Shelley Osmun Baranowski Department of History 75 Marrus Drive

Shelley Osmun Baranowski
Department of History
The University of Akron
Akron, Ohio 44325-1902
(330) 972-7081 or 7006
Fax: (330) 972-5840
E-mail: savant@attglobal.net, or sbarano@uakron.edu
75 Marrus Drive
Gahanna, Ohio 43230
(614) 475-0024
Fields of Concentration:
Modern Germany, Modern Europe
History of Christianity (emphasis on social history)
Education:
Ph.D. Religion, Princeton University, June 1980.
M.A. Religion, Princeton University, January 1978.
B.A. Religion, Wells College, June 1968.
Professional Experience:
University of Akron: 2008 to present: Distinguished Professor of History; 1995-2008:
Professor; 1991-95: Associate Professor; 1989-91: Assistant Professor
1987-89: Visiting Assistant Professor, Integrated Program in the Humane Studies,
History, and Religion, Kenyon College
1985-87: Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, Kenyon College
1984-85: Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, National Endowment for the
Humanities
1984: Lecturer in History, Ohio State University, Columbus and Mansfield campuses
1982: Research Associate, project on religion in contemporary American politics,
sponsored by the Lilly Endowment and the Department of Religion, Princeton
University
1981: Lecturer in Humanistic Studies, Princeton University
1980: Adjunct Assistant Professor of Religion, Douglass College, Rutgers University
Courses Taught:
Humanities in the World since 1300
Humanities in the Western Tradition: Renaissance to the Present
Historical Methods (Topics: consumerism, tourism, genocide)
Europe from World War I to the Present
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Modern Germany
Nazi Germany
The Holocaust
Fascism
World War I
The Cold War in Europe
War, Genocide, and Mass Violence
Graduate reading and writing seminars in Modern Europe and Modern Germany
MA theses as supervisor or reader: William Martino, Kyle Liston, Mark Cole, Jacob Glickick,
James Ahern, Kathryn Brown, Kate Flach, Hans-Henning Bunge, Monika Flaschka,
Michael Reynolds, Christopher Bartone
PhD dissertation committees: Lisabeth Robinson, Michael Epple, Monika Flashka, Erika
Briesacher, Hans-Henning Bunge, Lavinia Popica
Awards and Grants:
Ohio Academy of History Distinguished Service Award, 2009.
Ohio Magazine, Excellence in Education Award, 2003.
University of Akron Outstanding Researcher Award, 2003.
Buchtel College of Arts & Sciences, University of Akron, Research Award, 2003.
Buchtel College of Arts & Sciences, University of Akron, Chairs’ Outstanding
Achievement Award for Research, 2003.
British Academy Travel Grant, 2003.
Fellowship for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2001-2.
The University of Akron Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, 2001, 1996, 1991.
The University of Akron Faculty Research Grant, 1998, 1990.
American Council of Learned Societies, Grant-in-Aid, 1989.
Faculty Development Grants, Kenyon College, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988.
Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, National Endowment for the
Humanities, 1984-85.
Princeton University Fellowship, 1978-79, 1979-80.
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship, 1977-78 (declined because of
family emergency).
Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, 1976-77 (declined because of family emergency).
Council on European Studies Travel Grant, Princeton University, 1976.
Publications:
Books:
Nazi Empire: German Imperialism and Colonialism from Bismarck to Hitler. Cambridge:
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Cambridge University Press, 2011 (hardback and paperback).
Strength through Joy: Consumerism and Mass Tourism in the Third Reich. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2004. Paperback edition, 2007.
The Sanctity of Rural Life. Nobility, Protestantism, and Nazism in Weimar Prussia. New
York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
The Confessing Church, Conservative Elites and the Nazi State. Lewiston, Queenston:
Edwin Mellen Press, 1986.
Edited collections:
Shelley Baranowski and Ellen Furlough, Being Elsewhere: Tourism, Consumer Culture,
and Identity in Modern Europe and North America. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press, 2001.
Michael Graham, Michael Levin, Constance Bouchard, Stephen Harp, and Shelley
Baranowski eds. The Humanities in the Western Tradition: A Reader. Boston and New
York: Houghton and Mifflin, 2001. Introductions on Darwin, Nietzsche, Camus, and
Foucault.
Articles:
“Nazi Colonialism and the Holocaust: Inseparable Connections,” forthcoming in
Dapim, 2013.
“’Against human diversity as such’: Lebensraum and Genocide in the Third Reich.” In
German Colonialism: Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany. Eds. Volker
Langbehn and Mohammad Salama. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011: 5171.
“Fascism, Totalitarianism, and Beyond: Recent Perspectives on Twentieth-Century
Dictatorships” (review article). H-German. November 2009.
