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CURRICULUM VITAE

March 15, 2019

Hermann H. Beck

Professor of History

Department of History, University of Miami; Coral Gables, FL 33124-4662

(305) 284-5947; e-mail: hbeck @miami.edu

ACADEMIC University of Miami, Department of History (since 1990)

POSITIONS: Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor of History

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Member of the School of Historical Studies, 1997-1998

Bowdoin College, Department of History

Visiting Assistant Professor, 1989-1990

University of California, Los Angeles, Department of History

Teaching Fellow, 1986-1988

EDUCATION: Ph.D. in European History, 1989

University of California, Los Angeles (1982-84; 1986-89) Modern European, European Intellectual, and German History

Freie Universität Berlin, 1984-1986 Specialization in Modern German History

Archival Research in Berlin and Merseburg (GDR)

Université Paris IV, Sorbonne, 1981-1982 Etudiant en IIIième Cycle in

Historical Method, Philosophy and History

Universität Freiburg, 1978-1981 Staatsexamen in History and Germanistik (German Studies), 1981

Magister Artium in Ancient and Modern History, May 1981

London School of Economics, 1977-1978 General Course Student in

Diplomatic and Modern European History

Universität Mannheim, 1975-1977 Zwischenprüfung, June 1977 in

Ancient, Medieval, Modern History and German Studies

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BOOKS:

The Origins of the Authoritarian Welfare State in Prussia: Conservatives, Bureaucracy, and the

Social Question, 1815-1870. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. Pages xvi & 298.

Paperback edition published in 1997.

The Fateful Alliance. German Conservatives and Nazis in 1933: The Machtergreifung in a New

Light. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2008. Pages xvii & 352. Paperback edition

published in 2010.

Editor (with Larry Jones), From Weimar to Hitler: Studies on the Dissolution of Weimar Democracy

and the Establishment of the Third Reich, 1932-34. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2019.

Current book project: Before the Holocaust: Anti-Semitism and the Reaction of German Society

during the Nazi Seizure of Power. Manuscript completed.

ARTICLES:

“Reactionary Nationalism and Fascism: The German Case.” In Ismael Saz, Zira Box, Toni Morant,

and Julián Sanz, eds., Reactionary Nationalists, Fascists and Dictatorships in the Twentieth

Century: Against Democracy. London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2020.

“Großmacht im Umbruch: Preußen in der Reichsgründungszeit, 1858-1871.” In Julia Liedtke and

Rainer Hering, eds., “Die Schleswig-Holsteiner sind fortan Preußen.” Schleswig-Holstein als

preußische Provinz. Husum: Matthiesen, 2019: 124-139, forthcoming 2019.

“Violence against Ostjuden in the Spring of 1933 and the Reaction of German Authorities.” In

Hermann Beck and Larry E. Jones, eds., From Weimar to Hitler: Studies on the Dissolution of

Weimar Democracy and the Establishment of the Third Reich, 1932-34. Oxford and New York:

Berghahn Books, 2019: 163-194.

“Introduction: The Nazi Seizure of Power in Historical and Historiographical Perspective” (with

Larry Jones). In Hermann Beck and Larry E. Jones, eds., From Weimar to Hitler: Studies on the

Dissolution of Weimar Democracy and the Establishment of the Third Reich, 1932-34. Oxford and

New York: Berghahn Books, 2019: 1-22.

“Conclusion: Reaffirming the Value of Political History” (with Larry Jones). In Hermann Beck and

Larry E. Jones, eds., From Weimar to Hitler: Studies on the Dissolution of Weimar Democracy and

the Establishment of the Third Reich, 1932-34. Oxford and New York: Oxford and New York,

Berghahn Books 2019: 418-432.

“The Nazi ‘Seizure of Power.’” In Robert Gellately, ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of the Third

Reich. Oxford University Press: 2018: 51-84. Chinese translation forthcoming with Shanghai Dook:

Shanghai, 2019.

“The Anti-Bourgeois Character of National-Socialism” Journal of Modern History, 88:3 (September

2016): 572-610.

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“Antisemitische Gewalt während der Machtergreifungszeit und die Reaktion der deutschen

Gesellschaft.” In Rainer Hering, ed., Die “Reichskristallnacht” in Schleswig-Holstein. Der

Novemberpogrom im historischen Kontext. Hamburg University Press: Hamburg, 2016: 141-191.

