Dr. Eric Kurlander Professor of Modern European History

Stetson University Department of History Office: (386) 822-7578 Elizabeth Hall, Unit 8344 (386) 822-7535 421 N. Woodland Blvd. Fax: (386) 822-7544 Stetson University Email: ekurland@stetson.edu Deland, FL 32724 EDUCATION HARVARD UNIVERSITY Cambridge, MA PhD, Modern European History. 2001 MA, Modern European History. 1997 BOWDOIN COLLEGE Brunswick, ME BA, summa cum laude. History and English (minor). 1994 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Professor of History and J. Ollie Edmunds Chair, Stetson University August 2018 – present Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, History Department, University of Tübingen May 2018 – August 2018 Professor of History and Interim Chair, Department of Sociology, Spring 2017 – Spring 2018 Anthropology, and Public Health, Stetson University Reunion Fellow, Anglo-American Institute, University of Cologne May 2016 – June 2016 Professor, History Department, Stetson University Spring 2015 – Fall 2016 Professor and Chair, History Department, Stetson University Fall 2013 – Fall 2014 Associate Professor and Chair, History Department, Stetson University Fall 2010 – Spring 2013 Fulbright Scholar, Freiburg Pädagogische Hochschule January 2012 – July 2012 Visiting Professor, History Department, Freiburg Pädagogische Hochschule April 2012 – July 2012 Associate Professor, History Department, Stetson University Fall 2007 – Spring 2010 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, History Department, University of Bonn/Berlin December 2007 – June 2008 Thyssen-Heideking Fellow, Anglo-American Institute, University of Cologne June 2007 – February 2008 Assistant Professor, History Department, Stetson University Fall 2001 – Spring 2007 Assistant Senior Tutor, Currier House, Harvard University Fall 2000 – Spring 2001 Teaching Fellow, History Department, Harvard University Fall 1997 – Spring 2001 Dudley House Fellow, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University Fall 1996 – Spring 1998

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (2001 – present) Books Modern Germany. A Global History (with Bernd Grewe and Douglas McGetchin). New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press (under contract). The West in Question. Continuity and Change, v. II. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press (under contract). Hitlerova čudovišta. Povijest nadnaravnoga u Trećem Reichu [Croatian edition of Hitler’s Monsters]. Naklada Zagreb: Llevak, 2018. Demony Hitlera. Ezoteryczne Korzenie III Rzeszy [Hitler’s Demons. Esoteric Roots of the Third Reich]. Warsaw: Panstwowy Instytut Wydawnicy, 2018. I Mostri di Hitler. La storia soprannatural del Terzo Reich [Italian edition of Hitler’s Monsters]. Milan:

Mondadori, 2018. Hitler’s Monsters. A Supernatural History of the Third Reich. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017 (Paperback edition, 2018) Monica Black and Eric Kurlander, eds., Revisiting the Nazi Occult. Histories, Realities, Legacies. Rochester: Camden House, 2015 (Paperback edition, 2019) Joanne Miyang Cho, Eric Kurlander, and Douglas McGetchin, eds., Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India. Kindred Spirits in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, New York and London: Routledge, 2014. Living With Hitler. Liberal Democrats in the Third Reich, 1933-1945. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. The Price of Exclusion. Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Decline of German Liberalism, 1898-1933. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006. Refereed Articles and Book Chapters “Nazism and Religion.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming) “Liberal Women and National Socialism. (Dis)continuties in Conceptions of Race, Space, and Social Policy, 1930-1939” (forthcoming) “Nazismus und Esoterik.” Helmut Reinalter, ed. Handbuch der Verschwörungstheorien. Vienna: Salier, 2018. “Liberalism Between Retreat and Accommodation: The Role of Politics, Class, and Ideology, 1930-1934.” Norbert Frei and Kristina Meyer, eds. Wie bürgerlich war der Nationalsozialismus? Göttingen: Wallstein, 2018, pp. 63-77. “Völkisch-Esoteric and Völkisch-Religious Movements in Germany and Austria, 1890-1945.” Michael Fahlbusch, Ingo Haar, Alexander Pinwinkler, eds., Handbuch der völkischen Wissenschaft (2nd Edition). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017, v. II, pp. 1229-1248.

“Otto Scheel.” Michael Fahlbusch, Ingo Haar, Alexander Pinwinkler, eds., Handbuch der völkischen Wissenschaften (2nd Edition). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017, v. I, pp. 697-704. “‘One Foot in Atlantis, One in Tibet.’ The Roots and Legacies of Nazi Theories on Atlantis, 1890-1945.” Leidschrift: Historische Tijdschrift, v. 42, nr. 1 (January 2017), pp. 81-102. “The Nazi Magician’s Controversy: Enlightenment, “Border Science”, and Occultism in the Third Reich. Central European History, v. 48, nr. 4 (December 2015), pp. 498-522. “Hitler’s Supernatural Sciences: Astrology, Anthroposophy, and World Ice Theory.” Monica Black and Eric Kurlander, eds., The Nazi Soul Between Science and Religion: Revisiting the Occult Roots of Nazism. Elizabethtown, NY: Camden House, 2015, pp. 132-156. “Liberalism in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918.” Matthew Jefferies, ed., Ashgate Research Companion to Imperial Germany. London: Ashgate, 2015, pp. 91-110. “Between Weimar’s Horrors and Hitler’s Monsters: The Politics of Race, Nationalism, and Cosmopolitanism in Hanns Heinz Ewers Supernatural Imaginary.’” Rainer Godel, Erdmut Jost und Barry Murnane, eds. Zwischen Popularisierung und Ästhetisierung? Hanns Heinz Ewers und die Moderne. Bielefeld, Moderne Studien (Aisthesis), 2014, pp. 229-256. “The Orientalist Roots of National Socialism? Nazism, Occultism, and South Asian Spirituality, 1919-1945.” Joanne Miyang Cho, Eric Kurlander, and Douglas McGetchin, eds., Transcultural Encounters between

Germany and India: Kindred Spirits in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, New York and London, Routledge, 2014, pp. 155-169.

“Hitler’s Monsters: The Occult Roots of Nazism and the Emergence of the Nazi ‘Supernatural Imaginary.’” German History, v. 30, nr. 4 (December 2012), pp. 528-549. “Between Völkisch and Universal Visions of Empire: Liberal Imperialism in Mitteleuropa, 1890-1918.” Matthew Fitzpatrick, ed., Liberal Imperialism in Europe, London: Palgrave, 2012, pp. 141-166. “Violence, Volksgemeinschaft, and Empire: Interpreting the Third Reich in the Twenty-First Century.” Journal of Contemporary History, 46 (October 2011), nr. 4, pp. 920-934. “Between Detroit and Moscow: A Left Liberal Third Way in the Third Reich.” Central European History, v. 44, nr. 2 (May 2011), pp. 279-307. “‘I Am No Anti-Semite, but I Am Also No Jew’: Liberalism and The ‘Jewish Question’ in the Third Reich.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, nr. 42, Spring 2008, pp. 49-63. “Otto Scheel.” Michael Fahlbusch and Ingo Haar, eds., Handbuch der völkischen Wissenschaften. Munich: K.G. Saur, 2008, pp. 614-619. “The Landscapes of Liberalism: Particularism and Progressive Politics in Two Borderland Regions.” David Blackbourn and Jim Retallack, eds., Localism, Landscape, and the Dilemmas of Place: Germany 1871-1918, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007, pp. 124-146. “Völkisch Nationalism and Universalism on the Margins of the Reich: A Comparison of Majority and Minority Liberalism in Germany, 1898-1933.” Mark Roseman, Neil Gregor, and Nils Roemer, eds. Germany From the Margins, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006, pp. 84-103. “New Approaches to Bourgeois Resistance in Germany and Austria, 1933-1945.” History Compass, v. 4, nr. 2 (2006), pp. 275-292.

