Martin R. Menke Woods College of Advancing Studies Saint Mary’s Hall South Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Education 1990-1996 Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. 1996 Ph.D. in Modern European History. Dissertation: Crisis Management in the German Center Party: An Analysis of Centrist Foreign Policy, 1918-1933. 1992 Doctoral Comprehensive Examination passed with distinction. 1992 Master of Arts. 1987-1990 Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts. 1990 Bachelor of Arts cum laude. Honors 1996-1997 Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Boston College. 1996 Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston College. 1993 Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Boston College. 2014 Participant, Institute for Administrators in Catholic Higher Education, Boston College. Offices 2016-2019 Member, Executive Committee, American Catholic Historical Association 2015-2020 Executive Secretary, New England Historical Association 2015-2017 Chair, Program Committee, American Catholic Historical Association 2014-2015 Member, Program Committee, American Catholic Historical Association 2011-2012 President, New England Historical Association 2010-2011 Vice-President, New England Historical Association Administrative Experience – Boston College 2018-2019 Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Advising, Woods College of Advancing Studies Administrative Experience -- Rivier University 2015-2018 Chair, University Curriculum Committee 2015-2016 Member, Search Committee, Vice President for Finance and Operations 2014 Chair, Search Committee, Computer Science 2014-2015 Member, Search Committee, Vice President for Academic Affairs 2014 - 2015 Chair, Search Committee, Criminal Justice/Homeland Security 2014 - 2015 Chair, Faculty Handbook Revision Committee 2007 - Coordinator, Department of History, Political Science and Criminal Justice. 1999 - 2014 Director, Secondary Social Studies Education (BA and MAT) 2006 - 2012 Director, Junior Year Seminars, core curriculum. 2010 - 2012 Member, Core Curriculum Revision Committee. 2005 - 2014 Member, Rank and Tenure Committee (three terms). 2004 - 2005 Chair, Formal ad Hoc Hearing Committee 2003 Director, Catholic Mission Program. 1998 - 1999 Member, Strategic Planning Steering Committee. Teaching Experience 2009 - Rivier University, Nashua, New Hampshire. Professor of History. 2001-2009 Rivier College, Nashua, New Hampshire. Associate Professor of History. 1997-2001 Rivier College, Nashua, New Hampshire. Assistant Professor of History. 1997- Woods College of Advancing Studies, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Adjunct Faculty. 1997 Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts. Adjunct Faculty. 1996-1997 College of Arts and Sciences, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Visiting Assistant Professor. 1996 Wheaton College, Norton Massachusetts. Adjunct Faculty. 1994-1996 Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Teaching Fellow. Publications Articles and other Substantive Publications 2018 “The Complexities of Ludwig Kaas: New Research on the Ermächtigungsgesetz,” in From Weimar to Hitler Studies on the Dissolution of Weimar Democracy and the Establishment of the Third Reich, 1932-1934, Eds. Hermann Beck and Larry Eugene Jones. Berghahn Books. 2016 “Multiple Caesars? Germany, Bavaria, and German Catholics in the Interwar Period.” Beyond the Borders of Baptism: Catholicity, Allegiances, and Lived Identities.” Ed. Michael L. Budde. Cascade Books. 2013 “The effect of the Lateran Accords and the Reichskonkordat on Jews: A Comparative View.” Proceedings of the Primo Levi Center (forthcoming). 2009 “Misunderstood Civic Duty: The German Center Party and the Enabling Act” Journal of Church and State 51(2009), 236-264. 2007 “Good Catholics – Good Germans” Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte 14(2006), 1-16. 2005 “’Thy Will Be Done: ’Nationalism and Faith in German Catholicism.” Catholic Historical Review, 91(2005), 300-320. 2001 Interactive Assets for Chapters 15, 29-33 in Divine, Breen, et al. America Past and Present: Flexchoice Edition. New York: Longman. 1994 with John L. Heineman, William E. Scaring, and James K. Bidwell, Discussion Guide and Historical Atlas for Readings in European History, ed. John L. Heineman. Dubuque: Kendall-Hunt, 1994. Encyclopedia Entries 2006 “Dietrich Bonhoeffer” Encyclopedia of Christian Politicians, ed. Roy Domenico and Mark Hanley, eds. Westport: Greenwood Press. 2006 “Joseph Wirth” Encyclopedia of Christian Politicians, ed. Roy Domenico and Mark Hanley, eds. Westport: Greenwood Press. 2006 “Carl Schmitt” Encyclopedia of Christian Politicians, ed. Roy Domenico and Mark Hanley, eds. Westport: Greenwood Press. 2006 “Jakob Kaiser” Encyclopedia of Christian Politicians, ed. Roy Domenico and Mark Hanley, eds. Greenwood Press. 