Curriculum Vitae Thomas Kühne Director, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Strassler Family Chair of Holocaust History Professor of History Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester MA 01610 Phone (1) 508-793-7523, email [email protected] CitizenshiP: U.S. and German Languages: German, English, and French httP://www.thomaskuehne.net https://clarku.academia.edu/ThomasKühne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kühne Education Habilitation (post-doc degree), University of Bielefeld, Germany, 2003: Venia Legendi in Modern History Dr. Phil. (Ph.D.), University of Tübingen, Germany, 1992: summa cum laude State Exam (Staatsexamen) in History and Literature, University of Tübingen, 1986 (B.A./M.A. equivalent) Professional Appointments Director, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 2016- Strassler Chair in Holocaust History and (Associate/Full) Professor of History, Clark University, 2004-now (tenure and Promotion to Full: 2007) Visiting Professor/Scholar, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, History DePartment, summer terms 2012, 2015 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton, NJ, 2003-04 Robert Bosch Visiting Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago, spring term 2004 (declined) Visiting Professor of History, University of Weingarten, Germany, 2002-03 Visiting Lecturer, DePartment of Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen, Germany, winter term 2001-02 Fellow, German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), University of Bielefeld, Germany, 1998-2001 Assistant Professor, DePartment of History, University of Konstanz, Germany, 1992-98 Research Assistant, DePartment of History, University of Tübingen, Germany, 1987-91 Awards, Fellowships, and Grants (Selection) Outstanding Graduate Mentor/Advisor Award, Clark University, 2016. Leibniz Summer Fellow, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung / Center for ContemPorary History, Potsdam, Germany, 2013 Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2010/11 Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton, NJ, 2010/11 Henry J. Leir Luxembourg Center-Clark University Grant for the conference on “Friendship and the Nation,” Luxembourg, 2010 Higgins Seminar in the Humanities, honor awarded by the Higgins School for the Humanities, Clark University, for the course Collective Memory and Mass Violence, 2010 Best Syllabus on Nazi Germany / Holocaust, prize awarded by H-German for Holocaust Perpetrators, 2008 Higgins Research Grant, Clark University, 2008 Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 2007-now Member, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton, NJ, 2003/04, and related grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (Germany) Research Fellow, German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), 2000-2001 Habilitation Fellow, German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), 1998- 2000 Research Grant, Volkswagen Foundation, Germany, 1995 Research Grant, University of Konstanz, Germany, 1995 Research Prize of the German Bundestag for Studies in Parliamentarism (WissenschaftsPreis des Deutschen Bundestages für Arbeiten zum Parlamentarismus), 1994 University Service Search Committee for the Dean of the Faculty, Clark University, 2017-18 (chair) Steering Committee, Clark University, 2017-18 Honorary Degree Committee, Clark University, 2017-18 Committee on Personnel (elected committee), Clark University, 2016-18 (chair 2017-18) Search Committee for the Assistant Professor in Chinese History, Clark University, 2015-16 Director of Graduate Studies, Holocaust History and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 2008- 2010, 2011-now Fulbright Committee, Clark University, 2007-10, 2011-17 Library Committee, Clark University, 2014-2017 (chair 2015-17) Graduate Board (elected committee), Clark University, 2007-2010, spring 2015 2 Search Committee for the Assistant ProfessorshiP in Chinese History, Clark University, 2009/10 Search Committee for the Kaloosdian-Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies and Modern Armenian History, Clark University, 2007/08, chair Search Committee for the Leffell Professor in Jewish History, Clark University, 2007/08 Steering Committee of the “Difficult Dialogues” Project, Clark University, 2006-2008 Affirmative Action and Sexual Respect Committee, Clark University, 2006-2009 Committee of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), Clark University, 2005/06 Modern History Colloquium, History DePartment, Clark University, convener 2005-2009 Steering Committee of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 2004-now Search Committee for the Chair in Early Modern European History (C4 Professur für Geschichte mit dem SchwerPunkt Frühe