“Anti-Semitic Violence ‘From Below:’ Attacks and Protestant Church Responses in Germany in

1933.” Politics, Religion, and Ideology. Special Issue on “The Nazi Seizure of Power in 1933,” 14:3

(September 2013): 395-412.

“Konflikte zwischen Deutschnationalen und Nationalsozialisten während der Machtergreifungs-

zeit.” Historische Zeitschrift 292:3 (June 2011): 645-681.

“Konservative Politik und Modernisierung in Preußen, 1815-1918.” In Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann,

ed., Pommern im 19. Jahrhundert: Staatliche und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung in vergleichender

Perspektive. Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Pommern, Band 43, Böhlau

Verlag: Köln, Weimar, Wien, 2007: 13-31.

“Between the Dictates of Conscience and Political Expediency: Hitler’s Conservative Alliance

Partner and Anti-Semitism during the Nazi Seizure of Power.” Journal of Contemporary History

41:4 (October 2006): 611-641.

“The Nazis and their Conservative Alliance Partner in 1933: The Seizure of Power in a New Light.”

Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 6:2 (September 2005): 215-243.

“The Changing Concerns of Prussian Conservatism, 1830-1914.” In Philip Dwyer, ed., Conquest

and Assimilation: Rethinking Prussian History 1830-1947. Addison, Wesley, Longman: London,

2001: 86-106.

“Socialism at the Crossroads: Bismarck, Bebel, and Lassalle.” In David E. Barclay and Eric D.

Weitz, eds., Between Reform and Revolution. German Socialism and Communism from 1840 to

1990. Berghahn Books: London & Providence, 1998: 63-86.

“Josef Maria von Radowitz and the Implications of Nineteenth-Century German Social Thought.”

German History 13 (May 1995): 163-182.

“Die Rolle des Sozialkonservatismus in der preußisch-deutschen Geschichte als Forschungs-

problem.” Jahrbuch für die Geschichte Mittel- und Ostdeutschlands 43 (1995): 59-92.

“Soziales Denken und Sozialpolitik in Preußen: Wandlungen bei den Konservativen zwischen 1830

und 1866. Ein Forschungsbericht.” Informationen: Historische Kommission zu Berlin 19 (1994):

14-17.

“Conservatives and the Social Question in Nineteenth-Century Prussia.” In Larry E. Jones and

James Retallack, eds., Between Reform, Reaction, and Resistance: Studies in the History of German

Conservatism from 1789 to 1945. London and Providence, 1993: 61-95.

“State and Society in Pre-March Prussia: The Weavers' Uprising, the Bureaucracy, and the

Association for the Welfare of Workers.” Central European History 25 (1992): 303-332.

“The Social Policies of Prussian Officials: The Bureaucracy in a New Light.” Journal of Modern

History 64 (June 1992): 263-298.

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REVIEWS AND SHORT ESSAYS:

Review of Robert Kellner, ed., My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner: A German against

the Third Reich? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. In Holocaust and Genocide

Studies 33:2 (forthcoming, 2019).

Review of Norbert Frei, ed., Wie bürgerlich war der Nationalsozialismus. Wallstein: Göttingen,

2018. In German History 37:2 (forthcoming, 2019).

Review of Daniel Ziblatt, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy. Cambridge University

Press: Cambridge and New York, 2017. In Journal of Modern History 91:1 (2019): 58-60.

Review of Daniela Gasteiger, Kuno von Westarp (1864-1945). Parlamentarismus, Monarchismus

und Herrschaftsutopien im deutschen Konservatismus. De Gruyter & Oldenbourg: Berlin and

Boston, 2018. In Central European History 51:4 (2018): 708-710.

Art Exhibition Catalogue Essay, “The Destruction of Dresden and Strategic Bombing in the Second

World War” (in English and Spanish). In Sebastian Spreng, Dresden, Museum Catalogue. Lowe Art

Museum. University of Miami: Coral Gables, 2018: 12-20.

Review of Thomas Weber, Becoming Hitler. The Making of a Nazi. Basic Books: New York, 2017.

In German History 36:3 (2018): 474-476.