”Selling the Racial Community: Kraft durch Freude and Consumption in the Third
Reich. In Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth-Century Germany. Eds. Pamela
E. Swett, Jonathan Wiesen, and Jonathan Zatlin. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
127-150.
“Volksgemeinschaft and the Family Vacation: The Strength through Joy Resort at Prora,”
forthcoming in a special issue of German History, “ Modernity Begins At Home:
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Consumption,Technology, and Modernity,” 25, no. 4 (2007): 539-59.
“Visiting the Sites of Nazism: Official and “Wild” Memories,” (review article) HGerman, September 2006.
“Selling the ‘Racial Community’: Kraft durch Freude and Consumption in the Third
Reich,” in Pamela Swett, S. Jonathan Wiesen, and Jonathan Zatlin, Selling Modernity:
Advertising and Public Relations in Modern German History. Durham: Duke University
Press, 2008: 127-50.
“An Alternative to Everyday Life? The Politics of Leisure and Tourism,” Journal of
Contemporary European History, 12 (2003): 561-72 (review article)
“Tourism and Modernity,” in Construction of a Tourist Industry in the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Centuries: International Perspectives/Construction d’une industrie touristique
au 19ème et 20ème siècles. Perspectives internationals. Ed. Laurent Tissot. Neuchâtel:
Alphil, 2003.
“Radical Nationalism in an International Context: Strength through Joy and the
Paradoxes of Nazi Tourism,” in Histories of Tourism: Representation, Identity and
Conflict, Ed. John K. Walton. Clevedon, Buffalo, Ontario: Channel View Publications,
2005: 125-43. Translated as “Nacionalismo Radical en un Contexto Internacional:
“Fuerza por la Alegría” y las Paradojas del Tourismo Nazi,” Historia Social, no. 52
(2005): 93-108.
“National Socialism,” Exploring the European Past: Texts and Images (ETEP), module
for a customized electronic reader for Western Civilization/European History survey
courses developed by the Department of History, Ohio State University and Thomson
Learning Custom Publishing, 2003.
“Introduction.” Being Elsewhere: Tourism, Consumer Culture, and Identity in Modern
Europe and North America. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. Pp. 1-31.
Co-written with Ellen Furlough.
"Strength through Joy: Tourism and National Integration in the Third Reich," in
Baranowski and Furlough eds., Being Elsewhere: Tourism, Consumer Culture, and
Identity in Modern Europe and North America. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press, 2001. Pp. 213-36.
“Nazism and Polarization: The Left and the Third Reich.” Historical Journal, vol. 43
(2000): 1157-72.
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“From Structures to Subjectivity: Recent Trends in Modern German History.”
Introduction to the German translation of David Abraham, The Collapse of the Weimar
Republic. Political Economy and Crisis (Der Zusammenbruch der Weimarer Republik).
Münster: Westfäisches Dampfboot, 2000.
"The Transformation of the Rural Economy, 1830-1947." The Climax of Prussia; Rethinking Prussian History, 1830-1947, Philip Dwyer, ed. London: Longman, 2001: 14665.
"The Confessing Church and Antisemitism: Protestant Identity, German Nationhood, and
the Exclusion of the Jews," in Betrayal: The German Churches and Antisemitism in the
Third Reich. Eds. Robert L. Erickson and Susannah Heschel. Minneapolis: Fortress
Press, 1999. Pp. 90-109.
"Conservative Antisemitism from Weimar to the Third Reich," in The German Studies
Review, vol. 19, no. 3 (1996): 525-36.
"East Elbian Landed Elites and Germany's Turn to Fascism: The Sonderweg Controversy
Revisited," European History Quarterly 26, no. 2 (1996): 209-40.
"Convergence on the Right: Agrarian Elite Radicalism and Nazi Populism in Pomerania,
1928-1933," in Between, Reform, Reaction, and Resistance. Essays in the History of
German Conservatism, 1789 to 1945. Eds. Larry Eugene Jones and James N. Retallack.
Providence, Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1993. Pp. 407-32.
"The Sanctity of Rural Life: Protestantism, Agrarian Politics and the Rise of Nazism in
Pomerania during the Weimar Republic," German History 9, no. 1(1991): 1-22.
"Continuity and Contingency: Agrarian Elites, Conservative Institutions and East Elbia in
Modern German History," Social History 12, no. 3 (1987): 285-308.
"Consent and Dissent: The Confessing Church and Conservative Opposition to National
Socialism," Journal of Modern History, Special Issue on National Socialism, 59, no. 1
(1987): 53-78.
"From Rivalry to Repression: German Protestantism, Antileftism and Antisemitism,"
Holocaust Studies Annual 2 (1986): 29-43.
"Religion and Popular Culture in Modern Europe," (review article) Religious Studies
Review 11, no. 1(1986): 35-8.
