Contributors
- Contributors
Celia Applegate is Associate Professor of History at the University of Rochester. She is coeditor, with Pamela Potter, of Music and German National Identity (University of Chicago Press, 2002), and author of A Nation of Provincials: The German Idea of Heimat (University of California Press, 1990), as well as a number of articles on musical and regional cultures in Germany. She is currently completing a book, Bach in Berlin: A Cultural History of Mendelssohn's Revival of the St. Matthew Passion, 1829.
Richard Bessel is Professor of Twentieth-Century History at the University of York, UK. From 1994 through 2003 he was coeditor of the journal German History. His most recent books are Life after Death: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe during the 1940s and 1950s (coeditor with Dirk Schumann) (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and Nazism and War (RandomHouse, Modern Library, 2004).
Paul Betts is a Lecturer in German History at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK. His recent publications include The Authority of Everyday Objects: A Cultural History of West German Industrial Design (University of California Press, 2004), and Pain and Prosperity: Reconsidering Twentieth-Century German History (Stanford University Press, 2003) (coeditor with Greg Eghigian). At present he is working on a history of private life in the German Democratic Republic.
Alon Confino teaches modern German and European history at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Nation as a Local Metaphor: Württemberg, Imperial Germany and National Memory, 1871-1918 (University of North Carolina Press, 1997), and coeditor, [End Page 366] with Peter Fritzsche, of The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture (University of Illinois Press, 2002). He is currently working on a book-length essay entitled, "Foundational Pasts: The French Revolution, the Holocaust, and Historical Understanding," which explores how historians have interpreted the two foundational events of modern European history.
Ute Frevert is Professor of History at Yale University. She is the author, most recently, of Eurovisionen: Ansichten guter Europäer im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Frankfurt: Fischer, 2003), and A Nation in Barracks: Modern Germany, Military Conscription and Civil Society (Berg, 2004).
Peter Fritzsche is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His most recent books include Reading Berlin 1900 (1996); Germans into Nazis (1998), and Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History (2004) (all published by Harvard University Press).
Michael Geyer is Samuel N. Harper Professor of Modern German and European History at the University of Chicago. He has written extensively on German military history and war as well as on German history in general. Among his recent publications are Shattered Past: Reconstructing German Histories (Princeton University Press, 2003) (with Konrad H. Jarausch), and Religion und Nation—Nation und Religion: Beiträge zu einer unbewältigten Geschichte (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2004) (coedited with Hartmut Lehmann).
Dagmar Herzog is Professor of History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Intimacy and Exclusion: Religious Politics in Pre-Revolutionary Baden (Princeton University Press, 1996), and Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (Princeton University Press, 2005); and the editor of Sexuality and German Fascism (Berghahn Books, 2004), and Lessons and Legacies VII: The Holocaust in International Perspective (Northwestern University Press, 2005). [End Page 367]
Robert G. Moeller is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, where he is also director of a professional development project for public school history teachers. His publications include Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany (University of California Press, 1993), and War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany (University of California Press, 2001).
Uta G. Poiger is Associate Professor of History and Adjunct Associate Professor of Women Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, where she also directs the Institute for Transnational Studies. She is the author of Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany (University of California Press, 2000), and coeditor, with Heide Fehrenbach, of Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan (Berghahn Books...
