EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY DI VI SI ON OF ACADEM I C AFFAI RS
REQUEST FOR NEW COURSE DEPARTM ENT /SCHOOL : __History and Philosophy_________________COLLEGE:
CAS
CONTACT PERSON: Jesse Kauffman_________________________________________________________________________
CONTACT PHONE: (734) 5465201 CONTACT EM AI L : jesse.kauffman@emich.edu
REQUESTED START DATE: T ERM __Fall___________Y EAR__2013_________
A. Rationale/Justification for the Course I have been working with Professor Martin Shichtman, director of the interdisciplinary Jewish Studies Program, to develop new upper-­division history courses that will be offered to students enrolled in the Program. We both think that a course on Nazi Germany should be a part of the curriculum. In addition, interest in the Nazi period is high among history majors, regardless of their particular area of concentration. Thus I am confident that this class will consistently fill to capacity. I would also like to make this class eligible for graduate credit (form attached), in order to expand the number of courses available to grad students with a particular interest in modern European history. B. Course Information 1. Subject Code and Course Number:
HIST 4XX
2. Course Title:
3. Credit Hours:
NAZI GERMANY
3
4. Repeatable for Credit? Yes_______
No____X_
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5. Catalog Description (Limit to approximately 50 words.): An in-­depth exploration of the National Socialist (Nazi) government of Germany and its policies. In addition to the Second World War and the Holocaust, due attention will be given to less well-­known aspects of the Nazi period, such as the electoral strategies of the early Nazi movement;; the sterilization and PXUGHURIWKHGLVDEOHGE\WKH1DWLRQDO6RFLDOLVWUHJLPHDQGWKHLPSDFWRIWKH1D]LV¶ELRORJLFDOWKHRULHVRQWKH
arts and culture in the Third Reich. 6. Method of Delivery (Check all that apply.) a. Standard (lecture/lab) X b. Fully Online On Campus X Off Campus c. Hybrid/ Web Enhanced X 7. Grading Mode: Normal (A-­E) X Credit/No Credit 8. Prerequisites: Courses that MUST be completed before a student can take this course. (List by Subject Code, Number and Title.) N/A 9. Concurrent Prerequisites:
Code, Number and Title.)
Courses listed in #5 that MAY also be taken at the same time as a student is taking this course. (List by Subject
N/A
10. Corequisites: Courses that MUST be taken at the same time as a student in taking this course. (List by Subject Code, Number and Title.) N/A 11. Equivalent Courses. A student may not earn credit for both a course and its equivalent. A course will count as a repeat if an equivalent course has already been taken. (List by Subject Code, Number and Title)
N/A X 12. Course Restrictions: a. Restriction by College. Is admission to a specific College Required? College of Business College of Education Yes No Yes No X b. Restriction by Major/Program. Will only students in certain majors/programs be allowed to take this course? Yes No If ³<es´, list the majors/programs X c. Restriction by Class Level Check all those who will be allowed to take the course: Undergraduate Graduate All undergraduates___X__ All graduate students__X__ Freshperson Certificate Sophomore Masters Junior Specialist Senior Doctoral Second Bachelor________ UG Degree Pending_____ Post-­Bac. Tchr. Cert._____ Low GPA Admit_______ Note: If this is a 400-­level course to be offered for graduate credit, attach Approval Form for 400-­level Course for Graduate Credit. Only ³$SSURYHGIRU*UDGXDWH&UHGLW´undergraduate courses may be included on graduate programs of study. Note: Only 500-­level graduate courses can be taken by undergraduate students. Undergraduate students may not register for 600-­level courses d. Restriction by Permission. Will Departmental Permission be required? Yes No (Note: Department permission requires the department to enter authorization for every student registering.) 13. Will the course be offered as part of the General Education Program? Yes No X X ,I³<es´, attach Request for Inclusion of a Course in the General Education Program: Education for Participation in the Global Community form. Note: All new courses proposed for inclusion in this program will be reviewed by the General Education Advisory Committee. If this course is NOT approved for inclusion in the General Education program, will it still be offered? Yes No C. Relationship to Existing Courses Within the Department: 14. Will this course will be a requirement or restricted elective in any existing program(s)? Yes X
No
If ³<es´, list the programs and attach a copy of the programs that clearly shows the place the new course will have in the curriculum.