"The Primacy of Theology: Karl Barth and Socialism," Studies in Religion 10, no. 4
(1981): 451-61.
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"The 1933 German Protestant Church Elections: Machtpolitik or Accommodation?"
Church History 49, no. 3 (1980): 299-315.
Encyclopedia Contributions:
“Tourism: Overview,” in the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Ed.Peter
Stearns. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008..
Essays on Carl McIntire and Jerry Falwell, Twentieth Century Shapers of American
Popular Religion. Ed. Charles H. Lippy. Westport Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1989:
131-41, 256-63.
Essays on The Catholic Historical Review, Commonweal, and The New Oxford Review,
Religious Periodicals of the United States. Academic and Scholarly Journals, ed. Charles
H. Lippy. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1986: 94-9, 153-8, 383-5.
Conference Papers, Invited Papers, and Lectures:
Invited speaker: “The Passenger: Mobility in Modernity,” International Association for
the History of Transport, Traffic, and Mobility Summer School, Technische Universität
Berlin, October 2011.
“Against Human Diversity as Such: Lebensraum and Genocide in the Third Reich,”
"Germanys Colonialism in International Perspective" International Interdisciplinary
Conference on German Colonialism and Post - Colonialism September 6-9, 2007, San
Francisco, CA.
“Consumption of the Cheap: Mass Tourism in the Third Reich,” Annual Meeting of the
Social Sciences History Association, Chicago, November 2004.
“Advertising Mass Tourism: Kraft durch Freude and the ‘Germanization’ of Images.”
Conference on “Selling Modernity: Advertising and Public Relations in Modern German
History,” McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, November 2003.
“Racial Community and Individual Desires: Pleasure and Politics in Nazi Tourism,”
International Conference on “Tourisms and Histories Representations and Experiences,”
University of Central Lancashire Preston, UK, June 2003. Plenary speaker.
.
“Radical Nationalism in an International Context: The Paradoxes of Nazi Tourism.”
Conference on “Tourism: Identities, Environments, Conflicts, and Histories,” University
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of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK, June 2001, plenary speaker; French Historical
Studies annual meeting, Toronto, April 2003.
“Between Fordism and Proletarian Milieu: Nazism, Tourism, and the Problem of Mass
Desires.” Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Houston, October 2000.
“’Life is Worth Living Again’: Kraft durch Freude, Social Harmony, and National
Regeneration in the Third Reich,” Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University,
November 1999, and at a symposium on the history of tourism, Freie Universität Berlin,
Institut für Tourismus, Berlin, December 1999.
“Conviviality in the National Community: Organized Leisure and Tourism in the Third
Reich.” German History Study Group, Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies,
Harvard University, March 1998.
“Racial Education through Recreation: Tourism in the Third Reich.” Annual Meeting of
the German Studies Association, Washington, October 1997.
"The Transformation of the Rural Economy in Prussia, 1830-1947," Biennial Conference
of the Australasian Association of European Historians, Adelaide, Australia, July 1997.
"Strength through Joy: Tourism and Race in Nazi Germany," Annual Meeting of the
Social Science History Association, New Orleans, 1996.
"Strength through Joy." Leisure, Consumerism, and Working Class Identity in the Third
Reich," Annual Meeting of the Association of Jewish Studies, Boston 1995; Annual
Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History, Delaware, 1996.
"Agrarian Conservatism and Prussian Identity: Pomeranian Estate Owners and the Myth
of Rural Life.” Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Chicago, 1995.
"The Confessing Church and Antisemitism: Protestant Identity, German Nationhood, and
the Exclusion of the Jews." Conference on the Holocaust, Department of Religion, Case
Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 1995.
"Conservative Elite Anti-Semitism from Weimar to the Third Reich." Annual Meeting of
the German Studies Association, Dallas, 1994; Annual Meeting of the Ohio Academy of
History. Westerville, 1995.
"Teaching Nazi Germany through Film: Illustrating Interpretive and Moral Dilemmas."
Ohio Academy of History Spring Meeting, Kent, 1994.
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"The Necessary Suppression of Plebeian Tendencies: National Socialism and Agrarian
Elites in Pomerania." Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago,
1991.
"East Elbian Landed Elites and Germany's Turn to Fascism: The Sonderweg Controversy
Revisited," Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association. Los Angeles, 1991.
"Radicalism Overcomes Restraint: Agrarian Elites and Nazism in Pomerania, 19281933." Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Buffalo, 1990.
"Christians and Nazis during Hitler's Rise to Power: Opposition and Accommodation."
Mead-Swing Lecture, Oberlin College, 1990.
"The Sanctity of Rural Life: Protestantism and Agrarian Conservatism in the Weimar
Republic," Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church History, San Francisco,
1989.
