BELINDA DAVIS

Associate Professor

Dept. of History

Rutgers The State University

New Brunswick, NJ  08901-1108

Phone (732) 932-6728  Fax (732) 932-6763

bedavis@rci.rutgers.edu; www.rutgers.edu/~bedavis

 

Main Publications

Books:

The Internal Life of Politics:  The New Left in West Germany, 1962-1983 (in preparation)

Changing the World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Transnational Identities in 1960s/70s, West Germany and the U.S., ed., with W. Mausbach, M. Klimke, and C. MacDougall (New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, forthcoming March 2010)

Alltag—Erfahrung—Eigensinn: Historisch-anthropologische Erkundungen, ed., with Thomas Lindenberger and Michael Wildt (Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus,  2008)

Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000)

 

Articles and Book Chapters:

 A Whole World Opening Up:  Transcultural Contact, Difference, and the Politicization of New Left Activists,” in Davis, et al, eds., Changing the World, Changing Oneself  (New York: Berghahn, forthcoming); also “Introduction,” with W. Mausbach, M. Klimke, C. MacDougall, in ibid

 “How Women’s Activism and the Women’s Movement Led the Way to Post-Cold War Civil Society and Where it Seems to have Failed,” in Bonnie Smith and Joanna Regulska, eds., Gender from Cold War to EU (forthcoming)

“The Women’s Movement in 1970s West Germany in Cultural Perspective,” in Detlef Siegfried and Sven Reichardt, eds., Cultural History of the European Postwar Protest Movements (forthcoming)

“Transnation/Transculture:  Gender and Politicization in and out of the BRD, 1950s-1970s,”  in S. Wenger, et al, eds., Gender in Trans-it: Transcultural and Transnational Perspectives (Basel: Chronos, forthcoming)

 “Polizei und Alltagsgewalt in Berlin im 20. Jahrhundert,” in A. Lüdtke and H. Reinke, Polizei, Staat, Gewalt. Historisch-vergleichende Studien zur Polizeipraxis im 20. Jahrhundert (Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 2009)

“Konsum im ersten Weltkriege,” in Heinz-Gerhard Haupt and Claudius Torp, eds., Die Konsumgesellschaft in Deutschland 1890-1990 (Frankfurt: Campus, 2009), 232-49

“What’s Left?  Popular and Democratic Political Participation in Postwar Europe,” American Historical Review 113, 2 (April 2008), 363-90

“Einleitung,” with T. Lindenberger and M. Wildt, in Davis, Lindenberger, Wildt, eds., Eigen-Sinn, Alltag, und Erfahrung (Frankfurt/aM: Campus, 2008)

The City as Theater of Protest: West Berlin and West Germany, 1962-1983,” in Gyan Prakash and Kevin M. Kruse, eds., The Spaces of the Modern City: Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008), 247-74

 “Civil Society in a New Key? Feminist and Alternative Groups in 1970s West Germany,” in Sonya Michel, et al, eds., Civil Society and Gender Justice: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (NY: Berghahn, 2008)

“The Private is Political: Gender, Politics, and Political Activism in Modern German History,” in Jean Quataert and Karen Hagemann, eds., Gendering Modern German History: Rewriting Historiography (New York: Berghahn, 2007), 107-127; German translation Frankfurt/M: Campus, 2008

“The Street,” with Emanuelle Cronier, et al, in Jay Winter et al, Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin, Vol. 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)

 “Jenseits von Terror und Rückzug: Die Suche nach politischem Raum und Verhandlungsstrategien in der BRD der 70er Jahre,” in H.-G. Haupt, et al, eds., Terrorismus in der Bundesrepublik. Medien, Staat und Subkulturen in den 1970er Jahren (Frankfurt/M: Campus, 2006), 154-186

"Violence and Memory of the Nazi past in 1960s-70s West German Protest," in P. Gassert and A. Steinweis, eds., Coping with the Nazi Past: West German Debates on Nazism and Generational Conflict, 1955-1975 (New York: Berghahn, 2006), 210-37

