Education
| 1998-2003 |
University of Oxford (Lady Margaret Hall), DPhil in Modern History |
| 1996-1998 |
University of Oxford (Lady Margaret Hall), Master of Studies in Modern History |
| 1993-1996 |
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Course in History, English, and Law |
| 1986-1993 |
Anne-Frank-Gymnasium, Halver; ‘Abitur’ |
Academic Positions
2008- |
University of Aberdeen, Department of History, Lecturer in Modern European, International, and Global History |
2008 |
Harvard University, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Visiting Scholar (& Resident Scholar, Lowell House) |
2007-2008 |
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Member |
2005-2007 |
University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of History, Mellon Fellow |
2004-2005 |
University of Chicago, Dept. of History, Visiting Assistant Professor in Modern European and European Jewish History |
2002-2004 |
University of Glasgow, Dept. of History, Lecturer in Modern History |
Publications
a) Books
· Hitler’s First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment and the First World War (Oxford University Press, forthcoming, September 2010) (German edition: Propyläen Verlag, Berlin).
· ‘Our Friend “The Enemy”’: Elite Education in Britain and Germany before World War I (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008).
Reviewed so far in the Journal of Modern History, American Historical Review, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, H-German, German History, Central European History, German Studies Review, English Historical Review, Canadian Historical Review, History of Education Quarterly, Historische Zeitschrift, Neue Politische Literatur, and Sehepunkte.
· Lodz Ghetto Album: Photographs by Henryk Ross (photographs selected by Timothy Prus & Martin Parr’ (London: Chris Booth, 2004)
Reviewed of featured inter alia in Le Monde, El Mundo, Newsweek (Japanese edition), Wall Street Journal, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, The University of Chicago Magazine, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, Der Stern, Something Jewish, Canadian Jewish News, Photo Eye, Source 41, foto8, PDN, and EI8HT PHOTOJOURNALISM
b) Articles
. ‘Anti-Semitism and Philo-Semitism among the British and German Élites: Oxford and Heidelberg before the First World War’, in English Historical Review, cxviii, no. 475 (February 2003), 86-119 (refereed journal article).
· ‘The Battle over Friedrich von Bernhardi’s Germany and the Next War and the Coming of the First World War in and between Germany, Britain, and the U.S.’ (under review by the Historical Journal).
· ‘A Regiment of Heroes, a Regiment of Criminals: Adolf Hitler’s Regiment in the First World War’ (in Hebrew), Tabur: Israeli Yearbook for European History, Society, Culture and Thought, 2008 (refereed journal article)
· ‘Studenten’, in Hirschfeld, Gerhard; Krumeich, Gerd; Renz, Irina (eds.), Enzyklopädie Erster Weltkrieg (Paderborn: Schöningh, 2003), 910-912 (commissioned article in encyclopedia).
· ‘Wannsee Conference’, Encarta Encyclopedia 2005 (commissioned article in encyclopedia).
c) Chapters in Books
· ‘Buried: The Photographs of Henryk Ross’, in Mah, Sergio (ed.), Lugar/Place: Photo España 2008 (Madrid: La Fabrica Editorian, 2008), pp. 126-130.
· ‘Cosmopolitan Nationalists: German Students in Britain – British Students in Germany’, in Geppert, Dominik, and Gerwarth, Robert (eds.), An Unnecessary War? Cultural Connections between Wilhelmine Germany and Edwardian Britain, Oxford 2008 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
· ‘British Universities in the First World War’, in Maurer, Trude (eds.), Kollegen – Kommilitonen – Kämpfer: Europäische Universitäten im Ersten Weltkrieg (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006), pp. 75-90.
· ‘Editing an Unbearable Past: The Visual Representation of Survivors of the Lodz Ghetto’, in Steinert, Johannes-Dieter; Weber-Newth, Inge (eds.), Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution (Osnabrück: Secolo Verlag, 2005), pp. 372-383.
· ‘Konstruktion der Erinnerung: Der Umgang mit Bildern aus dem Lodzer Ghetto’, in Haustein, Petra et al., KZ-Geschichte und Erinnerung: Neue Studien zur Lagergeschichte und Gedenkkultur, 2 editions (Ulm, Münster: Klemm & Oelenschläger, 2001).
d) Book Reviews in Academic Journals
· Book review of David Yelton’s Hitler's Volkssturm: The Nazi Militia and the Fall of Germany, 1944-1945, in, War in History, 2005 12 (1), 112-114.
· Book review of Tim Cole's Holocaust City: The Making of a Jewish Ghetto, in, Canadian Journal of History, spring/summer 2006, 142-4.
· Book review of Peter Hoeres’ Krieg der Philosophen: Die deutsche und die britische Philosophie im Ersten Weltkrieg, on, H-German 2 January 2006.
· Book review of Sonja Levsen’s Elite, Männlichkeit und Krieg: Tübinger und Cambridger Studenten 1900-1929 (Göttingen, 2006), in, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute London, xxix,1 (May 2007), 89-96.
· Book review of Thomas Wittek’s Auf ewig Feind? Das Deutschlandbild in den britischen Massenmedien nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg (Munich, 2005), on, H-German 29 June 2007.
· Book review of Stefan Goebel’s The Great War and Medieval Memory: War, Remembrance, and Medievalism in Britain and Germany, 1914-1940 (Cambridge, 2007), forthcoming, Journal of Modern History.
· Book review of Martin Schramm’s Das Deutschlandbild in der britischen Presse 1912-1919 (Berlin, 2007), commissioned by H-German.
· Book review of Isaiah Trunk’s Lodz Ghetto: A History, ed. by Robert Moses Shapiro (Bloomington, IN, 2006 (Yiddish ed., 1962)), commissioned by Holocaust and Genocide Studies..
· Book review of Dominik Geppert’s Pressekriege: Öffentlichkeit und Diplomatie in den deutsch-britischen Beziehungen, 1896-1912 (Munich, 2007) and Magnus Brechtken’s Scharnierzeit 1895-1907: Persönlichkeitsnetze und internationale Politik in den deutsch-britisch-amerikanischen Beziehungen vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg (Mainz, 2006), commissioned by H-German. |