"German Protestantism, the Prussian East and the Disintegration of the Weimar Republic:
The Social Space of Ecclesiastical Conservatism." Annual Meeting of the American
Historical Association, Cincinnati, 1988.
"Continuity and Contingency: Agrarian Elites since Bismarck." Annual Meeting of the
American Historical Association, Chicago, 1984.
"From Rivalry to Repression: German Protestantism, Anti-Leftism and Anti-Semitism."
Annual Conference on the Holocaust, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania,
1984.
"The Loyal Opposition: The Confessing Church and the Failure of German Resistance."
Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church History, Los Angeles, 1981.
Book Reviews:
Nepomuk Gasteiner, Der Konsument: Verbraucherbilder in Werbung,
Konsumkritik und der Verbraucherschutz 1945-1989. Forthcoming in Neue Politische
Literatur.
Wolf Grüner and Jörg Osterloh, Das Grossdeutsche Reich und die Juden:
Nationalsozialistische Verfolgung in die angegliederten Gebieten. Journal of Contemporary
History 47 (2012): 459.
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Manfred Gailus, ‘Mir aber zeriss es das Herz’: Der stille Widerstand der Elisabeth
Schmitz. Forthcoming in German History.
Adam Stanley, Modernizing Tradition: Gender and Consumerism in Interwar France
and Germany. Forthcoming in the International Review of Social History.
Heike Wolter, “Ich harre aus im Land und geh, ihm fremd”: Die Geschichte des
Tourismus in der DDR. Forthcoming in the Journal of Transport History.
Christopher R. Browning, Richard Hollander, and Nechama Tec. Every Day Last a
Year: A Jewish Family’s Correspondence from Poland. H-Genocide, March 2010.
Katrin Greiser, Die Todesmärsche von Buchenwald: Räumung, Befreiung und Spuren der
Erinnerungen, Central European History, 43, no. 3(2010): 544-6.
Julia Torrie, ‘For Their Own Good’: Civilian evacuation sin Germany and France,
1939-1945, Central European History, 44, no. 1 (2010): 178-80.
Daniela Liebscher, Freude und Arbeit: Zur internationalen Freizeit-und Sozialpolitik des
Faschistischen Italien und des NS-Regimes. Posted on H-German, June 2010.
Peter Fritzsche, Life and Death in Nazi Germany. Central European History 42, no. 2
(2009): 361-3.
Jan Philipp Reemstma, Vertrauen und Gewalt: Versuch übereine besondere Konstellation
der Moderne. Posted on H-German, April 2010.
Susannah Heschel, The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi
Germany. The Historian, 72, no. 4 (2010): 978-9.
David Art, The Politics of the Nazi Past in Germany and Austria. Holocaust and
Genocide Studies 22, no 2 (2008): 343-5.
Thomas Zeller, Driving Germany: The Landscape of the German Autobahn, 1930-1970
German History 26, no. 3 (2008): 444-5.
Nancy R. Reagin. Sweeping the German Nation: Domesticity and National Identity in
Germany. Neue Polititische Literatur 2 (2008): 324.
Thoralf Klein and Frank Schumacher, eds. Kolonialkriege: Militärische Gewalt im
Zeichen des Imperialismus. Posted on H-German, March 2008.
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Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals in the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany.
Central European History, 40, no. 4 (2007): 747-49.
Raffael Scheck, Hitler’s African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French
Soldiers in 1940. German Studies Review. 3, no 3 (2007): 659.
Gideon Reuveni, Reading Germany: Literature and Consumer Culture in Germany
before 1933. Journal of Modern History, 80, no. 1 (2008): 199.
Shulamit Volkov, Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation. H-German,
March 2006.
Dorothee Hochstetter, Motorisierung und “Volksgemeinschaft”: Das
Nationalsozialistische Kraftfahrkorps (NSKK) 1931-1945. German History 25, no. 2
(2007): 270-1.
Reisen ins Reich: Ausländische Autoren berichten aus Deutschland. Posted on HGerman, March 2006.
Eckart Conze and Monika Wienfort, eds. Adel und Moderne: Deutschland im
Europäischen Vergleich im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. German History, 24, no. 3 (2006):
489-91.
Andrew Stuart Bergerson, Ordinary Germans in Extraordinary Times: The Nazi
Revolution in Hildesheim. Central European History, 39, vol. 1 (2006): 151-3.
Wolfgang König, Volkswagen, Volksemfänger, Volksgemeinschaft: “Volksproduckte”
Im Dritten Reich: Vom Scheitern einer nationalsozialistischen Konsumgesellschaft.
Sehepunkte 6, no. 11 (2006).
Anthony Read, The Devil’s Disciplies: Hitler’s Inner Circle, The Historian 67, no. 3
(2005): 580-1.