“’Women’s Strength Against Their Crazy Male Power’. Gendered Language in the West German Peace Movement of the 1980s,” in J. A. Davy, K. Hagemann, and U. Kätzel, eds., Frieden - Gewalt - Geschlecht. Friedens- und Konfliktforschung als Geschlechterforschung (Essen: Klartext, 2005)

"Everyday' Protest, Violence, and the Culture of Conflict in Berlin, 1840-1980," in C. Mauch and A. Daum, eds., Berlin - Washington, 1800-2000: Capital Cities, Cultural Representation, and National Identities (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

"The Gender of War and Peace:  Rhetoric in the West German Peace Movement of the Early 1980s," Mitteilungsblatt des Instituts für soziale Bewegungen (Special Issue "Peace Movements as Social Movements") 32 (December 2004), 84-114

"Monuments, Memory, and the Future of the Past in Modern Urban Germany," review article, Urban History 30, 4 (March 2004)

“Provokation als Emanzipation. 1968 und die Emotionen,” vorgänge (December 2003), 41-49

“Das Fremd im Eigenen: Interkultureller Austausch und kollektive Identitäten in der Revolte der 1960er Jahre," with Wilfried Mausbach, Martin Klimke, and Carla MacDougall, Loccumer Protokolle (December 2003)

"Experience, Identity, and Memory:  The Legacy of World War I," in Journal of Modern History 75, 1 (March 2003)

"From Starbuck to Starbucks, or, Terror: what's in a Name?", in Radical History Review 85 (December 2002), 37-57

"Heimatfront: Ernährung, Politik und Frauenalltag im ersten Weltkrieg," in K. Hagemann and S. Schüler-Springorum, eds., Heimat - Front. Militär und Geschlechterverhältnisse im Zeitalter der Weltkriege (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2002), 128-49

"Food, Politics and Women’s Everyday Life during World War I" (English version of above), in K. Hagemann and S. Schüler-Springorum, eds., Home Front - Battle Front: Military and Gender Relations in the Two World Wars (NY: Berg, 2002): 115-38

"Post-Holocaust Science Education," with Peter Appelbaum, in M. Morris and J. Weaver, eds., Difficult Memories (NY: Peter Lang, 2002), 171-90

"Geschlecht und Konsum.  Rolle und Bild der Komsumentin in den Verbraucherprotesten des ersten Weltkrieges," in Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 38 (Fall 1998), 119-39.

"Food Scarcity and the Empowerment of the Female Consumer in World War I Germany," in Victoria de Grazia, ed. The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), 287-310.

"Reconsidering Habermas, Politics, and Gender: The Case of Wilhelmine Germany," in Geoff Eley, ed., Society, Culture, and the State in Germany, 1870-1930 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996), 397-426.

"L'Etat contre la Société?  Nourrir la Cité," Guerres Mondiales et Conflits Contemporains (Summer 1996), 47-62.

"Feeding the Cities," with Thierry Bonzon, in J. M. Winter and J.-L. Robert, ed., Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, and Berlin 1914-1919 (vol. 1) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 305-41.

"The Image of the Profiteer," with J.-L. Robert, et al, in Capital Cities at War (vol. 1), 104-32 (contributing author).

"Gender, Women, and the 'Public Sphere' in World War I Berlin," in Michigan Feminist Studies 6 (Fall 1991), 145-175.

 

Other Publications

 “Forum: 1977, The German Autumn,” with Donatella della Porta, Geoff Eley, and Sven Reichardt, German History (July 2007), 401-21

“Rudi Dutschke and the West German Protest Movement,” in Immanuel Ness, ed., Protest and Revolution: 1600 to the Present (Boston: Blackwell, forthcoming)

“Women in Subsistence Riots,” in Bonnie Smith, et al, eds., Encyclopedia of Women in World History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)

“Panel Review: Imaginary Worlds: (Trans)National Identities in Germany in and after 1968,” in H-German Listserv, February 2006

“Remembering Global Protest: The Sixties in West Germany and the U.S.,” with Martin Klimke, Proceedings of the XIII International Oral History Conference (2004)

"Sex and the City, or, Women in the Streets in World War I Berlin," Informationen zur modernen Stadtgeschichte, special issue "Stadt und Gender" (ed. A. von Saldern) (2004), 4-12

"1997-1998 Research Associate Reflects on the Red Army Faction," in Eurofile: Newsletter of the Center for German and European Studies 3, 1 (Fall 1998): 2.

