BELINDA DAVIS
Associate Professor
Dept. of History
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)
Alltag,
Eigensinn, und Herrschaft, ed., with
Thomas Lindenberger and Michael Wildt (in preparation)
Changing the
World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Collective Identities in the
1960s/70s West Germany and U.S, ed.,
with W. Mausbach, M. Klimke, and C. MacDougall (New York/Oxford: Berghahn
Books, forthcoming)
Home Fires
Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I
Articles and Book
Chapters:
“What’s Left? Popular and Democratic
Political Participation in Postwar Europe,”
review article, American Historical Review (forthcoming)
“Das Erbe der 68er Generation voll erlebt”:
Staying Political in 1970s
“The
City as Theater of Protest:
“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 Private is Political: Research on Gender and
Politics in Modern Germany,” in Jean Quataert and Karen Hagemann, eds., Gendering
Modern History: Rewritings of the Mainstream (
“Polizei und Alltagsgewalt in
“The Street,” with Emanuelle Cronier, et al, in Jay
Winter et al, Capital Cities at War:
“Gender Justice and Rewriting Civil Society in
“Jenseits von Terror und Rückzug: Politischen 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., Coming to Terms with the Past in West Germany:
The 1960s (New York: Berghahn, 2006)
“’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 (
"Everyday' Protest, Violence,
and the Culture of Conflict in
"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
“Provokation als Emanzipation. 1968 und die
Emotionen,” vorgänge (December 2003), 41-49
"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 (
"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
"Reconsidering Habermas, Politics, and Gender:
The Case of Wilhelmine
"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:
"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
“Was bleibt?”, contribution to Forum on 1977, German History (Fall 2007)
“Women in Subsistence Riots,” in Bonnie Smith, et al,
eds., Encyclopedia of Women in World History
(
“Panel Review: Imaginary Worlds: (Trans)National
Identities in
“Remembering Global Protest: The Sixties in
"Sex and the City, or, Women in the
Streets in World War I
"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 (
"Research Report: Gender, Class, and the State in
World War I
Book reviews (25+ books): in 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)
“’Ich brauche auch nicht viel Geld,
aber ich brauche den Kontakt mit linken Männern und Frauen in der ganzen Welt.’ Frauen in der westdeutschen neuen Linke,”
Keynote, Schweizerische Tagung für Geschlechtergeschichte,
“’Schweige nicht, sprich dich aus!’ Communicative Need and Its Significance in
the West German New Left,” Meeting of the German Studies Association,
“’That Could be Me’: Imagining Oneself Active
in and out of
“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,
“Living Democracy, Eating Pea Soup: New Left Lifestyles in the West German
1970s,” Meeting of the American Historical Association,
“Lifestyles of the Marginalized and Unknown,
or: How to Live Politics in 1960s-70s
“’Das Erbe der 68er Generation voll erlebt’: Staying political in 1970s
“Responding to Terror”, Workshop of the
“Antecedents
to the West German Green Party: How Did They Get Where They Got?”, Presentation
to the Green Party of
“The Everyday of Politics in Postwar
“World War I and the Twentieth Century,”
Annual History Forum,
“Between Terror and Withdrawal: Negotiating
Political Space and Strategy in the West German 1970s,” Conference on
“Terrorism,” Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung,
“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,”
“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,
“’68 as Global Experience: How to Rethink Globalization,” presentation
to and participation in Transatlantic Colloquium for Graduate Students,
“How Women Recreated Civil Society in 1970s
“Remembering Global Protest: The ‘60s in the
“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:
“"Living Politics: the New Left in
1960s-70s
“Gender and Generation in the West German
1960s and 70s: Politics, Biography, and
Everyday Life,” Minda de Gunsburg Center for European Studies,
“How ‘Fascist’ was
"Political Imagination and the New Left:
Discourse, Demos, and the Transformation of German Political Culture,"
Workshop "Atlantic Crossings?: Transcultural Relations and Political
Protest in
“Alltagsgeschichte as an Approach to New Social
Movements,” Meeting of the German Studies Association,
"Frieden und Protest: Friedensaktivitäten in der Bundesrepublik der
1970er und 1980er Jahre," Conference Pazifismus und Pazifistinnen:
Friedensforschung als
"Gender and Protest in the German 20C,"
Speakers Series in Women's Studies,
"Gender, Protest, and Movements," Conference
Gendering the Mainstream: Rewritings of Modern German History,
"Terrorism: What's in a Name?", Meeting of
the American Historical Association,
"The Street as a Metaphor for War," Workshop
Collective Capital Cities at War,
"Playing with Fire: From Political 'Theater' to
'Terror' in the West German 1960s-1970s,"
"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,
"Violence as Vergangenheitspolitik: The Radicalization of Left-Wing Activism in
the Late 1960s," Meeting of the German Studies Association,
"Die Neue Linke, 'Politischer Theater', und die
Gewaltfrage," Historisches Seminar, Universität zu Köln, July 2001
"
"New Leftists on Violence, Fascism, and the
Public Sphere," Conference "Coming to Terms with the Past in
"Handmaid of the Future or Specter of the Past?
