Perry-CV-p. 1 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). Perry-CV-p. 2 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. Perry-CV-p. 3 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