“Negotiating National Socialism: Liberal Non-Conformity and Accommodation in the Period of Gleichschaltung.” Jahrbuch zur Liberalismus-Forschung, v. 17, 2005. pp. 59-76. “Republikanischer Partikularismus als elsäßische Integrationsmodell zwischen Kaiserreich und

Nationalsozialismus.” Elke Huwiler und Nicole Wachter, eds., Integrationen des Widerläufigen, Hamburg: LIT-Verlag, 2004, pp. 93-102.

“Otto Scheel: National Liberal, Nordmark Prophet.” Michael Fahlbusch and Ingo Haar, ed. German Scholars and Ethnic Cleansing 1920-1945. New York and Oxford: Berghann Books, 2004, pp. 200-212. “Nationalism, Ethnic Preoccupation and the Decline of German Liberalism: A Silesian Case Study, 1898-1933.” The Historian, v. 65, nr. 1, Fall 2002, pp. 95-121. “Multicultural and Assimilationist Models of Ethnopolitical Integration in the Context of the German Nordmark, 1890-1933.” The Global Review of Ethnopolitics, v. 1. nr. 3, March 2002, pp. 39-52. “The Rise of Völkisch Nationalism and the Decline of German Liberalism: A Comparison of Schleswig -Holstein and Silesian Political Cultures, 1912-1924.” European Review of History, v. 9. nr. 1, January 2002, pp. 23-36. Book Reviews Review Essay of Robert Gellately, ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of the Third Reich. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018; Cory Taylor, How Hitler Was Made: Germany and the Rise of the Perfect Nazi. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2018; Ben Hett, The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic. New York: Henry Holt, 2018. Journal of Modern History (forthcoming). Benjamin W. Goossen, Chosen Nation. Mennonites and Germany in a Global Era. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. The Journal of Modern History, v. 91, Nr. 1 (2019), pp. 210-212. Sarah Thieme, Nationalsozialistischer Märtyrerkult: Sakralisierte Politik und Christentum im westfälischen Ruhrgebiet (1929-1939). Frankfurt: Campus, 2017. German History, v. 36, nr. 3 (2018), pp. 478-480. Nathan Stoltzfus, Hitler's Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016. The Journal of Modern History, v. 90, nr. 1 (March 2018), pp. 233-234. Lisa Pine, ed., Life and Times in Nazi Germany. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. German History, v. 35, No. 1 (March 2017), pp. 159–161. Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, Purging the Empire: Mass Expulsions in Germany, 1871-1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. The Journal of Modern History, v. 88, Nr. 4 (2016), pp. 975-977. Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee, The Nay Science: A History of German Indology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Central European History, v. 48, nr. 3 (2015), pp. 432-434. Julia Mannherz, Modern Occultism in late Imperial Russia. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2012. English Historical Review , v. 130, nr. 543 (2015), pp. 479-481. Kris Manjapra, Age of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals Across Empire. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2014. Central European History, v. 47, nr. 4 (2014), pp. 860-862.

Review Essay of Hans-Joachim Neumann and Henrik Eberle, Was Hitler Ill? Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013; Abraham Ascher, Was Hitler a Riddle? Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012; Jochen Thies, Hitler's Plans for Global Domination. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2012; and Lorna Waddington, Hitler's Crusade London: I. B. Tauris, 2009, in the Journal of Modern History, v. 86, No. 4 (December 2014), pp. 961-966. Alexa Geisthövel, Intelligenz und Rasse: Franz Boas’ Psychologischer Antirassimus zwischen Amerika und Deutschland, 1920-1942. German History, v. 32, nr. 4 (2014), pp. 646-648. Klaus Vondung, Deutsche Wege zur Erlosung: Formen des Religiösen im Nationalsozialismus. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2013. German History, v. 32, nr. 2 (2014), pp. 331-332. David Wetzel, A Duel of Nations: Germany, France, and the Diplomacy of the War of 1870–1871. Madison:

University of Wisconsin Press. Central European History, v. 46, nr. 4 (2013), pp. 907-909. Tobias Schmidt-Degenhard, Vermessen und Vernichten: Der NS-"Zigeunerforscher" Robert Ritter. Tübingen: Contubernium. German History, v. 31, nr. 2 (2013), pp. 266-268. Richard Weikart, Hitler's Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. German Studies Review, v. 36, nr. 2, May 2013, pp. 459-460. Anna von der Goltz, Hindenburg. Power, Myth, and the Rise of the Nazis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. The Historian, v. 74, nr. 1 (Spring 2012), pp. 179-181. Ann Goldberg, Honor, Politics, and the Law in Imperial Germany, 1871–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Central European History, v. 44, nr. 4 (2011), pp. 741-742. Angelika Schaser/S. Schueler-Springorum (ed.), Liberalismus und Emanzipation. In- und Exklusionsprozesse im Kaiserreich und in der Weimarer Republik, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2010. L’Homme: European Journal of Feminist History, v. 22 (December 2011), nr. 2, pp. 165-167. Peter Thaler, Of Mind and Matter: The Duality of National Identity in the German-Danish Borderlands. West

Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. 2009. Central European History, v. 43, nr. 3 (August 2010), pp. 519-521.

“A German Liberal Mugged By Reality.” Review of Andreas Wesemann, ed., Chronicle of a Downfall: Germany 1929-1939. Leopold Schwarzschild. London: Tauris, 2010. Literary Review, October 2010, pp. 9-11. Hermann Beck, The Fateful Alliance. German Conservatives and Nazis in 1933: The Machtergreifung in

a New Light. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008. European History Quarterly, v. 40 (2010), nr. 3, pp. 503-505.

“The Law of the Jungle.” Review article of Christian Hilger, Rechtsstaatsbegriffe im Dritten Reich. Eine Strukturanalyse. Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2003. H-Net, East Lansing: MSU, February 2010, pp. 1-3. “The Personal is Historical.” Review article of Volker Depkat, Lebenswenden und Zeitwenden. Deutsche Politiker und die Erfahrungen. München: Oldenbourg, 2007, EUR 33.00. H-Net, East Lansing: Michigan State University, November 2009, pp. 1-3. Larry Frohman, Poor Relief and Welfare in Germany from the Reformation to World War I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Central European History, v. 42, nr. 4 (December 2009), pp. 766-768. “In Search of a ‘Rational’ Republic.” Review article of Andreas Wirsching/Jürgen Eder (ed.)

