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CURRICULUM VITAE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raffael Scheck<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Chair in History<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Department of History<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colby College<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waterville, Maine 04901 (USA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

E-mail: rmscheck@colby.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personal Home Page: http:\/\/www.colby.edu\/personal\/rmscheck\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EMPLOYMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colby College, since 1994:Assistant Professor 1994-99, promoted to Associate Professor in 1999 and to Full Professor in 2006. History Department Chair 2000-2003, 2005-2008, and 2015-16. Director of Jewish Studies 2011-2014 and 2016-17. Chair of the German & Russian Department, 2017-18. Director of Colby\u2019s Alumni College 2010-2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bowdoin College, 1993-1994:Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern European History.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kantonsschule Wettingen and Kantonsschule Olten (Switzerland), 1986-88 and 1990-92: teacher of German and History.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HIGHER EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Universit\u00e4t Basel: Habilitation<\/em> (a higher degree than a doctorate, traditionally qualifying the recipient for a full professorship at a European university), 24 April 2003. Title of thesis: \u201cMothers of the Nation: Right-Wing Women in the Weimar Republic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brandeis University: Ph.D. in Comparative European History, May 1993. Title of dissertation: “Intrigue and Illusion: Alfred von Tirpitz in German Right-Wing Politics, 1914-1930,” 395pp. Qualifying examinations passed with honors (distinction in all fields) on 22 March 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Universit\u00e4t Z\u00fcrich: Lizentiat<\/em> (equivalent to the M.A.) in May 1988. Major field: “General History” (Modern Period, Middle Ages, Antiquity). Minor fields: “German Literature Since 1700” and “History of the German Language.” Thesis: “Childhood in German Autobiographical Writings 1740-1820,” 150pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Konservatorium und Musikakademie Z\u00fcrich: Musical training as a cello student of Prof. Claude Starck, 1980-1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forthcoming:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. \u201cConservative Women and Monarchism in the Weimar Republic,\u201d in The Making of Modern European Monarchy<\/em>, ed. by Carolina Armenteros and Iason Zarikos. Bloomsbury Publishers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. \u201cLes camps de prisonniers de guerre dans l\u2019Aquitaine occup\u00e9e,\u201d in L\u2019enfermement en Aquitaine (1938-1949)<\/em>, edited by Christophe Last\u00e9cou\u00e8res and Philippe Souleau. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Fr\u00fchling 1940: Wie Menschen in Europa den Westfeldzug erlebten <\/em>[Spring 1940: How People in Europe Experienced the Western Campaign<\/em>]. Hamburg: Hoffmann & Campe, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Love Between Enemies: Western Prisoners of War and German Women in World War II<\/em>. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020 (paperback, 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. French Colonial Soldiers as German Prisoners of War during World War II<\/em>. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Germany 1871-1945: A Concise History<\/em>. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Hitler\u2019s African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940. <\/em>New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Translations: Une Saison Noire<\/em>.Les massacres de tirailleurs s\u00e9n\u00e9galais, mai-juin 1940<\/em>, transl. by Eric Thi\u00e9baud. Paris: Editions Tallandier, 2007 (and special edition for the book club \u201cLe grand livre du mois\u201d, 2007). Hitlers Afrikanische Opfer<\/em>, trans. by Felix Georg Harsch. Hamburg and Berlin: Assoziation A, 2009. Honored as #4 on the top ten non-fiction book list in Germany for 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Mothers of the Nation: Right-Wing Women in Weimar Germany.<\/em> Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Alfred von Tirpitz and German Right-Wing Politics, 1914-1930.<\/em> Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited Book:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. German-occupied Europe in the Second World War<\/em>. Co-editor with Fabien Th\u00e9ofilakis and Julia Torrie. Routledge Studies in Second World War History<\/em>. London, Routledge Publishers, 2019. Co-author of introduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Articles and Book Sections:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. \u201cLes Frontstalags en France occup\u00e9e, 1940-1945,\u201d in Les Prisonniers de guerre fran\u00e7ais en 40<\/em>, ed. by Fabien Th\u00e9ofilakis.Paris: Fayard, 2022, 197-205.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. \u201cGender and Community During War: The Amorous Relationships of Western POWs and German Women in Nazi Germany,\u201d in The Peoples\u2019 War? The Second World War in Sociopolitical Perspective<\/em>, edited by Alexander Wilson, Jonathan Fennel, and Richard Hammond. Montreal: McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, 2022, 300-324.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Sixty-one entries on German prisoner of war camps in occupied France, 1940-1944, for Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933-1945, volume IV: Camps and Other Detention Facilites under the German Armed Forces,<\/em> edited by Geoffrey P. Megargee, R\u00fcdiger Overmans, and Wolfgang Vogt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022. My entries are on pp. 132-204.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. \u201cCommunity and Gender During War: The Amorous Relationships of Western POWs and German Women in Nazi Germany,\u201d in Prisoners of War and Local Women in Britain, Europe, and the United States, 1914-1956: Consorting with the Enemy, <\/em>ed. by Brian K. Feltman and Matthias Reiss. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History, 143-168.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “The Treatment of Western Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany: Rethinking Reciprocity and Asymmetry,” War in History<\/em> 28, no. 3 (2021), 635-655.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-.”Western Prisoners of War Tried by Court Martial for Insults to the F\u00fchrer<\/em> and Criticism of Nazi Germany,” Journal of Contemporary History<\/em> 56, no. 2 (2021), 319-342.