"Alf Lüdtke," in K. Boyd, ed., Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999): 740-1

"German Women 1871-1918," in J. Doerr and D. Buse, eds., Encyclopedia of German History (New York: Garland, 1998): 1082-3.

"Minna Cauer," Encyclopedia of German History: 165.

"Women in WWI Food Shortages" and "Women, Strikes, and Revolution," source selection, translations, and introductions, in M. Wiesner and L. DiCaprio, eds., Lives and Voices: Sources in European Women's History (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000).

"Research Report: Gender, Class, and the State in World War I Berlin," in Women and Language 15, 1 (Spring 1992): 43.

 

Book reviews (25+ books, 1 film): in Signs (2009); Neue Politische Literatur (2009); WerkstattGeschichte (2006); H-Soz-und-Kult (2005); American Historical Review (December 2004); Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, London (October 2004); Women’s Review of Books (2004); Social and Cultural History (2003); Central European History (2002); German Studies Review (1995), (2002); German History (1999), (2001); Journal of Modern History  (1995), (1997), (1999), (2000); Social History (1998); Archiv für Sozialgeschichte (1997); ILWCH (1997), (2002); H-German (1996), (1997); Conference review, with D. S. Cobble and L. Tilly: ILWCH (1997)

 

Presentations

“The City, the University, and the World: West German Political Activism in Transnational Context,” History Speakers Series, University of Toronto, October 2009

“He Ordered Me to be More Democratic.  Equality in Action in the Federal Republic,” Conference “Happy Birthday, BRD,” University of Montréal, May 2009

"The Internal Life of Politics:  The 'New Left' in West Germany, 1962-1983," Dept. of History Lecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February 2009

“What’s in a Name?  ‘Student’ Protests in 1960s West Germany,” Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, January 2009

“The Women’s Movement in 1970s West Germany in Cultural Perspective,” Cultural History of the European Postwar Protest Movements, University of Copenhagen, September 2008

“Out into the Streets, or, ‘What Theory Meant to Me’,” Working Group Protest, Citizenship, und Zivilgesellschaft, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, June 2008

Coming to Activism in 1950s-60s West Germany,” Conference in Honor of William H. Sewell Jr., Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, University of Chicago, May 2008

 “Transnationalität als Praxis. ‘Weltoffenheit’ in der westdeutschen Neuen Linken in den sechziger Jahre,” Colloquium of the Berliner Kolleg für die vergleichende Geschichte Europas, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Free University Berlin, May 2008

“The City as Theater of Protest: West Berlin and West Germany, 1962-1983,” Festvortrag, Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technical University Berlin, May 2008

“Cities and Protest,” Research Colloquium on Modern Urban History, Technical University Berlin, May 2008

 “An Emotional History of Politics in Postwar West Germany,” Inaugural Season Lecture, Colloquium of the Center for the History of Emotion, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, April  2008

 “’Die Korruption des Schweigens’: The Politics of Talking in the West German “New Left,” Historisches Seminar, Technische Universität Berlin, February 2008

“The Inner Life of Politics:  New Left Activists in West Germany, 1962-1983,” Historisches Seminar, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, January 2008

“Die Politisierung des Subjekts am Beispiel der Neuen Linke in der BRD,” Workshop "Neue Subjektivität. Subjektkulturen und Selbstverhältnisse in der Bundesrepublik in den 60er und 70er Jahren,” Zeitgeschichtlicher Arbeitskreis Niedersachsen, Göttingen, December 2007

“The Many Lives of Terror:  Political Activists, the RAF, the State, and the Media in West Germany”, Lecture, Symposium “Terrorism in Europe: The ‘German Autumn’ of 1977 after Thirty Years,” Case Western Reserve University, November 2007