Review of Daniel Roos, Julius Streicher und ‘Der Stürmer’ 1923-1945. Schöningh: Paderborn,

2014. In German History 33:2 (2015): 322-324.

“Preface.” In Ulrich Merten, Forgotten Voices: A Chronicle of the Expulsion of the Germans from

Eastern Europe. Transaction: New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2012: xi-xiv.

Review of Ewald Grothe, ed., Konservative deutsche Politiker im 19. Jahrhundert. Wirken –

Wirkung –Wahrnehmung. Marburg, 2010. Francia 2011:3, UPL: http://

www.perspectivia.net/content/ publikationen/ francia/francia-recensio/2011-3/grothe_beck.

Review of Eric Kurlander, Living with Hitler. Liberal Democrats in the Third Reich. New Haven

and London, 2009. In Journal of Modern History 83:1 (2011): 214-216.

Review of Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich. The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany,

Oxford, 2009. In German History 29:1 (2011): 153-155.

Review of Christopher Kobrak, Banking on Global Markets: The Deutsche Bank and the United

States, 1870 to the Present, Cambridge, 2008. In Central European History 43:4 (2010): 699-701.

Review of Stefan Vogt, Nationaler Sozialismus und Soziale Demokratie. Die sozialdemokratische

Junge Rechte 1918-1945, Bonn, 2006. In American Historical Review 115:4 (2010): 1236-1238.

Review of Karina Urbach, ed., European Aristocracies and the Radical Right, 1918-1939, Oxford,

2007. In European History Quarterly, 40:3 (2010): 568-570.

Review of Robert Gellately, Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe. London,

2007. In European History Quarterly, 40: 2 (2010): 331-332.

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Review of Larry Frohman, Poor Relief and Welfare in Germany from the Reformation to World

War I, Cambridge, 2008. In American Historical Review, 114:4 (2009): 1167-1168.

Review of Stephan H. Lindner, Inside IG Farben: Hoechst During the Third Reich. Cambridge,

2008. In Central European History 42:3 (2009): 574-577.

Review of Thomas Weber, Our Friend “The Enemy:” Elite Education in Britain and Germany

before World War I. Stanford, 2008. In German Studies Review, 32:2 (2009): 415-416.

Review of Thomas Rohkrämer, A Single Communal Faith? The German Right from Conservatism

to National Socialism. New York and Oxford, 2007. In German History 27:2 (2009): 300-302.

Review of Katharina Zeitz, Max von Laue (1879-1960). Seine Bedeutung für den Wiederaufbau der

deutschen Wissenschaft nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Stuttgart, 2006. In German History 27:1

(2009): 163-164.

Review of Jeffrey Record, The Specter of Munich: Reconsidering the Lessons of Appeasing Hitler.

Potomac Books: Washington, D.C., 2008. In History: Reviews of New Books, 36:4 (2008): 149-150.

Review of Peer Oliver Volkmann, Heinrich Brüning (1885-1970). Nationalist ohne Heimat.

Droste: Düsseldorf, 2007. In Central European History 41:4 (2008): 708-710.

Obituary: “Memoriam: Edward L. Dreyer.” In AHA-Perspectives: 46:2 (February 2008):

39-40.

Review of Uffa Jensen, Gebildete Doppelgänger: Bürgerliche Juden und Protestanten im 19.

Jahrhundert. Göttingen, 2005. In Shofar: Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 26:2 (2007):

170-173.

Review of Frank Bajohr, “Aryanisation” in Hamburg. The Economic Exclusion of Jews and the

Confiscation of their Property in Nazi Germany. New York, Oxford, 2002. In Central European

History 38:1 (2005): 65-68.

Review of Erik Grimmer-Solem, The Rise of Historical Economics and Social Reform in Germany,

1864-1894. Oxford, New York, 2003. In American Historical Review 109 (2004): 241.

Review of Dieter Ziegler, ed., Grossbürger und Unternehmer. Die deutsche Wirtschaftselite im 20.

Jahrhundert. Göttingen, 2000. In Central European History 37:2 (2004): 315-16.

Review of Reiner Fattmann, Bildungsbürger in der Defensive. Die akademische Beamtenschaft

und der “Reichsbund der höheren Beamte” in der Weimarer Republik. Göttingen, 2001. In

Central European History 37:1 (2004): 163-66.

Review of Hans Mommsen, ed., The Third Reich between Vision and Reality. New Perspectives on

German History 1918-1945. German Historical Perspectives XII. Oxford & New York, 2001. In

Central European History 36:2 (2003): 297-300.

