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History
Gregory Caplan (1999-00)
Greg is Director for Energy and Environment in the government relations office of Lockheed Martin Corporation. He has been at Lockheed Martin for five years, working in business development and program operations prior to his current assignment. Previously, he served on the political staff of Wes Clark's presidential campaign. Prior to that he served as Assistant Director of the American Jewish Committee's Berlin Office. Greg completed his doctoral work in modern European history at Georgetown University, where he also earned a Master of Arts degree in German and European Studies. His dissertation, "Wicked Sons, German Heroes: Jewish Soldiers, Veterans, and Memories of World War I in Germany," explores the question of how the centrality of the military in the German national imagination influenced German-Jewish life before the Holocaust. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, Julianna Evans Caplan, and their twin daughters, Norah and Josephine. (12/2/09)
Rachel Cylus (2010-11)
Rachel Cylus graduated with a BA in History from the Johns Hopkins University in 2008. She has worked for two years as the Program Coordinator at the Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture, an historic synagogue museum and cultural center in Boston, Massachusetts. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Rachel will be studying how Jewish historic sites throughout Germany are being preserved and reopened as museums, cultural centers and other public spaces. Rachel will be working primarily with the Stiftung Neue Synagogue – Centrum Judaicum in Berlin. Through her work at the Centrum Judaicum and visits to other Jewish historic sites around Germany, she will study how these institutions transmit and present Jewish history to diverse audiences. Rachel aims to enhance the dialogue between American and German Jewish museums to make museum-going a more satisfying experience for an array of museum visitors—Jewish, non-Jewish, local, and foreign. (5/8/10)
Catherine Dollard (1994-95)
Catherine is Chair and Associate Professor of History at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, where she teaches European and German history courses. She divided her year as a German Chancellor Fellow between Bonn and Berlin while conducting archival research for her dissertation and subsequent book on The Surplus Woman: Unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918. Cathy received her Ph.D. in history from the University of North Carolina. (2/15/10)
Catherine Epstein (1994-95)
Catherine is Assistant Professor of History at Amherst College. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Catherine spent the year in Berlin researching her dissertation, a study of East German Old Communists. That work culminated in The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their Century (Harvard University Press, 2003). Catherine is now completing Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Nazi Occupation of western Poland, forthcoming with Oxford University Press in 2010. Catherine is also Associate Editor of Central European History, and commissions all book reviews for that journal. (6/19/09)
Sean Forner (2001-02)
Sean is Assistant Professor of History at Michigan State University. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 2007 and has also taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His interests center on 20th-century Germany and Europe, especially intellectual and cultural history. As a German Chancellor Fellow, he was based in Berlin, conducting dissertation research in various libraries and archives. He is currently completing a book manuscript on German intellectuals' debates and mobilizations around democratic renewal after 1945, from the occupation period through the 1950s in both East and West Germany. (2/4/10)
Cora Granata (1998-99)
Cora completed her doctoral work in Modern German History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2001 she began as an Assistant Professor of History at California State University at Fullerton.
Ronald Granieri (1993-94)
Ron has been Assistant Professor in History and International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia since 2003, after teaching for six years at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. He published a book, The Ambivalent Alliance: Konrad Adenauer, the CDU/CSU, and the West, 1949-1966, based on his dissertation, for which he conducted research as a German Chancellor Fellow. Ron, who is presently working on a history of European Christian Democracy and European Integration, received a Humboldt Research Fellowship for the 2006-2007 academic year to continue his studies of the "always fascinating and occasionally dysfunctional European-American relationship." Ron and his wife Jenni had their first child, a son, in March 2007. (6/26/09)
J. Laurence Hare, Jr. (2003-04)
Laurence recently received his Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2006, he defended his dissertation, Claiming Valhalla: Archaeology, National Identity, and the German-Danish Borderland, 1830-1950, which was the product of research conducted during his year as a German Chancellor Fellow. Beginning in the fall of 2007, Laurence will be Assistant Professor of History at Emory & Henry College in Virginia. (4/24/07)
Crystal Johnson (2002-03)
Crystal is the history education specialist of the Chicago Metro History Education Center, a nonprofit organization which serves 20,000 students and 400 teachers in the Chicago metropolitan area each year. She is pursuing a master’s degree in comparative education at Loyola University Chicago. (6/26/09)
Michael Kimmage (2004-05)