Program History, History for Secondary Teacher Certification Majors
Required
Restricted ElectiveX
Program Social Studies, Social Studies for Secondary Teacher Certification Majors Required
15. Will this course replace an existing course? Yes No X Restricted ElectiveX
16. (Complete only if the answer to #15 LV³<HV´ a. Subject Code, Number and Title of course to be replaced: b. Will the course to be replaced be deleted? Yes No 17. (Complete only if the answer #16b is ³<HV´,IWKHUHSODFHGFRXUVHLVWREHGHOHWHGLWLVQRWQHFHVVDU\WRVXEPLWD5HTXHVWIRU
Graduate and Undergraduate Course Deletion. a. When is the last time it will be offered?
Term
Year
b. Is the course to be deleted required by programs in other departments?
Contact the Course and Program Development Office if necessary.
Yes
No
c. If ³<HV´, do the affected departments support this change?
Yes
No
If ³<es´, attach letters of support. If ³1o´, attach letters from the affected department explaining the lack of support, if available . Outside the Department: The following information must be provided. Contact the Course and Program Development office for assistance if necessary. 18. Are there similar courses offered in other University Departments? Yes If ³<es´, list courses by Subject Code, Number and Title No X 19. If similar courses exist, do the departments in which they are offered support the proposed course? Yes No If ³<es´, attach letters of support from the affected departments. If ³1R´ attach letters from the affected department explaining the lack of support, if available. D. Course Requirements 20. Attach a detailed Sample Course Syllabus including: a. Course goals, objectives and/or student learning outcomes b. Outline of the content to be covered c. Student assignments including presentations, research papers, exams, etc. d. Method of evaluation e. Grading scale (if a graduate course, include graduate grading scale) f. Special requirements g. Bibliography, supplemental reading list h. Other pertinent information. NOTE: COURSES BEING PROPOSED FOR INCLUSION IN THE EDUCATION FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY PROGRAM MUST USE THE SYLLABUS TEMPLATE PROVIDED BY THE GENERAL EDUCATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE. THE TEMPLATE IS ATTACHED TO THE REQUEST FOR INCLUSION OF A COURSE IN THE GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM: EDUCATION FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY FORM. E. Cost Analysis (Complete only if the course will require additional University resources. Fill in Estimated Resources for the sponsoring department(s). Attach separate estimates for other affected departments.) N/A Estimated Resources: Year One Year Two Year Three Faculty / Staff $_________ $_________ $_________ SS&M $_________ $_________ $_________ Equipment $_________ $_________ $_________ Total $_________ $_________ $_________ F. Action of the Department/School and College 1. Department/School Vote of faculty: For ____13______
Against ____0______
Abstentions __________
(Enter the number of votes cast in each category.)
Richard F. Nation
Department Head/School Director Signature
5 September 2012
Date
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A. College
College Dean Signature B. Graduate School (if Graduate Course) Graduate Dean Signature Date Date G. Approval Associate Vice-­President for Academic Programming Signature Date EASTERN M I CHI GAN UNI VERSI TY
DI VI SI ON OF ACADEM I C AFFAI RS
GRADUATE SCHOOL
APPROVAL FORM FOR 400-L EVEL COURSES FOR GRADUATE CREDI T
DEPARTM ENT /SCHOOL : H I STORY AND PHI LOSOPHY
COLLEGE: CAS
CONTACT PERSON: JESSE K AUFFM AN
CONTACT PHONE: (734) 5465201
CONTACT EM AI L : jesse.kauffman@emich.edu
The following 400-level course is being presented for graduate credit.
Subject Code, Number and Title HI ST 4XX: Nazi Germany
Credit Hours 3
During which semester will this course first be offered? FALL 2013
Is this a one-time only offering for graduate credit?
____ Yes
__X_ No
If no, state proposed frequency. Every two years.
How will this course satisfy requirements expected for graduate courses?