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Review of Thomas Welskopp, Das Banner der Brüderlichkeit. Die deutsche Sozialdemokratie vom

Vormärz bis zum Sozialistengesetz. Bonn, 2000. In Journal of Modern History 75:1 (2003): 204-

206.

Review of Greg Eghigian, Making Security Social: Disability, Insurance, and the Birth of the Social

Entitlement State in Germany. Ann Arbor, 2000. In Central European History 35 (2002): 431-434.

Review of Roderick Stackelberg, Hitler's Germany: Origins, Interpretations, Legacies. London,

1999. In Central European History 34:4 (2001): 594-96.

Encyclopedia entry, “Frederick the Great.” Magill's Guide to Military History, II. Pasadena: Salem

Press (2001): 546-47.

Encyclopedia entry, “Leuthen.” Magill's Guide to Military History, III. Pasadena: Salem Press

(2001): 891-92.

Encyclopedia entry, “Teutonic Knights.” Magill's Guide to Military History, IV. Pasadena: Salem

Press (2001): 1516-17.

Review of Stefan Brakensiek, Fürstendiener-Staatsbeamte-Bürger. Amtsführung und Lebenswelt

der Ortsbeamten in niederhessischen Kleinstädten, 1750-1830 (Göttingen, 1999). In Journal of

Modern History 73:2 (2001): 432-34.

Review of Peter Fritzsche, Germans into Nazis. Cambridge, Mass., 1998. In German Politics and

Society 17:3 (1999): 163-167.

Review of Christina von Hodenberg, Aufstand der Weber. Die Revolte von 1844 and ihr Aufstieg

zum Mythos. Bonn, 1997. In Central European History, 32:4 (1999): 463-465.

Review of Brigitte Hamann, Hitlers Wien. Lehrjahre eines Diktators. Munich, 1996. In Central

European History, 32:1 (1999): 118-120.

Review of Margaret Shennan, The Rise of Brandenburg-Prussia. New York, 1997. In German

Studies Review 21:3 (1998): 600-601.

Review of Hans-Christof Kraus, Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach: Politisches Denken und Handeln eines

preussischen Altkonservativen, 2 volumes. Munich, 1994. In Journal of Modern History, 70 (1998):

226-228.

Combined review of Jürgen Angelow, Von Wien nach Königgrätz. Die Sicherheitspolitik des

Deutschen Bundes im europäischen Gleichgewicht 1815-1866. Munich 1996, and Hans-Peter

Ullmann & Clemens Zimmermann, eds., Restaurationssystem und Reformpolitik: Süddeutschland

und Preußen im Vergleich. Munich, 1996. In The English Historical Review 113:451 (1998): 494-

496.

Review of David F. Lindenfeld, The Practical Imagination: The German Sciences of State in the

Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1997). In American Historical Review 103: 4 (1998): 1263-64.

Review of Michael Grüttner, Studenten im Dritten Reich. Paderborn, 1995. In Central European

History 30 (1997): 608-611.

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“To the Editor.” Reply to Eric D. Brose's review of The Origins of the Authoritarian Welfare State

in Prussia: Conservatives, Bureaucracy and the Social Question, 1815-1870. In The

American Historical Review 102 (1997): 1303-1304.

Review of Patricia Kollander, Frederick III: Germany's Liberal Emperor. Westport, CT, 1995.

In German Studies Review 20 (1997): 335-37.

Review of Ursula Ratz, Zwischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft und Koalition. Bürgerliche Sozialreformer

und Gewerkschaften im ersten Weltkrieg. Munich and London, 1994. In Central European History

29 (1996): 439-442.

Review of Albert Tanner, Arbeitsame Patrioten - wohlanständige Damen: Bürgertum und

Bürgerlichkeit in der Schweiz 1830-1914. Zürich, 1995. In Amercian Historical Review 101 (1996):

1573-4.

Review of John C. Theibault, German Villages in Crisis: Rural Life in Hesse-Kassel and the Thirty

Years' War, 1580-1720. Atlantic Highlands, NJ., 1995. In German Studies Review 19 (1996): 154-

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Review of Andrea Hofmeister-Hunger, Pressepolitik und Staatsreform: Die Institutionalisierung

staatlicher Öffentlichkeitsarbeit bei Karl August von Hardenberg, 1792-1822. Göttingen, 1994. In

The Journal of Modern History 68 (1996): 499-501.