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. \u201cThe Danger of \u2018Moral Sabotage:\u2019 Western Prisoners of War on Trial for Homosexual Relations in Nazi Germany,\u201d The Journal of the History of Sexuality<\/em>, 29, no. 3 (September 2020): 418-46.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “Rapha\u00ebl Lemkin\u2019s Derivation of Genocide from His Analysis of Nazi-Occupied Europe,” Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal,<\/em> 13, no. 1, Special Issue \u201cRevisiting the Life and Work of Rapha\u00ebl Lemkin\u201d (2019): 113-129.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. \u201cGenocide as Organizing Principle in Raphael Lemkin\u2019s Analysis of Nazi-Occupied Europe,\u201d in German-occupied Europe in the Second World War<\/em>. Edited by Raffael Scheck, Fabien Th\u00e9ofilakis, and Julia Torrie, 83-100. London: Routledge Publishers, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. \u201cCollaboration of the Heart: The Forbidden Love Affairs of French Prisoners of War and German Women in Nazi Germany,\u201d The<\/em> Journal of Modern History<\/em>, 90, no. 2 (June 2018), 351-82.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “French Colonial Prisoners in Germany and France during World War II.” In Colonial Soldiers in Europe, 1914-1945: Aliens in Uniform in Wartime Societies<\/em>, edited by H. J. Storm and Ali Al Tuma, 41-57. London: Routledge, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “Les Massacres de prisonniers noirs par l’arm\u00e9e allemande en 1940.” In Des Soldats noirs face au Reich. Les massacres racistes de 1940<\/em>, edited by Johann Chapoutot and Jean Vigreux, 59-100. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “Une \u00e9trange Captivit\u00e9: le trajet des prisonniers de guerre coloniaux et nord-africains apr\u00e8s 1940.” In Des Soldats noirs face au Reich. Les massacres racistes de 1940<\/em>, edited by Johann Chapoutot and Jean Vigreux, 101-122. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. \u201cFrauenrechtlerin auf dem rechten Fl\u00fcgel der DNVP,\u201d short article for online database on the radical right-wing women\u2019s rights activist K\u00e4the Schirmacher (1865-1930) on the site Engagement und Professionalisierung. <\/em>K\u00e4the Schirmacher (1865-1930)<\/em> curated by the University of Vienna (October 2015): http:\/\/schirmacherproject.univie.ac.at\/die-vielen-biographien-der-kaethe-schirmacher\/statements\/raffael-scheck\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-.\u201cFrench African Soldiers in German POW Camps, 1940-1945.\u201d In Recentering Africa in the History of the Second World War<\/em>, edited by Judy Byfield, Ahmad Sikainga, Carolyn Brown, and Tim Parsons, 420-38. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “La victoire allemande de 1940 comme justification de l\u2019id\u00e9ologie raciale nazie.” In La Guerre de 40. Se battre – subir – se souvenir<\/em>, edited by Stefan Martens and Steffen Prauser, 143-53. Villeneuve d’Asq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “L\u00e9opold S\u00e9dar Senghor prisonnier de guerre allemand. Une nouvelle approche fond\u00e9e sur un texte in\u00e9dit.” French Politics, Culture & Society <\/em>31, no. 2 (2014): 76-98.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. \u201cFrench African Soldiers in World War II.\u201d In A Companion to World War II<\/em>, edited by Thomas Zeiler with Dale DuBois, 501-515 (Chapter 31). New York: Blackwell, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “Vom Massaker zur Kameradschaft? Die Behandlung der schwarzen franz\u00f6sischen Kriegsgefangenen durch die deutsche Wehrmacht, 1940-1945.” In Afrika im Blick. Afrikabilder im deutschsprachigen Europa, 1870-1970<\/em>, edited by Manuel Menrath, 151-168. Z\u00fcrich: Chronos Verlag, 2012. [\u201cFrom Massacre to Humanity? The Treatment of Black French Prisoners of War by the German Wehrmacht, 1940-1945\u201d]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “Nazi Propaganda toward French Muslim Prisoners of War.” Holocaust and Genocide Studies <\/em>26, no. 3 (2012): 447-77.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “Racial Hatred: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940.” In The Holocaust and World War II: In History and Memory<\/em>, edited by Nancy E. Rupprecht and Wendy Koenig, 157-72. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “Des officiers fran\u00e7ais comme gardiens de leurs propres soldats? Les prisonniers de guerre \u00abindig\u00e8nes\u00bb sous encadrement fran\u00e7ais, 1943-1944.” In La captivit\u00e9 de guerre au XXe si\u00e8cle. Des archives, des histoires, des m\u00e9moires<\/em>, edited by Anne-Marie Path\u00e9 and Fabien Th\u00e9ofilakis, 251-62. Paris: Armand Colin\/Minist\u00e8re de la D\u00e9fense, 2012. [\u201cFrench Officers as Guards of Their Own Soldiers? The \u2018Indigenous\u2019 Prisoners Under French Cadres, 1943-1944\u201d]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. \u201cLes pr\u00e9mices de Thiaroye: L\u2019influence de la captivit\u00e9 allemande sur les soldats noirs fran\u00e7ais \u00e0 la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, French Colonial History<\/em> 13 (2012), 73-90. [\u201cThe Preconditions of the Thiaroye Rebellion: The Influence of German Captivity on the Black French Soldiers at the End of World War II\u201d]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. \u201cWomen\u2019s Suffrage and Informal Power. Five Case Studies from the Bourgeois Parties of the Weimar Republic.\u201d In: Lady Macbeth\u2019s Sisters: Women\u2019s Power in Political Elites in the Transition from Monarchy to Democracy<\/em>, edited by Hanneke Hoekstra and Jantine Oldersma. Groningen Studies in Cultural Change. Leuven: Peeters, 2011, 113-38.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. \u201cFrench Colonial Soldiers in German Prisoner of War Camps, 1940-1945.\u201d French History<\/em> 24, (September 2010), 420-46.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. \u201cThe Prisoner of War Question and the Beginnings of Collaboration: The Franco-German Agreement of 16 November 1940.\u201d Journal of Contemporary History<\/em> 45 (April 2010), 364-88.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. \u201cBlacks in the French Army,\u201d \u201cNazis and Black POWs,\u201d \u201cNazis and Blacks in Europe,\u201d \u201cRhineland Blacks,\u201d \u201cBlack Participation in World War I,\u201d and \u201cBlack Participation in World War II,\u201d in Eric Martone, ed., Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture<\/em>. 2 vols. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. \u201cKuno Graf von Westarps Kriegsziele und Gedanken zur Kriegf\u00fchrung im Ersten Weltkrieg.\u201d In: \u201cIch bin der letzte Preu\u00dfe.\u201d Kuno Graf von Westarp und die deutsche Politik, 1909-1945<\/em>, edited by Larry E. Jones and Wolfram Pyta. K\u00f6ln: B\u00f6hlau Verlag, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. \u201cThe Massacres of Black Soldiers from the French Army by the Wehrmacht<\/em> in 1940: The Question of Authorization.