“Transnation/Transculture: Gender and Politicization in and out of the BRD, 1950s-1970s,” Keynote Address, Schweizerische Tagung für Geschlechtergeschichte, Basel, September 2007

’Schweige nicht, sprich dich aus!’  Communicative Need and Its Significance in the West German New Left,” Meeting of the German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, September 2006

“’That Could be Me’: Imagining Oneself Active in and out of West Germany,” Deutscher Historikertag, Konstanz, September 2006

“How Post-War Children Became the West German Activists of the 1970s (and What They Did on the Way),” Colloquium of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, June 2006

“Living Democracy, Eating Pea Soup:  New Left Lifestyles in the West German 1970s,” Meeting of the American Historical Association, Philadelphia, January 2006

“Lifestyles of the Marginalized and Unknown, or:  How to Live Politics in 1960s-70s West Germany,” Forschungskolloquium, Historisches Seminar, Universität Bielefeld, July 2005

“’Das Erbe der 68er Generation voll erlebt’:  Staying political in 1970s West Germany,” Conference “Das Fremde im Eigenen: Interkultureller Austausch und kollektive Identitäten in der Revolte der 1960er Jahre," Heidelberg, May 2005

“Responding to Terror”, Workshop of the Philadelphia Historians of Germany, Swarthmore, March 2005

 “Antecedents to the West German Green Party: How Did They Get Where They Got?”, Presentation to the Green Party of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, February 2005

“The Everyday of Politics in Postwar Germany,” Annenberg Speakers Series, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, November 2004

“World War I and the Twentieth Century,” Annual History Forum, Cabrini College, Radnor, PA, November 2004

“Between Terror and Withdrawal: Negotiating Political Space and Strategy in the West German 1970s,” Conference on “Terrorism,” Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, October 2004

“How the Women’s Movement Led the Way to Post-Cold War Civil Society,” Conference  “From Cold War to EU: Women and Gender in Contemporary Europe,” Rutgers Unversity, New Brunswick, October 2004

“Von Trotta’s Rosenstraße and the Portrayal of Women’s Protest,” Conference on Rosenstraße in Film and History, Florida State University Cente r for Human Rights, Tallahassee, September 2004

“’68 as Global Experience:  How to Rethink Globalization,” presentation to and participation in Transatlantic Colloquium for Graduate Students, Munich, July 2004

“How Women Recreated Civil Society in 1970s West Germany,” Conference “Civil Society and Gender Equity,” Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Berlin, July 2004

“Remembering Global Protest: The ‘60s in the U.S. and West Germany,” with Martin Klimke, International Oral History Association, Rome, June 2004

“Political History Meets Everyday Life:  Recent Trends in WWI Historiography,” Professional Development Conference for Teachers of German, Dept. of German, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, May 2004. 

“The City as Theater of Protest: West Berlin and Frankfurt, 1962-1983,” Shelby Cullom Davis Center, Princeton, April 2004

“"Living Politics: the New Left in 1960s-70s West Germany," Modern Germany Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, March, 2004

“Gender and Generation in the West German 1960s and 70s:  Politics, Biography, and Everyday Life,” Minda de Gunsburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, November 2003

“How ‘Fascist’ was West Germany? West German Students and the ‘Fascism Charge’, 1964-1974,” Center for Worker Education, City College of New York, November 2003

"Political Imagination and the New Left: Discourse, Demos, and the Transformation of German Political Culture," Workshop "Atlantic Crossings?: Transcultural Relations and Political Protest in Germany and the U.S., 1958-1977," German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, October 2003

“Alltagsgeschichte as an Approach to New Social Movements,” Meeting of the German Studies Association, New Orleans, September 2003

"Frieden und Protest:  Friedensaktivitäten in der Bundesrepublik der 1970er und 1980er Jahre," Conference Pazifismus und Pazifistinnen: Friedensforschung als Geschlechterforschung, Berlin, May 2003

"Gender and Protest in the German 20C," Speakers Series in Women's Studies, New Brunswick, April 2003