Enzo Traverso, The Origins of Nazi Violence. H-German, September 2004.
Irene Guenther, Nazi Chic: Fashioning Women in the Third Reich, Central European
History 28, no. 3 (2005): 518-21.
Kiran Klaus Patel, “Soldaten der Arbeit”: Arbeitsdienste in Deutschland und den
USA 1933-1945, Social History, 30, no. 2 (2005): 268-70.
Thomas Zeller, Straße, Bahn, Panorama: Verkehrswege und LandschaftsBaranowski vita
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veränderung in Deutschland von 1930 bis 1990. H-German, summer 2004.
Wolfgang Dierker, Himmlers Glaubenskrieger: Der Sicherheitsdienst der
SS und seine Religionspolitik, The Journal of Modern History, 77, no. 3 (2005): 851-3.
Hubertus Hiller, Jäger und Jagd: Zur Entwicklung des Jagdwesens in Deutschland
Zwischen 1848 und 1914, Central European History, 38, no. 1 (2005): 128-30.
Uwe Fraunholz, Motorphobia: Anti-automobiler Protest in Kaiserreich und Weimarer
Republik. H-German, summer, 2003.
Robert Gellately, Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in the Third Reich, Holocaust
and Genocide Studies, 17, no. 2 (2003): 336-6.
Rudy Koshar, German Travel Cultures. Central European History, 36:3(2003): 468-72.
Barbara Haubner, Nervenkitzel und Freizeitvergnügen: Automobilismus in Deutschland
1886–1914. Central European History 35 (2002): 288-92.
Wayne H. Bowen, Spaniards and Nazi Germany: Collaboration in the New Order, Ohio
History, 111 (2002): 91-2.
Michael Phayer, The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930-1945, Shofar, 20, no. 4
(2002): 117-9.
Ian Kershaw, Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis in The Historian, 64, nos. 3 and 4 (2002): 8378.
Michael Schneider, Unterm Hakenkreuz: Arbeiter und Arbeiterbewegung 1922 bis 1939.
German Studies Review, 24, no. 2 (2001): 422-3.
Barbara Haubner, Nervenkitzel und Freizeitvergnügen. Automobilismus in Deutschland
1886-1914. Central European History, 35, no. 2 (2001): 288-92.
Rainer Bookhagen, Die evangelische Kinderpflege und die Innere Mission in der Zeit des
National-Sozialismus: Mobilmachung der Gemeinden. Band 1. 1933 bis 1937, in
Church History, 70, no. 1 (2001): 177-9.
Isabella Beltin, Mode und Revolution. Deutschland 1848/49. Central European History,
34, no. 2 (2001): 256-8.
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Oded Heilbronner, Catholicism, Political Culture, and the Countryside. A Social History
of the Nazi Party in South Germany. Journal of Modern History, 73, no. 2(2001): 444-6.
Samuel Huston Goodfellow, Between the Swastika and the Cross of Lorraine, German
Studies Review, 24, no. 1 (2001): 214-15.
Wolfgang Neugebauer and Ralf Pröve, eds., Agrarische Verfassung und politische
Struktur. Studien zur Gesellschaftsgeschichte Preussens 1700-1918, in Central
European History, 34, no. 1 (2001): 98-100.
Claus-Christian Szejnmann, Nazism in Central Germany. The Brownshirts in “Red”
Saxony. German Studies Review, 23, no. 3 (2000): 612-13.
Dalia Ofer and Leonore J. Weitzman, Women in the Holocaust. The Historian, 63, no. 1
(2000): 203-4.
Hans Mommsen and Manfred Grieger, Das Volkswagenwerk und seine Arbeiter im
Dritten Reich. German Studies Review, 22, no. 3 (1999): 501-2
Andrew Chandler, ed., The Moral Imperative: New Essays on the Ethics of Resistance in
National Socialist Germany, 1933-1945. Church History, 68, no. 2 (1999): 482-4.
Bernd Kölling, Familienwirtschaft und Klassenbildung. Landarbeiter im Arbeitskonflikt:
Das ostelbische Pommern und die norditalienische Lomellina 1901-1921, The Journal of
Modern History, 71, no. 1 (1999): 231-2.
Klaus Meyer, ed., Deutsche, Deutschbalten, und Russen. Studien zu ihren gegenseitigen
Bildern und Beziehungen, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 47 (1999): 266-8.
Peter Pulzer, Germany, 1870-1945, The Historian, 61, no. 3 (1999): 717-18.
Hans A. Schmitt, Quakers and Nazis: Inner Light in Outer Darkness, The American
Historical Review, 103, no. 5 (1998): 1636-7.
Peter Fritzsche, Germans into Nazis, H-German, September 1998.