Michael Kimmage is an assistant professor of history at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. His first book, The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers and the Lessons of Anti-Stalinism, has just appeared with Harvard University Press. He spent his year as a German Chancellor Fellow in Munich, where he taught American history at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität and did research at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte. Michael graduated from Oberlin College in 1995. He holds a B.A. in modern history from University College, Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a Ph.D. in American studies from Harvard University. (6/26/09)
Deborah Lynn Kisatsky (1998-99)
Deborah is an associate professor of History at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. She spent her year as a German Chancellor Fellow in Bonn, researching U.S. interactions with right-wing political forces in West Germany during the first decade after World War II. Deborah earned her Ph.D. in History at the University of Connecticut in 2001, the year she began teaching at Assumption College. Her book The United States and the European Right, 1945-1955 was published in fall 2005 by Ohio State University Press. She has also co-authored American Foreign Relations: A History (6th ed, 2005; 7th ed, 2010) and American Foreign Relations: A History, Brief Edition (1st ed, 2006) with Thomas G. Paterson, J. Garry Clifford, Shane J. Maddock, and Kenneth Hagan. (6/26/09)
Ricky Law (2007-08)
Ricky is a Ph.D. candidate in Global History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His dissertation compares mutual German-Japanese perceptions in the interwar period and analyzes their role in foreign relations. He is currently researching for his project as a Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellow (2008-9) and is affiliated with the Graduate School of Law and Politics of the University of Tokyo. (6/26/09)
Molly Loberg (2003-04)
Molly has been an Assistant Professor of Modern European History at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo since September 2007. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2006. Her dissertation was entitled Berlin Streets: Politics, Commerce, and Crowds, 1918-1938. She gathered much of her research material during her year as a German Chancellor Fellow in Berlin in 2003-04. In contrast to studies that explore the meaning and practices of consumption in societies experiencing material abundance, her work focuses on how conflicts between social groups shape consumer sites and the urban landscape in times of scarcity, depression, political instability, and war. (6/26/09)
Kristie Macrakis (1990-91)
Kristie, a writer, historian and professor, received her Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard University in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell. She is professor of History of Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. She has received grants and awards from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the National Science Foundation as well as Fulbright and Humboldt Foundation grants. Kristie's books include Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi's Spy-Tech World. (Cambridge, 2008), Surviving the Swastika: Scientific Research in Nazi Germany (Oxford, 1993) and Science under Socialism: East Germany in Comparative Perspective (Harvard, 1999) and East German Foreign Intelligence (Routledge, 2009). In addition to writing numerous scholarly articles she has also written popular magazine articles like: “The Case of Agent Gorbachev.” American Scientist, Nov-Dec. 2000, 88, 534-542, which was also reprinted in The Intelligencer and "Ancient Imprints: Fear and the Origins of Secret Writing." Endeavour, 2009. As a German Chancellor Fellow, she researched and wrote about the then current changes in science and technology while starting the research for the second book on science under socialism. The re-activation of her fellowship in 2004 allowed her to do some research for her her last book Seduced by Secrets. (6/26/09)
Benjamin Martin (2001-02)
In January 2008, Ben will begin teaching in the History Department at San Francisco State University. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Berlin Program in Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität, Berlin. His dissertation (A New Order for European Culture: the German-Italian Axis and the Reordering of International Cultural Exchange, 1936-1943, Columbia University, Department of History, 2006) was a study of how German and Italian intellectuals and cultural organizers collaborated and competed in an effort to reorganize international cultural exchange in Europe in the late 1930s and during World War II, in order to support the Axis's bid for European hegemony. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Ben explored this topic from the German side; he also conducted research on Italian sources in Rome. He is at work on converting his dissertation into a book manuscript. (4/3/07)
Patricia Mazón (1995-96)
Patricia is associate professor in the Department of History at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she teaches courses on modern Germany and Europe. Her book, Gender and the Modern Research University: The Admission of Women to German Higher Education, 1865-1914, which she revised during part of her year as a German Chancellor Fellow, appeared in 2003 with Stanford University Press. A volume edited with Reinhild Steingrover, Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German History and Culture, 1890-2000, was published in 2005 with University of Rochester Press. The working title for her current project is "Gender, Public Life, and National Discourse in the Postwar Germanies, 1945-2005." She lives in Buffalo with her husband, Joshua Feinstein (German Chancellor Fellow, 1992-93). (6/26/09)
Brian McCook (2000-01)