"Gender, Protest, and Movements," Conference Gendering the Mainstream: Rewritings of Modern German History, Toronto, March 2003

"Terrorism: What's in a Name?", Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, January 2003

"The Street as a Metaphor for War," Workshop Collective Capital Cities at War, Paris, June 2002

"Playing with Fire: From Political 'Theater' to 'Terror' in the West German 1960s-1970s," Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, April 2002

"Political Theater as New Social Movement," Special Panel of the Conference Group in Central European History, Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Francisco, January 2002

"Teaching Post-'45 European History," National Conference of Secondary Schools, Washington, D.C., November 2001

"Violence as Vergangenheitspolitik:  The Radicalization of Left-Wing Activism in the Late 1960s," Meeting of the German Studies Association, Washington, D.C., September 2001

"Die Neue Linke, 'Politischer Theater', und die Gewaltfrage," Historisches Seminar, Universität zu Köln, July 2001

"Berlin - Contested Capital. Popular Unrest vs. State Monopoly of Power," Conference "Polizei und Gewalt," Erfurt, Germany, July 2001

"New Leftists on Violence, Fascism, and the Public Sphere," Conference "Coming to Terms with the Past in West Germany: The 1960s," Lincoln, NE, April 2001

"Handmaid of the Future or Specter of the Past? Violence and Leftist Activism in West Germany 1960-1980," Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, New Brunswick, NJ, February 2001

"The Public Sphere and the Function of Terrorism in West Germany," Tulane University, New Orleans, November 2000

"Different Lefts: The Leftwing split over Violence in Germany, 1965-75," German Studies Association Meeting, Houston, September 2000

"'Everyday' Protest and the Culture of Conflict in Berlin," Conference on Berlin - Washington, 1800-2000: Capital Cities, Cultural Representation, and National Identities, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C., March 2000

"New Issues Concerning Everyday Life in Nazi Germany," Adult Education Speakers Series, Jewish Cultural School and Society, West Orange NJ, January 2000;  presented in expanded form to the Senior Citizen Association, JCC Metrowest, West Orange, NJ, July 2000

"Shaping Public Vision:  The Press, the Street, and the Public Sphere in the Age of Modernity," Special Panel of the German Historical Institute, Meeting of the German Studies Association, Salt Lake City, October 1998

"Gendered Images of the Nation in Wilhelmine Germany," for Conference Gendered Nations: Nationalisms and Gender Order in the Long Nineteenth Century, International Comparisons, Berlin, March 1998

"War and Hunger in Germany," History Seminar, Ramapo State College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ, February 1998

"Food for the Weak, Food for the Strong: Rationalized Food Distribution in World War I Germany," Standing Seminar, Dept. of History, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, November 1997

"How Wilhelmine Germans became Citizens of Weimar," Fall Lecture Series of the German Historical Institute, Washington DC, October 1997

"’Woman’, ‘Nation’, and ‘Volk’ in Wilhelmine Rhetoric and Imagery," Seminar of the Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, September 1997

"New Approaches and New Sources in World War I History," New Jersey Council for History Education, April 1997

"Home Fires Burning: The Press, the Police, and Politics in World War I Germany," European Seminar, Dept. of History, Princeton University, March 1997

"State Constructions of 'Woman' in WWI Germany: Implications for Contemporary Questions of Welfare, Maternity, Production, Consumption, Activism," "Toward 2000" Seminar of the Rutgers Institute of Research on Women, New Brunswick, NJ, October 1996

"Shopping and Sovereignty in Twentieth-Century Germany," Berkshires Conference of Women Historians, Chapel Hill, June 1996

"Öffentlichkeit, Geschlecht, und Politik," Seminar for Dept. of History, University of Chemnitz-Zwickau, Chemnitz, April 1996

"To Each her Own?  Battles over 'Equitable' Food Distribution in World War I Berlin," Meeting of the American Historical Association, January 1996. 