Violence and Leftist Activism in West Germany 1960-1980,"
"The Public Sphere and the Function of Terrorism
in
"Different Lefts: The Leftwing split over
Violence in
"'Everyday' Protest and the Culture of
Conflict in
"New Issues Concerning Everyday Life in
Nazi Germany," Adult Education Speakers Series, Jewish Cultural School and
Society,
"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,
"Gendered Images of the Nation in Wilhelmine
"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
"How Wilhelmine Germans became Citizens of
Weimar," Fall Lecture Series of the German Historical Institute,
"’Woman’, ‘Nation’, and ‘Volk’ in Wilhelmine Rhetoric and Imagery," Seminar of the
Center for German and European Studies,
"New Approaches and New Sources in World War I
History,"
"Home Fires Burning: The Press, the Police, and
Politics in World War I
"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
"Oeffentlichkeit, Geschlecht, und Politik,"
Seminar for Dept. of History, University of Chemnitz-Zwickau,
"To Each her Own?
Battles over 'Equitable' Food Distribution in World War I
"Who Does Not Work Shall not Eat: Labor Culture
under the German 'Dictatorship', 1916-1918," Seminar on Technology,
Culture, and Society, Dept. of History,
"Women, Welfare, and Work in World War I
"Legitimate Beefs and Just Desserts,"
Conference on "Consumer Culture and Resistance,"
"Women and the Transformation of Political
Culture in World War I
"How Did Politics Work in World War I
"Transformations in Relations between State and
Society in World War I
"Society United Against the State: the Case of
World War I
"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
"Weapons of the Spirit, Holocaust Films and
Remembering,"
"Food Fights in World War I
"Battles Over Butter: Women, Gender, and
Homefront Politics in World War I
"Bread, Butter, and the Unsuccessful
Renegotiation of 'Quality of Life' in
"World War I
"The
"Public Space and the Construction of Gender
Difference: the Case of World War I
"Hearsay on the Recent Revolution in
"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
"Women Workers in World War I
"German Women in World War I and Early
"Renault Workers and the 1936 General Strike in
Comments
for:
"Social
Justice in Transatlantic Perspective" (Invited Participant),
“Transnational
Protests in the 1960s-1970s,” German Studies Association Conference,
“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,
“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,
"Interculturality
and Student Protest in 1960s
"Gender and Consumption in the Postwar
Germanies," Barnard/Columbia Women and Society Seminar,
"Women and State Violence in International
Perspective," Berkshire Conference on the History of Women,
"The Unmaking of History," Conference
"The Making and Unmaking of Humanity,"
"The Great War, A Laboratory for the
Century," RCHA,
"The Public Body and (Dis-)Unity in World War I
"Intellectuals and the Problem of Nazi
"Gender and Consumption in Comparative
Perspective," Berkshire Conference on the History of Women,
"Hitler's Officers and the Problem of
Corruption,"
"Violence and the State in Interwar Europe,"
Meeting of the American Historical Association,
"Prostitution and the State in Modern
"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,
Conference on "Gender and Modernity,"
"Women in Postwar
Other
Professional Activity
Sponsor and Research Partner
of Sven Reichardt, Feodor Lyonen A. v. Humboldt Foundation Fellow, 2006-2008
Co-Organizer, Workshop
“Framing the Holocaust,” Workshop of the
Northeast Working Group on German Women's History and Culture,
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’
North American Editor, Women’s History Review,
2004 –
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
Co-Organizer, Workshop “Protest 1960s – 80s: Trans-
and Intercultural Perspective,”
Co-Organizer, "Consumption and Gender in the
Modern Germanies," Workshop of the Northeast Working Group on German
Women's History and Culture,
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,
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
Faculty
Co-Organizer, "
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 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, Cambridge University Press,
Oxford University Press, The University of Michigan Press, The University of
North Carolina Press, Stanford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, The
University Press of New England, Bedford/St. Martin's
Selected
Grants and Fellowships
Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (
Volkswagen Foundation, Research Fellowship, 2005-2006
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
Center for German and European Studies Research
Fellowship,
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 Institute for the Humanities,
Fellowship, Fall 1990-Spring 1991
Historial de la Grande Guerre (Péronne,
Social Science Research Council
Graduate colloquia and seminars in modern
Affiliations
German Women's History Study Group
Northeast Working Group on German Women's History and
Culture
Conference Group on Central European History
German History Society (
German Studies Association
American Historical Association
Alumni of the Freie Universität
Education