Conan Fischer, ed., The Rise of National Socialism and the Working Classes in Weimar
Germany, H-German, May 1998.
Daniela Münkel, Nationalsozialistische Agrarpolitik und Bauernalltag, Central
European History, 30, no. 4 (1998): 615-18.
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Wolfram Pyta, Dorfgemeinschaft und Parteipolitik 1918-1933. Die Verschränkung von
Milieu und Parteien in den protestantischen Landgebieten Deutschlands in der Weimarer
Republik, German History, 16, no. 2 (1998): 277-8.
Theresia Bauer, Nationalsozialistische Agrarpolitk und bäuerlisches Verhalten im
Zweiten Weltkrieg. Eine Regionalstudie zur ländlichen Gesellschaft in Bayern, Central
European History, 30, no. 2 (1997): 336-8 .
Doris L. Bergen, Twisted Cross. The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich,
The American Historical Review, 102, no. 3 (1997): 842.
Kurt Nowak, Geschichte des Christentums in Deutschland. Religion, Politik und
Gesellschaft vom Ende der Aufklärung bis zur Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Central
European History, 29, no. 3 (1997): 445-7.
John Weiss, Ideology of Death. Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany, H-German,
February 1997.
Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer. His Battle with Truth, Cithara, 35, no. 2 (1996): 40-1.
Rudolf Mau, Eingebunden in den Realsozialismus? Die Evangelische Kirche als
Problem der SED, The American Historical Review, 101, no. 2 (1996): 521-2.
A.J. Nicholls, Weimar and the Rise of Hitler, 3rd. edition, German Studies Review, 17.
no. 3 (1994): 595-7.
Victoria Barnett, For the Soul of the People. Protestant Protest against Hitler, The
American Historical Review, 99, no, 1 (1994): 260.
Klaus Heß, Junker und bürgerliche Großgrundbesitzer im Kaiserreich 1867/71-1914, and
Gustavo Corni, Hitler and the Peasants, The Journal of Modern History, 65, no. 3
(1993): 648-52.
Jochen-Christoph Kaiser, Sozialer Protestantismus im 20. Jahrhundert. Beiträge zur
Geschichte der Inneren Mission, 1914-1945, The American Historical Review, 96, no. 3
(1991): 900.
Heinrich Becker, Handlungsspielräume der Agrarpolitik in der Weimarer Republik
zwischen 1923 und 1929, German History, 9, no. 2 (1991): 250-1.
David J. Diephouse, Pastors and Pluralism in Württemberg 1918-1933, Social History,
14, no. 1 (1989): 144-5.
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Frances Lannon, Privilege, Persecution, and Prophecy. The Catholic Church in Spain,
1875-1975, Religious Studies Review, 15, no. 3 (1989): 272.
The Simon Wiesenthal Annual, vols. 4 and 5, Shofar, 7, no. 2 (1989): 91-3.
Randolph L. Braham, ed. The Origins of the Holocaust: Christian Anti-Semitism, The
Journal of Religion, 68 (1988): 138.
F.L. Carsten, War against War: British and German Radical Movements in the First
World War, Religious Studies Review, 9, no. 3 (1983): 281.
Hubert Jedin, Konrad Repgen and John Dolan, The Church in the Modern Age, vol. 10,
The History of the Church, Religious Studies Review, 9, no. 1 (1983): 80.
David Blackbourn, Class, Religion and Local Politics in Wilhelmine Germany. The
Centre Party in Württemberg before 1914, Religious Studies Review, 7, no. 1 (1981): 80.
Service on Scholarly Panels:
Commentator, “The Christian Churches and Anti-Semitism during the Third Reich,”
Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Oakland, CA, October 2010.
Chair, “Of the Sun and the State: New Cultural Histories of GDR Tourism,” Annual
Meeting of the German Studies Association, Oakland, CA, October 2010.
Commentator, “Continuity and Change on the German Right,” Annual Meeting of
the German Studies Association, Washington, DC, October 2009.
Commentator, “Tourism without Borders: The Emergence of a Pan-European Discourse
in the History of Mass Tourism and Travel” Annual Meeting of the American
Historical Association, New York, January 2009.
Chair, panel on “The Weimar Republic: Transformations and Crises,” Annual Meeting of
the German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, September 2006.
Comment, panel on “Construction and Strengthening of a Tourism Industry in the
Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century: Technology, Politics and Economy,” XIII Congress
of the International Economic History Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 2002.
Chair, panels on “The Nazi Propaganda Offensive against the Jews, 1933-1945,” and
“Pariah Pleasures: The Circus, the Tattoo, and the Horse in Germany since the 1880s,”
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Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, October 2001.
Discussant, Northeast Working Group on German Women’s History and Culture, Vasser
College, Poughkeepsie, NY, March 2001.
