VITAE
Robert E. Sackett
Professor
Department of History
Office telephone: (719) 255-4079
Home telephone: (719) 235-0246
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs, CO 80933
Education
B.A.
A.M., Ph.D.
Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, 1973
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1976; 1980
Ph.D. Dissertation: “The Message of Popular Entertainment and the Decline of the
Middle Class in Munich, 1900-23” (Advisor: Robert C. Williams)
Academic Employment
1982-present Assistant Professor to Professor, Department of History, University of Colorado,
Colorado Springs (Director of Graduate Studies, 1985-present) (Acting Chair,
Department of History, 1990-1991, Spring 1993), (Chair, Department of History,
2004-2012), (Director, Humanities, 1998-2005)
Publications (major)
Popular Entertainment, Class, and Politics in Munich, 1900-23, Harvard University Press, 1982.
(Japanese translation: Shobunsha Ltd., 1987).
“Images of the Jew: Popular Joketelling in Munich on the Eve of World War I,” Theory and Society
16 (1987): 527-563.
“The Local Politics of the Prussian State: Nationbuilding in Kempen of the Rhine Province, 1833-
1848,” Central European History 21, no. 1 (March 1988): 31-55.
“Die preussische Landwehr am linken Niederrhein um die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts” Annalen des historischen Vereins fuer den Niederrhein 194 (1991): 167-188.
“Antimodernism in the Popular Entertainment of Modern Munich: Attitude, Institution, Language,”
New German Critique 57 (Fall 1992): 123-155.
“Satires of War: Two Plays by Munich’s Karl Valentin 1916-1917,” The Germanic Review LXIX, no. 4 (Fall 1994): 167-176.
“Brentano in Berlin: The Attack on the Philistines,” Oxford German Studies 24 (1995): 60-79.
“Germans and Guilt: The ‘Second Threshold’ of Heinrich Boell: A Study of Three Non-Fictional
Works,” Modern Language Review 97, no. 2, April 2002, 336-352.
“Doeblin’s Destiny: The Author of Schicksalsreise as Christian, Jew and German,” Neophilologus
86 (2002): 587-608.
“Memory By Way of Anne Frank: Enlightenment and Denial Among West Germans, Circa 1960,
Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 16, no. 2 (Fall 2002): 243-265.
“Picturing Atrocity: Holocaust Photos in West Germany in the Early 1960s”, German History, 24:4
(Winter 2006): 526-561.
Plus: 55pp. MS ready for journal submission on West German Coverage of US Civil Rights, 1954-67
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