Review of Giles MacDonogh, Prussia: The Perversion of an Idea. London, 1994. German Studies

Review 18 (1995): 566-568.

Review of Hartmut Lehmann and James Van Horn Melton, eds., Paths of Continuity: Central

European Historiography from the 1930s to the 1950s. Cambridge, 1994. In German Studies

Review 18 (1995): 353-54.

Review of Richard L. Gawthrop, Pietism and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Prussia.

Cambridge, 1993. In German Studies Review 18 (1995): 141-143.

Review of Elaine G. Spencer, Police and the Social Order in German Cities: The Düsseldorf

District, 1848-1914. De Kalb, 1992. In Journal of Modern History 67 (1995): 211-213.

Review of Herbert Giersch, Karl-Heinz Paqué and Holger Schmieding, The Fading Miracle: Four

Decades of Market Economy in Germany. Cambridge, 1992. In German Studies Review 17 (1994):

220-1.

Review of Rudolf Boch, Grenzenloses Wachstum? Das rheinische Wirtschaftsbürgertum und seine

Industrialisierungsdebatte 1814-1857. Göttingen, 1991. In Journal of Modern History 66 (1994):

582-585.

Review of Lech Trzeciakowski, The Kulturkampf in Prussian Poland. Translated from the Polish

by Katarzyna Kretkowska. New York, 1990. In German Studies Review 16 (1993): 558-59

Combined review of Alfred Kelly, ed., The German Worker: Working-Class Autobiographies from

the Age of Industrialization. Chapel Hill, 1989, and Carolyn Steedman, ed. The Radical Soldier's

Tale: John Pearman, 1819-1908. In Oral History Review 20 (1992): 113-16.

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Review of Hamilton Holt, ed., The Life Stories of “Undistinguished” Americans as told by

themselves. New York, James Pott & Co., 1906. In Oral History Review 19 (1991), 146-48.

Review of Woodruff Smith, Politics and the Sciences of Culture in Germany, 1840-1920. Oxford

and New York, 1991. Central European History 24 (1991): 466-69.

Review of James Retallack, Notables of the Right. The Conservative Party and Political

Mobilization in Germany 1876-1918. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988. In German Studies Review 13

(1990): 159-60.

Review of Francis L. Carsten, War against War: British and German Radical Movements in the

First World War. Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1982. In UCLA Historical Journal 4 (1983): 134-136.

“The Study of History in Europe.” Special Features, UCLA Historical Journal 4 (1983): 146-150.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

American Historical Association, 1983-present

German Studies Association, 1989-present

Southern Historical Association (SHA), European Section

* Member, Program Committee, SHA, European Section, 1999-2002

* Member, Executive Committee, SHA, European Section, 2000-2003

* Chair, Program Committee, SHA, European Section, 2001-2002

* Member, Baker-Burton-Smith Book Prize Committee, 2010-2012

* Chair, Baker-Burton-Smith Book Prize Committee, 2012

German History Society, Oxford, UK, 1989-present

London School of Economics Society, 1978-present

COMMITTEES AND ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES:

Departmental Committees:

* Departmental Library Liaison, 1990-1992

* Member, Graduate Committee, 1990-1992; 1998-2001

* Chair, Cooper Lecture Series, Department of History, 1995-1996

* Member, Search Committee for Tebeau Chair in US History, 1995-1996

* Chair, Committee Senior European position, Department of History, 2003-2004

* Member, Search Committee, Colonial Latin American History, 2004-2005

* Member, Search Committee, Nineteenth-Century US History, 2005-2006

* Member, Search Committee, Asian History, 2008-2009

* Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History, 2003-2006; 2007– 2011

* Acting Chair, Department of History, April 2010 – June 30, 2011; Fall 2015

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College Committees:

* College of Arts & Sciences, College Council, Member, 1993-1996; 2008-2011; 2017-2019

* College of Arts & Sciences, College Council, Speaker, 2017-2019

* Arts & Humanities Review Council, 2018-2019

* College of Arts & Sciences Budget and Compensation Committee, 2016-2019

* College of Arts & Sciences, Curriculum Committee, Member, 2007-2013

* Search Committee for Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies, 2000-2001