Chair, panel on “Germany on Display: Fashion Shows, Trade Fairs, and Industrial
Exhibitions in the GDR and FRG.” Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association,
Houston, October 2000.
Chair, panel on “Twentieth-Century Travel and the Politics of Identity.” Annual Meeting
of the American Historical Association, Chicago, January 2000.
Comment, panel on “The Politics of the German Aristocracy, 1918-1945.” Annual
Meeting of the
German Studies Association, Atlanta, October 1999.
Comment, panel on “Business and Ethics in the Third Reich.” Annual Meeting of the
Economic and Business History Society, San Antonio, April 1999.
Comment, Symposium: “Adel und Bürgertum in Deutschland-Entwicklungslinien und
Wendepunkte im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert.” Bad Homberg, Germany, March 1999.
Comment, panel on “The Politics of the Radical Right, 1890-1933.” Annual Meeting of
the German Studies Association, Salt Lake City, October 1998.
Comment, panel on “Regionalism in German Politics.” Annual Meeting of the German
Studies Association, Washington, October 1997.
Participant, round table discussion on state uses of popular culture, Conference on Policy
History and Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University, June 1997.
Comment, panel on "Reconsidering Agrarianism: Politics, Culture and Identity in
Germany and Austria, 1840-1933." Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association,
Washington, September, 1993.
Comment, panel on "National Histories and European History," University College,
London, 1992.
Comment, panel on "German Food Policy during the World Wars." Duquesne History
Forum, Pittsburgh, October, 1991.
Chair, panel on "The Third Reich at Home and Abroad." Ohio Academy of History
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Spring Meeting, Columbus, April, 1991.
Comment, panel on “Identity and Imprisonment,” Ohio Academy of History Spring
Meeting, Granville, April 1990.
Chair, "Race and Christianity," Spring Meeting of the American Society of Church
History, Louisville, April, 1989.
Other Public Presentations:
“Racial Biology in the Third Reich.” International Conference on the Human Genome,
The University of Akron, 2001.
"Women and Gender in the Third Reich," Women's History Month, The University
of Akron, 1994.
Research Presentation, History Department Colloquium, The University of Akron, 1992.
"Recent Events in Eastern Europe," Phi Alpha Theta, The University of Akron,1992.
"Current Developments in Poland," Phi Alpha Theta, The University of Akron, 1991.
"Prospects and Perils of the Revolutions of 1989," Copley (Ohio) Kiwanis Club, 1990.
"Quo Vadunt Germaniae," Symposium on the Unification of Germany, Kenyon College,
1990.
Commemoration of Kristallnacht, Symposium at Kenyon College, 1988.
Languages:
German (speaking and reading); Polish (reading and limited speaking); French (reading)
Institutional Service:
University:
Distinguished Professor Promotion Committee, 2009-10
Buchtel College of Arts & Sciences, College-Wide Promotion to Professor Committee,
2007-9.
Buchtel College of Arts & Sciences Research Award Committee, 2004-5, 2005-6.
Buchtel College of Arts & Sciences, Appeals Board, 2003-4
University of Akron Press Editorial Board, 2002-6
College-wide Committee for Promotion to Professor Review Committee, 2002-3
Advisory Committee to the Department of Classical Studies, Anthropology and
Archeology, 2000-; Chair, 2004-6
Promotion Committee, Department of Classical Studies, Anthropology and Archeology,
2002-3
Rhodes Scholarship Advisor and member of the Prestigious Scholarships Committee,
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2000Faculty Senate, 1997-2000
Carnegie Teaching Academy Campus Conversations, 1998-2001
Member, Curricular Review Committee, 1997-2000.