Through additional reading and writing, graduate students will gain in depth-knowledge about the history of Nazi
Germany; will become familiar with the conventions historians use as they research, think about, and write on historical
issues and problems; will learn to express their ideas and arguments in writing in a cogent and lucid fashion; and will gain
an understanding of the historical development of the field of history itself and will produce a historiographical paper
detailing that development in relation to a particular scholarly debate.
Identify different course requirements for, and the different learning outcomes expected of, graduate students
at the completion of this course.
Graduate students enrolled in this course must complete ALL of the undergraduate requirements. I n addition, graduate
students must:
A) Read I an Kershaw, The Nazi Dictatorship.HUVKDZ¶VERRNVXPPDUL]HVWKHFHQWUDOKLVWRULRJUDSKLFDOLVVXHVWKDWKDYH
dominated scholarly work on Nazi Germany over the decades.
B) Complete a fifteen-page historiographical paper based on an additional three scholarly works, one of which must have
been published within the past five years, and one of which must have been published prior to 1970. They may read three
ERRNVWKDWDWWHPSWWRPDNHVHQVHRIWKH1D]LSHULRGDVDZKROHIRUH[DPSOH0LFKDHO%XUOHLJK¶s The Racial State, etc.), OR
they may choose a particular aspect of Nazi history (for example, the Holocaust, the invasion of the Soviet Union, women
and gender, etc.)
1RWH$FRS\RIWKHSURSRVHGFRXUVHV\OODEXVDQGLQVWUXFWRU¶VFXUUHQWcurriculum vitae must accompany this request.
Approvals:
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Date
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College Dean Signature
Date
Date received in the Graduate School Office
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Graduate Studies & Research
Sherry Winterson
HIST 4XX NAZI GERMANY Professor Jesse Kauffman jesse.kauffman@emich.edu Goals and Objectives: The National Socialist (Nazi) government of Germany is a source of enduring fascination. The Nazis led one of the most prosperous, educated, and sophisticated societies in the world down a path of war and mass murder that eventually caused the deaths of some twenty million people. In this class, lectures will acquaint you with the essential historical facts of National Socialist rule, including key names, dates, and policies. This, however, is a means, not an end. Within the framework provided by the lectures, you will analyze a variety of primary sources, including internal Nazi documents, private letters, propaganda posters, and diaries, in order to come up with your own answers to some of the central questions raised by the Nazis. These questions are: Was the triumph of Nazism the result of long-­‐festering tendencies in German history? Or did contingent events, such as the First World War, play a more important role? How did the Nazis manage to flourish and eventually seize power under the auspices of a democratic government? How ideologically coherent was the early Nazi movement? What role did Hitler play in transforming it into a disciplined and unified political party? Did the Nazis keep their power solely by terror and force? Or did the Nazis try and maintain support among the German people? Was Hitler really all-­‐powerful within the Third Reich? How did the Nazis attempt to reshape German society? What were their views on the proper role of women and the family? What role was social class supposed to play in the National Socialist new order? How did their ideology affect science, the arts, and architecture? Why did the Nazis start World War II? How did they fight it? What motivated ordinary German soldiers? Šƒ–™ƒ•–Š‡’”‘…‡••„›™Š‹…Š–Š‡ƒ••—”†‡”‘ˆ—”‘’‡ǯ•‡™•ǡ‘™–‘—•ƒ•–Š‡
Holocaust, unfolded? At the end of the course, you will be able to offer your own answers to these questions, answers that are rigorously grounded in historical fact as well as in your interpretations of the documents and books that we will be reading and discussing. Thus, by –Š‡•‡‡•–‡”ǯ•‡†›‘— will not only have mastered a body of knowledge, but will have also learned firsthand how elusive definitive answers to historical questions can be. Graduate students taking this course will be expected to meet these goals as well. In addition, you will be required to demonstrate knowledge of how the historiography of Nazi Germany has changed over the decades. Required reading (available at the EMU bookstore): Benjamin Sax and Dieter Kunz, eds. •‹†‡‹–Ž‡”ǯ•