Vernunftrepublikanismus in der Weimarer Republik. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2008. H-Net, East Lansing: Michigan State University, March 2009, pp. 1-3. Review of the Panel, “Borders and Border Issues in Central Europe,” held at the 2008 Convention of the German Studies Association in St. Paul, MN, October 2-5, 2008. H-Net, East Lansing: Michigan State University, October 2008, pp. 1-3. Lars Fischer, The Socialist Response to Antisemitism in Imperial Germany. German Politics and Society, v. 26, No. 1, Spring 2008, pp. 122-127. “Social Fascism Revisited: A Sonderweg of the Left?” Review article of Nationaler Sozialismus und Soziale Demokratie: Die sozialdemokratische Junge Rechte, 1918-1945. Bonn: J.H.W. Dietz, 2006. H-Net, East Lansing: MSU, May 2007, pp. 1-3. Oliver Grant, Migration and Inequality in Germany 1870-1913. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Central European History, v. 40, nr. 4 (December 2007), pp. 731-733. “The Perils of Discursive Balkanization.” Review article of Petronilla Ehrenpreis._Kriegs- und Friedensziele im Diskurs: Regierung und deutschsprachige Öffentlichkeit Österreich-Ungarns während des Ersten Weltkriegs. Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2005. H-Net, East Lansing: MSU, February 2007, pp. 1-3. “Belated Normalization or a New Revisionism?” Review article of Die Stunde Null. Überleben – Umbruchzeiten 1945. An Exhibition of the Museum Europäischer Kultur in Berlin-Dahlem. 8 May 2005 – 26 August 2007. H-Net, East Lansing: MSU, October 2006, pp. 1-3. Hermann Langbein, People in Auschwitz. Translated by Harry Zohn. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. German Studies Review, v. 29, nr. 3, October 2006, pp. 682-683. “A Lost Cause?” Review article of Elisabeth Kovacs, Untergang oder Rettung der Donaumonarchie?: Die Osterreichische Frage. Kaiser und Konig Karl I. (IV.) und die Neuordnung Mitteleuropas and Kovacs, ed. Politische Dokumente zu Kaiser und Konig Karl I. (IV.) aus Internationalen Archiven. Wien: Bohlau, 2004. H-Net, East Lansing: MSU, January 2006, pp. 1-3. Peter Winzen, Bernhard Fürst von Bülow: Weltmachtstratege ohne Fortune Wegbereiterder großen Katastrophe. Göttingen: Hans Hansen, 2003. German Studies Review, v. 28, nr. 1, February 2005, pp. 170-171. Duncan S. Kelly, The State of the Political: Conceptions of Politics and the State in the Thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Franz Neumann. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. German Studies Review, v. 28, nr. 1, February 2005, pp. 220-221. Roger Chickering and Stig Förster, eds, The Shadows of Total War: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2003. German Studies Review, v. 28, nr. 2, May 2005, pp. 443-444. “Germany’s First Historikerstreit.” Review article of Steffen Bruendel, Volksgemeinschaft oder Volksstaat: Die ‘Ideen von 1914’ und die Neuordnung Deutschlands im Ersten Weltkrieg. Berlin:

Akademie Verlag, 2003. H-Net, East Lansing: MSU, March 2005, pp. 1-4.

Review of the Panel, “German Scholars Between Coercion and Conformity: Progressive Academics in the Third Reich”, held at the 2004 Convention of the German Studies Association in Washington, D.C., October 7-10, 2004. H-Net, East Lansing: MSU, October 2004, pp. 1-4.

Alan S. Kahan, Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage. Hampshire and New York: Palgrave, 2003. The Review of Politics, v. 66, nr. 4, Fall 2004, pp. 686-688. William W. Hagen, Ordinary Prussians: Brandenburg Junkers and Villagers, 1500-1840. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. German Studies Review, v. 28, nr. 1, February 2005, pp. 443-444. Thomas Goethel, Demokratie und Volkstum: Die Politik Gegenueber den Nationalen Minderheiten in der Weimarer Republik. Köln: SH-Verlag, 2002. German History, v. 22, nr. 3, August 2004, pp. 482-483. Jennifer Jenkins, Provincial Modernity: Local Culture and Liberal Politics in Fin-de-Siècle Hamburg. Cornell University Press, 2003. History Compass, London: Blackwell Publishing, 2004, p. 1. Arthur J. Jacobson and Bernard Schlink, eds., Weimar: A Jurisprudence of Crisis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. German Studies Review, v. 27, nr. 2, May 2004, pp. 87-88. Michael Froehlich, ed., Die Weimarer Republik: Portrait einer Epoche in Biographien. Darmstadt: Primus Verlag, 2002. German Studies Review, v. 27, nr. 2, May 2004, pp. 87-88. “An Altogether Unfortunate Affair.” Review article of Peter Winzen’s Das Kaiserreich am Abgrund: Die Daily-Telegraph-Affäre und das Hale-Interview von 1908. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. H-Net, East Lansing: MSU, January 2004, pp. 1-4. Helmut Walser-Smith, The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town. New York and London: Norton, 2002. History Compass, London: Blackwell Publishing, 2004, p. 1. Review of the panel, “Capitalism, Commercialism, and Marketing around 1900,” held at the Twenty- Seventh Annual German Studies Association Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, September 18-21, 2003. H-Net, East Lansing: MSU, October 2003, pp. 1-3. Frank Bösch, Das Konservative Milieu: Vereinskultur und lokale Sammlungspolitik in ost- und westdeutschen Regionen (1900-1960). Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, 2002. History Compass, London: Blackwell Publishing, 2003, p. 1. Jan T. Gross, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. History Compass, London: Blackwell Publishing, 2003, p. 1. Kevin Repp, Reformers, Critics, and the Paths of German Modernity: Anti-Politics and the Search for Alternatives, 1890-1914. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. History Compass, London: Blackwell Publishing, 2003, p. 1. Lora Wildenthal, German Women for Empire, 1884-1945. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001. European Review of History, v. 9 (August 2002), nr. 2. Selected Non-Peer Reviewed Publications, Interviews, and Documentaries “Američki povjesničar Eric Kurlander gostovao u HNK u Zagrebu” (“American Historian Eric Kurlander is a

Guest at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb”). 15 April 24, 2019 (https://www.hnk.hr/hr/novosti/ameri%C4%8Dki-povjesni%C4%8Dar-eric-kurlander-gostovao-u-hnk-u-zagrebu/)

Povjesničar Kurlander: 'Hitlerova čudovišta nisu mrtva.' Interview with Ivona Haller for Croatian Public Televison (https://magazin.hrt.hr/505174/znanost-i-tehnologija/povjesnicar-kurlander-

hitlerovacudovista-nisu-mrtva) “Nazi Exploitation of Occultism and Border Science in The Second World War. Astrological Propaganda, Pendulum Dowsing, and the Search for Miracle Weapons.” Military History Quarterly (forthcoming) “The Nazis and the Occult.” The Story of the Nazis. BBC History Magazine, Special Edition (UK) (2018) “The Nazi Werewolves Who Terrorized Allied Soldiers at the End of WWII.” Interview with Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 October 2018 (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nazi- werewolves-who-terrorized-allied-soldiers-end-wwii-180970522/) “It is Happening Again.” Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything. June 2018 (https://theoryofeverythingpodcast.com/episodes/) “NASA Named its Next New Horizons Target Ultima Thule, a Mythical Land with A Nazi Connection.” Interview with Meghan Bartels. Newsweek. 14 March 2018 (https://www.newsweek.com/nasa-named-its-next-new- horizons-target-ultima-thule-mythical-land-nazi-844318) “Hitler’s Monsters (w/ Eric Kurlander).” The Glenn Beck Program. 20 February 2018

(https://soundcloud.com/glennbeck/hitlers-monsters-w-eric) “The Nazis’ Quest for the Supernatural.” BBC World Histories Magazine (UK), December/January 2018

(http://www.historyextra.com/article/bbc-world-histories-magazine/issue-7-bbc-world-histories-out-now)

“Waarom de nazi’s massaal geloofden in wichelroedes en waarzeggers.” Interview from Trouw, as summarized by Jeanette Kras (http://www.welingelichtekringen.nl/samenleving/750185/waarom-de-nazis-massaal-

geloofden-in-wichelroedes-en-waarzeggers.html) “Les nazis pensaient tout simplement qu'il existait de nouvelles sciences.” Interview with Rebecca Onion (trans.

by Antoine Bourguilleau). Slate. 1 September 2017 (https://www.slate.fr/story/150573/nazis-surnaturel) “Feeding on the Faithful. How Supernatural Thinking Empowered the Third Reich.” Interview with Ellie Faustino. Religion Dispatches. 24 August 2017 (http://religiondispatches.org/feeding-on-the-faithful- how-supernatural-thinking-empowered-the-third-reich/) “The Nazis were Obsessed with Magic. What can their fascination with the supernatural teach us about life in our

own post-truth times?.” Interview with Rebecca Onion. Slate. 24 August 2017 (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2017/08/an_interview_with_historian_eric_kurl

ander_about_his_book_hitler_s_monsters.html) “Ein Weltall aus Feuer und Eis. Die seltsame Begeisterung der Nazis für Esoterik und Aberglaube. ” Interview

with Manfred Dworschak. Der Spiegel (Germany –Print Edition), 32/2017, pp. 100-101 (http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/index-2017-32.html)

“Eric Kurlander’s ‘Hitler’s Monsters.’” My Book, the Movie. 31 July 2017

(https://mybookthemovie.blogspot.com/2017/07/eric-kurlanders-hitlers-monsters.html) “A Song of Ice and Fire. World Ice Theory and the supernatural imaginary of the Third Reich.” Lapham’s Quarterly. 26 July 2017, pp. 1-7. “Eric Kurlander’s ‘Hitler’s Monsters.’” The Page 99 Test. 26 July 2017.

