Christmas to Promote White Nationalism,” Newsweek.com, 24 December 2017. •With Cathrin Schaer, about German Christmas, quoted in “Why Germans are so good at Christmas,” Handelsblatt Global, 22 December 2017. •With Thalia Beaty, independent journalist in Berlin, on the “Madonna of Stalingrad” and German identity in the current refugee crisis, 27 January 2017. •With Moritz Schwarz, reprinted in article format “Den Stempel Aufgedrückt: Ist Deutschland der Heimat der Weihnacht?” Junge Freiheit: Wochenzeitung für Debatte 26 December 2014 (Berlin, Germany), a profile of my interpretation of German Christmas traditions. •With Rochelle Bilow, Bon Appétit Magazine/bonappetit.com (New York), 13 December 2014, for an article on the origins of the Christmas pickle tree decoration. •With Carmen Drahl, Chemical & Engineering News, 26 November 2014, for an article on the history of Christmas tinsel. •Radio broadcasts of “Discreet Charm of the Sentimental: Christmas in Germany,” paper presented at Einstein Forum (Berlin), on DeutschlandRadio, rebroadcast 19 December 2013; initial broadcast 18 December 2012. •With Helena Ramos, Journal i (Queijas/Oeiras, Portugal), for an article on Christmas in the USSR, “Pai Natal sovietico. Um deviso de direita de Estaline,” Journal i, 31 December 2012.
Manuscript and other External Reviews •Book Manuscript Review, Berghahn Press, 2011; 2013. •External Reviewer, College of Charleston Graduate History Program, 2013.Grant Application Reviewer, Short Term Faculty Visit Grant Applications, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 2013. •Article Manuscript Review, Central European History, 2007; 2013. •Book Manuscript Review, Yale University Press, 2011.
DAAD Research Ambassador to GSU and Atlanta Community, August 2013-present •Represented DAAD programs at the Georgia University of Technology Global Internship Fair, 28 September 2017. •Represented DAAD programs at the GSU Study Abroad Fair, 23 September 2015. •Represented DAAD programs at the North Georgia University Graduate School Expo, 15 October 2016; 22 October 2015; 16 October 2014. Perry-CV-p. 11
•Presented “My Experience as a DAAD Stipendiat,” Destination Europe Conference, Georgia Technical University, 17 October 2014.
Book Endorsements •Nancy Reagin and Janice Liedl, eds, Star Wars and History (Wiley: 2012), endorsed 2012. •Bernd Brunner, Inventing the Christmas Tree (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), endorsed 2012.
Conference Panel Organization •Roundtable Organizer, “The Historian and Television History: Rethinking the Television Age,” Annual Conference, American Historical Association, January 2012. •Panel Organizer, “Spies, Pop Warriors, and Domestic Intimates: Cold War Genres in the Television Age,” Annual Conference, German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, Oct. 2006. •Panel Organizer, “New Approaches to Modern Memory,” Florida Conference of Historians, Jacksonville, February 2003. •Panel Organizer, “Modernity Begins at Home: Domesticity/Consumerism/Technology,” Annual Conference, German Studies Association, San Diego, October 2002. •Panel Organizer, “Reconsidering the Front Community: Masculinity and National Loyalty During World War I,” Annual Conference, German Studies Association, Washington D.C., October 2001.
Service: Department of History, Georgia State University •Graduate Studies Committee, 2004-present. Matthews Thesis/Dissertation Award Subcommittee, 2013, 2014. •Chair, European History Lecturer Search Committee, 2017-18. •Director of Graduate Studies, 2010-2013. •Promotion and Tenure II, 2008-present. Chair, File Review Sub-Committee, 2011. Various Promotion and Tenure File Review Subcommittees. •Committee for Triannual Evaluation of History Department Chair, 2017. •Chair, Committee for Triannual Evaluation of History Department Chair, 2013-2014. •Visiting Lecturer Search Committee, 2014. •Public History Search Committee, 2011-12 •Modern Germany Search Committee, 2011-12. •Executive Committee, 2008-2010. Pre-Tenure Review Subcommittee, 2009; Chair, April 2009. Annual Evaluation Subcommittee, 2008-2010. Contract (Personnel) Subcommittee, 2008; Chair, January 2009. •Chair, Ancient Mediterranean/Near Eastern World Search Committee, 2008-2009. •Visiting Instructor/Visiting Lecturer Search Committee, 2008. •Library, Media, and Technology Committee, 2001-2010; Chair, 2004-2010. •Early Modern Europe Search Committee, 2006-2007. •Undergraduate Advisement Committee, 2001-2007. •Faculty Advisor, Graduate Association of Georgia State University Historians, 2004-2005. •Undergraduate Studies Committee, 2002-2004. •Transnational U.S. Search Committee, 2002-2003.
Service: Georgia State University •Reviewer, Library Dissertation Travel Awards, December 2016. Perry-CV-p. 12
•Representative, Faculty Senate, 2008-2016 (three terms). Committee on Faculty Affairs. -Chair, General Policies Subcommittee, Fall 2014-2016. -Administration Evaluations Subcommittee, 2009. -Subcommittee on Partner and Spousal Hires, 2009-2016. -Subcommittee on Salary Compression, 2009-2016. Committee on Admissions and Standards. -Chair, Student Emergency Withdrawal Subcommittee, Summer 2014-2016. -Student Emergency Withdrawal Subcommittee, 2013-2014. -Student Petitions Subcommittees, 2008-2016. -Academic Regulations Subcommitee, 2009. •College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Council, 2010-2013. •Judge, Georgia State University Undergraduate Research Conference, 2013. •Fulbright Teaching Assistantship Grant Evaluation Committee, 2008. •Acting Faculty Advisor, Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies/International Studies, 2006-2007. •Aquatics Coordinator Search Committee, Recreation Center, 2006.
Service: Department of History, University of Illinois •Teaching Awards Committee, 1999-2000. •Undergraduate Teaching Committee, 1998-1999. •Modern Europe Search Committee, 1998.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS •American Historical Association •German Studies Association •German History Society
RESEARCH LANGUAGES •Fluent in German; reading knowledge of French and Swedish
AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST •Copies of Course Syllabi •Letters of Reference •Published and Unpublished Scholarship •Student Achievements •Student Evaluations