* Chair, Humanities Subcommittee, 2001

* International and Comparative Studies Steering Committee, 1994-1997

* Committee on Admissions and Academic Standards, 2009

* University of Miami, U Prague Program faculty advisor, 2009-2010

* CAS Strategic Planning Workgroup on Scholarship, Research, & Creative Work, 2011-2012

* CAS Committee to evaluate graduate student awards for Dissertation-Year Fellowships, 2013

* CAS Committee on Admissions and Academic Standards, 2012-2013

* Judaic Studies, Advisory Committee, 2012-2017

* Internal Review Committee for Graduate Program Review in Philosophy, 2015

* Judaic Studies Steering Committee, 2014- 2018

* Committee on Advanced Writing and Communication Requirement, 2015

* College Selection Committee for Foote Fellows, 2015

* Committee assessing Humanities proposals for “Beyond the Book” Award, 2017

* International Studies Steering Committee, 2015- 2018

* College of Arts & Sciences, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2012-2015; 2017-2019

University Committees:

* Member, Faculty Senate Hearing Panel, 2018- present

* Committee to establish “Fellowships in Arts & Humanities,” 2017

* Member of initial Review Committee for these Fellowships, Spring 2018

* Member, Faculty Senate Academic Standards Committee, 2014 - 2015

* Member, Review Board for Provost’s Research Awards in the Humanities, 2014

* Member, University of Miami Faculty Senate, 2007 - 2010

* Member, University of Miami Fellowship Committee, 2000-2001

* Member, Faculty Senate Subcommittee on Retention, 1994-1995

* Member, Honors Advisory Committee, 1994-1996

* Chair, Faculty Senate Library Committee, Fall 1993-Spring 1996

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SELECT PAPER PRESENTATIONS:

“National Socialists and Reactionary Nationalists during the Weimar Republic and the First Phase of

the Nazi Seizure of Power.” German Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, September 2018

“Reactionary Nationalism and Fascism: The German Case.” Invited lecture for international

conference on Fascism in Valencia/Spain: Reactionary Nationalists, Fascists and Dictatorships,

November 2017

“Großmacht im Umbruch: Preußen während der Reichsgründungszeit 1858-1871.“ Invited lecture,

Prinzenpalais, Landesarchiv Schleswig-Holstein, June 2017

“Anti-Semitism and the Protestant Churches.” German Studies Association Conference, San Diego,

September 2016

“Before the Holocaust: Anti-Semitic Violence during the Nazi Seizure of Power.” Cooper Lecture,

University of Miami, April 2016

“Neglected Aspects of the Machtergreifung.” German Studies Association Conference, Washington,

DC., October 2015

“Anti-Semitic Violence in 1933 and the Reaction of German Institutions.” German Studies

Association Conference, Kansas City, September 2014

“Antisemitische Gewalt während der Machtergreifungszeit und die Reaktion der deutschen

Gesellschaft.” Invited lecture, Landesarchiv Schleswig-Holstein, June 2014

“Anti-Semitic Violence during the Nazi Seizure of Power.” German Studies Association

Conference, Milwaukee, October 2012

“Anti-Semitic Attacks and the Christian Churches in 1933.” Department of Religious Studies,

University of Miami, April 2011

“German Society and Anti-Semitism during the Nazi Seizure of Power.” Judaic Studies Center,

University of Miami, November 2010

“The Reaction of German Protestants to Anti-Semitic Attacks in 1933.” German Studies Association

Conference, Oakland, October 2010

“The Fateful Alliance. Conservatives and Nazis in 1933. The Machtergreifung in a New Light.”

Books& Books, Coral Gables, September 2010

“Conservatism and National Socialism: Continuities and Ruptures.” German Studies Association

Conference, Washington, October 2009

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“The Anti-Bourgeois Thrust of National Socialism.” German Studies Association Conference, St.

