Curriculum Vitae PERSONAL: Robert Moeller 20 Virgil Court Irvine, California 92612 OR Department of History University of California Irvine, CA 92769 (949) 824-6521 Email: [email protected] FAX: (949) 824-1360 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY: Visiting Assitant Professor, University of California Davis, 1980-81 Assistant Professor, Columbia University, 1981-86 Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1986-88 Associate Professor (1988-93), and Full Professor (1993-present), University of California, Irvine Associate Dean, School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine (1998- 2004) Chair, Department of History, University of California, Irvine, 2007- EDUCATION: B.A., Wesleyan University, 1971 M.A., Brandeis University, 1973 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1981 PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS: War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001). Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993) (German translation, Geschützte Mütter: Frauen und Familien in der deutschen Nachkriegspolitik [Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1997]) German Peasants and Agrarian Politics, 1914-1924: The Rhineland and Westphalia, 1 1914-1924 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986) EDITED BOOKS: Editor, Peasants and Lords in Modern Germany: Rece Contributions to Agricultural History (Boston: George Allen & Unwin, 1986) Editor, West Germany Under Construction: Politics, Society, and Culture in the Adenauer Era (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997) (with Frank Biess), Histories of the Aftermath: The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe (New York: Berghahn Books, forthcoming) The Nazi State and German Society: A Brief History in Documents (Boston: Bedord Books, 2009) ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS: “Private Acts, Public Anxieties, and the Fight to Decriminalize Male Homosexuality in the Federal Republic of Germany,” Feminist Studies (forthcoming) “Introduction,” Feminist Studies (forthcoming) “Winning the Peace at the Movies: Suffering, Loss, and Redemption in Postwar Germany Cinema,” in Histories of the Aftermath: The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe, ed. Frank Biess and Robert G. Moeller (New York: Berghahn, forthcoming) “Does the Past Have a Future? Thoughts on the History, Memory, and the History of Memory of National Socialism, the Holocaust, and the Second World War,” in XXXX, ed. Olaf Jensen (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming) “Introduction,” in The Nazi State and German Society: A Brief History in Documents (Boston: Bedford Books, 2009), 1-26. “The Bombing War in Germany, 2005-1940: Back to the Future?” in Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History, ed. Yuki Tanaka and Marilyn B. Young (New York: The New Press, 2009), 46-76. “Die ‘Barde des Zweiten Weltkriegs’ und der Zusammenbruch des ‘Deutschen Ostens’: Frank Wisbars Nacht fiel über Gotenhafen,” in Mediale Mobilmachung III: Das Kino in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland als Kulturindustrie (1950-1962), ed. Harro Segerberg (Munich: Wilhelm-Fink-Verlag, 2009), 337-66. “The Third Reich in Postwar German Memory,” in Short Oxford History of Germany: Nazi Germany, ed. Jane Caplan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 246-66. “When Liebe Was Just a Five-Letter Word: Wolfgang Liebeneiner’s Love 47,” in German Postwar Films: Life and Love in the Ruins, edited by Wilfried Wilms and William Rasch (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 141-56. “The Elephant in the Living Room or Why Twentieth Century German History 2 Should Begin at Home,” in Gendering German History: Rewriting Historiography, ed. Karen Hagemann and Jean Quataert (New York: Berghahn Books, 2007), 228-50; (and in German translation, “Leben mit einer Unbenannten: Oder warum eine deutsche Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts über die Familie doch redden sollte,” in Geschichte und Geschlechter. Revisionen der neueren deutschen Geschichte (Frankfurt a.M.: Campus Verlag, 2008) “Fighting to Win the Peace: 08/15 and West German Memories of the Second World War” in Conflict, Catastrpohe and Continuity: Essays on Modern German History, ed. Frank Biess, Hanna Schissler, and Mark Roseman (New York: Berghahn Books, 2007), 318-39. “On the History of Man-made Destruction: Loss, Death, Memory, and Germany in the Bombing War,” History Workshop Journal, Issue 61 (2006): 103-34. “The Politics of the Past in the 1950s: Rhetorics of Victimisation in East and West Germany,” in Germans as Victims, ed. Bill Niven (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 26-42. “Victims in Uniform: West German Combat Movies from the 1950s,” in Germans as Victims, ed. Bill Niven (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 43- 61. “Germans as Victims? Thoughts on a