\u201d In German Studies Review<\/em>, 28 (October 2005): 595-606.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. \u201c\u2019They Are Just Savages:\u2019 The Massacres of Black Soldiers of the French Army in 1940.\u201d In The Journal of Modern History<\/em>, 77 (June 2005): 325-44.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “Die Partei als Heim und Familie: Frauen in den Ortsvereinen der Deutschnationalen Volkspartei und Deutschen Volkspartei in der Weimarer Republik.” In \u201eIhrem Volk verantwortlich.\u201c Frauen der politischen Rechten (1890-1933). Organisationen \u2013 Agitationen \u2013 Ideologien<\/em>, edited by Eva Schoeck-Quinteros and Christiane Streubel. Berlin: trafo-verlag, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. \u201cH\u00f6fische Intrige als Machtstrategie in der Weimarer Republik. Paul v. Hindenburgs Kandidatur zur Reichspr\u00e4sidentschaft 1925.\u201d In Eckart Conze and Monika Wienfort, eds., Adel und Moderne: Deutschland im europ\u00e4ischen Vergleich im 19. und 20. <\/em>Jahrhundert<\/em>. K\u00f6ln: B\u00f6hlau Verlag, 2004, pp. 107-18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “Women in the Non-Nazi Right during the Weimar Republic: The Case of the German Nationalist People’s Party (DNVP).” In Right-Wing Women Across the Globe<\/em>, edited by Paola Bacchetta and Margaret Power. London and New York: Routledge, 2002, pp. 141-53.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “Die Verarbeitung des Ersten Weltkrieges in der b\u00fcrgerlichen Frauenbewegung der Weimarer Republik.” In Der verlorene Frieden. Politik und Kriegskultur nach 1918<\/em>, edited by Jost D\u00fclffer and Gerd Krumeich. Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2002, pp. 215-228.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. \u201cWomen on the Weimar Right: The Role of Female Politicians in the Deutschnationale Volkspartei (DNVP).\u201d Journal of Contemporary History<\/em>. 36(4) (2001): 547-60.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “Zwischen Volksgemeinschaft und Frauenrechten: Das Verh\u00e4ltnis rechtsb\u00fcrgerlicher Politikerinnen zur NSDAP 1930-33.” In Nation, Politik und Geschlecht. Frauenbewegungen und Nationalismus in der Moderne<\/em>, edited by Ute Planert. Frankfurt am Main and New York: Campus, 2000, pp. 234-53.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “Swiss Funding for the Early Nazi Movement: Motivation, Context, and Continuities,” The Journal of Modern History <\/em>71 (1999): 793-813.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “Women Against Versailles: Maternalism and Nationalism of Female Bourgeois Politicians, 1918-1923,” German Studies Review<\/em> 22 (1999): 21-42.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “Putschism, (Kapp-L\u00fcttwitz; November 1923),” “Payer, Friedrich von (1847-1931),” “J\u00fcnger, Ernst (*1895),” “Salomon, Ernst von (1902-1972),” and “Sonnemann, Leopold (1831-1909),” Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture, 1871-1990<\/em>, ed. by Dieter K. Buse and Juergen C. Doerr. New York: Garland Publishers, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “German Conservatism and Female Political Activism in the Early Weimar Republic,” German History<\/em>  15 (1997): 34-55.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “Der Kampf des Tirpitz-Kreises f\u00fcr den uneingeschr\u00e4nkten U-Boot-Krieg und einen politischen Kurswechsel im deutschen Kaiserreich 1916-1917,” Milit\u00e4rgeschichtliche Mitteilungen<\/em> 55 (1996): 69-91.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “Politics of Illusion: Alfred von Tirpitz and Right-Wing Putschism, 1922-1924,” German Studies Review<\/em> 18 (1995): 29-49.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “Did the Children’s Crusade of 1212 Really Consist of Children? Problems of Writing Childhood History,” The Journal of Psychohistory <\/em>17 (1989): 176-182.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “Aspekte deutscher Kindheit 1740-1820: Die Autobiographie als Quelle f\u00fcr die Geschichte der Kindheit,” Jahrbuch der Kindheit<\/em> 4 (1987): 11-35.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. “Childhood in German Autobiographical Writings, 1740-1820,” The Journal of Psychohistory<\/em> 15 (1987): 391-422.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noteworthy Articles in the Press on My Work:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Dossier \u201cSenghor: le manuscrit inconnu,\u201d in Jeune Afrique<\/em>, 51, no. 2637, 24-30 July 2011, pp. 22-31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Walid Mebarek, \u201cLa propagande allemande aupr\u00e8s des prisonniers arabes,\u201d and Raffael Scheck, \u201cLes Nord-Africains ali\u00e9n\u00e9s de la France sont plut\u00f4t devenus nationalistes\u201d (Interview),inEl Watan<\/em>, 21, issue no. 6300, 11 July 2011, p. 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Beno\u00eet Hopkin, \u201cUn document in\u00e9dit de L\u00e9opold S\u00e9dar Senghor,\u201d and \u201c\u2019Senghor \u00e9tait \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque le seul S\u00e9n\u00e9galais avec une agr\u00e9gation\u2019. Entretien: Raffael Scheck explique comment il a authentifi\u00e9 le texte et l\u2019importance de cette p\u00e9riode pour l\u2019\u00e9crivain,\u201d both in Le Monde<\/em>, 17 June 2011, section Le Monde du livre, Actualit\u00e9s, p. 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. \u201cKeine Kameraden.Die Geschichte vom \u00bbritterlichen\u00ab Krieg im Westen ist eine z\u00e4he Schulbuch-M\u00e4r: W\u00e4hrend ihres Frankreichfeldzugs 1940 ver\u00fcbten Hitlers Soldaten zahlreiche Massaker an schwarzafrikanischen Gefangenen,\u201d in Die Zeit<\/em>, section Zeitl\u00e4ufte, 12 January 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other Media Reports on My Work:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interviews for the Netflix series Road to Victory: World War II in Color<\/em>, released on 21 December 2021. I appear in the episodes \u201cDunkirk,\u201d \u201cInvasion of North Africa,\u201d and \u201cLiberation of Paris.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interview with Deutsche Welle (in French) on massacres of black French soldiers in 1940. 