Paul, October 2008

“An Uneasy Alliance: Conservatives and Nazis during the Nazi Seizure of Power.” German Studies

Association Conference, San Diego, October 2007

“Nazis and Social Revolution during the Nazi Seizure of Power.” Southern Historical Association

Conference, Atlanta, November 2005

“Konservative Politik und Modernisierung in Preußen im 19. Jahrhundert.” Invited Speaker at the

International Symposium on “Pommern in Preußen während des 19. Jahrhunderts,” Universität

Greifswald, October 2005

“Unlikely Opponents: Nazi Hostility towards their Conservative Coalition Partner.” German Studies

Association Conference, Milwaukee, September 2005

“The German Conservative Establishment and Hitler in 1933.” Pennsylvania State University,

February 1999

“The German Bildungsbürgertum and National Socialism.” School of Historical Studies, Institute

for Advanced Study at Princeton, March 1998

“The German States during the Age of Johann Sebastian Bach.” International Bach Symposium,

University of Miami, 1996

“Bismarck and the Politics of the 1860s.” New College Florida Biannual Conference on Central and

Eastern Europe, Sarasota, March 1995

“Political Ideologies and the Making of the Empire: Conservatism and Socialism during the

Reichsgründungszeit.” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Dallas, October 1994

“Prussian Conservatism between Revolution and Reichsgründung: Germany's Special Development

in a New Light.” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, September 1991

“Reflections on a United Germany.” International Symposium on German Unification, University

of Miami, October 1990

“Social Conservatism in Prussia, 1830-1860.” German Studies Association Annual Conference,

Buffalo, September 1990

“Social Thought in Prussia before Bismarck.” Swarthmore College, February 1990

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“The Social Policies of Prussian Officials.” German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee,

October 1989

“The Press in the Last Phase of the Weimar Republic.” Virginia Polytechnic and State University,

March 1989

“La Crise des Valeurs parmi les Etudiants en Allemagne.” Centre de Recherche Historique, Paris,

April 1983

“Die bürgerliche Presse und der Aufstieg der NSDAP.” Universität Freiburg, February 1980

SELECT PUBLIC LECTURES:

“The Nazi Seizure of Power Reconsidered.” Physicians Academic Group, Baptist Hospital, Miami,

February 2011.

World War II in Europe. Series of lectures to large (250-300) audiences at Ocean Reef, Key

Largo, Spring 2016:

1) “The Origins of the Second World War from Hitler’s Accession to power in 1933 to the Munich

Agreement”

2) “Europe between Munich and the German attack in the West on May 10, 1940”

3) “The Fall of France and the Battle of Britain, May 1940 - May 1941”

4) “Operation “Barbarossa” from June 22, 1941 to Stalingrad, Sept. 1942 - Feb. 1943”

5) “The Turning of the Tide in all Theatres, Fall 1942 - June 1944”

6) “The Defeat of Hitler’s Germany, June 1944 - May 1945”

7) “The War Leaders: Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt”

Nahmad Lecture Series. University of Miami:

“Nazi Foreign Policy and the Origins of the Second World War, Part I: From the Nazi Seizure of

power to the Occupation of the Rhineland in 1936.” April 27, 2018

“Nazi Foreign Policy and the Origins of the Second World War, Part II: From the Occupation of the

Rhineland to the Outbreak of War, 1936-1939.” May 4, 2018

“Major Topics in the History of the Second World War: Unexpected Disaster – The Fall of France

in 1940.” December 10, 2018

“Major Topics in the History of the Second World War: Operation Barbarossa – Warfare at its Most

Barbarous.” December 13, 2018

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COURSES TAUGHT: Bowdoin College, 1989-90; University of Miami since 1990

Lecture Courses:

* Introduction to Western Civilization, Part I, Ancient Near East to the Renaissance

* Introduction to Western Civilization, Part II, Reformation to the Present

* European History, 1890-1939

* European History, 1939 to the Present

* European History in the Twentieth Century

* European Diplomatic History from Bismarck to the Cold War

* World History since 1914

* History of World War II

* German History, 1648 to the Present

* German History from the Reformation to Bismarck

* German History from 1890 to the Present

* German History, 1815-1945

* History of Nazi Germany

Seminars:

* Literature and Society in Fin-de-Siècle Europe (Germany and France, 1870-1918)

* The Third Reich

* Prussian History (1640-1866)

* The Collapse of the Weimar Republic and Hitler's Rise to Power

* Theories of Fascism

* The Great European Powers, Bismarck, and the Foundation of the German Empire

* Controversies in the Historiography of Modern Germany

* The Weimar Republic: From Versailles to Hitler

* The Domestic Policies of the Third Reich, 1933-1939

* European Fascism, 1919-1945

* Historiography (graduate student seminar)

