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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Social and cultural history of war and occupation, social and family policy, transnational and comparative history, Germany and France in the modern era.
COURSES REGULARLY
TAUGHT:
History 2033: Early Modern Europe
History 2043: Modern Europe
History 2003: Exploring History
History 3263: European Social Policy in Comparative Perspective
History 3333: The Age of Dictators
History 3343: Europe since 1945
History 3363: German History, 1871-1945
History 3373: The Germanies since 1945
History 4116: The World at War
History 4156: Revolutions in the Modern World
History 4336: Germany and Europe in the Age of Total War
PUBLICATIONS:
Book:
For Their Own Good: civilian evacuations in Germany and France, 1939-1945. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010.
Articles and Book Chapters:
“The Possibilities of Protest in the Third Reich: The Witten Demonstration in Context,” in Nathan Stoltzfus, ed. Protesting Hitler (New York: Berghahn Books, forthcoming).
Article on "Collaboration," Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008: 233-235.
"The Many Goals of Assistance: The Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt and aid to French civilians in 1940," War & Society (May 2007): 27-38.
"'If only family unity can be maintained': The Witten Protest and German Civilian Evacuations," German Studies Review 29.2 (May 2006): 347-366.
"Preservation by Dispersion: Civilian Evacuations and the City in Germany and France, 1939-45" in Roger Chickering and Marcus Funck, eds. Endangered Cities: Military Power and Urban Societies in the Era of the World Wars (Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2004): 47-62.
Work in Progress:
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS:
“‘Es ist doch auch schön einmal, 'La douce France' kennenzulernen:’ Wahrnehmungen von Wehrmachtssoldaten im besetzten Frankreich 1940-44,” invited public lecture delivered in German, Stadtmuseum Oldenburg, August 2009.
“‘...und meine Leute wollen einen Ausflug nach Mont St. Michel und St. Malo machen:’ Germans in France, 1940-44,” invited lecture, Basel University, May 2009.
“‘Leben wie Gott in Frankreich’: German soldiers as occupiers in France, 1940-1944,” invited lecture, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Study, November 2008.
“Crossing Boundaries? Germans, French and military occupation, 1940-44,” paper presented at Crossing Boundaries: International History in a Global Age, Conference in Honor of Charles S. Maier, American Academy, Berlin, June 2008.
Leben wie Gott in Frankreich'? Shaping occupation in German-held France, 1940-1944", paper presented at the German Studies Association Annual Conference, San Diego, October 2007.
"To Evacuate or Not?: Preparing German and French Cities and Civilians
for Aerial Bombing," paper presented at the Canadian Historical Association
Annual Conference, Toronto, May 2006.
"Caught between a Rock and a Hard Place: Civilian Evacuations in
German-occupied Cherbourg," paper presented at the Society for French
Historical Studies 50th Anniversary Conference, Paris, France, June 2004.
"'Against the inclination of those involved:' German-ordered civilian
evacuations in occupied France," paper presented as part of the St.
Thomas University Faculty Research Talks Series, Mar. 2004.
"Finding a Way Home: Civilian Evacuees, the Family and Victim Status
in Post-war Germany and France," paper presented at the German Studies
Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, U.S.A., Sept. 2003.
"Preservation by Dispersion: Civilian Evacuations and the City in
Germany and France, 1939-45," paper presented at the Sixth International
Conference on Urban History, Edinburgh, U.K., Sept. 2002.
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