萝莉社

European Jewish and German History

Contemporary Pedagogy

Contemporary History and Holocaust History

Teaching Portfolio:

鈥淎dvanced Historical Methodology鈥� (Graduate Seminar)

鈥淭he Age of Jewish Emancipation in Europe鈥� (Graduate Seminar)

鈥淎ntisemitism in Modern Europe鈥� (Graduate Seminar)

鈥淔act, Opinion and Why the Both Matter (Honors First Year Seminar)

鈥淔ascism and Ultra-Nationalism (Graduate Seminar)

鈥淗颈蝉迟辞谤颈辞驳谤补辫丑测鈥�

鈥淗istory Beyond the Headlines鈥�

鈥淭he Holocaust鈥�

鈥淭he Holocaust in Film鈥�

鈥淭he Jewish Experience in Christian Europe鈥�

鈥淢odern Europe I, 1789-1871鈥�

鈥淢odern Europe II, 1871-1945鈥�

鈥淢odern German History: 1815-1989鈥�

鈥淢odern Jewish History鈥�

鈥淭he Nationalist Enterprise in Europe鈥� (Graduate Seminar)

鈥淲ar, Religion and Genocide in the 20^th 颁别苍迟耻谤测鈥�

鈥淲estern Civilization: The Modern Era鈥�

鈥淲estern Civilization: The Early Modern Era鈥�

Monographs

Our Only Hope: Eddie鈥檚 Holocaust Story and the Weisz Family Correspondence. (University Press of America, 2008).

Constructing Modern Identities: Jewish University Students in Germany, 1815-1914. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999).

Contributing Author

Holocaust Chronicle. (Chicago: Publications International, January, 2000)

 

Journal Articles and Essays (Sole Author)

鈥淭esting the Limits of Academic Freedom: Controversial Art on College Campuses,鈥� Metropolitan Universities, Vol. 18, #2, (2007), 66-76.

鈥淧rofiles of Acculturation:  Jewish Communities in 19^th Century Germany,鈥� Judaism. A Quarterly Journal of Jewish life and Thought. (Summer, 2006), 63-73.

鈥淣ative Born Strangers: Jews, Catholics and the German Nation, Religion und Nation. Nation und Religion. Beitr盲ge zur einer unbew盲ltigen Geschichte. (G枚ttingen: Vallstein Verlag, 2004), 141-56.

鈥淒ivergent Paths of National Integration and Acculturation: Jewish and Catholic Educational Strategies in 19^th Century Hesse-Darmstadt,鈥� in Towards Normality? Acculturation and Modern German Jewry. Rainer Liedtke and David Rechter, eds. (T眉bingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003), 237-250.

"Images of God and Country: Jewish National and Religious Identities in Wilhelmine Germany," Aschkenas. Zeitschrift f眉r Geschichte und Kultur der Juden.  8 (Fall, 1998), 425-37.

"German Jewish Identity in the Kaiserreich: Observations and Methodological Considerations," Jewish History, Vol 9, #2 (1995), 73-91.

"Jewish University Students in Germany and the Construction of a Post-Emancipatory Identity: The Model of the Freie Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung," Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, 39 (1994), 65-81.

 

Journal Articles and Essays (Co-Authored)

鈥淐hallenging Conventional Wisdom: Building an Adult Centered Degree Completion Program at a Traditional University鈥檚 Satellite campus,鈥� with Susan Parkinson Norton. Metropolitan Universities Vol 22 Number 1 (August 2011), 103-115.

鈥淒isplays of Emotion: Middle East Politics in the Art Museum,鈥� with David Butler. Museum News (September/October, 2005), 48-53.

Conference Proceedings

"Images of God and Country: Jewish Nationalism and Religiosity in Wilhelmine Germany." Proceedings of the 1996 International Society for the Study of European Ideas Conference: 'Memory, History and Critique: European Identity at the Millennium.' (November, 1997)

 

Book Reviews

The Socialist Response to Antisemitism in Imperial Germany. Lars Fischer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Journal of Social History, (Spring, 2008).

Between Philosemitism and Antisemitism: Defenses of Jews and Judaism in Germany, 1871-1932. Alan Levenson. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Association of Jewish Studies Review Volume 30, #1 (March, 2006).

Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity. Mitchell B. Hart. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Shofar Vol 20, #3 (Spring 2002).

Marketing Identities: The Invention of Jewish Ethnicity in Ost und West. David Brenner. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998.  Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Vol 15, #3 (Winter 2001)

The Lion and the Star: Gentile-Jewish Relations in Three Hessian Communities, 1919-1945. Jonathan Friedman. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1998. German Studies Review. Vol XXIII, #3 (October, 2000).