2006 “Zentrumspartei”Encyclopedia of Christian Politicians, ed. Roy Domenico and Mark Hanley, eds. Westport: Greenwood Press. 1999 “Lothar Gall” Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing ed. Kelly Boyd. London: Fitzroy Dearborn. 1999 “Theodor Schieder” Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing ed. Kelly Boyd. London: Fitzroy Dearborn. 1999 “Hans Mommsen” Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing ed. Kelly Boyd. London: Fitzroy Dearborn. 1999 “Claudia Koonz” Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing ed. Kelly Boyd. London: Fitzroy Dearborn. Book Reviews 2018 Review of Islam and Nazi Germany’s War by David Motadel in Political Theology (forthcoming). 2018 review of Bernard Lichtenberg: Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr of the Nazi Regime? by Brenda Gaydosh in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (forthcoming). 2016 Review of Galen: Wege und Irrwege der Forschung by Joachim Kuropka in Theologische Revue, 2017:1. 2015 Review of Wehrmacht Priests: Catholic Priests and the Nazi War of Annihilation by Lauren Faulkner Rossi, in Studies in Christian Jewish Relations 10(2015)1. 2015 Review of Otto Weiss, Kulturkatholizismus. Katholiken auf dem Weg in die deutsche Kultur, 1900-1933 in H-Soz-u-Kult. <http://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-23767>. 2014 Review of Friedlicher Kreuzzug und fromme Pilger: Liturgiehistorische Studien zu Heilig-Land-Wallfahrt im Spiegel deutsch-sprachiger Pilgerberichte des späten 19. Jahrhunderts by Stefan Böntert in Catholic Historical Review, 100 (2014), 622-623. 2014 Review of Soldier of Christ: Life of Pius XII by Robert Ventresca in Church History 83(2014), 798-800. 2013 Review of From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965 by John Connelly in Marginalia: A Review of Books in History, Theology, and Religion (December 2013). 2013 Review of The East German State and the Catholic Church, 1945-1989 by Bernd Schaefer in Journal of Contemporary History 48(2013), 223. 2012 Review of Hitler, Mussolini and the Vatican: Pius XI and the Speech that was Never Given by Emma Fattorini in The Historian 75(2012), 196-197. 2012 Review of Religionen und Katholizismus, Bildung und Geschichtsdidaktik, Arbeiterbewegung: Ausgewählte Aufsätze by Michael Klöckner in Catholic Historical Review 98(2012), 588-589. 2011 Review of Wanderer zwischen den politischen Mächten: Pater Nikolaus von Lutterotti OSB (1892-1955) und die Abtei Grüssau in Niederschlesien by Inge Steinsträßer in Catholic Historical Review 97(2011), 166-167. 2010 Review of The Holy See and Hitler’s Germany by Gerhard Besier with Francesca Piombo in H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences, February 2010. 2010 Review of When East Met West: World History Through Travelers’ Perspectives ed. by Robert Niebuhr in NEHA Newsletter 36(2010), 21-22. 2009 Review of Crossing Hitler: The Man who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand by Benjamin Carter Hett in NEHA Newsletter 35(2009), 26-27. 2008 Review of Pius XII, the Holocaust and the Cold War by Michael Phayer in Journal of Church and State 50(2008), 591. 2008 Review of Begegnung von Kirche und Welt: Die Gründung katholischer Akademien in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1945-1975 by Oliver M. Schütz in H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences (forthcoming). 2008 Review of Katholische Kirche in SBZ und DDR by Christoph Kösters und Wolfgang Tischner in H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences, January 2008. 2007 Review of Religion und Politik in den Schriften Papst Benedikt XVI.: Die politischen Implikationen von Joseph Ratzinger by Achim Pfeiffer in H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences, October 2007. 2007 Review of Volksfrömmigkeit und Katholisches Milieu: Marienerscheinungen in Heede, 1937-1940 by Maria Anna Zumholz in Catholic Historical Review 93(2007), 983-985. 2007 Review of Katholische Studierende 1945-1973: Ein Beitrag zur Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland by Christian Schmidtmann in H-Net Review in the Humanities and Social Sciences, September 2007. 2007 Review of Heuss auf Reisen: Die auswärtige Repräsentation der Bundesrepublik durch den ersten Bundespräsidenten by Frieder Günther in H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences, February 2007. 2006 Review of Josef Kardinal Frings (1887-1978), Volume 2: Sein Wirken für die Weltkirche und seine letzten Bischofsjahre by Norbert Trippen for the Arbeitskreis Kirchlicher Zeitgeschichte, Spring 2006. 2005 Review of Diktatur und Diaspora: Das Bistum Meißen 1932-1951 by Birgit Mitzscherlich in Catholic Historical Review 91(2005), 845-847. 2005 Review of The Wayward Flock: Catholic Youth in Post-War West Germany, 1945-1965 by Mark Edward Ruff in H-Net