25 June 2020: https:\/\/www.dw.com\/fr\/en-juin-1940-des-soldats-africains-massacr%C3%A9s-par-des-soldats-allemands-d%C3%A9bats-intenses-sur-le-racisme-%C3%A0-bristol-au-royaume-uni\/av-53936098<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interview with Le Monde<\/em> on the reasons why no soldiers of color participated in the liberation of Paris (August 2019): https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k5m7vueKdPE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interview with BBC on the landing of colonial French troops in southern France on 15 August 1944 (August 2019): https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p07knzpf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radio interviews in French, German, or English with (among others) Radio France Internationale, Deutsche Welle, Voice of America (Francophone Africa program), BBC 4, and BBC World News, May 2006, June 2009, August 2009, June 2011, November 2013, August 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interview for documentary film on Captain Charles N\u2019Tchor\u00e9r\u00e9 by Christian Eboul\u00e9 (France TV 5), 13 January 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Appearance in the film Les 43 Tirailleurs<\/em> by Mireille Hanon, released in November 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Television interviews with CNN, September 2013, and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen <\/em>(ZDF), Sendung Aspekte, 21 June 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Vergn\u00fcgen in Besatzungszeiten. Begegnungen in westalliierten Offiziers- und Soldatenclubs in Deutschland, 1945\u20131955<\/em>. By Lena Rudeck. Bielefeld: Transcript 2023. In: Historische Zeitschrift<\/em> 318, no. 2 (2024), 494-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms<\/em>. By Kira Thurman. Ithaka: Cornell University Press, 2021. In: American Historical Review<\/em> 129, no. 1 (March 2024), 336-7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Zwangswelten. Emotions- und Alltagsgeschichte polnischer “Zivilarbeiter” in Berlin 1939-1945<\/em>. By Katarzyna Woniak. Leiden and Boston: Brill\/Ferdinand Sch\u00f6ningh, 2020. In: Central European History<\/em> 55, no. 3, (September 2022), 457-459.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Africans and the Holocaust: Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples<\/em>. By Edward Kissi. London and New York: Routledge, 2020. In: Holocaust and Genocide Studies,<\/em> 35, no. 3 (2021), 487-9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. White War, Black Soldiers: Two African Accounts of World War I.<\/em> By Bakary Diallo and Lamine Senghor, ed. by George Robb. Translatedby Nancy Erber and William Peniston. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company,2021. In International Journal of African Historical Studies<\/em>, 54, no. 1 (2021), 119-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Rob Johnson, True to Their Salt. Indigenous Personnel in Western Armed Forces<\/em>. London, Hurst: 2017. In: Francia-Recensio<\/em>, 6 July 2018: https:\/\/journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de\/index.php\/frrec\/article\/view\/48479.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Ruth Ginio, The French Army and Its African Soldiers<\/em>. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2017. In: Journal of Modern History<\/em> 90, no. 2 (June 2018): 460-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Nathan Stolzfus, Hitler\u2019s Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany.<\/em> New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. In: Michigan War Studies Review<\/em>, 5 April 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Elie Poulard, A French Slave in Nazi Germany: A Testimony<\/em>. Ed. and trans. by Jean V. Poulard, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016. In: History: Reviews of New Books<\/em> 45, no. 4 (July 2017), 105-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Peter Fritzsche, An Iron Wind. <\/em>Europe under Hitler<\/em>. New York: Basic Books, 2016. In: H-DIPLO, 14 January 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Lucie Filipov\u00e1, Erf\u00fcllte Hoffnung: St\u00e4dtepartnerschaften als Instrument der deutsch-franz\u00f6sischen Auss\u00f6hnung, 1950-2000<\/em>. Translated by Nina Lohmann. Ver\u00f6ffentlichungen des Instituts f\u00fcr Europ\u00e4ische Geschichte Mainz. Abteilung f\u00fcr Universalgeschichte, Bd. 237. G\u00f6ttingen; Bristol, CT: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015. In Central European History<\/em> 49, no. 3-4, (December 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Eric Jennings, Free French Africa in World War II. The African Resistance. <\/em>Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. In RCAS Canadian Journal of African Studies \/ Revue canadienne des \u00e9tudes africaines<\/em> 50 (no. 3), 2016, 487-8 (published online on 13 September 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Francis R. Nicosia, Nazi Germany and the Arab World<\/em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, and David Motadel, Islam and Nazi Germany\u2019s War<\/em>. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 2014. In: The Journal of Modern History<\/em> 88, No. 3, (September 2016), 658-61.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Fabien Th\u00e9ofilakis, Les prisonniers de guerre allemands. <\/em>France, 1944-1949<\/em>. Paris: Fayard
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—-. Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck (with Erwin A. Schmidl, ed.), \u201cHerr Oberleitnant, det lohnt doch nicht!\u201d Kriegserinnerungen an die Jahre 1938 bis 1945<\/em>, K\u00f6ln, Weimar, Wien: B\u00f6hlau, 2013. In: Francia-Recensio<\/em>, April 2014 (http:\/\/www.perspectivia.net\/content\/publikationen\/francia\/francia-recensio\/2014-1\/ZG\/allmayer-beck-schmidl_scheck).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Robbie Aitken and Eve Rosenhaft, Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884\u20131960<\/em>. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. In: German History<\/em> 32 (1), March 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Jean-Yes Le Naour, Les Soldats de la honte<\/em>. Paris: Perrin, 2011. In Francia<\/em> 2012 (at http:\/\/www.perspectivia.net\/content\/publikationen\/francia\/francia-recensio\/2012-1\/ZG\/naour_scheck).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Catherine Epstein, Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland<\/em>. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. In: Journal of Modern History<\/em> 83, No. 4 (December 2011), 959-961.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Hermann Beck, The Fateful Alliance: German Conservatives and Nazis in 1933. The Machtergreifung in a New Light<\/em>. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008. In German History<\/em> 28 (2010), 245-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. G\u00fcnter Wollstein, Ein deutsches Jahrhundert 1848-1945. Hoffnung und Hybris. Aufs\u00e4tze und Vortr\u00e4ge<\/em>. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. In: H-SOZ-KULT, 12 October 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Mythos Rommel. Katalog der Sonderausstellung 18. Dezember 2008 bis 30. August 2009, Stuttgart<\/em> (Haus der Geschichte Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg) 2008. In Francia-Rezensio <\/em>2010\/3, at http:\/\/www.perspectivia.net\/news\/francia-recensio-2010-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-.  