University of Akron representative to Ohio Faculty Council and member of OFC
Executive Committee, 1998-99
Faculty Advisory Committee to the Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents, 1997-98
Faculty Research (Projects) Committee, 1990-93
Global Focus Planning Committee, 1992-93
AAUP Executive Committee, 1991-92
Task Force on the European Community, 1990-91
Department of History:
Associate chair, 2002-7
Undergraduate Advisor, 1997-200, 2002-3
History Honors advisor, 1999-2007
Director of Graduate Studies, 1994-96
Search committees:
Medieval, 1989-90
Modern Europe, 1992-3
Chair search, 1994-5
Late Medieval/Renaissance (chair), 1998-9
Latin America, 2003-4
Chair search (chair), 2004-5
Middle East, 2004-5
Chair search (chair), 2007-8
Standing committees:
Reappointment, Tenure, and Promotion (chair), 2000-2006, 2011-12
Scheduling (chair), 1997-2000, 2002-6, 2007-11
Chair’s Advisory Committee, 1989-90, 1992-3, 1995-6, 1999-2000, 2006-7, 2009-10
Graduate Committee, 1992-4, 1994-6 (chair), 2007-8
Undergraduate Committee, 1989-92, 1997-2000 (chair), 2002-3 (chair), 2007- (chair)
Scholarship Committee, 1989-94 (chair)
Faculty peer reviews, annual (chair five times)
Ad hoc committees:
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Chair review committee (chair), 2005-6, 2007-8
Ad hoc committee for revision of reappointment, tenure, and promotion guidelines,
1991-2, 2001-2
Promotion and tenure subcommittees, 1994-5, 1995-6, 1997-8, 2007-9 (chair),
2010-11 (chair)
Proposed Harris chair/fellowships (chair) 2002-3
Spousal accommodation, 2000-1
Assessment, 1998-2000
Humanities in the World (course construction), 2009-11
Humanities in the Western Tradition course revision, 1997-8, 2002-3
Akron-Kent State doctorial consortium in history, 1994-5
Ohio Board of Regents doctoral program review, 1994-5
European curriculum revision (chair), 1992-3
Kenyon College:
Judicial Board, Academic Infractions Division, 1987-89
Caucus of Temporary Faculty, 1985-7
Other Professional Service:
Offices and Committee Assignments in Professional Organizations:
Chair, Dissertation Award Committee, Ohio Academy of History, 2007-8
German Studies Association Book Prize Committee, 2006-7.
Member of Bureau, International Commission on the History of Travel and Tourism, 2001-;
Vice President, 2003-5; President, 2005Dissertation award committee, Ohio Academy of History, 2005-6
Nominating Committee, Ohio Academy of History, 2004-5; 2010-11
Chair, Ohio Academy of History Teaching Award Committee, 1999-2000.
Member, Executive Council, Ohio Academy of History, 1996-99. Chair, Ad Hoc Committee for
the Revision of the Ohio Academy of History Newsletter,1998
Member, Executive Committee, German Studies Association, 1997-99
Chair, Program Committee, Ohio Academy of History, 1995-96; Member, Program Committee,
1994-95, 2002-3.
Editorial Boards:
Editorial Board, Journal of Tourism History, 2009Board of Editors, Central European History, 2006 Editorial Board, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 2002-.
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Editorial Board, Encyclopedia on the History of Tourism, John K. Walton, ed., ABC-Clio, 2001Member, Editorial Board, H-German, 1997-2007
External Refereeing and Examination:
Tenure and promotion of Andrew Donson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2010
External reviewer, dissertation of Marian Walker, University of Tasmania, Australia, 2008
Tenure and promotion of Molly Wilkinson Johnson, University of Alabama at Huntsville, 2008
Tenure and promotion of Sasha Pack, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2008
Tenure and promotion of Katherine Pence, Baruch College (CUNY, 2005-6)
Tenure and promotion of Catherine Jones, Colorado State University, 2005-6
Promotion of Raffael Scheck, Colby College, 2005-6
Promotion of Laurent Tissot,Université de Neuchâtel, 2005-6.
Tenure and promotion of Thomas Lekan, University of South Carolina, 2004-5
Tenure and promotion of Roland Spickermann, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, 20034
Promotion of Claus-Christian Szejnmann, University of Leicester, 2002-3
Tenure and promotion of Raffael Scheck, Colby College, 1999-2000
External examiner, Richard Steigmann-Gall, Department of History, University of Toronto,
1999.
Honors examiner, Department of History, Kenyon College, 1993, 2005.
Grant Readings:
Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, 1992-94, 2004
Project evaluator, National Endowment of the Humanities Collaborative Research Program,
2002.
Consulting:
Consultant, College Board AP Best Practices Course, 2005-6
Faculty Consultant, CLEP Western Civilization Development Committee, Educational Testing
Service, 1996-97
Faculty Consultant, AP Examination in European History, Educational Testing Service,1993-94;
Table Leader, 1995.
Manuscript Readings:
Journal of Transport History, 2006, 2007
Central European History, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
Contemporary European History, 2007, 2009
Journal of Modern History, 2008
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Ashgate Press, 2008, 2010
Blackwell Publishing, 2010
Cornell University Press, 2005
Business History Review, 2004, 2005
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 2004, 2007
Journal of Social History, 2003
Berghahn Books, 2010
Cambridge University Press, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2011
Berghahn Books, 2010
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 2010
Rutgers University Press, 2002
German History, 2000, 2007
Church History, 2000, 2003
Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2000, 2009, 2010
Westview Press, 1998
Routledge, 1998, 2000, 2004
Oxford University Press, 1995,1996
University of Michigan Press, 1992, 2006, 2009, 2010
Professional Memberships:
American Historical Association
Conference Group on Central European History
German History Society
German Studies Association
International Commission on the History of Travel and Tourism
International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic, and Mobility (T2M)
Ohio Academy of History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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