German-Jewish History in Modern Times. Volumes 3 and 4. Michael A. Meyer, ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. German Studies Review. Vol XXIII, #1 (February, 2000).

German-Jewish History in Modern Times. Volumes 1 and 2. Michael A. Meyer, ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. German Studies Review. Vol XXIII, #1 (February, 2000).

 Culture and Catastrophe. German and Jewish Confrontations with National Socialism and Other Crises. Steven E. Aschheim.  New York: New York University Press, 1996.  H-German Reviews, (September, 1997).

 The Jews & Germany. From the 'Judeo-German Symbiosis" to the Memory Of Auschwitz.  Enzo Traverso. Translated by Daniel Weissbort.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. German Studies Review Vol XIX, #3 (October, 1996).

The People Speak! Anti-Semitism and Emancipation in Nineteenth Century Bavaria. James F. Harris. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994. German Studies Review Vol XIX, #2 (May, 1996).

 Confronting the Nation. Jewish and Western Nationalism. George L. Mosse. Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 1993. Shofar, Vol 14, #1(Fall, 1995).

Faculty Postitions:

2009-present: Professor, Department of History and the Bill and Dorothy Cohen Honors College, 萝莉社 University.

2001-2009: Associate Professor, Department of History, 萝莉社 University.

1995-2001: Assistant Professor, Department of History, 萝莉社 University.

1994-1995:  Adjunct Assistant Professor, European and German History, Montana State University.

1991-1994:  Lecturer in Modern European, German and Jewish History, University of Washington.

 

Administrative Positions:

2014-2020: Vice President, 萝莉社Foundation

2013-2014: Interim Dean, College of Health Professions, 萝莉社 University

2013-2016: Director of Operations, Center for Combating Human Trafficking, Wichita State University

2011-2013: Interim Provost, 萝莉社 University

2007-2011: Associate Provost for Strategic Planning and Operations, 萝莉社 University

2008-2009: Acting Director, Community Center for Support and Research, 萝莉社 University.

2002-2007: Associate Dean, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Wichita State University.

2001-2002: Interim Associate Dean, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 萝莉社 University

2000-2001: Graduate Program Coordinator, Department of History, 萝莉社 University.

Grants Awards and Honors

2001: (Summer) German Academic Exchange (DAAD) Study Visit Grant for Faculty

2001: University Research Award, 萝莉社 University

2000: (Summer), Fellow, Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, Northwestern University.

1999: Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 萝莉社 University, Summer Research Grant.

1998-99: Fulbright Research Fellow, Institute for European History, Mainz, Germany.

1998: ARCS Summer Grant, 萝莉社 University

1997 (Summer): Visiting Scholar, Center for German and European Studies, University of California at Berkeley.

1996 (Summer): Visiting Scholar, Institute for European History,  Mainz, Germany.

1996: Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant, American Historical Association

1996: University Research Award, 萝莉社 University.

Professional Service:

** Member, Coalition of Urban Universities Student Performance Strand (2012-13)

 ** Membership Chair, Council of Arts and Sciences at Urban Universities (2003-7)

 ** Membership Chair, European Section of the Southern Historical Society (1997-9)

University Service:

  ** Member of the University Computer Security Task Force (2006-07)

  ** Academic Operations Council (2001-2010)

  ** Chair of Fine Arts Search Committee for the Director of the Ulrich Museum (2006)

  ** Chair of LAS Search Committee for the Director of the LAS Advising Center (2005-06)

  ** Chair of LAS Search Committee for the Curtis D. Gridley Professorship In the History and Philosophy of Science (2004-05)

  ** University Bookstore Committee (2001-02)

  ** Department Technology Committee (1996-2001)

  ** Department Representative to the LAS College Council (2000-2001)

  ** Department Newsletter Editor (1998-2000)

  ** Department Scholarship Committee (1995-98)

  ** Department Curriculum Committee (1997-98)

  ** Department Search Committees (1997, 1998)

  ** LAS General Education Review Committee (2000)

  ** University Curriculum Committee (1997-98)

  ** University Teaching and Learning Technology Roundtable (1997-98)

Community Service:

  ** President, Congregation Emanuel Foundation (current)

  ** Vice President for Programs, Rotary Club of Wichita (2016-17)

  ** Member, Kansas State Holocaust Commission (2008-11)

  ** Member, Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum Board of Directors (2009-11)

  ** Member, Wichita Hispanic Chamber Board of Directors (2009-11)

  ** President, Congregation Emanu-El, (2003-2005)

  ** Communications Director, Wichita Public Schools Bond Campaign

     (September 1999-April 2000).

  ** Coordinator of Wichita鈥檚 Holocaust Commemoration Program (1996-2003).