(http://page99test.blogspot.com/2017/07/eric-kurlanders-hitlers-monsters.html)

“The Nazi Obsession with the Occult.” Interview with Michael Hoak, Yale University Press Podcast, Episode 31, July 2017 (http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/yale-university-press-podcast) Interview with Monica Black, “Hitler’s Monsters,” New Books Network, 11 July 2017 (http://newbooksnetwork.com/eric-kurlander-hitlers-monsters-a-supernatural-history-of-the-third-reich- yale-up-2017/ Interview regarding “Hitler’s Monsters” with Peter Price, “Late Night City with Pete Price”, Radio City 2 (UK), 3 July 2017 (https://player.fm/series/beyond-the-dark/beyond-the-dark-eric-kurlander). Interview regarding “Hitler’s Monsters” with Sean Moncrieff, “Newstalk” (Republic of Ireland), 3 July 2017. Interview with J. W. McCormack, “Hitler Used Werewolves, Vampires, and Astrology to Brainwash Germany.” Vice. 30 June 2017 (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzaemy/hitler-used-werewolves-vampires- and-astrology-to-brainwash-germany) “Hitler’s Obsession with the Occult?” Yale Books Blog. 30 June 2017 (http://yalebooksblog.co.uk/2017/06/30/hitler-obsession-occult-kurlander/) Featured Expert in Nazi Killer Magic, Episode Two, Aired nationally on American Heroes Channel Two, Aired nationally in January 2017. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTQGEhMEq8w&t=1220s) Featured Expert in Brad Meltzer’s Lost History, Episode Two, “Hitler’s Photo Album”, Aired nationally on History Channel Two (H2), 7 November 2014. (http://www.history.com/shows/brad-meltzers-lost-history/videos/hitlers-photo-album) “Rethinking the Senior Project in History, PART I and II.” BURGs: Undergraduate Research in German & European Studies, 9/08/13 and 1/24/14 (http://burgsburges.wordpress.com) “What in the World is Oliver Stone Talking About?” History News Network, 1/19/10 (http://hnn.us/articles/122342.html) “Eric Kurlander’s ‘Living With Hitler.’” The Page 99 Test (http://page99test.blogspot.com/2009/08/eric- kurlanders-living-with-hitler.html) “Liberals under Nazism: Lessons for Today.” Washington Post (on-line edition), 10/28/09, (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/shortstack/2009/10/history_books_are_very_much.html “Dilution of Talent.” Letter to the Editor, New York Times (print edition), 8/21/2005

(http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905EED8103EF932A1575BC0A9639C8B63 Reviews in International Print and Online Media (selected) Stéphane François. “L’Occultisme et le Troisième Reich (Occultism in the Third Reich).” 12 April 2019.

(https://tempspresents.com/2019/04/12/loccultisme-et-le-troisieme-reich/) Srđan Sandić, “Nacisti su stvorili teoriju po kojoj su zidovi I slaveni vampiri (“Nazis Propagate the Theory of

Jewish of Slavic Vampires”).” JutarniKultura. 29 March 2019 (https://www.jutarnji.hr/kultura/knjizevnost/nacisti-su-stvorili-teoriju-po-kojoj-su-zidovi-i-slaveni-vampiri-ugledni-americki-povjesnicar-i-gost-filozofskog-teatra-u-razgovoru-za-jutarnji/8666426/)

Marinko Krmpotić, “HITLEROVA ČUDOVIŠTA. Parapsiholozi, travari, vidovnjaci i astrolozi u službi Trećeg Reicha [Hitler’s Monsters. Parapsychologists, New Agers, Seers, and Astrologers serving the Third Reich].” Novilist (12 January 2019) (http://novilist.hr/Kultura/Knjizevnost/HITLEROVA-CUDOVISTA-

Parapsiholozi-travari-vidovnjaci-i-astrolozi-u-sluzbi-Treceg-Reicha) Richard J. Evans, “Nuts about the Occult.” London Review of Books, v. 40, Nr. 15 (2 August 2018), pp. 37-38 (https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n15/richard-j-evans/nuts-about-the-occult) Nathaniel Blake, “The Nazis’ Fascination with the Occult was very real.” The Federalist. 13 July 2018 (https://thefederalist.com/2018/07/13/indiana-jones-isnt-wrong-the-nazis-fascination-with-the-occult-was- very-real/) David Goldman, “Hitler’s Monsters. A Supernatural History of the Third Reich.” First Things. February 2018. Javier Yanes, “Los Nazis, los primeros ‘magufos’” [“The Nazis, the first ‘magufos’]. El Espanol. 29 January 2018 (https://www.elespanol.com/ciencia/20180129/nazis-primeros-magufos-entregaba-hitler- pseudociencia/280222841_0.html) Michael Mayer, “Das Pendel schwingt, der „Führer“ sinkt.” [“The Pendulum swings, the ‘Führer’ sinks”]. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 4 December 2017 (http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/politische- buecher/uebersinnlichkeit-im-ns-staat-15313152.html) Frank Mulder, “Waarom de nazi’s geloofde in het bovennatuurlijke.” [“Why the Nazis Believe in the Supernatural?”]. De Morgen. 27 November 2017 (https://www.demorgen.be/buitenland/waarom-de-nazi -s-geloofden-in-het-bovennatuurlijke-bdd788c6/)

Michael Schulson, “The Supernatural Pseudoscience of Nazi Germany.” Religion & Politics. 24 October 2017 (http://religionandpolitics.org/2017/10/24/the-supernatural-pseudoscience-of-nazi-germany/)

Andrew Stuttaford, “Gods and Monsters.” National Review. 2 October 2017, v. LXIX, nr. 18 (https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2017-10-01-2050/eric-kurlander-hitlers-monsters)

Фабиан Кастнер (Fabian Kastner), Фабиан Кастнер: Нацисты изучали Сатану и способы воскрешать

мертвых [Nazis studied Satan and ways to resurrect the dead]. InoSmi. 9 September 2017 (http://inosmi.ru/social/20170909/240216209.html)

Charlie Hegarty, “From ‘medicine man’ to mass murderer.” Catholic Herald (UK). 7 September 2017

(http://catholicherald.co.uk/magazine-post/from-medicine-man-to-mass-murderer/) Fabian Kastner, “Nazisterna forskade om Satan och att väcka döda [The Nazis Studied Satan and Resurrecting the Dead.” Svenska Dagbladet (Sweden), 3 September 2017 (https://www.svd.se/darfor-trodde-hitler-pa- overnaturliga-ting) Cristina Tapu, “Obsesia neştiută a lui Hitler [Hitler’s Unknown Obsession].” ClickI (Romania), 23 august 2017 (http://www.click.ro/news/lume/obsesia-nestiuta-lui-hitler-creat-o-divizie-speciala-care-se-ocupa-de-asta) George Harrison, “Hitler’s Horrors.” The Sun (UK), 23 August 2017

(https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/4305760/hitler-nazis-supernatural-occult-ss-witches) Faruk Mercan, “Hitler'in canavarları da bir din icat etmişlerdi [Hitler’s Monsters Invented a Religion].”