"Who Does Not Work Shall not Eat: Labor Culture under the German 'Dictatorship', 1916-1918," Seminar on Technology, Culture, and Society, Dept. of History, University of Delaware, February 1996

"Women, Welfare, and Work in World War I Germany," Institute for Research on Women Conference, Rutgers University, May 1996

"Legitimate Beefs and Just Desserts," Conference on "Consumer Culture and Resistance," Santa Cruz, November 1994.

"Women and the Transformation of Political Culture in World War I Germany, or, Making the New German," German Studies Association Conference, Dallas, October 1994

"How Did Politics Work in World War I Berlin?", Seminar of the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen, July 1994

"Transformations in Relations between State and Society in World War I Germany," Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, New Brunswick, April 1994

"Society United Against the State: the Case of World War I Berlin," Conference on "Mobilizing for 'Total' War. Society and the State in Europe, 1914-1918," Dublin, June 1993

"The Black Market in Germany 1914-1918," University of Cambridge Working Group on Paris, London, Berlin in the First World War, Paris, June 1993

"Consumers, Gender, and the Public Sphere," Conference on Women in the Public Sphere, Institute for Research on Women, New Brunswick, NJ, May 1993

"Bread and Democracy in World War I Berlin," Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis and Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, New Brunswick, NJ, April 1993

"Weapons of the Spirit, Holocaust Films and Remembering," Humanities Media Center of New Jersey, Plainfield, NJ, April 1993

"Food Fights in World War I Berlin: Politics, Dietary Custom, and the Notion of Market," Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, New Brunswick, NJ, March 1993

"Battles Over Butter: Women, Gender, and Homefront Politics in World War I Berlin," George Rudé‚ Annual Lecture, Concordia University, Montréal, March 1993

"Bread, Butter, and the Unsuccessful Renegotiation of 'Quality of Life' in Germany, 1914-1918," Social History Society Conference, London, January 1993

"World War I Berlin: Police State, Welfare State, Diminished State Authority?", German Studies Association Conference, Minneapolis, October 1992

"The Berlin Butter Riots of October 1915," Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, December 1991

"Public Space and the Construction of Gender Difference: the Case of World War I Berlin," National Graduate Women's Studies Conference, Ann Arbor, March 1991

"Hearsay on the Recent Revolution in Germany," University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities, Ann Arbor, November 1990

"Women, Food and the State in World War I Berlin," University of Cambridge Working Group on Paris, London, Berlin in the First World War, Paris, July 1990

"Die Verteiling der Macht und Beziehungen zwischen dem Staat und arbeitenden Frauen im ersten Weltkriege in Berlin," Seminar at the Freie Universität, Berlin, January 1990

"Women Workers in World War I Germany," Comparative Studies in Social Transformations Conference, Ann Arbor, September 1988

"German Women in World War I and Early Weimar Uprisings," German Women's History Conference, Stephentown, NY, October 1987

"Renault Workers and the 1936 General Strike in France," Michigan History Graduate Student Colloquium, Ann Arbor, December 1986

 

Panel Comments and Podium Discussions

“Oral Histories: Food and Trans/National Political Economies and Cultures in Europe, Asia, and the United States, 1880s-1980s,” Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, January 2009

“Mit Terroristen reden? Vom Umgang mit politischer Gewalt im Europa des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts,” Final Podium Discussion, Evangelische Akademie Loccum , December 2008

 “Einordnung der Teilungsgeschichte in die säkularen Perspektiven und die europäischen Dimensionen der Geschichte im 20. Jahrhundert,” Opening Podium Discussion, "Das geteilte Deutschland im Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts," Conference of the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, and Stiftung Aufarbeitung SED-Diktatur, Wittenberg, November 2007

“Security Cultures in Comparative Transnational Perspective,” 12. Schweizerische Tagung für Geschlechtergeschichte, Basel, September 2007

"Social Justice in Transatlantic Perspective" (Invited Participant), Columbia University, New York, March 2006

“Transnational Protests in the 1960s-1970s,” German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, September 2005

“Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” Graduate Student Conference “Ostalgie,” Dept. of German, Russian, and East European Languages, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, February 2005

“Dwelling in the Archive,” Conference of the Black Atlantic Project, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, February 2005