Surviving Hitler and Mussolini – Daily Life in Occupied Europe, <\/em>ed. by Robert Gildea, Olivier Wieviorka and Anette Warring. In Journal of Contemporary History<\/em> 44 (2009), 785-7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Marko Attila Hoare, Genocide and Resistance in Hitler\u2019s Bosnia<\/em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2006. In: German History<\/em> 27 (2009), 164-5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Thomas K\u00fchne. Kameradschaft. Die Soldaten des nationalsozialistischen Krieges und das 20. <\/em>Jahrhundert<\/em>. G\u00f6ttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006. In: The Journal of Modern History<\/em> 80 (2008), 713-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Claudia Koonz, The Nazi Conscience<\/em>. In: European History Quarterly<\/em> 38 (2008), 654-5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Manfred Messerschmidt, Die Wehrmachtsjustiz, 1933-1945<\/em>. In Journal of Modern History<\/em> 79 (2007), 711-12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, Des victimes oubli\u00e9es du nazisme. Les Noirs et l\u2019Allemagne dans la premi\u00e8re moiti\u00e9 du XXe si\u00e8cle<\/em>. Paris: le cherche midi, 2007. In: Journal of African History<\/em> 48 (2007), 493-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—. Gregory Mann, Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century<\/em>. In: The Canadian Journal of African Studies<\/em> 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Jerome S. Legge, Jr., Jews, Turks, and Other Strangers: The Roots of Prejudice in Modern Germany<\/em>. In: German Studies Review<\/em> 29 (2006), 237-8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Deutsche Gesellschaftsgeschichte. Band IV<\/em>. In: German Studies Review<\/em> 29 (2006), 198-200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Matthew Stibbe, Women in the Third Reich<\/em>. In: German History<\/em> 23 (2005), 422-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Kevin Passmore, ed., Women, Gender, and Fascism in Europe 1919-1945<\/em>. In: German History<\/em> 23 (2005), 421-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Elizabeth Harvey, Women and the Nazi East: Agents and Witnesses of Germanization<\/em>. In: The Journal of Modern History<\/em> 77 (2005), 1158-60.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Andrea S\u00fcchting-H\u00e4nger, Das “Gewissen der Nation”: Nationales Engagement und politisches Handeln konservativer Frauenorganisationen 1900 bis 1937<\/em>. In: The Journal of Modern History<\/em> 77 (2005), 224-5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Hans-Christof Kraus, ed., Konservative Zeitschriften zwischen Kaiserreich und Diktatur. F\u00fcnf Fallstudien<\/em>. In H-GERMAN, November 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Tim Ripley, The Wehrmacht. <\/em>The German Army in World War II 1939-1945<\/em>. In: German Studies Review<\/em> 28 (2004), 648-9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Jonathan Wright, Gustav Stresemann. Weimar\u2019s Greatest Statesman.<\/em> In: German Quarterly<\/em> 77 (2004), 249-50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Lora Wildenthal, German Women for Empire, 1884-1945<\/em>. In: Social History<\/em> 28 (2003), 412-14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Jan Herman Brinks, Children of a New Fatherland: Germany’s Post-War Right-Wing Politics<\/em>. In: H-GERMAN, August 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Julia Sneeringer, Winning Women’s Votes: Propaganda and Politics in Weimar Germany<\/em>. In: H-GERMAN, November 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Ute Planert, Antifeminismus im Kaiserreich: Diskurs, soziale Formation und politische Mentalit\u00e4t<\/em>. In: Central European History<\/em> 34 (2001), 258.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Norbert Fintzsch and Dietmar Schirmer, eds., Identity and Intolerance: Nationalism, Racism, and Xenophobia in Germany and the United States<\/em>. In: German History<\/em> 18 (2000), 395-97.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Lawrence Sondhaus, Preparing for Weltpolitik: German Sea Power Before the Tirpitz Era<\/em>. In: German Studies Review<\/em> 22 (1999), 482-83.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Benjamin Lapp, Revolution from the Right: Politics, Class, and the Rise of Nazism in Saxony, 1919-1933<\/em>. In: H-GERMAN 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. David Clay Large, Where Ghosts Walked: Munich\u2019s Road to the Third Reich<\/em>. In: H-GERMAN 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Ulrich Wank, ed., The Resurgence of Right-Wing Radicalism in Germany: New Forms of an Old Phenomenon?<\/em> In: H-GERMAN 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Roger Woods, The Conservative Revolution in the Weimar Republic<\/em>. In: H-GERMAN 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. John C. G. R\u00f6hl, The Kaiser and His Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany<\/em>. In: Central European History<\/em> 29 (1997), 423.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Frans Coetzee and Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee, eds., Authority, Identity and the Social History of the Great War<\/em>. In: German Studies Review<\/em> 20 (1997), 345-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Nancy R. Reagin. A German Women’s Movement: Class & Gender in Hanover, 1880-1933<\/em>. In: German Studies Review<\/em> 19 (1996), 165-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Gerald D. Feldman, The Great Disorder: Politics, Economics, and Society in the German Inflation, 1914-1924<\/em>. In: German Studies Review<\/em> 18 (1995), 342-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. Roger Chickering, Karl Lamprecht: A German Academic Life (1856-1915)<\/em>. In: The Psychohistory Review<\/em> 23 (1995), 203-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSoldaten aus dem franz\u00f6sischen Kolonialreich zwischen Kolonialismus und NS-Terror\u201d (\u201cSoldiers from the French Colonial Empire Between colonialism and Nazi Terror\u201d), Keynote lecture at the conference \u201cZwangsgemeinschaftliche Verflechtungen. Workshop zu kolonialen Kontexten in nazideutschen Lagern\u201d, in the context of the 79th<\/sup> anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald. Concentration Camp Buchenwald Memorial Site and University of Erfurt, 12-13 April 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCivilian Internment as a Legal Smokescreen during the Holocaust,\u201d Conference \u201cThe Holocaust and the Law\u201d, University of Central Florida, Orlando, 8-9 April 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c1940: Germany Wins World War I,\u201d paper presented at the Annual Conference of the German Studies Association Montr\u00e9al, 7-9 October 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commentary on session on civil internment in World War I, Annual Conference of the German Studies Association Montr\u00e9al, 7-9 October 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Massacres of Black French Prisoners by German Troops During the Offensive on the Somme, 5-10 June 1940,\u201d Conference \u201cAtrocity and Excess\u201d of the Second World War Reading Group (on zoom), 17-18 February 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cViolence against French African Prisoners of War,\u201d International Conference: Wehrmacht Detention Sites and the Holocaust, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., 19 May 2022 (on zoom).