Samanyolu Haber (Turkey), 14 August 2017 (http://www.shaber3.com/yazar/faruk-mercan/hitlerin-canavarlari-da-bir-din-icat-etmislerdi/1289217/)

“Hitler szörnyei - a Harmadik Birodalom természetfeletti története [Hitler’s Monsters –A Supernatural History of

the Third Reich.” Figyelö (Hungary), 13 August 2017 (http://www.figyelo.hu/szoveg/v/hitler-szornyei--- a-harmadik-birodalom-termeszetfeletti-tortenete/)

Michael Dirda, “It turns out ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ wasn’t so far off about the Nazis.” The Washington Post

(Print Edition), 2 August 2017 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/it-turns-out-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-wasnt-so-far-off-about-the-nazis/2017/08/01/d22f640e-75f5-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?utm_term=.36228b56314d)

Terra Arnone, “The Important Lessons: How the Nazi Party were inspired by the supernatural in their early rise to

power.” Non-Fiction Book of the Week. National Post (Canada- Print Edition) 2-5 August 2017 (http://nationalpost.com/entertainment/books/the-important-lessons-how-the-nazi-party-were-inspired-by-the-supernatural-in-its-early-rise-to-power/wcm/403b3efd-e3fe-4126-bd4f-f9629c585253)

Tim Martin, “Why was Hitler obsessed with the supernatural?” 8 July 2017, The Telegraph (UK-Print Edition) (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/hitler-obsessed-supernatural/ “Les nazis étaient, aussi, mystiques et superstitieux.” 29 June 2017, Books (France)

(http://www.books.fr/nazis-etaient-mystiques-superstitieux/) Josh Robbins, “The SS Witches Division: Hitler and the Nazi's obsession with the supernatural.” International Business Times, 20 June 2017 (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ss-witches-division-hitler-nazis-obsession- supernatural-1627078) Robert Carver, “Did Hitler’s Obsession with the occult lose him the war.” The Spectator (UK-Print Edition), 17

June 2017 (https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/06/did-hitlers-obsession-with-the-occult-lose-him-the-war/)

David Aaronovitch, “Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich by Eric Kurlander”, Times of

London (UK –Print Edition), 27 May 2017 (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/review-hitlers-monsters-a-supernatural-history-of-the-third-reich-by-eric-kurlander-rthwwgqz2)

Robert Gerwarth, “A Liberal Accord With Nazism.” Irish Times (Republic of Ireland – Print Edition). 1 August 2009 (https://www.irishtimes.com/news/a-liberal-accord-with-nazism-1.711626)

David Cesarani, “Passive Resistance. Living With Hitler: Liberal Democrats in the Third Reich.” Literary

Review (UK). July 2009 (https://literaryreview.co.uk/passive-resistance) SELECTED PAPERS. INVITED LECTURES, AND PANELS (2001 - present) “The ‘Jewish Question’ and Public Health, 1850-1950.” Delivered at the twelfth annual Southeast

German Studies Workshop. Emory University, February 14-15, 2019. “Before the Final Solution. A Global History of the Nazi ‘Jewish Question.’” Talk delivered at the Faculty Spotlight Seminar hosted by the Brown Center, Stetson University, Deland, FL, February 1, 2019. “Strange Havens. Shanghai and Manchuria as ‘Solutions’ to the Nazi ‘Jewish Question’ in East Asia?” Paper delivered to the German-Asian Studies Seminar at the 2018 Convention of the German Studies Association in Pittsburgh, PA, September 27-30, 2018. Commentator on the panel, “What Is There Left to Say About Hitler? New Approaches to Studying the Nazi Dictator.” 2018 Convention of the German Studies Association in Pittsburgh, PA, September 27-30, 2018. “Between Reaction and Revolution.” Talk delivered to the Colloquium of the Institute for Geschichtsdidaktik und Public History, Tübingen University, June 11, 2018.

“Nazis Beyond Borders–– The Third Reich’s Global Entanglements.” Delivered at the eleventh annual Southeast

German Studies Workshop. Emory University, February 22-23, 2018. “The Third Reich as Supernatural Project: The Role of Folklore, Occultism, and Border Science in Nazi Empire

-Building.” Invited talk in the Max Kade Lecture Series, delivered at Vanderbilt University, February 1, 2018.

“Hitler’s Monsters: The Role of Occultism, Paganism and Border Science in the Third Reich.” Invited Rintels Lecture, delivered at Florida State University, December 5, 2017. “Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich.” Invited lecture delivered at Temple Beth-El,

Ormond Beach, November 19, 2017. “Hitler’s Monsters. Nazi Germany and the Occult.” Book Talk at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. October 24, 2017. Commentator on the panel, “Entangled Intellectual Histories of Germany and India: From 19th Century Indology

to the GDR and In Between.” 2017 Convention of the German Studies Association in Atlanta, GA, October 5-8, 2017.

“Liberal Women and National Socialism. (Dis)continuties in Conceptions of Race, Space, and Social Policy, 1930-1939.” Delivered at the Theodor-Heuss-Kolloquium 2017. Liberalismus und Nationalsozialismus.

Eine Beziehungsgeschichte, of the Institute for Contemporary History (Institut für Zeitgeschichte München), September 14-15, 2017.

“Viewing the Reformation from the Perspective of Mobility, Borders, and Migration.” Delivered at the tenth annual Southeast German Studies Workshop. College of Charleston, March 9-10, 2017. "Writing a Global (Transnational) History of Modern Germany in Global (Transnational) Collaboration.” Delivered at the Humboldt colloquium, “Global Research in the 21st Century: Perspectives of the U.S. Humboldt Network.” Washington, DC, March 2-4, 2017. “Writing a Global (Transnational) History of (Early) Modern Germany, 1500-1800.” Faculty Spotlight presentation, sponsored by the Brown Center, Stetson University, December 1, 2016. “Liberale zwischen Rückzug und Anpassung (Liberals Between Retreat and Accommodation).” Delivered at the international conference, “Wie bürgerlich war der Nationalsozialismus?” Jena Center Gechichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, University of Jena (Germany), October 20-22, 2016. “Monstrous Science: The Völkisch-Esoteric Roots of Nazi Imperialism, Eugenics, and Anti-Semitism.” Delivered at the 2016 Convention of the German Studies Association in San Diego, CA, 29 September- October 2, 2016. Commentator on the panel, “New Perspectives on the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences in Nazi Germany” (Sponsored by the German Historical Institute, Washington). 2016 Convention of the German Studies Association in San Diego, CA, 29 September- October 2, 2016. “A Global History of Germany” (w/ Bernd Grewe). Talk delivered to graduate colloquium, Abteilung Geschichte, Pädagogische Hochschule, Freiburg, 21 June 2016, Freiburg, Germany. “Writing a Global (Transnational) History of Germany.” Talk delivered to the Historisches Seminar at the

University of Cologne, June 9, 2016. “Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich.” Inaugural University of Cologne Researcher Alumni Lecture. University of Cologne, June 2, 2016. “Nazi Twilight: Reflections on Mass Death and Rebirth Through the Prism of the Supernatural Imaginary.” Delivered at the ninth annual Southeast German Studies Workshop. College of Charleston, March 10-11, 2016. "Nazi Anti-Semitism Between Science and Religion: The Role of Supernatural Thinking in Jewish Demonization and Genocide." Invited lecture Delivered at Temple Beth-El, Ormond Beach, October 25, 2015. “Nazi Twilight: Miracle Weapons, Supernatural Partisans, and the Collapse of the Third Reich.” Delivered to the History Department Colloquium, Stetson University, October 21, 2015. “’The Unholy Reich’: Nazi Christianity and ‘This-Worldly’ Religion.” Delivered at the 2015 Convention of the German Studies Association in Arlington, VA, October 1-4, 2015.