‡”ƒ›. W.S. Allen, The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922-­‐1945 Ruth Klüger, Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered Additional readings will be posted to our eCompanion web site. Graduate student requirements: Graduate students enrolled in this course must complete ALL of the undergraduate requirements. In addition, graduate students must: A) Read Ian Kershaw, The Nazi DictatorshipǤ‡”•Šƒ™ǯ•„‘‘•—ƒ”‹œ‡•–Š‡…‡–”ƒŽŠ‹•–‘”‹‘‰”ƒ’Š‹…ƒŽ
issues that have dominated scholarly work on Nazi Germany over the decades. B) Complete a fifteen-­‐page historiographical paper based on an additional three scholarly works, one of which must have been published within the past five years, and one of which must have been published prior to 1970. You may read three books that attempt to make sense of the Nazi period as a ™Š‘Ž‡ȋˆ‘”‡šƒ’Ž‡ǡ‹…Šƒ‡Ž—”Ž‡‹‰Šǯ•The Racial State, etc.), OR you may choose a particular aspect of Nazi history (for example, the Holocaust, the invasion of the Soviet Union, women and gender, etc.) An overall course grade of C or above must be earned in order to receive graduate credit. Optional reading: There is no textbook for this class; all contextual and factual material required for making sense of our readings will be provided in the lecture. However, you may wish to invest in a textbook. I recommend ƒ…•‘’‹‡Ž˜‘‰‡Žǯ•Hitler and Nazi Germany. I will place a copy of this book on reserve in Halle Library. Assignments and grading: Participation will be a key component of this class. Your grade will reflect both attendance as well as active discussion of our materials. I will regularly take attendance and note down at the end of each class who participated and who did not. (20%) Two short midterm quizzes (10%) and a final exam (25%). Please note that the quizzes and exam will include questions about the reading. The final exam questions will be essay-­‐style. A 5 page paper on The Nazi Seizure of Power. (25%) FOUR two-­‐page analyses of primary sources, chosen by you either from the reader or from our eCompanion site (5% each). You may complete these short papers at any time prior to the last day of class. SCHEDULE OF LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS PART I: THE ORIGINS OF THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST MOVMENT AND THE NAZI SEIZURE OF POWER Week One Lecture One Introduction to topic (essential names, dates and events); overview of historiography; a brief history of Germany to 1914 Week Two Lecture Two The Founding Catastrophe: The First World War and the Collapse of the German Monarchy. Lecture Three The Weimar Republic Reading: Sax and Kuntz, Docs 1-­‐6. Week Three: Lecture Four The Early Years of the Nazi Party Reading: Sax and Kuntz, Docs 8-­‐10, 12-­‐15, 17-­‐19, plus the campaign posters on pp. 239-­‐244. Lecture Five The Seizure of Power, Part I Reading: Allen, Nazi Seizure of Power, chs. 1-­‐9 Week Four: Lecture Six The Seizure of Power, Part II Reading: Allen, Nazi Seizure of Power, chs. 10-­‐20 Lecture Seven: Paper on Nazi Seizure of Power due; Quiz I PART II: BUILDING THE NAZI STATE AND SOCIETY Week Five Lecture Eight The National Socialist Revolution: Gleichschaltung (Coordination) and the Night of the Long Knives Lecture Nine Totalitarianism? Party and State in Nazi Germany Reading: Kuntz and Sax, Docs 40, 42-­‐44 Week Six Lecture Ten Nazi Cultural Policies, Part I: Science and Art; the Nazi War on Cancer Reading: Sax and Kuntz, Docs 47, 53, 55-­‐57 Lecture Eleven Nazi Cultural Policies, Part II: The Churches and Religion Reading: Sax and Kuntz, Doc 118 Week Seven Lecture Twelve Nazi Social Policies, Part I : Capitalism, Big Business, and the Working Class Reading: Sax and Kuntz, Docs 59-­‐60, 64-­‐66, 68, 70, 108, posters on pp. 245-­‐252. Lecture Thirteen Nazi Social Policies, Part II: Women, Children, and the Family Week Eight Lecture Fourteen In class film: Triumph of the Will Lecture Fifteen The concentration camp system and the campaign ƒ‰ƒ‹•–Dz—†‡•‹”ƒ„Ž‡•dz Quiz 2 Week Nine Lecture Sixteen The Jews in Nazi Germany, 1933-­‐1939 Reading: Excerpts from the diary of Victor Klemperer (on eCompanion) Lecture Seventeen The First Victims of Organized —”†‡”ǣŠ‡‹•ƒ„Ž‡†ƒ†–Š‡Dz—–Šƒƒ•‹ƒdz’”‘‰”ƒǤ Reading: Dzƒ™ˆ‘”–Š‡”‡˜‡–‹‘‘ˆ‡”‡†‹–ƒ”‹Ž›‹•‡ƒ•‡†ˆˆ•’”‹‰dz (on eCompanion) PART III: WAR AND GENOCIDE Week Ten Lecture Eighteen Nazi Foreign Policy, 1933-­‐1939 ‡ƒ†‹‰ǣ‹–Ž‡”ǯ•DzSpeech on Peacedz(on eCompanion) Lecture Nineteen: The War Begins, 1939 Week Eleven Lecture Twenty Blitzkrieg and the War in the West and South, 1940 Lecture Twenty One The Main Event: Operation Barbarossa and the War of Racial Extermination Reading: Sax and Kuntz, Docs 90-­‐91 Week Twelve: Lecture Twenty Two The New Order: Occupation Regimes in Western and Eastern Europe Lecture Twenty Three The Holocaust, Part I: War, Extermination, and the First Mass Killings of Jews ‡ƒ†‹‰ǣ‹Ž‡”ǯ•’‡‡…Š‹‘•‡ǡͳͻͶʹȋ‘‡‘’ƒ‹‘Ȍ …Žƒ••ƒ‹”‹‰‘ˆ”‡…‘”†‹‰‘ˆ‹Ž‡”ǯ•’‡‡…Š Start reading Still Alive Week Thirteen Lecture Twenty Four The Holocaust, Part II: Wannsee, the SS, and The Concentration Camp System Continue reading Still Alive Lecture Twenty Five: The German Home Front In World War II Discuss Still Alive Week Fourteen Lecture Twenty Six German Resistance to Hitler Sax and Kunz Docs 86, 107, 109-­‐115, 119, 122-­‐125 (Recommended viewing: Sophie Scholl: The Final Days) Lecture Twenty Seven Götterdämmerung In class viewing of Downfall Week Fifteen Lecture Twenty-­‐Nine History, the Nazis, and Public Memory in Germany In-­‐class final examination. Date TBD. Bibliography Allen, William Sheridan. The Nazi Seizure of Power;; the Experience of a Single German Town, 1930-­1935. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1965. Aly, Götz. +LWOHU¶V%HQHILFLDULHV3OXQGHU5DFLDO:DUDQGWKH1D]L:HOIDUH6WDte. New York: Metropolitan, 2007. Bartov, Omer. +LWOHU¶V$UP\6ROGLHUV1D]LVDQG:DULQWKH7KLUG5HLFK. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. Bergen, Doris. War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. Braham, Randolph L. The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. Browning, Christopher. Ordinary Men᩿: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. New York: HarperCollins, 1992. ²²². Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-­Labor Camp. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2010. Bullock, Alan. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. New York: HarperPerennial, 1991. Burleigh, Michael. The Racial State: Germany 1933-­1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Crew, David F. Hitler and the Nazis: A History in Documents. Oxford University Press, USA, 2006. Evans, Richard. The Coming of the Third Reich᩿: A History. New York: The Penguin Press, 2004. ²²². The Third Reich at War. New York: Penguin Press, 2009. ²²². The Third Reich in Power, 1933-­1939. New York: Penguin Press, 2005. Epstein, Catherine. Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Friedländer, Saul. Nazi Germany and the Jews. New York: HarperPerennial, 2007. Gellately, Robert. Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews. 3rd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Hoffmann, Peter. German Resistance to Hitler. Harvard University Press, 1988. Horwitz, Gordon. Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. Kershaw, Ian. Hitler, 1889-­1936: Hubris. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999. ²²². Hitler, 1936-­45: Nemesis. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000. ²²². Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution. Jerusalem: International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, 2008. ²²². 7KH³+LWOHU0\WK´᩿: Image and Reality in the Third Reich. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. Krakowski, Shmuel. &KHáPQR$6PDOO9LOODJHLQ(XURSH7KH)LUVW1D]L0DVV([WHUPLQDWLRQ&DPS. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009. Mazower, Mark. +LWOHU¶V(PSLUH᩿: How the Nazis Ruled Europe. New York: Penguin Press, 2008. Naimark, Norman M. The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-­1949. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1995. Noakes, Jeremy. Nazism, 1919-­1945᩿: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts. New York: Schocken Books, 1990. Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. New York: Basic Books, 2010. Spicer, Kevin P. +LWOHU¶V3ULHVWV&DWKROLF&OHUJ\DQG1DWLRQDO6RFLDOLVP. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2008. Timm, Uwe, and Anthea Bell. ,Q0\%URWKHU¶V6Kadow: A Life and Death in the SS. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. Tooze, J. Adam. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. New York: Viking, 2007. JESSE C. K AUFFM AN
jesse.kauffman@emich.edu Office: Home: Department of History and Philosophy 901 Center Drive Eastern Michigan University Ann Arbor, MI 48103 701 Pray-­Harrold Mobile: (734) 546-­5201 Ypsilanti, MI 48197 Fax: (734) 487-­6835 _______________________________________________________________________ ACAD EM I C APPOI N TM EN TS 2010-Present
Assistant Professor of History, Eastern Michigan University 2010-Present
Research Associate, Center for Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Michigan 2007-2010
Fellow, Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM) Program, Stanford University ED UCATI ON
Stanford University, Stanford, CA Ph.D., History, 2008 Stanford University, Stanford, CA
M.A., History, 2002 University of California, Los Angeles, CA
B.A. (summa cum laude), History, 2000 PUBLI CATI ON S
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The Elusive Alliance: War, State-­Building, and the Search for Order in German-­Occupied Poland, 1915-­
1918 (manuscript under consideration). Articles and Chapters
³7KH&RORQLDO8-­7XUQ:K\3RODQGLVQRW*HUPDQ\¶V,QGLD´)RUWKFRPLQJLQ$QGUHZ'HPVKXNDQGTobias Weger, eds., Cultural Landscapes: Transatlantische Perspektiven auf Wirkungen und Auswirkungen deutscher Kultur und Geschichte im östlichen Europa, München: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2013. ³1DWLRQ%XLOGLQJDQGBildung:DUVDZ8QLYHUVLW\XQGHU*HUPDQ2FFXSDWLRQ´)RUWKFRPLQJLQFirst World War Studies, February 2013. ³A Sonderweg through Poland? The Varieties of German Colonialism in Eastern Europe, 1914-­1945´
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Sean McMeekin, The Russian Origins of the First World War. Reviewed for Michigan War Studies Review, July 2012. Matthias Strohn, The German Army and the Defence of the Reich: Military Doctrine and the Conduct of the Defensive Battle, 1918-­1939. Reviewed for Michigan War Studies Review, August 2011. Alexander V. Prusin, The Lands Between: Conflict in the East European Borderlands, 1870-­1992. Reviewed for Nationalities Papers, July 2011. Leonard V. Smith, 7KH(PEDWWOHG6HOI)UHQFK6ROGLHUV¶7HVWLPRQ\RIWKH*UHDW:DU. Reviewed for H-­
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'HDQ¶V)DFXOW\7UDYHO*UDQW(08&ROOHJHRI$UWVDQG6FLHQFHV-XQH James Birdsall Weter Dissertation Completion Grant, Stanford University Department of History, 2007-­2008 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Ten-­Month Dissertation Research Grant, 2004-­2005 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Language Study Grant, Summer 2003 COURSES TAUGH T
Undergraduate
Western Civilization, 1648-World War I
Germany since 1815
World War II
European Military History, 1815-1945
Historical Research and Writing
Nazi Germany
Graduate
Recent German History
Twentieth Century Russia
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College of Arts and Sciences Representative to the Library Advisory Committee (2011-Present)
Panelist, New Faculty Orientation, August 2011
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Department Representative, Undergraduate Symposium Planning Committee (2011-Present)
History Section Instruction Committee (2011-Present)
History and Philosophy Department Grade Grievance Committee (2011-Present)
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German, Polish, French PROFESSI ON AL AFFI LI ATI ON S
American Historical Association German Studies Association International Society for First World War Studies German History Society Society for Military History