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLove Between Enemies: Western Prisoners of War and German Women in World War II,\u201d Sheffield Hallam University, 8 December 2021, invited lecture (on zoom).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfrican Soldiers in World War II Europe,\u201d Yonsei University, Underwood International College, Seoul (South Korea), 23 November 2021, invited lecture (on zoom). Repeated for a seminar on 31 March\/1 April 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEurope in 1820. When Maine Became a State,\u201d Waterville Historical Society, Redington Museum, 17 June 2021, invited lecture (on zoom).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participant (on zoom) in roundtable discussion \u201cUne Guerre \u00e0 l\u2019autre. Les soldats des colonies et la France. 80e anniversaire des massacres de mai-juin 1940,\u201d Cercle national des arm\u00e9es, Paris, 8 October 2020 (originally planned in person for 28 May 2020, but postponed due to Covid-19).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFranz\u00f6sische Kolonialsoldaten in deutscher Kriegsgefangenschaft (1940-1945), Gedenkst\u00e4tte Lager Sandbostel, 8 July 2020. Recorded as a video lecture because of Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2019Dangerous Liaisons:\u2019 The Love Relations of French Prisoners of War and German Women in the Second World War,\u201d invited talk at the University of Toronto, Munk School, French History Group, 15 November 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presenter and discussion participant for the seminar \u201cBeyond the Racial State,\u201d 43rd<\/sup> annual conference of the German Studies Association, Portland (OR), October 3-6, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commentary on panel \u201cExperience, Retribution, and Memory: Functions of Violence During and After the Nazi Occupation of Europe\u201d at the 43rd annual conference of the German Studies Association, Portland (OR), October 3-6, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLes Frontstalags allemands en France occup\u00e9e: un syst\u00e8me d’exclusion?\u201d Invited lecture at the Salle Labb\u00e9, Besan\u00e7on, France, 7 November 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGerman Society and Politics during the First Total War, 1914-1918,\u201d invited lecture at Williams College, 23 October 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCommunity and Gender During War: The Amorous Relationships of Western POWs and German Women in Nazi Germany,\u201d42nd German Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, 27-30 September 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCommunity and Gender During War: The Amorous Relationships of Western POWs and German Women,\u201d invited paper for conference \u201cThe People\u2019s War? The Second World War in Socio-Political Perspective,\u201d Second World War Research Group Annual Conference, King\u2019s College, London, 14-15 June 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRaphael Lemkin\u2019s Derivation of the Genocide Concept from His Analysis of Nazi-occupied Europe,\u201d 41st German Studies Association conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 5-8 October 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCollaboration of the Heart: The Forbidden Love Relations of French Prisoners of War and German Women,\u201d Conference \u201cFocus on Europe,\u201d Bates College, 28 January 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seminar convenor and commentator for \u201cGerman-occupied Europe in the Second World War,\u201d seminar at the 40th German Studies Association conference, San Diego, California, 29 September to 2 October 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThomas Mann and The Magic Mountain:<\/em> Historical Context,\u201d Colby College, great books series, 21 July 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing remarks at conference \u201cGenocide and Human Rights in Comparative Perspective,\u201d Kalamazoo College, 14-16 April 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDangerous Liaisons: The Love Affairs of French Prisoners of War and German Women in Nazi Germany,\u201d 39th German Studies Association Conference, Arlington, Virginia, 1-4 October 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKriegsgefangene und Zivilinternierte im Ersten Weltkrieg,\u201d Landesarchiv Schleswig-Holstein, Schleswig, 3 July 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrench Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity, 1940-1945: Race and Identity Between Vichy and Nazi Berlin,\u201d History Department, Brandeis University, 27 March 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrench Colonial Prisoners in Germany and France during World War II,\u201d invited talk for the conference \u201cAliens in Uniform: The Social and Cultural Aspects of the Colonial Military Presence in Europe (1914-1945),\u201d University of Leiden (Netherlands), 10-11 January 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cL\u00e9opold S\u00e9dar Senghor. Un prisonnier aux mains des Allemands,\u201d and \u201cDes Soldats africains et allemands. Des massacres \u00e0 la Lib\u00e9ration,\u201d Conference Images et histoire. Festival de cin\u00e9ma et d\u2019histoire, 2\u00e8me \u00e9dition<\/em>. Institut fran\u00e7ais du Congo, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, 17-22 November 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLe Frontstalag 222 \u00e0 Bayonne\u201d [\u201cThe German POW Camp 222 in Bayonne\u201d], invited lecture, city of Bayonne (France), 27 June 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRechte Frauen in der Weimarer Republik\u201d [\u201cRight-wing women in the Weimar Republic\u201d], invited lecture at the Volkshochschule Aachen, 26 June 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDie Massaker der Wehrmacht an schwarzen franz\u00f6sischen Soldaten\u201d [\u201cThe German Amry Massacres of Black French Soldiers\u201d], invited lecture for the Gedenkst\u00e4tte Neuengamme, Hamburg, 19 June 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitlers Afrikanische Opfer\u201d [Hitler\u2019s African Victims\u201d], invited lecture at the Historical Museum in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), 23 January 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panel commentator at the thirty-sixth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 