Post-Cold War History of the Second World War’s Legacies,” History and Memory 17:1/2 (2005): 147-94. (With Doris Bergan, Volker Berghahn, Dirk Moses, and Dorothee Wierling) “The Changing Legacy of 1945 in Germany: A Round-Table Discussion,” German History 23: 4 (2005): 519-46. “Kämpfen für den Frieden: 08/15 und westdeutsche Erinnerungen an den Zweiten Weltkrieg,” Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift 64:2 (2005): 359-389. “Response” to Alon Confino, “Remember the Second World War, 1945-1965: Narratives of Victimhood and Genocide,” Cultural Analysis 4 (2005): 656-72. “As der Kreig nach Deutschland kam,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 8, 2002. “What Did You Do in the War, Mutti? Courageous Women, Compassionate Commanders, and Stories of the Second World War,” German History 22 (2004): 563-94. “Sinking Ships, the Lost Heimat and Broken Taboos: Günter Grass and the Politics of Memory in Contemporary Germany,” Contemporary European History 12 (2003): 1-35. "Geschichten aus der 'Stacheldrahtuniversität': Kriegsgefangene auf Zelluloid in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland," Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 50 (2001): 57-65. “What Has ‘Coming to Terms with the Past’ Meant in Post-World War II Germany? From History to Memory to the ‘History of Memory,’” Central European History 35 (2002): 223-56. “’In a Thousand Years, Every German Will Speak of This Battle’: Celluloid Memories of Stalingrad,” Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century, ed. Omer Bartov, Atina Grossmann, Mary Nolan (New York: The New 3 Press, 2002), 161-90. “Heimkehr ins Vaterland: Die Remaskulinisierung Westdeutschlands in den fünfziger Jahren,” Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift 60 (2001): 403-36. "Geschichten aus der 'Stacheldrahtuniversität': Kriegsgefangene im Opferdiskurs," WerkstattGeschichte 9 (2000): 23-46. "Die Vertreibung aus dem Osten und deutsche Trauerarbeit" in Das Vermächtnis annehmen: Kulturelle und biographische Zugänge an den Holocaust, Beiträge aus den USA und Deutschland, ed. Brigitta Huhnke and Björn Krondorfer (Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag, 2002), 113-48. "Deutsche Opfer, Opfer der Deutschen," in Nachkrieg in Deutschland, ed. Klaus Naumann (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2001), 29-58. “’The Last Soldiers of the Great War’: Tales of Family Reunions in the Federal Republic of Germany,” SIGNS 24 (1998): 129-46. "The 'Remasculinization' of Germany in the 1950s: Introduction," SIGNS 24 (1998): 101-06. “Introduction: Writing the History of West Germany,”in West Germany Under Construction, ed. Robert G. Moeller (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997), 1-30. "Remembering War in a Nation of Victims: West German Pasts in the 1950s," in The Miracle Years Revisited: A Cultural History of West Germany, edited by Hanna Schissler (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), 83-109. "War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany,” American Historical Review 101 (1996): 1008-48. “’The Homosexual Man is a ‘Man,’the Homosexual Woman is a ‘Woman’: Sex, society, and the Law in Postwar West Germany,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 4 (1994): 395-429. "Constituting Political Bodies in the Adenauer Era," in The Social Construction of Democracy, 1890-1990, ed. George Reid Andrews and Herrick Chapman (Macmillan, 1995). "Protecting Mother's Work: From Production to Reproduction in Postwar West Germany," Journal of Social History 22 (1989): 413-37. "Reconstructing the Family in Reconstruction Germany: Women and Social Policy in the Federal Republic, 1949-1955,” Feminist Studies 15 (1989): 137-69. "Introduction: Locating Peasants and Lords in Modern German Historiography,” and “The Economic Dimensions of Peasant Protest in the Transition from Kaiserreich to Weimar,” in R. Moeller, ed. Peasants and Lords in Modern Germany (Boston: George Allen & Unwin, 1986). "The Kaiserreich Recast? Continuity and Change in Modern German Historiography," Journal of Social History 17 (1984): 655-83. "Zur Oekonomie des Agrarsektors in den Provinzen Rheinland und Westfalen zwischen 1896 und 1933," in Rheinland und Westfalen im Industriezeitalter, ed. K Düwell and W. Köllmann (Wupertal, 1984), vol. 2, 290-313. "Die Besonderheiten der Deutschen? Neue Beitra,"ge zur 4 Sonderwegsdiskussion," (review essay in English) Internationale Schulbuchforschung 4 (1982): 71-80; translated as "Die Suche nach der Kontinuita,"t in der deutschen Geschichte," Neue Politische Literatur 27 (1982): 430-38. "Winners as Losers in the German Inflation: Peasant Protest over the Controlled Economy," in Die deutsche Inflation: Eine Zwischenbilanz/ The German Inflation Reconsidered, ed. G.Feldman et al. (Berlin, 1982), pp. 255-88. "Dimensions of Social Conflict in the Great War: The View from the German Countryside," Central European History