* The Nazi Seizure of Power

* Germany from Bismarck to Hitler: Literature, Politics, and Society

* World War I and the Beginnings of the Weimar Republic

* Europe in the Age of Total War, 1914-1945 (Master of Arts in Liberal Studies - MALS - Program)

* Europe between Napoleon and Hitler: Politics, Literature and Society (MALS Program)

* Diaries & Autobiographies of WWII: Memories of Destruction and Survival (MALS Program)

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MANSUCRIPT AND ARTICLE REVIEWS:

Review of Western Civilization texts for Prentice Hall, West Publishing, and Bedford

St.Martin’s, 1990-1994.

Review of Detlef Garbe, Between Resistance and Martyrdom. Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Third

Reich for the University of Wisconsin Press, 2004-2005

Review of edited collection “Conflict, Catastrophe, and Continuity: Essays on Modern

German History” for Berghahn Books, 2006

Review of Rudolf von Thadden, Trieglaff. Eine pommersche Lebenswelt zwischen Kirche und

Politik, 1807-1948 for Berghahn Books, 2011; book subsequently translated into English

Manuscript review of English translation of Hedda Kalshoven-Brester’s Ik denk zoveel aan

jullie: Een briefwisseling tussen Nederland en Duitsland, 1920-1949 for the University of

Illinois Press, 2012-2013

Review of edited collection, “The German Right in the Weimar Republic: Studies in the History

of German Conservatism, Nationalism, and Anti-Semitism from 1918 to 1933” for Berghahn

Books, Oxford, New York, 2013

Review of book manuscript “Lobbying Hitler. Two managers of Industrial Associations between

Democracy and Dictatorship: Jakob Reichert and Karl Lange” for Berghahn Books, Oxford,

New York, 2014

Review of book manuscript “The Kingdom of Württemberg and the Making of Germany, 1815-

1871” for Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2015

Review of book manuscript "Decades of Reconstruction: Postwar Societies, State-Building, and

International Relations, from the Seven Years' War to the Cold War" edited by Ute Planert and

Jim Retallack for Cambridge University Press, 2015

Article reviews for German History, Oxford, UK

Article reviews for The Journal of the History of Ideas

Article reviews for Agricultural History

Article reviews for the Journal of Policy Studies

Article reviews for The Journal of Modern History

GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISING:

Ph.D. Committee for Neda Hughes, Latin American history, committee member, 1991

M.A. Thesis Committee for Steve Alexander, Modern Europe, Chair, 1996

Ph.D. Committee for Ori Preuss, Latin American history, committee member, 1998

Ph.D. Committee for Christina Merthens, Latin American history, committee member, 1999

M.A. Thesis Committee for Sharokina de Mirza, Ancient history, committee member, 1999

Ph.D. Committee for Mariana Cornea, Latin American history, committee member, 2001

M.A. Thesis Committee for Octavio Ramos, committee member, 2004

M.A. Thesis Committee for Scott Wacholtz, Modern Europe, committee member, 2006

Ph.D. Committee for Octavio Ramos, Latin American history, committee member, 2012

Ph.D. Committee for Stephen Lazer, Early Modern Europe, committee member, 2007-2014

Ph.D. Committee for Drew Wofford, Modern European History, committee member, 2014-2019

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FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS:

University of Miami, Fellowship in the Humanities, 2019-2020

College of Arts & Sciences Cooper Fellowship, 2014-2017

Provost’s Research Award, 2013-2014; previous Provost’s Research Awards/ Max Orovitz Summer

Awards in Arts & Humanities in 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2006, and 2008 to

pursue research in German archives

The University of Miami Excellence in Teaching Award, 1996 (nominated for teaching awards in

2005 and 2006)

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; School for Historical Studies, 1997-1998

Historische Kommission zu Berlin, Berlin-Nikolassee; Forschungszentrum für Geschichte,

Forschungsstipendium, Fall 1993

University of Miami, General Research Support Award, Summers of 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996,

1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013.

Offer of the Stanford Western Civilization Lectureship, Stanford University, April 1989 (declined

due to previous offer from Bowdoin College)

Dissertation Fellowship, UCLA, 1988-89

Tuition grants from the UCLA History Department, 1983-88

Fulbright Scholarship, 1982-1984.