Neuzeit), University of Konstanz, 1994-1995 Committee on Interdisciplinary Teaching, University of Konstanz, 1994-1998 Service to the Profession (Selections) Executive Board, German Studies Association, 2016-2018 Nomination Committee, German Studies Association, 2017-18 (chair) Editorial Board, Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust, 2016-now Editorial Board, Central European History, 2015-now Editorial board, Culture, Society and Masculinities, 2009-now Book series co-editor, Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide, 2015-now - Mass Media and the Genocide of the Armenians, ed. S. KaPPler et al. (2016) - Jewish Resistance to ‘Romanization,’ by Stefan Ionescu (2015) - The Memory of Genocide in Tasmania, 1803-2013, by Jesse Shipway (2016) - The United Nations and Genocide, ed. Deborah Mayersen (2016) - The Armenian Genocide Legacy, ed. A. Demirdjian (2016) - The Jews of Nazi Vienna, 1938-1945, by Ilana F. Offenberger (2017) - Female Administrators of the Third Reich, by Rachel Century (2017) - Killing Orders. Talat Pasha’s Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide, by Taner Akcam (2018) - The Transgenerational Consequences of the Armenian Genocide. Near the Foot of Mount Ararat, by Anthonie Holslag (2018) Book series co-editor, Frieden und Krieg. Beiträge zur Historischen Friedensforschung (Peace and War. Studies in Historical Peace Research), Klartext Press, Essen, Germany, 2001-2012 (18 vols.) Chair, Historical Peace and Conflict Research Association (Arbeitskreis Historische Friedens- und Konfliktforschung), Germany, 1998-2001 3 Committee of the German Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat) to evaluate the Research Institute for Military History (Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt), Potsdam, Germany, 2005 Consultant to Shooting the War, BBC 4 documentation on World War II, broadcast 2010 Consultant to 100 Deutsche Jahre, Teil 11: Mannsbilder –Männer in Deutschland (“100 German Years, part 11, Images of Men – Men in Germany”), ARD (First German TV channel), broadcast continuously since 1999 Manuscripts and Proposals Reviewed Berghahn Books Blackwell Publisher Bloomington Academic Press Cambridge University Press Canadian Scholars’ Press/Women’s Press Cornell University Press Oxford University Press Palgrave MacMillan Polity Press Routledge Publisher Yale University Press Canadian Journal of Human Rights Central European History Contemporary European History Cultural History Dapim – Studies on the Holocaust First World War Studies Gender & History German History Holocaust Studies Journal of Interdisciplinary History Journal of Military History Journal of Modern History Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift Politische Vierteljahresschrift Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism theologie.geschichte Zeitschrift für Soziologie American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), USA Austrian Academy of Science / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW) Canada Council for the Arts Fond zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF), Austria Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Germany German Academic Exchange Service / Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Historisches Kolleg (Historical Institute), Munich, Germany Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 4 National Endowment for the Humanities, USA National Research Foundation, South Africa Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research University of Toronto, Connaught Committee Volkswagen Foundation, Germany Conferences and Workshops Organized Children and Mass Violence, Clark University, 19-20 October 2017 Genocide of Native Americans? A Symposium on Indigenous Identity and Mass Violence in North America, Clark University, 15-17 APril 2016 Second International Graduate Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 30 March-1 APril 2012 Globalizing Beauty: Aesthetics in the 20th Century. International Conference, German Historical Institute, Washington DC, 14-16 Oct 2010 (with Hartmut Berghoff, Washington DC) Holocaust Memory – Legacies of Disaster or Lessons of Cosmopolitanism? SymPosium, Clark University, 29 APril 2010 (with Cristina Andriani, Worcester) WorkshoP Friendship and the Nation, Henry J. Leir Center-Clark University, Luxembourg, 4-7 March 2010, (with Danny KaPlan, Tel Aviv) First International Graduate Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 23-26 APril 2009 Public SymPosium Bridging the Impossible? Confronting Barriers to Dialogue between Germans/ Jews/ Palestinians, Clark University, 1 November 2007 Second Conference of the Interdisciplinary Association of Men’s and Gender Studies, held at the Academy of the DIÖZESE Rottenburg/Stuttgart, Stuttgart-Hohenheim, 8-9 November