4-7 October 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDes Massacres de prisonniers de couleur en 1940 \u00e0 une \u00e9trange captivit\u00e9: le trajet des prisonniers de guerre coloniaux et nord-africains 1940-1945 [From the Massacres of Prisoners of Color in 1940 to a Strange Captivity: The Journey of the Colonial and North African Prisoners of War, 1940-1945],\u201d Conference \u201cLes massacres racistes de l\u2019arm\u00e9e allemande en 1940,\u201d Association pour la Recherche sur l\u2019Occupation et la R\u00e9sistance en Morvan, 19 November 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDes officiers fran\u00e7ais comme ge\u00f4liers de leurs propres soldats ? – Les prisonniers de guerre \u2018indig\u00e8nes\u2019 sous encadrement fran\u00e7ais, 1943-44 [French Officers as Jailers of Their Own Soldiers? The \u2018Indigenous\u2019 Prisoners of War under French Guards, 1943-44],\u201d Conference \u201cCaptivit\u00e9 de Guerre\u201d (co-organized by Institut d\u2019histoire du temps pr\u00e9sent, Paris, and London School of Economics), Paris, 17-18 November 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNazi Propaganda Toward French Muslim Prisoners of War,\u201d Thirty-fifth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Louisville, Kentucky, 22-25 September 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cL\u00e9opold S\u00e9dar Senghor comme prisonnier de guerre allemand. Une nouvelle perspective \u00e0 la base d\u2019un texte in\u00e9dit [L\u00e9opold S\u00e9dar Senghor as a German Prisoner of War: A New Perspective Based on an Unpublished Text],\u201d annual meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society, Toronto (Canada), 2-4 June 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cZwischen Massaker und Menschlichkeit – Die Behandlung der schwarzen franz\u00f6sischen Kriegsgefangenen durch die deutsche Wehrmacht, 1940-1945 [Between Massacre and Humanity: The Treatment of Black French Prisoners by the German Army, 1940-1945],\u201c invited talk a the University of Luzern (Switzerland), 19 April 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLiberals, Reactionaries, Priests, and the Great Napoleon: Julien Sorel\u2019s Political Field of Reference,\u201d Winter Weekend of the Maine Humanities Council (on Stendal\u2019s The Red and the Black<\/em>), Bowdoin College, 11-12 March 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Victory Over France as a Vindication of Nazi Racial Ideology,\u201d Thirty-fourth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Oakland, California, 7-10 October 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitler\u2019s African Victims,\u201d Klahr Holocaust Memorial Center, University of Maine, Augusta, 4 October 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitlers Afrikanische Opfer,\u201d presentation of the German translation of Hitler\u2019s African Victims<\/em> in D\u00fcsseldorf, Wuppertal, K\u00f6ln, Osnabr\u00fcck, Aachen, Gie\u00dfen, and Bonn, 24 September to 2 October 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLa route \u00e0 Thiaroye: L\u2019influence de la captivit\u00e9 sur les soldats noirs fran\u00e7ais \u00e0 la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale,\u201d Conference \u201cFins d\u2019Empire\u201d, annual meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society, Saint Denis (France), 17-19 June 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLa victoire allemande de 1940 comme justification de l\u2019id\u00e9ologie raciale nazie,\u201d Conference on La Guerre de 40: Se battre, subir, se souvenir<\/em>, Universit\u00e9 de Lille (France), 9-11 June 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRacial Hatred: Black African Victims of Nazism,\u201d Middle Tennessee State University Holocaust Conference, 17 October 2009 (keynote speaker).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panel commentator at the thirty-third Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in Washington, DC, 4 October 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrench African Soldiers in German POW Camps, 1940-1945,\u201d Conference on Reevaluating Africa and World War II<\/em>, Africana Studies Center, Cornell University, 17-19 September 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitlers Afrikanische Opfer,\u201d presentation of the German translation of Hitler\u2019s African Victims<\/em> in Hamburg, Munich, and Berlin, 30 August to 5 September 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cN is for Napoleon,\u201d Winter Weekend of the Maine Humanities Council (on Tolstoy\u2019s War and Peace<\/em>), Bowdoin College, 7 March 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGerman POW Camps in Occupied France as a Space of Transnational Encounter (1940-1944),\u201d Thirty-First Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, San Diego, California, 4-7 October 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrench African Prisoners of War in German Hands, 1940-1945,\u201d Thirtieth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 28 September-1 October 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInformal Power of Women in the Bourgeois Parties of the Weimar Republic,\u201d Conference on Informal Power: Women\u2019s Influence Around Parties and Parliament<\/em>, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands, 27-29 April 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Invited commentator for workshop Opting for Genocide: To What End?<\/em> Institut f\u00fcr Sozialforschung, Hamburg, Germany, 23-25 March 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMarcel Proust\u2019s France: Setting Swann\u2019s Way<\/em> into a Historical Context,\u201d Conference of the Maine Endowment for the Humanities on Marcel Proust\u2019s novel Swann\u2019s Way<\/em>, Bowdoin College, 10 and 12 March 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commentary on session \u201cThe New German Man: The (Re-)construction of Masculinities in Interwar Germany,\u201d Twenty-ninth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 29 September-2 October 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Executions of Black Soldiers from the French Army by the Wehrmacht in 1940: The Question of Authorization,\u201d Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Washington, D.C., 6-10 October 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKuno Graf von Westarps Kriegsziele und au\u00dfenpolitische Visionen im Ersten Weltkrieg [Kuno Count Westarp\u2019s War Aims and Foreign Policy Visions in the First World War],\u201d Conference on Count Westarp, G\u00e4rtringen (Germany), 22 and 23 May 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWar as Renewal? The Historical Context of The Magic Mountain<\/em>,\u201d Conference of the Maine Endowment for the Humanities on Thomas Mann\u2019s novel The Magic Mountain<\/em>, Bowdoin College, 12 and 13 March 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDie Hinrichtungen