Commentator on the panel, “Germany and the Faces of Fascism in Modern European Public Discourse.” 2015 Convention of the German Studies Association in Washington, D.C., October 1-4, 2015. “The Supernatural Roots of Nazi Anti-Semitism: Imagination, Demonization, and Genocide.” Invited lecture Delivered at the University of Florida, Department of History, Program in Remembrance of the Holocaust and the Chorus of Theresienstadt, April 17, 2015. “The Supernatural Roots of Nazi Anti-Semitism.” Delivered to the Stetson Workgroup on Human Rights, Social Justice, and Democracy, April 6, 2015. “Feminist Witches and Gay Astrology: Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in the Third Reich Through a Supernatural Lens.” Delivered at the eighth annual Southeast German Studies Workshop. Davidson College, February 26-27, 2015. “Germans as World Citizens? The Contradictory Forces of Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Central European Culture and Society, 1500-2000.” Delivered at the 2015 Florida Conference of Historians in Lakeland, FL, February 13-15, 2015. Co-Organizer of the panel,"Approaching Modern Germany from a Global and Transnational Perspective." 2015 Florida Conference of Historians in Lakeland, FL, February 13-15, 2015. “Hitler’s Magician’s Controversy. Enlightenment, ‘Border Science’ and the Contradictory Role of Occultism in the Third Reich.” Delivered to the History Department Colloquium, Stetson University, November 18th, 2014. “Germany’s Road to or from Serfdom? Liberalism and the Social Question in the (post-)Bismarckian Era. Delivered at the Philadelphia Society Conference, “The Failure—and Future–– of the Welfare State” in Grand Rapids, MI, October 10-11, 2014. “Lucifer’s Stormtroopers? Himmler’s Hexenkarthotek, the Holy Grail, and the SS search for Aryan Religion.” Delivered at the 2014 Convention of the German Studies Association in Kansas City, MO, September 18- 21, 2014. Co-Organizer of the panel, “The Uses of Witchcraft in Modern Germany” at the 2014 Convention of the German Studies Association in Kansas City, MO, September 18-21, 2014. “A Third Reich Without Borders?’ Die Grenzwissenschaften in Nazi Ideology and Practice.” Delivered at the

seventh annual Southeast German Studies Workshop. Davidson College, March 26-28, 2014. “A Special Path Less Traveled: Liberals, Nazi Occultists, and the (Dis)continuties of German History. Keynote Address Delivered at the 2014 Phi Alpha Theta (National History Honors Society) State Conference. Stetson, University. Deland, FL, March 14, 2014. “Baseball Before We Knew it: From Folk Culture to National Pastime.” Lecture delivered to the Boys of Spring ROAD Scholar Program. Deland, FL, March 13, 2014. “Hitler’s Supernatural (“Border”) Sciences: Astrology, Anthroposophy, and World Ice Theory,” Delivered to the History Department Colloquium, Stetson University, November 14th, 2013. Commentator on the panel “Crises of the Left in Twentieth Century Europe,” at the 2013 Convention of the Southern Historical Association in St. Louis, MO, October 31-November 3, 2013. "Is Pseudowissenschaft still a useful concept in explaining German History during the first half of the Twentieth Century?" Delivered at the sixth annual Southeast German Studies Workshop. University of Tennessee-Knoxville, March 6-8, 2013. “Revisiting the Occult Roots of Nazism: Hitler’s ‘Supernatural Imaginary’ and the Wilhelmine Esoteric Milieu, 1889-1919.” Delivered at the 2012 Convention of the German Studies Association in Milwaukee, WI, October 4-7, 2012. Co-Organizer of the panel, “The German Occult (4): Revisiting Wilhelmine Esotericism and the Occult Roots of Nazism,” at the 2012 Convention of the German Studies Association in Milwaukee, WI, October 4-7, 2012. Commentator on the panel, “Asian German Studies (5): Syncretism and Anti-Colonialism in German-Indian Encounters, 1890s to 1920s,” at the 2012 Convention of the German Studies Association in Milwaukee, WI, October 4-7, 2012. “The Metaphysic of Dunces: Nazism, Occultism, and the Decline of American Democracy.” Delivered to the Stetson Workgroup on Human Rights, Social Justice, and Democracy, September 19, 2012. “Hitler’s Monsters: Toward a Supernatural History of the Third Reich.” Paper Delivered at the Research Colloquium of the Abteilung Geschichte, Pädagogische Hochschule, Freiburg, 10 July 2012, Freiburg, Germany. “Nazi Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich.” Paper Delivered at the Research Colloquium of the Historisches Seminar (Prof. Dr. Sylvia Paletschek), Albrecht-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, 22 May 2012, Freiburg, Germany. Commentator on the panel, “Nationalisms: Bound and Unbound,” at the 2011 Convention of the German Studies Association in Louisville, KY, September 22-25, 2011. “The Orientalist Roots of National Socialism? Asian Religion, Occultism, and the Nazi Supernatural Imaginary.” Delivered at the 2011 Convention of the German Studies Association in Louisville, KY, September 22 -25, 2011. Organizer of the panel, “Asian-German Studies (2): Post-Colonial Fantasies? German Orientalism, Anti- Imperialism, and Nazi Perceptions of Asia, 1919-1939,” at the 2011 Convention of the German Studies Association in Louisville, KY, September 22-25, 2011. “Nazi Monsters: Toward A Supernatural History of Violence and Criminality in the Second World War, 1942

-1945.” Paper delivered at the conference, “Re-thinking the Monstrous: Violence and Criminality in Society” at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, 1-3 July, 2011. “Religion, Occultism, and the Nazi ‘Supernatural Imaginary.’” Delivered at the fourth annual Southeast German Studies Workshop. Georgia State University (Atlanta), February 24-25, 2011. "A 'Special Path' Less Traveled: Liberals, Nazi Occultists, and The (Dis)continuities of German History." Phi Alpha Theta –sponsored lecture, delivered at the Univesity of Central Florida, November 18, 2010. “Hitler’s Magicians’ Controversy: Superstition, The Occult, and the Campaign for “Enlightenment” in the Third Reich.” Delivered at the 2010 Convention of the Southern Historical Association in Charlotte, NC, November 4-7, 2010. “The Occult Roots of Nazism and the Emergence of the Nazi Supernatural Imaginary, 1919-1924.” Delivered at the 2010 Convention of the German Studies Association in Oakland, CA, October 6 – 9, 2010. Organizer of the panel, “Werewolves, Bloodrinkers, and Nazi Occultists: A Supernatural History of Violence and German Modernity, 1920-1950," at the 2010 Convention of the German Studies Association in Oakland, CA, October 6 – 9, 2010. “Mit Hitler leben. Liberale Demokraten zwischen Anpassung und Widerstand.” Invited lecture delivered at the Theodor-Heuss Foundation, Stuttgart, Germany, 21 June 2010. “Nazism and The Undead: Race, Sexuality, and Cosmopolitanism in the Work of H.H. Ewers.” Delivered at the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. March 17-21, 2010, Orlando, FL. “Nazi Cosmopolitanism and the ‘Supernatural Imaginary.’ Post-Colonial Conceptions of German Identity in the

Third Reich?” Delivered at the third annual Southeast German Studies Workshop. Georgia State (Atlanta), March 11-12, 2010.