Brian graduated with a Ph.D. in History from the University of California at Berkeley in 2004 and is now a Senior Lecturer in History at Leeds Metropolitan University in England. A social and cultural historian, Brian’s research focuses on issues of migration and integration in Europe and the United States. While a German Chancellor Fellow in 2000-01, Brian lived in the Ruhr and was affiliated with the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University of Osnabrück. (6/26/09)
Sean McMeekin (1999-00)
Sean writes: "I am Assistant Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Prior to participation in the German Chancellor Fellowship Program, I was a Ph.D. Candidate in History at UC Berkeley, where I completed my doctorate in 2001. As a German Chancellor Fellow, I spent most of my year researching and writing my dissertation in Berlin, with assorted research trips to Bonn and Munich as well. The resulting book, on the German Communist Willi Munzenberg, was published by Yale University Press in 2003 as The Red Millionaire. A political biography of Willi Munzenberg, Moscow's Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West, 1917-1940. In 2007, I received a Humboldt renewal grant for my research on Turco-German relations during the First World War. In 2008, my second book was published, also by Yale, called History's Greatest Heist. The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks. Currently I am a fellow in International Security Studies at Yale University, while on leave from Bilkent." (6/26/09)
Gregory Moynahan (1997-98)
Gregory is assistant professor of History and co-director of the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Bard College in New York. His research interests include history of theoretical biology, systems theory, and “scientific” racism and political history of computing and cybernetics in the two Germanys. Greg has had articles published in Science in Context, Simmel Studies, and Qui Parle. He spent his year as a German Chancellor Fellow at Humboldt-Universität Berlin. (6/8/07)
Andrew Port (1995-96)
Andrew is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Wayne State University in Detroit. After receiving his BA from Yale University and PhD from Harvard University, he served as a lecturer in the Department of Social Studies at Harvard University and as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of History at Yale University. During a brief respite from academe, he worked for the Human Rights Office of the City of Nuremberg, where he organized a series of international conferences. His book, Conflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic, appeared with Cambridge University Press in December 2006. It is based upon research that Andrew performed during a two-year stay in southeastern Thuringia, where he visited more than a dozen archives as a German Chancellor Fellow. He resumed his fellowship during the summer of 2006 to work on a new project, “German Reactions to Genocide since 1945.” (6/19/09)
Matthew Price (1994-95)
Matt is in the History Department at the University of Toronto. (5/18/05)
Edith Sheffer (2002-03)
Edith Sheffer is an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University. She received her received her B.A. summa cum laude in History and Literature from Harvard University, and completed her Ph.D. in History in 2008 at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Sheffer’s research challenges the conventional history of the Iron Curtain in Germany – suggesting how the physical barrier between East and West was not simply imposed by Cold War superpowers, but was an outgrowth of anxious postwar society on both sides. For over forty years, the daily fears and choices of ordinary Germans helped construct, sustain, and expand the lethal divide beyond what anyone foresaw. Her book, Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2011. In her second project, Dr. Sheffer plans to explore the intersection of the international and the everyday from an opposite vantage point, looking at the adaptation of McDonald’s across Europe. Her teaching interests span twentieth-century Germany, modern Europe, the Cold War, and relations between Europe and the Middle East, and her innovative methods at Berkeley and Stanford have been recognized by several teaching awards. (7/23/09)
Sarah Thomsen Vierra (2008-09)
Sarah is a Ph.D. candidate in modern European history at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Her dissertation project, entitled "At Home in Almanya: Turkish-German Spaces of Belonging in West Germany, 1961-1990," studies the role of place in the settlement and integration of Turkish immigrants in the Federal Republic.For the year of 2010, Sarah is a graduate fellow for an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar entitled "Diversity and Conformity in Muslim Societies." (2/2/2010)
Lisa (Swartout) Zwicker (1999-00)
Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University, South Bend. Her specialty is modern German history. She completed her undergraduate and graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley and is presently revising a book manuscript with the title, "Dueling Students in a Slowly Democratizing Germany: Conflict, Masculinity, and Politics within German Student Life 1890 to 1914." She was a German Chancellor's fellow academic year 1999-2000 and was based in Wuerzburg. Recent published articles include work on antisemitism within university life, religiously informed conceptions of academic honor, Jewish students' identities, diverse constructions of masculinity, and everyday life at universities. In addition to her support through the Alexander Humboldt Foundation, she has been awarded fellowships from the DAAD, the Leo Baeck Institute, the FLAS Foundation, the Fulbright foundation, the Simon Dubnow-Institute, U.C. Berkeley, Stanford University, and Indiana University. (7/2/09)
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