schwarzafrikanischer Soldaten aus der franz\u00f6sischen Armee durch die Wehrmacht. Motivation und Kontext [The Executions of Black African Soldiers from the French Army by the Wehrmacht<\/em>. Motivation and Context],\u201c Habilitationsvortrag (Inaugural Lecture), Universit\u00e4t Basel (Switzerland), 13 January 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commentary on session \u201cRadicalizing the Nation: The Impact of the First World War on German Nationalism and Political Culture,\u201d 118th<\/sup> Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, 8-11 January 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commentary on session \u201cAntisemitismus, Antifeminismus, Anti-Parlamentarismus. Politische Ausgrenzungsstrategien in Deutschland von 1890 bis 1933,\u201d Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in New Orleans, Louisiana, 18-21 September 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Racism and Women’s Rights in the Thinking of German Right-Wing Women, 1919-1933,” Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in San Diego, California, 3-6 October 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cH\u00f6fische Intrige als Machtstrategie in der Weimarer Republik,\u201d Conference on \u201cAdelsgeschichte als Gesellschaftsgeschichte,\u201d Zentrum f\u00fcr Interdisziplin\u00e4re Forschung, Bielefeld, 5-7 March 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commentary on session “Die Frauenfrage als Heiratsfrage: Marriage, Morality, and Maidenhood in Imperial Germany,” Twenty-fifth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in Washington, D.C., 4-7 October 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Anti-Semitism and Racism in the Politics of German Right-Wing Women,” Graduate Colloquium at the University of Basel (Switzerland), 25 June 2001 (in German).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“National Solidarity over Interest Politics: The Volksgemeinschaft Idea of Bourgeois Women Politicians in the Weimar Republic,” Twenty-fourth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in Houston, Texas, 5-8 October 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Yugoslavia as History: An Introduction,” Conference: Ethnic Conflict: Yugoslavia and Beyond. A Conference for Teachers<\/em>. Lewiston-Auburn College. Organized by the Maine Humanities Council. 24 September 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Party as Home and Family? Women in the Local Groups of the German Nationalist People’s Party and the German People’s Party,” Conference on Women and Nationalism at the University of Bremen, 25 June 1999 (in German).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Family and Motherhood in the Rhetoric of German Women Politicians, 1918-1933,” Maine Women’s Studies Conference, University of Maine, Farmington, 14 October 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Role of Women Politicians in the Deutschnationale Volkspartei,” Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in Salt Lake City, Utah, 8-11 October 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“‘Guardians of the Race?’ Racism and Anti-Semitism of Right-Wing Women Politicians in the Weimar Republic,” History Department, University of Bremen, 16 June 1998 (in German).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Joint Protest Actions of German Women’s Groups in the Early Weimar Republic,” Twentieth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in Seattle, Washington, 10-13 October 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“German Conservatives and the Introduction of Female Suffrage, 1918-19,” Nineteenth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in Chicago, Illinois, 21-24 September 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Die politische Aktivit\u00e4t von Gro\u00dfadmiral Alfred von Tirpitz,” colloquium at the German Military Research Institute (Milit\u00e4rgeschichtliches Forschungsamt) in Freiburg im Breisgau, 14 December 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Right-Wing Putschism in the Early Weimar Republic: Goals and Strategies, 1922-1924,” Sixteenth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1-4 October 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Between Hardening and Symbiosis: German Boys in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,” Tenth Annual Convention of the International Psychohistorical Association, Hunter College, New York City, 6-9 June 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Childhood in Autobiographical Writings of the German Speech Area, 1740-1820,” Ninth Annual Convention of the International Psychohistorical Association, Hunter College, New York City, 7-10 June 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society, April 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Research Grant from the Friends of the Andersonville Prisoner of War Museum, February 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Katz Distinguished Teaching Professorship, Colby College, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society, April 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Research Grants from the Social Science Division, Colby College, 1995-2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society, April 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Research Grant from the Bergstrom-Dimmer Fund, March 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Course Development Grant from the European Community Studies Association for the academic year 1995-96.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Quadrille Ball Fellowship, Institute for International Education, New York, August 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Dissertation Year Fellowship, Brandeis University, May 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Fellowship, Center for International Studies in Politics and History (chairman: Prof. Robert Art), Brandeis University, May 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Abram L. Sachar Award for Studies and Research Abroad, Brandeis University, April 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Honors, qualifying examinations, Brandeis University, 22 March 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Stipend from the Kanton Aargau (Switzerland), 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

German (native), French, English, Italian; Latin (writing); Serbian\/Croatian (basic knowledge); Belgian Dutch (reading knowledge)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OTHER ACTIVITIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Active cello performer with a specialization in baroque cello. Concerts with many baroque ensembles, including the Colby College Collegium, Music\u2019s Quill, and ScheckMate duo with theorbo and guitar player Timothy Burris. Since 2017: focus on the first music for solo cello in Northern Italy, 1687-1703.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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