“The Author Meets Her Critics: Temma Kaplan’s Taking Back the Streets,” Workshop Protest Politics and Social Movements, Center for Comparative European Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, April 2004

“Beyond Oedipus: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Father,” Conference of the Graduate Students, Dept. of Germanic Literatures, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, April 2004

"Interculturality and Student Protest in 1960s Germany and the United States,” Meeting of the German Studies Association, New Orleans, September 2003

"Gender and Consumption in the Postwar Germanies," Barnard/Columbia Women and Society Seminar, New York, November 2002

"Women and State Violence in International Perspective," Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Storrs, CT, June 2002

"The Unmaking of History," Conference "The Making and Unmaking of Humanity," Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (RCHA), New Brunswick, March 2001

"The Great War, A Laboratory for the Century," RCHA, New Brunswick, October 2000

"The Public Body and (Dis-)Unity in World War I Germany," Meeting of the German Studies Association, Houston, September 2000

"Intellectuals and the Problem of Nazi Germany," RCHA, New Brunswick, October 1999

"Gender and Consumption in Comparative Perspective," Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Rochester, June 1999

"Hitler's Officers and the Problem of Corruption," Shelby Cullom Davis Center, Princeton University, Princeton, January 1999

"Violence and the State in Interwar Europe," Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., January 1999

"Prostitution and the State in Modern Germany," German Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C., October 1997

"Art, Literature, and the Media," Conference on "Genocide, Religion, and Modernity, United States Holocaust Museum, Washington, D.C., May 1997

"Labor Conflict in Revolutionary Contexts," North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, October 1994

Conference on "Gender and Modernity," Columbia University, New York, September 1994

"Women in Postwar Vienna: Politics of Food and Individual Strategies," Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Poughkeepsie, June 1993

 

Other Professional Activity

Selection Committee, Graduate Scholarship Program, DAAD, 2009

Interviewee, Documentary Geschichte der Emotionen, Deutschland-Rundfunk, June 2008

Guest Member, Research Group “Civil Society, Citizenship, and Political Mobilization in Europe,” Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, 2007-2008

Sponsor and Research Partner of Sven Reichardt, Feodor Lyonen Fellow of the A. v. Humboldt Foundation, 2006-2008

North American Editor, Women’s History Review, 2004 – 2007

Co-Organizer, Workshop “Framing the Holocaust,” Workshop of the Northeast Working Group on German Women's History and Culture, New York City, April 2006

Co-Investigator, Project “Das Fremde im Eigenen: Interkultureller Austausch und kollektive Identitäten in der Revolte der 1960er Jahre," Volkswagen Stiftung, 2002-2005

Co-Organizer, Conference “The ‘Other’ Alliance: Political Protest, Intercultural Relations, and Collective Identities in West Germany and the United States, 1958-77,” Internationales Wissenschaftsforum, Heidelberg, May 2005

Associate Editor, Signs, 2005-

AAUP Grievance Counselor, 2004-

Article Prize Committee Chair, Conference Group on Central European History, 2003

Co-Organizer, Workshop "Atlantic Crossings?: Transcultural Relations and Political Protest in Germany and the U.S., 1958-1977," German Historical Institute, Washington, DC

Co-Organizer, Workshop “Protest 1960s – 80s: Trans- and Intercultural Perspective,” Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, October 2003

Co-Organizer, "Consumption and Gender in the Modern Germanies," Workshop of the Northeast Working Group on German Women's History and Culture, New York City, April 2003

Consultant, Liberty Memorial Museum of World War I, Kansas City, Missouri, January 2003

Nominating Committee, German Studies Association, 2002-2004

Common Examiner, Department of History, Swarthmore College, 2002, 2007

Selection Committee, Fellowship on Conflict, Peace and Social Transformations, Social Science Research Council, 2001, 2002

Member, Development Committee, Advanced Placement History Exam Educational Testing Service (1999 ongoing), including live internet and video presentations on the exam

Co-Organizer, "Memoir Literature of the Holocaust," Workshop of the Northeast Working Group on German Women's History and Culture, New Brunswick, New Jersey, April 1998

