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Professor of History
Director, Center for German and European Studies
Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair in the College of Liberal Arts
2007 Distinguished McKnight University Professorship

Research Interests

  • Modern German and European History
  • History of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
  • Comparative Genocides
  • Mass movements in the modern period

Selected Publications

Living with Modernity: Weimar Germany, 1918-1933 (under contract to Princeton University Press; expected ms. completion December 2005).

“The Holocaust and Comparative Genocide in the Twentieth Century,” in Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust, ed. Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes ( New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2004), 135-48.

A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003). Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2003.

“The Modernity of Genocides: War, Race, and Revolution in the Twentieth Century,” in The Specter ofGenocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective, ed. Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 53-73.

“ In the Age of Genocide: Race and Nation under Nazi and Soviet Power,” in Remembering for the Future: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocides, ed. John K. Roth, Elisabeth Maxwell, and Margot Levy ( London: Palgrave, 2001), 113-29.

Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), xviii, 445 pp. Honorable Mention, Allan Sharlin Memorial Award of the Social Science History Association, 1998.

Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).

Courses

  • Nazi Germany and Hitler’s Europe
  • Race, Nation, and Genocide in the Modern World
  • Modern Germany, 1871-Present
  • The Politics of Memory
  • Borderlands: Ethnicity and Nationality in the Shatter-Zone of Empires, 1890-1950
  • The Two Germanys after 1945