Biographies of Contributors
- Biographies of Contributors
Diana Dumitru is associate professor of history at the State Pedagogical University of Moldova, where she teaches courses on twentieth-century Eastern Europe, totalitarianism, and ethnic conflict. Her research interests include the Holocaust in Romania, nationalism, the political manipulation of the study of history, and societies during crisis periods. Dr. Dumitru was a Rosenzweig Family fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in 2004/05, and is currently a fellow of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung.
Kerstin von Lingen teaches at the Universities of Tübingen and Marburg. Among her recent publications are Kesselrings letzte Schlacht: Kriegsverbrecherprozesse, Vergangenheitspolitik und Wiederbewaffnung. Der Fall Kesselring (2004), which will appear in English as Kesselring’s Last Battle: War Crimes Trials and Cold War Politics, 1945–1960 (2008), and “Partisanenkrieg und Wehrmachtjustiz: Italien 1943–1945,” Zeitschrift für Genozidforschung 8, no. 2 (2007). She is currently working on a study of transitional justice, comparing memory and identity in Europe and Asia after 1945.
Matthew Penney teaches in the History Department at Concordia University in Montreal. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Auckland, and his research focuses on the representation of war in postwar Japan. His publications include “Rising Sun, Iron Cross: Military Germany in Japanese Popular Culture” in Japanstudien, 17 (2005); and “The ‘Most Crucial Education’: Saotome Katsumoto, Globalization, and Japanese Anti-War Thought” in Japan Focus (2005).
Stephen Tyas is a freelance researcher based in Saint Albans, UK. His publications include: “A New Document on the Deportation and Murder of Jews during ‘Einsatz Reinhardt’ 1942” (with Peter Witte), Holocaust and Genocide Studies 15, no. 3 (2001); “Der Britsche Nachrichtendienst: Entschlüsselte Funkmeldungen aus dem Generalgouvernement,” in Aktion Reinhardt: Der Völkermord an den Juden im Generalgouvernement 1941–1944, ed. Bogdan Musial (2004); and “Adolf Eichmann: New Information from British Signals Intelligence,” in Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust, ed. David Bankier (2006).