Interviewee, Hessisches Rundfunk Radio, on Gender and Nation in Modern Germany, Berlin, March 1998

Faculty Mentor, German Historical Institute Transatlantic Graduate Student Conference, Bochum, April 1996

Co-Organizer, "Germany, Gender, and Continental Imperialism," Workshop of the Northeast Working Group on German Women's History and Culture, New York City, March 1996

Consultant, PBS/BBC series "The Great War and the Shaping of our Century," Episode Six, "Collapse," 1995

Consultant, Educational Testing Service, GRE History Examination, 1992-1994

Member, Advisory Board, H-German Online Listserv, 1993-1996

Reader for American Historical Review, Journal of Modern History, German History, Journal of the History of Ideas, Signs, Public Culture, Social Politics, Journal of Women's History, Women’s History Review, Social and Cultural History, Hypatia, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, The University of Michigan Press, The University of North Carolina Press, Stanford University Press, Berghahn Books, The University Press of New England, Bedford/St. Martin's

 

Selected Grants and Fellowships

Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (Potsdam), Residential Fellowship, Summer 2006

Volkswagen Research Fellowship, AY 2005-6

Volkswagen Foundation, Special Grant, Project "Das Fremde im Eigenen: Interkultureller Austauch und kollektiven Identitäten in der Revolte der 1960er Jahre” ("The Other Within: Intercultural Exchange and Collective Identities in 1960s Unrest in Germany and the U.S."), 2002-2005, Co-Investigator (€350,000.00)

Shelby Cullom Davis Center, Princeton University, Research Fellowship, 2003-2004

Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (RCHA) Faculty Fellowship, 2000-2001 (no course relief)

Center for German and European Studies Research Fellowship, Georgetown University, Fall 1997-Spring 1998

Max-Planck-Institute für Geschichte (Göttingen) Research Fellowship, Summer 1996

Max-Planck-Institute für Geschichte (Göttingen) Research Fellowship, Summer 1994

RCHA Faculty Fellowship, 1993-1994

RCHA Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Fall 1992-Spring 1993

University of Michigan Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Fall 1991-Summer 1992

University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities, Fellowship, Fall 1990-Spring 1991

Historial de la Grande Guerre (Péronne, Somme) Project Grant, Winter 1990

Social Science Research Council Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies Dissertation Fellowship, Spring 1989-Summer 1990

 

Teaching and Related Service Overview

Graduate colloquia and seminars in modern Europe, modern Germany, political and social change, women's studies; undergraduate lecture courses and seminars in modern Europe, modern Germany, 20C Europe, political protest and social change.  Graduate Faculty member of Women's and Gender Studies Dept. and of German Dept.; affiliate of Comparative European Studies and Media Studies.  Advise Ph.D., M.A. and B.A. honors students in History, Women’s and Gender Studies, and German.  Led development of graduate major field in women's and gender history, and of core courses for this program.  Participated in development of women's studies master's and doctoral degree programs, and in creation of European studies and German studies programs including undergraduate European Studies major and “protest and popular democracy” cluster.  Participant in development of German Studies program.  Co-developed Women’s and Gender Studies M.A. “Research Briefings”; faculty sponsor of same, 2006-7.  Participation in (including organization of) annual workshop on German studies primarily for teaching purposes.  Convenor of graduate European History faculty caucus, including in redesign of European graduate program.  Service on development committee of the AP History examination (four years).  Work with acquisition librarians on strengthening collection of German-language materials. Organization of speaker series for graduate students, 1992- ; co-organizer of Distinguished Lectures in European History, 2004-.  Presentations to and regular professionally-related work with high school teachers and broader community.

 

Affiliations

German Women's History Study Group

Northeast Working Group on German Women's History and Culture

Conference Group on Central European History

Berkshire Association of Women Historians

German History Society (Britain)

German Studies Association

American Historical Association

Alumni of the Freie Universität Berlin

 


Education

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI  Ph.D.  October '92

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI  M.A.   December '87

Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT    B.A.   May '81