Contributors to This Issue
- Contributors to This Issue
Karel C. Berkhoff is Associate Professor at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, an organization of the University of Amsterdam and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. A paperback edition of his Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule (2004) appeared in 2008. His current research focuses on Soviet propaganda during World War II and on the history of sites of Nazi and Soviet mass murder in and near Kiev.
Catherine Epstein is Associate Professor of History at Amherst College. She is the author of The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their Century (2003) and A Past Renewed: A Catalog of German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933 (1993). She is currently completing a biography of Arthur Greiser, the Nazi Gauleiter of the Warthegau.
Claudio Sergio Nun Ingerflom is Directeur de recherches, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen), France, and Visiting Professor at the School of East European and Slavic Studies, University College London. He is currently working on a book about self-appointment in Russian history and has an interest in comparative approaches to the state and the history of concepts. His most recent publication is "¿Cómo pensar los cambios sin las categorías de ruptura y continuidad?" (How to Think about Change without the Categories of Rupture and Continuity?), Res Publica: Revista de filosofia política, no. 16 (2006): 129-52.
Dana Sherry, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, is currently revising her dissertation, "Imperial Alchemy: Resettlement, Ethnicity, and Governance in the Russian Caucasus, 1828-1865," and co-editing, with Mark Choate, a volume on the role of violence in modern imperialism titled "Perfect Violence: Empires and Representations of Colonial Violence." [End Page 225]
David Shneer is director of the Program in Jewish Studies and associate professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Called a "taboo-breaking scholar" by Tikkun magazine, Shneer concentrates on modern Jewish society and culture, especially Yiddish culture, Russian Jewish history, and Jews and sexuality. His books include Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture: 1918-1930 (2004, released in paper 2009), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award; and, with Caryn Aviv, New Jews: The End of the Jewish Diaspora (2005). His newest book project, tentatively titled "Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust," looks at the lives and works of two dozen World War II military photographers to examine what kinds of photographs they took when they encountered evidence of Nazi genocide on the Eastern Front.
Zoë Waxman is Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Holocaust and Twentieth-Century History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a Lecturer in the Department of History. She is the author of Writing the Holocaust: Identity, Testimony, Representation (2006) and has also written articles on Holocaust representation and gender and the Holocaust. She is currently writing a book about women's Holocaust experiences.
Felix Wemheuer is Assistant Professor at Universität Wien, where he received his Ph.D. in 2006. Currently, he is conducting research on "The Politicization of Hunger: Discourses of Food and State-Peasant Relationships in Socialist China and the Soviet Union" as a visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. [End Page 226]