"Living With Hitler: The Janus-Face of Liberal Resistance and Accommodation in the Third Reich." Invited Pauley Lecture delivered at the University of Central Florida, January 25, 2010. “Between 'Assimilation' and 'Elimination': Liberal 'Anti-Anti-Semitism' in the Third Reich.” Delivered at the 2009 Convention of the American Jewish Studies Association, December 19-22, 2009, Los Angeles, CA. “‘A Space for Compassion.’ Liberal Women and Progressive Social Policy in the Racial State.” Delivered at the international conference, Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany. University of Indiana, Bloomington, October 23-25, 2009. "Toward a ‘Supernatural’ History of Anti-Semitism in the Third Reich." Delivered at the second annual Southeast German Studies Workshop. University of South Carolina at Columbia, March 5-6, 2009. "Living With Hitler: Three Faces of Liberal Resistance in the Third Reich." Invited lecture hosted by the History Department, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, January 30, 2009. “From a ‘New Plan’ to the ‘Social Market Economy.’ A Left Liberal Third Way in the Third Reich, 1933-1938.” Delivered at the 2008 Convention of the Southern Historical Association in New Orleans, LA, October 9-12, 2008. Commentator on the panel “Borders and Border Issues in Central Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” at the 2008 Convention of the German Studies Association in St. Paul,

MN, October 2-5, 2008. “Between Detroit and Moscow: A Left Liberal Third Way in the Third Reich?” Delivered at the Conference, Crossing Boundaries: International History in a Global Age, American Academy in Berlin, June 6-7, 2008. “Negotiating National Socialism: The Liberal Democratic Experience in the Third Reich.” Invited lecture delivered at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Network Meeting, University of Marburg, February 14, 2008. "Liberal Democrats in the Third Reich: Some Reflections on Resistance and Accommodation." Delivered to the Research Colloquium of the Historisches Seminar, University of Augsburg, December 12, 2007. "'Ich bin kein Antisemit, aber ich bin auch kein Jude': Liberalismus und 'Judenfrage' im Dritten Reich." Invited Lecture in the International Series, Beyond the Nation State, University of Cologne, October 22, 2007. “Liberal Feminism in the Third Reich? Gertrud Bäumer and Die Frau, 1930-1934.” Delivered at the 2006 Convention of the German Studies Association in Pittsburgh, PA, September 28 – October 1, 2006. Co-organizer of the panel, “‘New Women’ or Gender Politics as Usual? Feminist (Dis)continuities, 1924-1934,” at the 2006 Convention of the German Studies Association in Pittsburgh, PA, September 28 – October 1, 2006. “‘A Liberalism Which Does Not Deserve Its Name?’ The Left Liberal Roots of National Socialism, 1914-1934.” Delivered at the 2005 Convention of the German Studies Association in Milwaukee, WI, September 29-October 2, 2005. “The Landscapes of Liberalism: Particularism and Progressive Politics in Two Borderland Regions.” Delivered at the international conference, “Localism, Landscape and Hybrid Identities in Imperial Germany,” The Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto (Canada), 12-14 May, 2005. “Living With Hitler: Bourgeois Democratic Resistance and Collaboration in the Third Reich.” Delivered at the 2005 Convention of the American Historical Association in Seattle, WA, January 6-9, 2005. “The National-Social Legacy: Gertrud Bäumer and the Left Liberal Roots of German Fascism, 1890 -1945.” Delivered at the 2004 Convention of the Modern Language Association in Philadelphia, PA, December 27-30, 2004. “Through Broken Glass Darkly: Was Kristallnacht the Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?” Endowed Lecture delivered at Temple Beth-El (Ormond Beach, FL) to commemorate “The Night of Broken Glass”, 10 November 2004. “Republican Resistance and ‘Resistenz’ in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945.” Delivered at the 2004 Convention of the Southern Historical Association in Memphis, Tennessee, November 3-6, 2004. Organizer of the panel, “German Scholars Between Coercion and Conformity: Progressive Academics in the Third Reich”, at the 2004 Convention of the German Studies Association in Washington, D.C., October 7-10, 2004.

“Living With Hitler: Liberal Democratic ‘Resistenz’ and Collaboration, 1933-1934.” Delivered at the 2004 Convention of the German Studies Association in Washington, D.C., October 7-10, 2004. Commentator on the panel, “Capitalism, Commercialism, and Marketing around 1900” at the 2003 Convention of the German Studies Association in New Orleans, LA, September 18-21, 2003. “‘What Do the Jews Want Here?’ A Case Study of Liberal Anti-Semitism in the Weimar Republic.” Delivered at the international conference, “Radikaler Antisemitismus in der Weimarer Republik: Deutschland im internationalen Kontext”, The Bauer Institute, University of Frankfurt, Germany, 13-15 July, 2003. “Integration durch Unterschiedlichkeit: Republikanischer Partikularismus und die liberale Politik von elsäßische Nationaler Identität, 1890-1940.” Delivered at the international conference, "Integrationen des Widerläufigen", University of Zurich, Switzerland, October 10-12, 2002. “Politics, Identity and Ethnic Nationalism: Majority and Minority Liberalism in Schleswig-Holstein, Silesia and Alsace, 1898-1933.” Delivered at the international conference, “German History from the Margins”, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, September 13-15, 2002. “Liberal Variations on Integration: Multiculturalism and Leitkultur (Assimilation) in Schleswig -Holstein’s Nordmark, 1890-1933.” Delivered at the international conference on “Integration – Fiction or Reality?” at the University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany, December 5-7, 2001. “The Rise of Völkisch Nationalism and the Decline of German Liberalism: A Comparison of Schleswig -Holstein and Silesian Political Cultures, 1912-1924.” Delivered at the “Midwest Graduate Seminar in German Studies” held at the University of Chicago/Goethe-Institut, Chicago, IL,

April 26-28, 2001.

“Ethnic Preoccupation and the Decline of Liberalism in Silesia, 1898-1932.” Delivered at the international conference, “Challenges to Political Parties in Europe since 1870: A Multidisciplinary Retrospective,” Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 20-22, 2001. SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS (1998 – present) Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship (Tübingen) 2018 Stetson University Summer Research Grant (Koblenz, Berlin, Munich) 2018 University of Cologne Albert’s Researcher Reunion Grant (Cologne) 2016 Stetson University Summer Research Grant (Freiburg) 2016 Stetson University Summer Research Grant (Berlin) 2015 European Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship (EURIAS) (finalist) 2015 Stetson University Sabbatical Award (Spring) 2015 Coleman Faculty Entrepreneurship Fellow 2014-2015 William Hugh McInery Award for Excellence in Teaching 2014 Stetson University Summer Research Grant (Munich) 2013 Stetson University Summer Research Grant (Koblenz, Berlin) 2012 Fulbright Scholar Grant (Freiburg) 2011-2012 Stetson University Summer Research Grant (Freiburg) 2010 Stetson University Short-Term Exchange (Freiburg) 2010 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship (Berlin) 2009 Stetson University Summer Research Grant (Berlin) 2009 College of Arts and Sciences Advisory Board Fund for Faculty Development 2008 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship (Bonn, Berlin) 2007-2008 Thyssen-Heideking (German Historical Institute) Writing Fellowship (Cologne) 2007-2008

Stetson University Sabbatical Award (Full-Year) 2007-2008 Stetson University Summer Research Grant (Koblenz) 2007 Hand Award for Outstanding Junior Scholar (Stetson University) 2006 Stetson University Summer Research Grant (Berlin) 2006 Choice Outstanding Book of the Year (German Scholars and Ethnic Cleansing) 2005 Stetson University Summer Research Grant (University of Chicago, Harvard University) 2004 Stetson University Summer Research Grant (Koblenz) 2003 Stetson University Short-Term Exchange (Freiburg) 2003 Stetson Hand Grant (Summer Course Development) 2002 Derek Bok Award for Excellence in Teaching (Harvard University) 2001 Program for the Study of Germany and Europe Short-Term Opportunity Grant (Berlin) 2001 Derek Bok Award for Excellence in Teaching (Harvard University) 2000 Program for the Study of Germany and Europe Short-Term Opportunity Grant (Wroclaw) 2000 Harvard Graduate Society Writing Fellowship (declined) 1999-2000 Program for the Study of Germany and Europe Writing Fellowship 1999-2000 Sheldon Traveling Fellowship (declined) 1998-1999 Krupp Foundation Traveling Fellowship (Berlin, Kiel, Koblenz, Strasbourg, Wroclaw) 1998-1999 COURSES (2001 – present) HIST 499 Senior Project HIST 395 Teaching Apprenticeship HIST 390 (HON 3) Our Monsters, Ourselves: A Supernatural History of Self and Society (Seminar) HIST 385 Research Apprenticeship (Independent Study) HIST 367S Empire, Nation and Identity (Seminar) HIST 331S The Holocaust (Seminar)

Module 3 (Freiburg) "Die Weltanschauung des Nationalsozialismus": Eine übernatürliche Geschichte des dritten Reichs (The Ideology of National Socialism: A Supernatural History)

HIST 330H World War II: A Global History HIST 329H Nazi Germany: History, Politics and Culture HIST 326H Germany in War and Revolution: From the Second Empire to the Third Reich (Seminar) HIST 323S The French Revolution: Enlightenment, Terror, and Napoleon (Seminar) HIST 301J.JS The Age of Extremes: Class, Politics, and Ideology, 1914-1989 (Junior Seminar) Module 2 (Freiburg) Das Dritte Reich: Auf- und Niedergang (The Third Reich: Rise and Fall), 1919-1945 HIST 254H Baseball: A Social and Cultural History of the United States HIST 230H History of Modern Germany, 1770 - Present FSEM 100.HIST The West in Question (First Year Seminar) Module 1 (Freiburg) Modern Europe, 1789-1989 HIST 103H Modern Western Civilization PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Service to Discipline External Member, Dissertation Committee, Rebecca Shriver, History Department, Florida State University (Spring 2018) External Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion: Marquette University, Furman University, University of Indiana-South Bend Book Manuscript Referee: Yale University Press, Oxford University Press, University of Michigan Press, Fordham University Press, Berghahn Books, Pearson-Longman, Bedford/St. Martins, Bloomsbury, Camden House, Central European University Press, Routledge

Journal Referee: Central European History, European History Quarterly, German Studies Review, Ethnicities, International Journal of Hindu Studies, Political Research Quarterly, Politics, Religion and Ideology Fellowship Referee: Canadian Research Council (Killam Prize), Israeli Science Foundation, City University of New York, Central European History Society, National Endowment for the Humanities (declined) Editorial Board: History Compass Chair, Prize Committee: German Studies Association (Graduate Student Paper Prize, Fall 2011) Member, Grants Committee, Central European History Society, Fall 2017 - present Member, Executive Committee: European History Section of the Southern Historical Association (Spring 2012-Fall 2013) Member, Conference Committee: European History Section of the Southern Historical Association (Fall 2010- Spring 2013; Chair, 2013) Member, Prize Committee: European History Section of the Southern Historical Association (Baker-Burton-Smith Prize, 2004-2007) Member: American Historical Association (1999 – present), German Studies Association (2002 – present), Southern Historical Association (2003-present), Southeast German Studies Workshop, Steering Committee, (2007-2010), American Jewish Studies Association (2009-2010), International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (2009-2010), Modern Language Association (2005-2006) Service to University (Stetson) Faculty Budget and Finance Committee (Fall 2013 – present; Chair, Spring 2017, Spring 2019 - present) Faculty Senate (Fall 2003 – Spring 2006, Fall 2011 – Fall 2014, Fall 2019 - present) University Council on Curriculum and Academic Policy (UCCAP) (Fall 2012 – Fall 2014, Fall 2019 - present) Co-Chair, Committee for Drafting Stetson Statement on Academic Freedom (Fall 2017 – Spring 2019) Arts & Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee (Fall 2016 – Spring 2019; Chair, Fall 2017 – Spring 2019) Member, Third Year Review Committee, Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Spring 2019) Chair, Fourth Year Review Committee, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health (Spring 2018) Chair, Second Year Review Committee, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health (Spring 2018) Interim Chair, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health (January 2017 – June 2018) Chair, Fourth Year Review Committee, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health (Spring 2017) Algernon Sydney Sullivan and Etter McTeer Turner Award Committee (Spring 2017) Bernard Weiner Memorial Lecture Committee (Fall 2007 - present; Chair, Fall 2009 – Spring 2011, Fall 2012 – Present; Co-Chair, Fall 2016- Spring 2017)

Evans Johnson Fellowship coordinator (History Department, Fall 2016 – present) Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee (Fall 2002 – Spring 2005, Fall 2015- Spring 2017) Professional Development Committee (Fall 2005 – Spring 2007, Fall 2008–Spring 2012; Interim Chair, Fall 2008; Chair, Fall 2009 – Spring 2012; Fall 2015 - Spring 2016) University Pre-Law Committee (Fall 2005 – present) External Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Psychology Department (Fall 2015) Chair, Second and Fourth Year Review Committees, History Department (Fall 2014) Tenure, Grievance, and Academic Freedom Committee (Spring 2014- Fall 2014) Social Science Divisional Secretary (Fall 2013 – Spring 2014) Writing Enhanced Curriculum Task Force (Fall 2013 – Spring 2014) Grade Grievance Board (Spring 2013, Fall 2014) Chair, Search Committee, Tenure-Track line in Russian and East European History (Fall 2012 – Spring 2013) Co-Chair, Search Committee, Tenure-Track line in Latin American History (Fall 2012 – Spring 2013) Academic Excellence Task Force (Fall 2012 – Spring 2013) University Council on Curriculum and Academic Policy (UCCAP) Steering Committee (Fall 2012 – Fall 2014) Chair of History Department Colloquium (Fall 2012 – Fall 2014) Senate Academic Affairs Committee (Fall 2011 – Fall 2014) Chair, History Department (Fall 2010 – Fall 2014) Economics Task Force (Fall 2011 – Spring 2012) Chair, Search Committee, Tenure-Track line in Asian History (Fall 2010 – Spring 2011) University Planning Committee, Athletics (Fall 2009 – Spring 2010) International Studies Program Committee (Fall 2008 – Spring 2011) Undergraduate Research Committee (Fall 2005 – Spring 2010) Enrollment Growth Committee (Fall 2005 – Spring 2007) Faculty Senate Executive Committee (Fall 2005 – Spring 2006) Faculty Senate Secretary and Treasurer (Fall 2005 – Spring 2006) Co-Chair, History Department (Fall 2005 - Spring 2006)

Faculty Senate Committee on Diversity (Spring 2005) Stetson Award for Social Justice Committee (Fall 2004 – Spring 2007) University Athletics Committee (Fall 2004 – Spring 2005) Faculty Research Seminar (Chair, Fall 2004 – Spring 2005) Faculty Senate Communications Committee (Fall 2003 - Spring 2006, Chair, Fall 2005 - Spring 2006) International Studies Major Committee (Fall 2002 – Spring 2004) Stetson Jewish Student Organization/Hillel Advisor (Fall 2002 – Spring 2013) Service to University (Harvard) Co-Chair, Center for European Studies Visiting Scholar Seminar (2001) CES Graduate Student Representative (2000 - 2001) Resident Tutor–– Currier House (1999 - 2001) Resident Advisor–– History Department (2000 - 2001) Head Teaching Fellow–– History Department (1998, 2001) Dudley House Fellow (1996-1998) LANGUAGES German, French, Dutch (some reading), Polish (some conversation).